Example sentences of "[pron] be more of a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am more of a farmer , My Lord . |
| 2 | His wife who I am told still resides up at Fiesole has been heard to call her husband ‘ the old Brute ’ and when a wife speaks thus I am more of a mind to listen than not . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , I 'm not so much a guitarist ; I 'm more of a listener — still . |
| 4 | I 'm more of a match for Lemarchand . ’ |
| 5 | I 'm more of a party girl , myself . ’ |
| 6 | I 'm more of a steak and chips man |
| 7 | But I was more of a dogsbody really — I was ‘ allowed ’ to help with conveyancing , but most of the time I made the coffee and did bits of typing , especially if the other secretary , Doreen , was absent . |
| 8 | ‘ Even back at primary school I was more of a homey , crafty person . |
| 9 | I was more of a hooligan than what they were used to , ’ Bailey snorts . |
| 10 | He is also a member of the Crossword Club , which publishes two puzzles each month which are more of a challenge than the others , he says . |
| 11 | Once the initial fright had subsided more and more of the children started to return and , apart from constant air-raid warnings which were more of a nuisance , schools were able to function normally . |
| 12 | When I was a doctor I never killed a single patient , which is more of a boast than you might imagine . |
| 13 | Pop and I had never had much to do with a soldiers ' club-except for that brief time in Maymyo , which was more of a hospital than a club , but now we had to feed and house soldiers on leave , poor men who were tired and bored and away from their families . |
| 14 | ‘ You 're more of a fool than I ever thought you were . ’ |
| 15 | You 're more of a man than I am , can I quote |
| 16 | Janet Jackson is great , the way she dresses , she does n't just wear miniskirts like Sabrina or Sinitta , she wears trousers , baseball caps ; she 's more of a tomboy . |
| 17 | She 's more of a family person I think |
| 18 | This time I 'm seeing a woman , who is more of a therapist than an analyst ; I prefer this because the sessions are more conversational and practical and there is even a certain amount of role playing . |
| 19 | I thought at first she was ketch-rigged , but then decided she was more of a schooner . |
| 20 | As I recall it had all started about three months ago when Miss Court first joined the group of church helpers but she was more of a helper as we had never seen her at church before . |
| 21 | Not particularly good-looking but by God she was more of a man than any of them . |
| 22 | A great mystery is why Eliot , who was more of a relativist than Pound , should have been accepted by the academic establishment whereas Pound was not . |
| 23 | We 're more of a specialist . |
| 24 | If you say we 're more of a pop band , then that 's a compliment . |
| 25 | ‘ There 's more of a performance aspect than pure dance as an abstract art form . ’ |
| 26 | The traditional areas still maintained fortunately , cos it did n't affect the knitted outer-wear at this stage , so all the areas we talked about in the north of Yorkshire moor and Scotland , fortunately there 's more of a skill to maintain there . |
| 27 | The drought of the previous three years has dissolved into into a huge downpour and now there 's more of a worry about being too much rather than not enough water . |
| 28 | There 's more of a tradition for that in Northern Ireland , ’ she says . |
| 29 | There 's more of a case for highly equipped regional laboratories with local out-stations . |
| 30 | Purchases are up more than I thought people purchasing all the time is , that 's fine , they 've got a system , we can describe that in a paragraph here and that 'll satisfy them but there 's more of a problem when we 're buying in the software , more than a one off thing . |