Example sentences of "[be] more [conj] [art] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he 'll never be more than a pawn in their game . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ There is more than a debt in it , ’ said Cadfael . |
| 4 | Anyway , why put a new straitjacket around the economy until recovery is more than a twinkle in the market 's eye ? |
| 5 | Learning an old language — Middle English , Old French , Latin — is more than an exercise in matching modern word for old word . |
| 6 | The rhetorical approach emphasizes that any attitude is more than an expression in favour of a position : it is also implicitly or explicitly an argument against a counter-position . |