Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been more [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps if I had been more of an expert the differences would have been more apparent , but experts always tend to obscure the obvious . |
| 2 | If she 'd been more of a woman , he believed , she would have meekly accepted his word and left it at that . |
| 3 | In recent years the Employment Department and the Department of Trade and Industry have been responsible for appropriate interventions but they have been more of a fire fighting nature than a sustained development of policy and role — which in any case , has not been the way government departments have tended to behave since they are organised to implement government policy in the immediate rather than long term . |
| 4 | It has been more of a blessing than a curse . |
| 5 | When the boy had first come to the house he 'd been more of a child and had naturally been treated as a child . |
| 6 | Teachers who claim to have been highly involved also claim to have used a wider variety of methods and feel more competent to conduct the review , believing it to have been more of a whole-school effort , more thorough and more useful in producing proposals for change . |
| 7 | It had been more of a shock than she could have anticipated . |
| 8 | I er , I suppose he 's been more of a stage |