Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [verb] a [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though I should say that what councillor said that my group were prepared to set a higher tax level if that were necessary . |
| 2 | Fourth year pupils were the principal subjects of the study as they would be members of their school for a full school year and were likely to have a lower absentee rate than the fifth year . |
| 3 | In other words , people were able to purchase a wider variety of foodstuffs . |
| 4 | During the sixth century , craftsmen were increasingly operating from workshops , employed by those who had made a greater success in the agricultural way of life and were able to support a greater number of specialists and farmworkers . |
| 5 | We were in a typical winter low pressure region which meant that we reached maximum manifold height fairly quickly , and by the time we reached 7,000 feet air traffic control had obviously got the message and asked us whether we were able to accept a higher level . |
| 6 | Geoffrey Lloyd ( who had ministerial experience of the oil industry ) pointed out that , despite similar economic characteristics , the oil companies were able to achieve a higher degree of self-financing . |
| 7 | They are happier now , for by conserving and converting the existing buildings they were able to achieve a higher percentage of floor space than if they had built anew . |
| 8 | Commercial manager Philip Felcey said : ‘ The Quality Improvement culture is firmly established throughout C&P and Myron Tribus and Peter Wickens , both world class quality practitioners , were able to bring a broader perspective to C&P 's activities and to provide real impetus . ’ |
| 9 | Labour was increasingly scarce and individuals were able to bargain a better position in many cases than the complex previous agreements we have seen . |
| 10 | For a man it was possible to join a higher class through success in work . |
| 11 | The Japanese Foreign Minister , Michio Watanabe , told Akashi that the government was prepared to pay a higher rate for refugee resettlement and for economic reconstruction operations , both of which were separate from the UNTAC budget . |
| 12 | From the outset , Nigeria and Iran sought quota improvements and in the late 1980s there arose some aggrieved discussion of the UAE 's insistence on setting its own unilateral quota ( 1.5 million as against the 0.948 set by the Vienna conference in 1987 ) and vehement debate with both Iraq and Iran , neither of which was willing to accept a lower quota than the other 's . |
| 13 | This was supposed to give a better ride on curves , but was banned by the Board of Trade because of the danger to cyclists . |
| 14 | Or , more probably , since he is a serving naval officer , that the paternal grandmother , the Queen , was likely to make a better job than their mother of bringing them up . |
| 15 | Incredulity in one 's listener is a great silencer , particularly when it verges on ridicule , and Bob was likely to prove a milder critic than I had been . |
| 16 | Even if a Bombay or China voyage was as profitable as David Scott suggested , a vessel with excellent accommodation for passengers was likely to bring a greater reward to its commander if it went to Bengal , for the centre of government was the destination of many of the wealthier travellers . |
| 17 | A report by the London School of Economics suggested that the formation last year of Scottish Enterprise , a body linked to 13 local enterprise bodies with responsibility for investment and training , was likely to have a greater influence on the economy than the Training and Enterprise Councils . |
| 18 | The Tudor ploughman had better-bred and better-fed beasts ; so he required fewer of them to pull a plough , and was able to drive a straighter furrow . |
| 19 | If the tenant could not exploit the land directly himself , with his own resources and those of his family , he would have to hire labour , but it seems likely that the small farmer was able to make a better profit than the great man , because his lands were not encumbered by a costly and unproductive bureaucracy . |
| 20 | His successor , John Carthew , was able to make a bigger impact within the District . |
| 21 | Sadek Boussena , the Algerian Mines and Industry Minister , said at the meeting that he was unlikely to seek a further term as OPEC president . |
| 22 | After appointing Thorneycroft as Secretary of State for Defence in July 1962 , Macmillan decided that the time was ripe to take a further step in the gradual process of integrating the management of the Services . |
| 23 | Working towards that goal it was necessary to establish a greater measure of monetary stability in the Community . |
| 24 | Just on two-thirds of the retreating Austrians reached the temporary sanctuary of the River San ; then , on 16 September , Conrad was obliged to order a further retreat to the River Dunajec , 12gkm/30mls farther west . |
| 25 | Thus in Bernstein v Pamsons Motors ( Golders Green ) Ltd [ 1987 ] 2 all ER 220 , Rougier J held that although a purchaser of a new car was entitled to expect a better quality vehicle than the buyer of a second-hand car , nevertheless , teething problems had to be expected . |