Example sentences of "be [det] than [art] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are more than a spark but less than a small fire and exporters have high hopes . |
| 2 | Should be more than a bit but I got Marg . |
| 3 | I told Neil I would n't be more than an hour and he gets fussy if I 'm late because of the Whistler . ’ |
| 4 | One thing you will notice at times when you are watching the barbel is the extraordinary way they flip belly-upwards to take food that is more than a foot or so off bottom . |
| 5 | They are prone to picking up camcorder machine and handling noise and are not very good at recording speech if the source is more than a metre or so away from the camera . |
| 6 | His glorious book is more than a history and more than a 25,000-mile travelogue , although it is also both of those . |
| 7 | ‘ We have proved conclusively that the human is more than a body and a limited intellect . |
| 8 | But the world of the mystic is more than a garden or harvest , we must become the painters and dyers of our thoughts so that our minds will become great landscapes . |
| 9 | Dealing firstly with the question of risk , it is our view that if the balance of medical evidence is that the deterioration will occur , then that is more than a risk and the appropriate course is for the Court to award damages on the basis that it is probable that the deterioration will occur . |
| 10 | But the shaper is more than a surgeon or scientist or sculptor : he does more than repair or re-form : he energizes inert matter , turning a slab of foam into a fibreglass dolphin . |
| 11 | And , actually it was more than an hour and a half . |