Example sentences of "was [adj -er] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It turned out they had downclimbed , as it was easier than it seemed from above , but we did n't know that until later . |
| 2 | Thinking that it was heavier than it looked , he undid the straps and buckles and threw back the flap . |
| 3 | It was heavier than it looked . |
| 4 | The sky was clearer than it had been for a week , and massive , but hardly elegant , Storskarfjell stood out like a white tent . |
| 5 | Why she was here , she could n't imagine ; but her head was clearer than it had been in a long time , which meant that she must have gone for some hours without any kind of an injection . |
| 6 | What is surprising is that , when they took the weight off again , the feedforward net 's output was better than it had ever been before . |
| 7 | Indeed , it was better than it had been for months . |
| 8 | It was better if it had never happened . |
| 9 | ( Not all the nests were occupied , so this was trickier than it sounds . ) |
| 10 | Morale on the shop floor was higher than it had been for a long year and an unhealthy atmosphere of optimism and hope pervaded the plant . |
| 11 | hurricane has gone out of the news now , once something like that has happened there 's always another disaster coming behind that actually takes over the headlines , so , about six months , a year , two years afterwards they were still finding that in parts of Europe the general level of nuclear activity was higher than it had been before Chernobyl , why would that happen ? |
| 12 | Progress was slower than it had been upstairs . |
| 13 | Most head teachers questioned thought the position was worse than it had been five years earlier . |
| 14 | During the last few days before the event , as spectators arrived from , Ayrshire was busier than it had ever been in its history . |
| 15 | The raid took less than five minutes , but the damage suffered by Exeter was greater than it had suffered in the Baedeker raids , and there was greater loss of life , over 250 people being killed . |
| 16 | Before 1965 the Crown 's role in choosing a Prime Minister was greater than it has now become . |
| 17 | It was wider than it had looked and Fenella thought she had been right to think it led away from the road , deeper into the hillside . |
| 18 | The bottom shelf was wider and it held a square white machine which looked like a document shredder . |
| 19 | His hair was darker than it appeared in the picture , and he looked older , but Loretta had no difficulty in recognizing Jamie Baird . |