Example sentences of "be more [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike 1-2-3 these are n't pictorial in any sense of the word ; they 're more a menu-like collection of abbreviations down the side of the screen . |
| 2 | After all , you 're more the age we 've got to go for . |
| 3 | Although Joanne feels sore at the selectors , there are those who believe that she has been more a victim of circumstance than anything else . |
| 4 | So far , there 've been more a dozen such incidents across the region , but a psychologist who 's been studying them is warning that they 'll be difficult to stop . |
| 5 | A section of the company 's annual report discussing future prospectives indicates that facilities management at CGI has traditionally been more an auxilliary activity than a driving one . |
| 6 | 789–90 that his oldest son , Charles , should marry one of Offa 's daughters may already have been more an attempt to ‘ patch up bad relations ’ than to give effect to good ones , and , when acceptance of this extremely prestigious offer was made dependent by Offa on one of Charlemagne 's daughters marrying Ecgfrith , so affronted was Charlemagne that he gave orders that no one from Britain and the Anglian race was to land on the sea-coast of Gaul for the sake of commerce . |
| 7 | It is true that the government used all the influence it could to secure the return of loyal members , and the purges of borough corporations at the end of Charles II 's reign certainly had an electoral impact , but the election of such a loyal Parliament appears to have been more the result of a genuine reaction against the Whigs amongst the electorate than it was of Court manipulation . |
| 8 | I am more a Rhodesian than Jack Kennedy was an American . ’ |
| 9 | The figures are more a reflection of the inadequacy of accounting rules on goodwill than the quality of the underlying businesses . |
| 10 | Behavioural rights are more a matter of belief than legislation since they tend to be based on conclusions which you have reached about yourself in relation to others . |
| 11 | The distinctive mark of these church planting activities is that the churches planted are more a federation of congregations than churches in their own right , arid they retain strong links with the overall structure of Ichthus . |
| 12 | On vinyl they are more a twitchy , jangling beat group and ‘ Whoa ! ’ is something like ‘ How Soon Is Now ’ attempted by Talking Heads and The Charlatans in bizarre collusion with Enya and Booker T. Which is probably why it 's five minutes long . |
| 13 | More interestingly , the report hears that SuperSparc 's clock-rate problems ‘ are more a result of a goof in the design of the cache than of an overly complex superscalar design . ’ |
| 14 | Yet , like the impact of newcomers on village society generally , they are more a symptom than a cause of the sense of loss which the local population often feels . |
| 15 | This is the rule for bigger conferences — two hundred people or more — because these are more the ‘ show ’ conferences . |
| 16 | ‘ These are more the sorts of descriptions that people tend to use about the experience of working for me . ’ |
| 17 | The evidence available to the Board of prices paid for land for development suggests that sales at or near existing use value are more the exception than the rule . |
| 18 | Introverts are more the other way round whereas they 've got narrow interests , narrow fields of interest but they look at them in depth . |
| 19 | I really just wanted to see er just wanted to see the sort of range of things they did now this is more like it you see Effective Writing , Report Writing , Technical Report Writing , Business Sales Corres , Editing House Journals Writing for Publication , Desk Top Publishing , things like working with the media these are more the sort of things that I would see people |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm more a prog rock man meself , ’ beams an entirely serious Anthony . |
| 21 | Partly because I want to experience life in as many phases as I 'm capable of — i.e. I 'm more a writer than a moralist , I suppose . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm more the vulture variety . ’ |
| 23 | In effect , the merger will be more a takeover by the ISPA , who will acquire the American body 's assets and their administration . |
| 24 | Thus the inclusion of conservation elements in rural development projects tends to be more a conceptual advance than a practical one , and to be an item in a project document rather than an output . |
| 25 | Many claims are made for their disinfectant properties but the results obtained may be more a function of their excellent detergency in removing , rather than destroying , micro-organisms and their recommended method of use in sequence with other cleaning agents followed by a number of rinses . |
| 26 | ‘ But we will now encounter different styles , so the matches will now be more a battle of wits . ’ |
| 27 | For the latter lot , only ‘ The Hair Pillow ’ , illuminated by singer Craig Wedren 's glorious , bizarre falsetto , sticks close enough to convention to be more a pleasure than an endurance test . |
| 28 | This distinction is familiar enough to the jurist for whom the fairness and therefore the acceptability of a trial may be more a matter of the way in which the trial was conducted than whether or not the verdict reached was in some further sense the right one . |
| 29 | However , this seemed to be more a short term way of preserving individual pride rather than a long term alternative : ultimately they wanted to enter mainstream society , have a job and ‘ settle down ’ . |
| 30 | Teachers are not free to define the curriculum but this may be more a loss of face than substance . |