Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] to a [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those full-time farmers who handed over the holding to a family member at the age of 65 years were entitled to a larger state pension . |
| 2 | This was due to a higher number of reported sewage leakages . |
| 3 | Unsure whether this was due to a greater propensity to malinger or to a higher rate of ill-health among women , a committee of enquiry was set up in August 1913 . |
| 4 | He accepted that emperorship was responsible and that he was answerable to a higher power . |
| 5 | By the ship 's articles , executed before the commencement of the voyage , the plaintiff was to be paid at the rate of £5 a month ; and the principal question in the cause was , whether he was entitled to a higher rate of wages . |