Example sentences of "be something more [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | St George Jackson Mivart 's Genesis of Species of 1871 offered a cornucopia of anti-Darwinian arguments based on the claim that evolution must be something more than a haphazard process of adaptation . |
| 2 | Consequently , ‘ risk ’ must be something more than a remote possibility but less than a probability . |
| 3 | This is something more than a mere disturbance of the public calm or quiet but it appears that in the context of public order , the element of violence deemed essential in R. v. Howell ( C.A. , 1982 ) , in relation to powers of summary arrest , has not always been required . |
| 4 | [ T ] he state is something more than a mere collection of families , or an agglomeration of occupational organisation , or a referee holding the ring between the conflicting interests of the voluntary associations which it permits to exist . |
| 5 | And this is something more than a literary point . |
| 6 | But these days she was stepping way out of line , coming on like she had something on him , like she was something more than a two-bit secretary . |
| 7 | It was clearly not an all-party government , yet , until September 1932 at least , it was something more than a mere Conservative front . |
| 8 | Photography is 80 per cent casting , and with Kate it was something more than a beautiful face . |