Example sentences of "[was/were] more than a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five years later , in Watch Out Kids the future It staffer Mick Farren noted that what he had seen there , that night , was more than a new rock ‘ n ’ roll show , it was ‘ the germ of a new way of life ’ . |
| 2 | And he insisted the new service was more than a temporary offer , declaring : ‘ This is n't a promotion — it is for always . ’ |
| 3 | The failure of Soviet nationalities policy , however , was more than a personal failure ; it also reflected the failure , over more than seventy years , to devise an official theory that could adequately account for ethnic and national differences , and perhaps a still deeper weakness in a doctrine that insisted working men ‘ had no country ’ . |
| 4 | It was more than a legal victory for Taylor when the judge told the skinhead that it was only his brief 's eloquence that had saved him from prison . |
| 5 | This was more than a simple distillation of the man 's thoughts on the current political situation . |
| 6 | It was more than a simple indication of wants , because with a little prodding Bobo was starting to make sentences with a logical construction to them . |
| 7 | The trick with the watches was more than a technical stunt , it actually worked in the context of the piece , sucking the audience even further into the spell . |
| 8 | Some of these saw Communism as a pretty serious threat to a way of life that included cricket , and for these people Hitler was more than a passing attraction . |
| 9 | On the political left , a popular approach was to adopt the terminology of the long-dead Italian Marxist , Antonio Gramsci , to argue that Thatcherism was more than a governmental system , more even than an ideological banner . |
| 10 | For the thousands of families who flocked into Little Rock this was more than a mere election . |
| 11 | The argument between Watson and Forbes was more than a mere priority dispute — it reflected a basic disagreement over the purpose of gathering geographical information . |
| 12 | It was more than a mere walk … |
| 13 | When I realized that Hilda 's was more than a normal crush , I should have stopped it I suppose . |
| 14 | W. E. Gladstone saw Hill 's men as extremely Calvinistic ; but conclusive evidence that Hill himself was more than a moderate Calvinist is lacking . |
| 15 | After the terrible decades of Cold War and such near approaches to Hot War as the Cuba crisis , after decades in which the whole of Eastern Europe was a remote and hostile armed camp , the sudden thaw in which all of Europe seemed caught up was more than a political event . |
| 16 | The transcendent importance of this constitution in the subsequent history of Spanish constitutionalism conceals that liberalism was more than a political creed . |
| 17 | This was more than a political strategy , however . |
| 18 | She was more than a wee bit confused . |
| 19 | KEVIN Keegan ( right ) went into quarantine yesterday , but it was more than a niggling flu bug which persuaded him to lock himself away from his Newcastle players before the FA Cup fifth round tie at Blackburn . |
| 20 | For the United States , the assimilation of wave after wave of immigrants into an egalitarian society was more than a pious hope . |
| 21 | But ‘ Budgie ’ was more than a fine professional : he was a marvellous personality . |