Example sentences of "be [det] [subord] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since you 're more than a little accident prone at this time , exercise caution and be careful not to lead your owner into trouble . |
| 2 | If the shares are those if a listed company this anomalous position can be ended rapidly because , unless the shares are not fully paid , there will not be any restrictions on transferability and the personal representative will either obtain registration of himself or execute a transfer to a purchaser or to the beneficiaries . |
| 3 | These perceptions are more than a sad reflection of how little sex roles have changed : women seem to have much invested in keeping things the way they are , in seeing their partners as stronger and saner . |
| 4 | To parents whose present and future livelihoods depend on their children , those deaths are more than an emotional tragedy . |
| 5 | That would be less than a complete solution . |
| 6 | the probability of flooding must be less than a specified level ; |
| 7 | In order for an apparent consent or refusal of consent to be less than a true consent or refusal , there must be such a degree of external influence as to persuade the patient to depart from her own wishes , to an extent that the law regards it as undue . |
| 8 | But I 'm more than a big girl , she cried silently , gazing at her face , devoid now of any make-up . |
| 9 | Within his own country , he is not so much a Leviathan as a Gulliver figure hemmed in and tied down by a complex network of restraints that must be thrown off if he is to be more than a helpless giant in the White House . |
| 10 | But the declaration issued by the congress left no doubt that the decision was intended to be more than a mere facelift : ‘ The present concept of socialism , the Stalinist system , has exhausted all its social , economic , political and moral reserves , and has proved unsuitable for keeping pace with global developments . |
| 11 | Civilization had to be more than a mere confluence of economic interests : ‘ And until we set in order our own crazy economic and financial systems , to say nothing of our philosophy of life , can we be sure that our helping hands to the barbarian and the savage will be any more desirable than the embrace of the leper ? ’ |
| 12 | In practice , it proved to be more than a mere truce after two decades of mutual and unbridled hostility . |
| 13 | To be worth two murders in eight days , Ascot had to be more than a mere gambling scam . |
| 14 | The resemblance to Marryat in O'Brian 's novels is unarguable in general terms and may even be more than a broad likeness . |
| 15 | In the end the consequences of Chernobyl may be more than a horrifying collection of statistics about unleashed radiation , deformed lives , premature deaths . |
| 16 | Our data suggest that the biologically active amidated peptides that are potential mediators of these actions can not be more than a small proportion of the total progastrin produced . |
| 17 | She wished she had been born into a different age , an age when women had been allowed to be more than a decorative possession . |
| 18 | During the menopause a drop in hormone levels may account for a temporary loss of sexual desire in women , but this need not be more than a passing loss . |
| 19 | However , for most airports with overall impact of the Tunnel is unlikely to be more than a temporary hiccup in the strong growth of traffic . |
| 20 | Some cardiologists complained that the heart could never be more than a temporary remedy and that the money spent on the research could be better used for drug therapies and other techniques . |
| 21 | If it is to be more than a symbolic marker of the moment when North and South decided in principle to work together for mutual survival , a number of decisions on how to administer it will have to be made . |
| 22 | You may have known someone else for twenty years and yet he will never be more than a casual acquaintance . |
| 23 | There will never be more than a stray shower ; the waves will never be more than three feet high , with a scattering of white horses when the breeze runs into double figures . |
| 24 | An accurate and meaningful account of a human society should be more than a generalised narrative of the changes in composition of the archaeological record through time . |
| 25 | There was never even a possibility that Barney Clark would ever be more than a wretched cripple . |
| 26 | And I figured that it would be more than a racing cert that it was situated in another alleyway . |
| 27 | Other resistances or blocks to communication can be more than an initial reluctance to talk about the main issues . |
| 28 | If you were more than a reasonable time , they would claim that you were failing to work your beat , or gossiping — things like that . |
| 29 | But is that because a new innovation you see . |
| 30 | Clearly the brain is more than a passive relay from stimulus to response . |