Example sentences of "[was/were] more [subord] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I knew right then you were the one that I was caught up in physical objection but to my satisfaction baby you were more than just a phase .
2 And this was more than just a professorship .
3 But nervousness and vacillation over direct state intervention was more than just a problem of administration .
4 He was more than just a hypochondriac .
5 It was my own experiences with herbal treatments , due to being ill over the past few years , that convinced me that there was more than just a placebo effect at work .
6 But it was more than just a pub crawl .
7 The man was more than just a mystery , he was an intricate , mesmerising maze .
8 His games connection that year was more than just a marketing one ; it was also the third time he had been chosen for the Scotland team as a pole-vaulter .
9 Everything here was different and therefore better : the stiff-backed brass taps , the cut of the banister , the genuine oil paintings ( we had a genuine oil painting too , but not as genuine as that ) , the library which somehow was more than just a roomful of books , the furniture old enough to have woodworm in it , and the casual acceptance of inherited things .
10 There was more than just a matter of fifty years separating her life from that of Johnny Latimer .
11 By this stage , Des was more than just a mascot .
12 Luke 's no fool ; he could see that so far as I was concerned Elise was more than just a client .
13 In de Gaulle 's mind , the empire was more than just a source of potential recruits .
14 And it was more than just the light reflected from their balding , silvery heads .
15 International commerce was more than just an exchange or European manufactures for primary produce from the rest of the world .
16 But the speech was more than just an attack on the Commission , for it was also an astute defence of his good name and reputation .
17 It was immediately apparent that the main challenge to the ingenuity of the designers was the considerable width of the building , which , at 20m ( 66ft ) , was more than double the dimension usually found in residential buildings .
18 Investment activity by unit was more than double the percentage of North Side units contained by the neighbourhood .
19 The number of reported seroconversions has risen steadily since 1986 ; the number of cases in which transmission of HIV-1 was known to have occurred during 1990–2 ( 157 ) was more than double the number recorded during 1987–9 ( 74 ) .
20 The annual growth in the number of patients treated , at 1.9 per cent per year , was more than double the rate of growth in spending ( Robinson 1991 ) .
21 That salary was more than ever a disincentive : it seemed difficult to attract experienced candidates .
22 The tube was more than twice the length of an adult macaque 's arms .
23 A DRIVER who caused the death of a 16-year-old jogger while his blood alcohol was more than twice the limit was jailed for 18 months yesterday .
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