Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] be more [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Climbing has to be more than a race for E points , pumping away on raddled lumps of overhanging bolt-protected , sweaty limestone , or cavorting on plywood Towers of Babel , studded with artificial holds , floodlit for a ‘ quick-fox ’ titillation of the idle masses . |
| 2 | Art has to be more than an ornament , or a reinforcement . |
| 3 | What I found to be more than a little disconcerting was the feeling of drowning . |
| 4 | The sign contains sufficient of the content of the thing signified to be more than a symbol . |
| 5 | This once-for-all improvement in the relative wage of women coincided with the implementation of the Equal Pay Act , and this is generally thought to be more than a coincidence ( see Zabalza and Tzannatos , 1985 ) . |
| 6 | She was beginning to be more than a bit worried about the expenses involved in her escape , and hoped it would n't be too long before she could escape back to anonymity and London . |
| 7 | In aiming to be more than a mere common market , the Treaty emphasised the principle that the problems of one member state would be the problems of all . |
| 8 | Most Communists , despite their theoretical commitment to sexual equality , looked askance at any woman who aspired to be more than a tractor driver or street-sweeper . |
| 9 | But the declaration issued by the congress left no doubt that the decision was intended to be more than a mere facelift : ‘ The present concept of socialism , the Stalinist system , has exhausted all its social , economic , political and moral reserves , and has proved unsuitable for keeping pace with global developments . |
| 10 | However , the booklet is intended to be more than a list of records . |
| 11 | In practice , it proved to be more than a mere truce after two decades of mutual and unbridled hostility . |
| 12 | She wished she had been born into a different age , an age when women had been allowed to be more than a decorative possession . |
| 13 | Civilization had to be more than a mere confluence of economic interests : ‘ And until we set in order our own crazy economic and financial systems , to say nothing of our philosophy of life , can we be sure that our helping hands to the barbarian and the savage will be any more desirable than the embrace of the leper ? ’ |
| 14 | To be worth two murders in eight days , Ascot had to be more than a mere gambling scam . |
| 15 | She wanted to be more than an outsider in ‘ La Felicità ’ , more than a vague summertime nuisance for whose sake the family had to go travelling , someone only to be communicated with by notes or as a new source of rent . |