Example sentences of "[was/were] more [adj] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose my reluctance was more visible than it should have been . |
| 2 | Police reports suggested that the countryside was more quiescent than it had been for generations . |
| 3 | During 1985 this issue was raised once again , though by then the extent of mass unemployment and urban de-industrialization and decay was more stark than it had been in 198l . |
| 4 | The first task was to correct the public view that the product was more expensive than it actually was . |
| 5 | And yet Efraim Karsh and Inari Rautsi argue pretty persuasively that the first invasion was more reasonable than it seemed , and that the second was caused by the first . |
| 6 | It certainly would n't be against the ideological er ideas of the Party but I mean that it was an ideological , it was more practical cos it was , it was related the purification campaign of the Party , cos we know they 're having these campaigns |
| 7 | In hindsight , with Crowe having led the team imaginatively and been the most successful batsman of the World Cup , this initiative of the selectors does not seem bright , but it was more understandable when it was made . |
| 8 | Every piece of indirect evidence suggests that in Huaiwiri control was more concentrated than it was elsewhere . |
| 9 | All that can be said is that Labour has lost elections in the past when the press was more favourable than it now is . |
| 10 | Although the Nationalists were almost unchallenged in the Catholic community , by the early 1960s their position was more vulnerable than it appeared . |
| 11 | But after defeat at the 1979 election , the feuding within the Labour Party was more severe because it was more highly organized . |
| 12 | It was more enjoyable than it sounds , as there was good acting and some humour in it . |
| 13 | So Demosthenes ( Thuc. iv.2.4 : this man is a fifth-century soldier , not the famous fourth-century politician ) is explicitly told to use his fleet round the Peloponnese ‘ as he thought fit ’ ; he took Pylos with it ( p. 132 ) , an act which Thucydides implies was more extempore than it really was , but which was nevertheless not something specifically authorized by the Assembly . |
| 14 | This was more difficult than it sounded since he did not keep either regular or normal hours . |
| 15 | All the same , it was more difficult and it would never have occurred to many people that they might do so . |