Example sentences of "[is] more [subord] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probably the best advice is to be wary of any project that is more than a couple of years old , and to be extremely wary of any that were published more than five years ago . |
| 2 | In the West , a car is more than a way of travelling ; it represents freedom and flexibility and is a potent status symbol . |
| 3 | British Coal , one of the few companies still nationalised , has the unenviable task of proving to its customers that it is more than a dinosaur of the industrial revolution , slouching towards privatisation and a slow demise . |
| 4 | The arrangements for the new style NHS assume a continuing need for a local organisation which is more than a tier of management . |
| 5 | There is more than a grain of truth in the observation by A. P. Herbert that royal commissions were usually appointed ‘ not so much for digging up the truth , as for digging it in . ’ |
| 6 | There is more than a grain of truth in this scenario , despite Mrs Thatcher 's undoubted role in the creation of the new British Library building . |
| 7 | It is not entirely true that people are as handicapped as we , the comparatively unhandicapped , are prepared to handicap them , but there is more than a grain of truth in that statement . |
| 8 | Byron may have been exaggerating a little when he wrote , ‘ Man 's love is of man 's life a thing apart , 'T IS woman 's whole existence ’ , but obviously there is more than a grain of truth in it , and not necessarily a painful or unacceptable one either . |
| 9 | ‘ The nearest security force base is more than a quarter of a mile away and was manifestly not the target of the attack . ’ |
| 10 | It follows that if there is a small bald patch ( or a patch with grooves less than 1.6 mm deep ) 4 cm in diameter on a tread width of 12 cm an offence is committed for 4 cm is more than a quarter of the 12 cm width of tread . |
| 11 | It is sufficient to contravene this regulation where the patch is more than a quarter of the breadth of the tread , because there can not be at least three-quarters of good tread around the whole circumference of the tyre in such a case . |
| 12 | The nearest security force base is more than a quarter of a mile away and was manifestly not the target of the attack . |
| 13 | The truth is more than a recital of the visible . |
| 14 | Being healthy is more than a question of not being ill . |
| 15 | Being healthy is more than a question of not being ill . |
| 16 | All this , in the end , is more than a question of style : it is a question of judgement and of taste , and ultimately of morality . |
| 17 | To the people of England , it is more than a question of who administers local government : the lines on the map , the cricket teams , the Lords Lieutenants and signposts are important . |
| 18 | ‘ We was in t'workhouse together and 'e 'll do as 'e 's told , which is more than a lot of 'usbands does . ’ |
| 19 | The Ghost of Banquo is more than a figment of Macbeth 's imagination : it stands in some way in relation to his conscience . |
| 20 | There is more than a touch of rags to riches in the story of the outsize barons . |
| 21 | There is more than a touch of racism in your assumption . ’ |
| 22 | A decision to purchase new curtains is more than a matter of taste ; it is also a financial decision . |
| 23 | How the bureaucracy relates to the ruling class is more than a matter of origins . |
| 24 | This is more than a summary of the descriptions of each tax introduced above : rather , an economic picture captured by econometric estimation . |
| 25 | There is more than a hint of the search for the philosopher 's stone . |
| 26 | To begin with , there is more than a hint of circularity about Eccleshall 's definition of Conservatism . |
| 27 | There is more than a hint of desperation in this unlikely selection . |
| 28 | There is more than a hint of Art Nouveau in its decoration . |
| 29 | There is more than a hint of truth in what Alastair Hetherington , a former editor of The Guardian was told to explain how one defines news values : ‘ It 's like riding a bike ; if you stop to think about it , you 'll fall off . ’ |
| 30 | There is more than a hint of classical Greece in the architecture , and the blue river seen through the sand-coloured columns gives it a Mediterranean freshness . |