Example sentences of "[prep] [be] more [subord] a [noun sg] " 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 | When he had at last regained consciousness no one had expected him to be more than a vegetable . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 ) . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Smack in the middle of Milton Keynes the £1m building sets out to be more than a church . |
7 | The sign contains sufficient of the content of the thing signified to be more than a symbol . |
8 | Desire of Bride to be more than a bride , to be a mother too . |
9 | But the relevant sense of constraint , and the aspects of society that are constrained in the two cases , are vastly different ; and if the longue durée is to be more than a ragbag of everything that endures these disparities would have to be elucidated . |
10 | If the claim that they all legitimate the existing order is to be more than a dogma it must be refined , and Althusser 's work offers no suggestion as to how this is to be done . |
11 | If the thing 's to be more than a game there 'll have to be some risks . |
12 | However , the booklet is intended to be more than a list of records . |
13 | For example , in applying the first criterion — logicality — belief in God is held by religious people to be more than a matter of logic . |
14 | Art has to be more than an ornament , or a reinforcement . |
15 | The talks were clearly to be more than an exchange of courtesies , for Vansittart , Hoare 's permanent under-secretary , was to be present for them . |
16 | 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 . |