Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [verb] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Establishments were obviously catering for a different market in the evening , and it can be assumed that customers were prepared to spend more time and to pay more for a different ‘ meal experience ’ . |
| 2 | On the other hand , if it was successful , they were prepared to commit more resources . |
| 3 | Priorities were changed ; more importance was attached to paid work and hence they were willing to give more time to union affairs . |
| 4 | If it were slightly longer at the sides and the bellends were larger to accommodate more gear this would be one of the best geodesic tents around . |
| 5 | Almost all of these estates had been mortgaged and German banks were unwilling to lend more money at the rates the Junkers requested . |
| 6 | With the help of the army , then , Peter and his successors were able to squeeze more revenue from the population . |
| 7 | Schools where the size of the delegated budget was seen to be adequate , or even generous , were able to take more steps along the path to staff involvement in decision-making than those with a reduced budget . |
| 8 | Secondly , they were able to devote more effort to materials supply and inventory issues inside the plant — areas where considerable savings could be achieved given the product cost structure . |
| 9 | Indeed , both were able to devote more attention to the presidency after leaving their chief executiveships , and given the pressure on heads of houses nowadays , the appointment as president of an about-to-retire chief executive may well become a more common — even preferred — solution . |
| 10 | First , they were able to spend more time looking at the characteristics of the turbulent environment outside the plant and exploring the implications of specific developments for their operation . |
| 11 | How would you feel if you were able to designate more life cover for a selected period of your choice , er , and then , maybe alter , er , the cover later on , so that you can have higher cover at certain points in your life , to cover these critical things , like your children 's education , while they 're growing up erm , at any point in the future . |
| 12 | Next day we were able to get more weather information . |
| 13 | In these circumstances the British were able to exert more influence over the development of defence thinking than their physical strength strictly warranted . |
| 14 | The rapid rise in tenancy in the mid-Meiji period and its maintenance at a high level thereafter may not necessarily mean a wholesale polarization of rural wealth , but a keenness on the part of those who were able to work more land to rent extra plots to take advantage of improved market opportunities . |
| 15 | The organisers were eager to attract more entries . |
| 16 | The Head of Department accepted that the department had some responsibility for the insalubrious state of the Pottery Hut and that it was possible to do more 3D work , although the problem of group size in this should be recognised in the report . |
| 17 | Finally , we examined receipt of community services , to see whether the project was able to attract more support from outside the scheme than the control samples were able to command . |
| 18 | This time the US State Department was able to exercise more control over policy-making and so avert a diplomatic crisis . |
| 19 | He probably thought it was the gale that blasted his door open , but for the next hour he was busy dispensing more whisky than he would normally expect to sell in a week . |
| 20 | It was also partly down to the well-disciplined orchestra , although the jazz idiom of , for instance , Crown 's ‘ A Red-Headed Woman ’ is not really in the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra 's blood , and Libor Pesek was inclined to take more time than some of his soloists wanted . |
| 21 | Consequently , it was necessary to introduce more daylight into the broader interiors and this became possible in the 1890s with the use of reinforced-concrete floors and steel girders . |