Example sentences of "[be] more [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If anything , you 're more intriguing as a woman than you were as a girl . |
| 2 | effective preparation so that you so that when you you stand up here you 're more confident you 're more |
| 3 | I could have gone mad , you know , but the tragedy is that during the courses a lot of them and I expect that the best time to learn is when you 're young and you 're more receptive . |
| 4 | ‘ In America they 're more honest about their failure to produce a good figurative artist . |
| 5 | Because we 're more open , we 're more honest , the availa the information 's there . |
| 6 | ‘ When you 're more junior your life simply is n't your own . |
| 7 | No cos they 're not , they 're not like erm stilettoes which where your feet are like bended they 're more flat because they 've got |
| 8 | Erm some women tend to have more pitch variation and they 're more emotional so they 're more likely to use encouraging tones er which can sometimes be seen to be slightly patronizing , whereas boys think it 's soppy to be emotional or expressive way , so that if you 're in school and you 're asking people to read out in class , erm a girl would be more likely to be more expressive , whereas a boy would be a little bit more monotonous , and just sort of read it out and not put any emotion into it . |
| 9 | Erm there 's no choice everybody 's got to move , and you 're more involved with the , the removal of people , sort of , the sort of problems that they encounter finding removal firms , connection of electricity at the new places , and all that sort of thing . |
| 10 | You 're more involved with her than you want to let on , are n't you ? ’ |
| 11 | Erm I I feel by going to cos sometimes they 're more involved than these days . |
| 12 | And er the spoolers think they 're better than us , cos they get higher pay than us , they think it 's er they 're more skilled , it takes them to longer to train to do the job seemingly but they could n't , we have to sort their repairs again if they do anything wrong it 's us that have |
| 13 | We 're more lyrical , more relaxed , less aggressive ’ |
| 14 | Well they 're more dry them oven chips . |
| 15 | So it was that an otherwise desultory exchange , from opposite ends of the universe , was suddenly enlivened by the discovery of common ground when Grundy observed , ‘ You 're more drunk than I am . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ They 're more hygienic . |
| 17 | what do you do I mean , your ok you can go to bed , but there 's only a certain amount of hours you can stay in bed cos then you 're wondering and wondering and won so you 're more tired trying to find something to do so we |
| 18 | No , I think they 're more tired and it 's I think it tends , tends , things tend |
| 19 | If your fill is also a bit dodgy you 're more susceptible to CO poisoning , with the risk of blacking out underwater . |
| 20 | She said , ‘ Oliver loves his tortoises , Like I love Mo , only they 're more real to him than Mo is to me . |
| 21 | In fact one thing he says er which might make you doubt his motives somewhat is that the reason for giving people more than one vote is that they 're more educated , but in general there is also a rough correlation between property ownership and education and so there 's a good reason to give the property owners more than one vote , people who own a lot of property more than one vote . |
| 22 | Fortunately , we 're more alive to the dangers inherent in the bruising of delicate psyches . |
| 23 | NB If you 're more used to working with computers , you 'll find that there 's a wide choice of basic payroll software available . |
| 24 | The best thing to do with that are you you 're more used to erm You 're more used to opposite over adjacent and things like that are n't you . |
| 25 | The best thing to do with that are you you 're more used to erm You 're more used to opposite over adjacent and things like that are n't you . |
| 26 | I only meant you 're more used to it . ’ |
| 27 | and er I 've discussed this before and I 've come to the conclusion that these children who come along with Jehovah 's Witnesses knocking on your door they 're more affected than any child once a year practising whatever you like to call it Halloween or whatever . |
| 28 | and er I think they 're more affected by outside influences brainwash whatever you like to call it than one night a year of Halloween . |
| 29 | Do you feel like it 's almost like doing a different thing that you 're not , you know when you 're actually acting in the play you 're more self conscious and you 're more conscious of what you 're you 're moving and you 're speaking and whereas the likes of the panto you know you just be yourself really with a bit of fun thrown in . |
| 30 | ‘ Take care , Claudia ; you 're more vulnerable than you think you are , and he sounds a very determined man . ’ |