Example sentences of "[pron] was more [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , when Rome 's first sundial was brought to the city from Sicily in 263 BC , during the first Punic war , and was erected in the Forum it was inaccurate because it indicated the time appropriate to the place whence it came which was more than four degrees to the south . |
| 2 | Ramsey knew that as a bishop he had a teaching ministry , and that this needed a journal which was more than diocesan news . |
| 3 | She was more than eight months now , so this had to be dealt with at once . |
| 4 | There was more than one couple in his parish who had communicated for years only by note or through neighbours . |
| 5 | And she was reported to have er have said when they when they took her out , that there would be nothing nothing grow on the site of the house but runcho And I do n't know the they were awful hungry for land in that day you ken and there was quite , there was more than one occasion there was old folk just putting up with the house just to get the land that it stood on . |
| 6 | There was more than one branch . |
| 7 | Years later this lady of character was to write a rather moving piece entitled ‘ The Love Song of T. S. Eliot ’ secretary ( Confrontation , Long Island University , Winter 1975 ) ; and from what Eliot said once , though half-jocularly , when he and his wife and I were having a meal together , there was more than one secretary who could have composed such a Love Song , or at least who had the necessarily incentive or excuse , I vaguely recall the lady as of ample build and very cheerful , so she was able to put good face on her sad plight . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , two of the people I spoke to did n't know there was more than one strip on the race-course and the one who did — a non-pilot — failed to tell me that Newbury was busy building a new runway in the centre of the course . |
| 9 | There was more than one kind of love and he was lucky to have even a small share of hers . |
| 10 | Obviously , there was more than one Bacon room . |
| 11 | And this time , there was more than one rider … |
| 12 | For each subject the free speed was calculated as a proportion of the prevailing speed limit at the site and where there was more than one site available the average value was taken . |
| 13 | Such comments would include , for example , any opinions that the trial judge has expressed , in a case where there was more than one defendant , as to the respective parts each played and thus as to the culpability of each for the offence . |
| 14 | We must again remind ourselves that there was more than one episode of dinosaur extinction when food and dietary factors have had equal relevance , although each succeeding ( and changed ) species seemed to be better fitted to an ecologically evolved environment . |
| 15 | Fraser 's fork took several forms , as I say : or one might prefer to say that there was more than one fork to reckon with . |
| 16 | The closest was a list of 59 , but in common with many other entries there was more than one duplication . |
| 17 | There was more than one reason why I could not accompany Jean-Claude to America . |
| 18 | I made you live again and I wanted to know there was more than mere excitement for you . ’ |
| 19 | First day of three : Leicestershire are 279–2 against Cambridge University AS the weather forecast had been jointly compiled by Harris and Gallup , there was more than sufficient play in Cambridge yesterday for Nigel Briers to hit an effortless century and his fellow Leicestershire batsmen to profit from a true pitch and erratic University bowling . |
| 20 | The uncle 's car was an old Ford V8 with enormous fins and there was more than enough room for all of them in the back . |
| 21 | There turned out to be plenty of field mice and short-tailed shrews , various larger insects and the odd rat about , so we concluded that there was more than enough food in the vicinity to sustain our pair . |
| 22 | There were only four such murder cases ( discounting the M4 Rapist case , which we consider separately ) where there was more than three days ' coverage or where more than five newspapers included reports of the search . |
| 23 | There was more and more control by the Prime Minister . |
| 24 | It was more than 10 years before Serfaty could bring himself to speak and write about the terrible things that had happened to him and his colleagues . |
| 25 | While the judge said some questions remained unresolved , Microsoft 's lawyer David McDonald concluded : ‘ If it is n't a complete victory , it was more than 95 p.c. of the way . ’ |
| 26 | It was more than five years since she had seen him and she was saying he had n't changed . |
| 27 | At the end of 1886 the tunnel was opened to passenger and goods traffic ; it was more than four miles long and its construction occupied almost fourteen years , at a cost of more than £2 million . |
| 28 | It was more than nine metres long and three metres tall . |
| 29 | Some five days after the last girder had gone up — it was more than fifty metres high — Mrs Goreng came to me , eyes alight and finger on her lips . |
| 30 | Fred Goodyear was so shocked that it was more than eight hours before he raised the alarm . |