Example sentences of "be more than a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that misuse of the aerosol sprays is probably responsible for about three thousand five hundred deaths , but I think you 've got to put that into perspective , first of all against the six thousand people who are killed on the roads every year in Britain , and you 've also got to set it against our estimate that there are more than a quarter of a million people alive today who would have died in childhood if it had n't been specifically for the advantage of being able to take medicines , anti-biotics generally in their childhood to keep them alive . |
| 2 | If there are more than a handful of lawyers doing personal injury work get a member of the support staff to compile and distribute a monthly newsletter . |
| 3 | Climbing has to be more than a race for E points , pumping away on raddled lumps of overhanging bolt-protected , sweaty limestone , or cavorting on plywood Towers of Babel , studded with artificial holds , floodlit for a ‘ quick-fox ’ titillation of the idle masses . |
| 4 | But he 'll never be more than a pawn in their game . |
| 5 | ‘ But as you are , I can never be more than a friend to you . ’ |
| 6 | Even if the committee agree to a grant , it ca n't be more than a couple of thousand — not enough to keep you going for a few months . |
| 7 | But he thought it could not be more than a couple of days . |
| 8 | who thereupon took the road to heterodoxy in his disappointment : this can not be more than a fragment of the story . |
| 9 | But the relevant sense of constraint , and the aspects of society that are constrained in the two cases , are vastly different ; and if the longue durée is to be more than a ragbag of everything that endures these disparities would have to be elucidated . |
| 10 | One might go on to say that if there are two or more consistent interpretations of the lowest level code , then it makes no sense to say that the computer is in fact , say , paying tax refunds rather than doing something else because that can never be more than a matter of pragmatic interpretation by some human users of the thing . |
| 11 | For example , in applying the first criterion — logicality — belief in God is held by religious people to be more than a matter of logic . |
| 12 | I had never seen a police launch , but this one had an unmistakably official look about it , and in size and speed would be more than a match for either Stormy Petrel or Sea Otter . |
| 13 | You could see that he would be more than a match for some small female saint with no name . |
| 14 | He also suggested that planning as then envisaged could not really be more than a series of approximations . |
| 15 | In the section entitled ‘ Juvenile Employment ’ , Beveridge pressed the view that the exchange should be more than a place of registration and placement : it should be ‘ both a market-place and a centre of guidance and supervision in the choice of ‘ careers ’ . |
| 16 | However , the booklet is intended to be more than a list of records . |
| 17 | I hope the unity will be more than a veneer by the end . |
| 18 | The first Christians also knew that divine resources were more than a match for the dark powers . |
| 19 | In any case , the repressive methods employed by the Armed Police , the Civil Guard and the legal system itself were more than a match for unarmed industrial workers . |
| 20 | Probably the best advice is to be wary of any project that is more than a couple of years old , and to be extremely wary of any that were published more than five years ago . |
| 21 | In the West , a car is more than a way of travelling ; it represents freedom and flexibility and is a potent status symbol . |
| 22 | British Coal , one of the few companies still nationalised , has the unenviable task of proving to its customers that it is more than a dinosaur of the industrial revolution , slouching towards privatisation and a slow demise . |
| 23 | The arrangements for the new style NHS assume a continuing need for a local organisation which is more than a tier of management . |
| 24 | ‘ There is more than a debt in it , ’ said Cadfael . |
| 25 | There is more than a grain of truth in the observation by A. P. Herbert that royal commissions were usually appointed ‘ not so much for digging up the truth , as for digging it in . ’ |
| 26 | There is more than a grain of truth in this scenario , despite Mrs Thatcher 's undoubted role in the creation of the new British Library building . |
| 27 | It is not entirely true that people are as handicapped as we , the comparatively unhandicapped , are prepared to handicap them , but there is more than a grain of truth in that statement . |
| 28 | Byron may have been exaggerating a little when he wrote , ‘ Man 's love is of man 's life a thing apart , 'T IS woman 's whole existence ’ , but obviously there is more than a grain of truth in it , and not necessarily a painful or unacceptable one either . |
| 29 | ‘ The nearest security force base is more than a quarter of a mile away and was manifestly not the target of the attack . ’ |
| 30 | It follows that if there is a small bald patch ( or a patch with grooves less than 1.6 mm deep ) 4 cm in diameter on a tread width of 12 cm an offence is committed for 4 cm is more than a quarter of the 12 cm width of tread . |