Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] more than [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Although the chance to split votes is from the British standpoint a novelty which a commentator can not ignore , it should not be regarded as more than a minor feature of the WGMS . |
2 | No doubt it appealed to his vanity and his ambition to be regarded as more than a mere fiddler ; but after a harrowing year it must have been a decision he bitterly regretted . |
3 | Clearly , information from the subcortical visual system can , under some circumstances , be used for more than the control of visual reflexes . |
4 | If holist forms of explanation are to merit serious consideration , they must clearly be based on more than an uncritical acceptance of a crude version of historical materialism , and the claim that they are not threatened by counterfactuals such as those discussed at the start of the chapter must be given a less doctrinaire justification . |
5 | Naïve unsophisticated statements such as these marked a regeneration which perhaps must be experienced by more than a handful of prisoners if we are to care enough about civilization to want to save it . |
6 | Jobs at BR 's Eastern Region headquarters in York would be cut by more than a quarter as work was contracted out and staffing levels cut back together with train services . |
7 | Ginseng is another alternative , but it is expensive and should not be taken for more than a month , as doctors suspect it is harmful to those who have high blood pressure . |
8 | Smith himself insisted that his other commitments did not interfere with his mathematics , as that demanded a concentration too great to be maintained for more than a few hours a day . |
9 | She certainly did not live in the shadow of John ; she was her own person and deserved to be described as more than a widow . |