Example sentences of "was a [adj -er] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He believed that Soviet leaders in retrospect probably recognised that a genuinely non-aligned Afghanistan pursuing non-radical policies was a better guardian of Soviet security interests . |
| 2 | I , I did do years gone by yes and they , they did move into the football combination at one time , because it was considered that the Midland Intermediate League was too big a jump for young men into the first team and the difference was so vast in the type of football that Walsall second team they u only playing young fellas , and they used to win seven and eight goal margins every week you know , but then they moved up into combination that was a better standard of football , but latter years economy drives and everything they came back out of the combination reverted to the Midland Intermediate again which I believe there are two phases of that no one for s older players and the other one strictly for youth players |
| 3 | Munnings , he told reporters , was a better judge of horses than paintings . |
| 4 | There were no overtones of distress , and none even of weariness , although she was a better judge of these things than most people . |
| 5 | Joanne was impressed with their ability to formulate the rule for themselves and felt that since they understood what they were doing there was a better chance of retention . |
| 6 | Perhaps reason was a better way of persuasion . |
| 7 | If his plan worked , he would have an hour or two to himself dawdling along the reef , which was a better way of spending the afternoon than acting as nanny to four Latinos . |
| 8 | Other studies of young children with lower respiratory tract infections and wheezing illnesses in developed and developing countries have shown that hypoxaemia was a better predictor of outcome than individual clinical signs . |
| 9 | In fact Sea Change was a better example of his art than either of those . |
| 10 | Nothing , even in the tests , was a better example of the man and his leadership than when he went on as replacement open-side flanker against the so-called Emerging Wallabies in Hobart . |
| 11 | The ‘ magic ’ medium in this endearing space-hopper device is Siporax , claimed to work wonders in nitrate-removal , though my levels stuck resolutely at 30ppm and all I could seen in terms of visual improvement was a better class of blanketweed : sort of lusher , nar mean ? |
| 12 | And it was a better class of oak all through . |
| 13 | Darwin 's theory was a better extension of Lyell 's principles because it presented the species as engaged in an active struggle with an ever-changing environment . |
| 14 | The layout and shelf signing are more effective than at any WHS branch I have visited in England , and there was a thicker flow of customers than I encountered anywhere else in the city . |
| 15 | By comparing the number of phyla , one can say , as Dr Gould does , that there was a wider range of life in one little patch of sea floor than in all today 's oceans — though that conclusion ignores the fact that today 's oceans contain whales , jellyfish , barnacles and octopuses , whereas the Burgess sea contained only little creepy-crawlies . |
| 16 | By the late 1940s there was a wider range of prepackaged grocery lines available , and improvements had been made in the quality of packaging . |
| 17 | The School Curriculum was distributed to every school in England and Wales , and perhaps for this reason there was a wider span of reactions , some of which seemed more positive . |
| 18 | What was needed was a wider distribution of the profits of industry , especially through higher wages . |
| 19 | He died in Battlesden 4 March 1687 and was succeeded in his estates by his son William ( c .1647–1704 ) whose undistinguished career in Parliament and administration was a paler shadow of his own . |
| 20 | Moreover , it is also possible that management took the view that unskilled workers could be controlled more easily than skilled workers because they had less powerful union backing , and that they could be replaced more easily because there was a bigger pool of labour to draw from . |
| 21 | First , there was a lower substage of savagery characterized by the gathering of wild plants and honey . |
| 22 | This time the building was in stone and was a simpler edition of its namesake in Kiev . |
| 23 | It was the Congregationalists who suffered most from what R. F. Horton called an ‘ exaggerated and perverted notion of independency ’ , partially because of their history and partially because there was a greater diversity of beliefs than in the other denominations being discussed . |
| 24 | With increasing colonic damage there was a greater incidence of endotoxaemia ( >10 pg/ml ) and the circulating concentrations of endotoxin were higher . |
| 25 | The criterion for inclusion in the " left handed " group was a greater preference of skill for the left hand in any one of four specified activities . |
| 26 | There was a greater flow of information , more exciting debates internally , and with the formation of the Black Workers ' Group and later on the Lesbian and Gay Workers ' Group , more politically aware people began to organize around issues of their own oppression . |
| 27 | During this period there was a greater proportion of heavy smokers in the capital area , which is in agreement with the observed geographical distribution of patients in the present study . |
| 28 | But anyway , the railways there was a spurt on between in the late sixties on the railway and that 's when I think I was sure , not only because I was a branch secretary at the time but I 'm sure that all the British Railways there was a greater awareness of the fact that we had been deceived by the word nationalization . |
| 29 | After the Second World War there was a greater sense of realism in implementing the provisions of the Atlantic Charter through the creation of the United Nations , but the Charter had contained a pledge that amounted to a promise to dismantle colonial empires . |
| 30 | It seems likely that there was a greater abundance of water in the past , though it is unlikely ever to have been as large as the abundance of water on the Earth . |