Example sentences of "are [adv] more [subord] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are rarely more than a couple of hundred metres high , and they are usually symmetrical , although they may be ‘ breached ’ on one side , where a lava flow has emerged . |
| 2 | Commissions and inquiries are rarely more than a device to allow politicians to put off taking decisions . |
| 3 | Many World War One Aerodromes are little more than a folk memory kept alive by such names as Aerodrome Cottages at Hadleigh in Suffolk . |
| 4 | You would do well to remember that you yourself are little more than a child . |
| 5 | ‘ Nonsense , you are little more than a slip of a girl , you would be prey to all sorts of men , fortune hunters and the like . |
| 6 | In fact , the TECs are little more than a device for luring the private sector into tackling unemployment . |
| 7 | Even clothes for ‘ the larger woman ’ are usually modelled on women who are scarcely more than a size 12 . |
| 8 | To Rumi the tears are far more than a guide in the spiritual quest ; they are the very water of life . |
| 9 | If the hall is too narrow for this and many entrance ways are barely more than a corridor , try to get in a long bench or a very narrow console , or at the very least a stool and a shelf . |