Example sentences of "[noun pl] was [adj -er] [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before we went on air , the number of people disagreeing that RBS had high rates of interest for savings was higher than the number agreeing . |
| 2 | In their response to the Houghton Report which preceded the Act in 1972 , BASW argued that the law should not allow parental responsibilities to be removed ( under Section 2 of the 1948 Act ) unless there were good reason to suppose that the local authority 's judgment of the child 's interests was better than the parents ' . |
| 3 | In all seven broad industry categories monitored by TI , the level of failures was higher than a year previously . |
| 4 | His reasoning was that the productivity of free workers was greater than slave labour if the labourers were offered sufficient inducement through piece-work and high rates for day labour ; the cost of getting the same amount of work done by slaves was greater than the cost of the higher rates offered as an inducement . |
| 5 | Unlike the sample as a whole , for whom the proportion with " stop-gap " first jobs was higher than the proportion with temporary first jobs , for those initially becoming unemployed as a result of the ending of a temporary job it was lower ( 38 per cent ) . |