Example sentences of "to [be] more [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 When he had at last regained consciousness no one had expected him to be more than a vegetable .
3 Most Communists , despite their theoretical commitment to sexual equality , looked askance at any woman who aspired to be more than a tractor driver or street-sweeper .
4 This once-for-all improvement in the relative wage of women coincided with the implementation of the Equal Pay Act , and this is generally thought to be more than a coincidence ( see Zabalza and Tzannatos , 1985 ) .
5 She was beginning to be more than a bit worried about the expenses involved in her escape , and hoped it would n't be too long before she could escape back to anonymity and London .
6 Smack in the middle of Milton Keynes the £1m building sets out to be more than a church .
7 The sign contains sufficient of the content of the thing signified to be more than a symbol .
8 Desire of Bride to be more than a bride , to be a mother too .
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 If the claim that they all legitimate the existing order is to be more than a dogma it must be refined , and Althusser 's work offers no suggestion as to how this is to be done .
11 If the thing 's to be more than a game there 'll have to be some risks .
12 However , the booklet is intended to be more than a list of records .
13 For example , in applying the first criterion — logicality — belief in God is held by religious people to be more than a matter of logic .
14 Art has to be more than an ornament , or a reinforcement .
15 The talks were clearly to be more than an exchange of courtesies , for Vansittart , Hoare 's permanent under-secretary , was to be present for them .
16 She wanted to be more than an outsider in ‘ La Felicità ’ , more than a vague summertime nuisance for whose sake the family had to go travelling , someone only to be communicated with by notes or as a new source of rent .
17 Wages , for those who can find work , are unlikely to be more than the equivalent of $15 a month , paid in clumsy wads of devalued roubles .
18 Effective cross-cultural briefing , such as that practised at the Farnham Castle International Briefing Centre , has to be more than the provision of information .
19 In 1933 its total membership was believed to be about 300 , but the cost of a fund-raising appeal for £25,000 proved to be more than the sum collected and the movement went £800 into debt .
20 It had to be more than the trauma of the afternoon .
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