Example sentences of "[conj] [be] more [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was little rapport between them , and they fended off Sir Alastair 's gentle prodding with denials that were more the style of the Buckingham Palace press office . |
| 2 | No , it it 's too large and too heavy and really that is a different role that 's more the role for the tornado G L one , G L four . |
| 3 | Hinduism is followed by 85 per cent of India 's population and is more a way of life than a religion . |
| 4 | with the ineffable modesty that , because he stood in the direct line of the Apostolic Succession , he had a better right to preach the Gospel and to administer the Sacraments , and was more a minister of Christ than Dr Dale or Mr Spurgeon or Henry Ward Beecher … what could they do but laugh ? |
| 5 | After the whambamthankyouma'am of the sixties , the seventies barely existed in their own right , but were more a kind of dream time when no one wanted to admit the good times had gone , or indeed had never really been . |
| 6 | Experience does not consist of simply being faced with an event but is more a consequence of the construct system 's revision towards greater validity . |
| 7 | Adam is stockier with as much flair , but is more a passer of the ball who brings other people into the game , whereas Peter has an individual style . ’ |
| 8 | And the fact that today this respect has to be defended even more stridently than before is more a comment on the destructiveness of modern development than the result of any new-fangled obsession with antiquity . |
| 9 | It is of course a plausible pattern in educational terms , particularly in fields where practice involves the application of theory , as is more the case with natural science-based professions . |