Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [be] more than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | W. E. Gladstone saw Hill 's men as extremely Calvinistic ; but conclusive evidence that Hill himself was more than a moderate Calvinist is lacking . |
| 2 | It seemed to him that in her gentle gaze there was more than a hint of despair , and it grieved him . |
| 3 | For Nkrumah it was more than a nuisance because influential elements in Ghana were acutely sensitive to British comment . |
| 4 | These days she was more than a match for his bullying ! |
| 5 | Rory put in mildly , though in truth she was more than a little disturbed by what she was hearing . |
| 6 | Raymond Williams puts it like this : it was argued that man 's spiritual health depended on a kind of education which was more than a training for some specialized work , a kind variously described as ‘ liberal ’ , ‘ humane ’ or ‘ cultural ’ . |
| 7 | In modern Germany there are more than a hundred spas offering the ‘ cure ’ , and programmes of hydrotherapy are taken once or twice a year by millions of Germans . |
| 8 | A woman who learnt to dive just three years ago has found a Viking relic which is more than a thousand years old . |
| 9 | In fact , according to Austin there are more than a thousand of these acts which are performable in English , and unless the hearer or reader recognises which of these is being expressed by the utterances in question he or she has missed the point . |
| 10 | Because of the complexity of the polymer there were more than a thousand peaks or data points per sample but Burmester reduced this vast amount of information by computer clustering . |
| 11 | When he returned to Hawaii he was more than a hero , he was a saviour , a messiah . |
| 12 | It took Daniel completely aback ; and Nora herself was more than a little surprised at her own sudden vehemence . |
| 13 | There was a body of evidence that established that at the material time there was more than a normal commercial incentive influencing the actions of Bunn . |