Example sentences of "[noun] [be] more than a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he insisted the new service was more than a temporary offer , declaring : ‘ This is n't a promotion — it is for always . ’ |
| 2 | On the political left , a popular approach was to adopt the terminology of the long-dead Italian Marxist , Antonio Gramsci , to argue that Thatcherism was more than a governmental system , more even than an ideological banner . |
| 3 | But God was more than a heavenly speaking clock to Richie . |
| 4 | For the United States , the assimilation of wave after wave of immigrants into an egalitarian society was more than a pious hope . |
| 5 | The transcendent importance of this constitution in the subsequent history of Spanish constitutionalism conceals that liberalism was more than a political creed . |
| 6 | The argument between Watson and Forbes was more than a mere priority dispute — it reflected a basic disagreement over the purpose of gathering geographical information . |
| 7 | The trick with the watches was more than a technical stunt , it actually worked in the context of the piece , sucking the audience even further into the spell . |
| 8 | Some of these saw Communism as a pretty serious threat to a way of life that included cricket , and for these people Hitler was more than a passing attraction . |