Example sentences of "[prep] [be] more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's got ta be more than that , cos that 's basically what my fares cost . |
| 2 | Desire of Bride to be more than a bride , to be a mother too . |
| 3 | Desire of Bachelors to be more than bachelors , to be husbands and fathers too . |
| 4 | ( Tye does compare this learning to learning to balance a pencil on your nose , but if that comparison is made to do any work , Tye 's theory will simply be a behaviouristic one , and he usually seems to want it to be more than this . ) |
| 5 | But the declaration issued by the congress left no doubt that the decision was intended to be more than a mere facelift : ‘ The present concept of socialism , the Stalinist system , has exhausted all its social , economic , political and moral reserves , and has proved unsuitable for keeping pace with global developments . |
| 6 | Civilization had to be more than a mere confluence of economic interests : ‘ And until we set in order our own crazy economic and financial systems , to say nothing of our philosophy of life , can we be sure that our helping hands to the barbarian and the savage will be any more desirable than the embrace of the leper ? ’ |
| 7 | Art has to be more than an ornament , or a reinforcement . |
| 8 | If it is to be more than a symbolic marker of the moment when North and South decided in principle to work together for mutual survival , a number of decisions on how to administer it will have to be made . |
| 9 | ‘ Some people expect a movie to be more than entertaining if they go and just laugh all the way through , they think there 's something wrong . |
| 10 | They monopolise access to public positions , they hold competition in check , they allow their expenses to be more than comfortably met from tax revenue and whenever things Set tough they form an excessively large coalition , not against any parliamentary minority but instead against the majority of non-organised voters … |
| 11 | ‘ Maclean of Duart needs to be more than good and honest ! |
| 12 | In fact the two-over-par score proved to be more than handy when compared to several of Greg 's challengers ' cards . |
| 13 | There has to be more than Newsnight … ‘ |
| 14 | to be more than amateurs ? |
| 15 | On the other hand , it is likely to be more than counterbalanced by heightened household poverty within the larger poorer families , and an overall reduction in local-government spending as a large proportion of expenditure will be controlled by central government . |
| 16 | It is more likely , however , that these singularities will prove to be more than artificial coordinate singularities that particles can pass through . |
| 17 | In short , the intelligence of insects , like that of our species , seems to be more than anything else the intelligence of evolutionary necessity . |
| 18 | However , for most airports with overall impact of the Tunnel is unlikely to be more than a temporary hiccup in the strong growth of traffic . |
| 19 | The American adventure movie Raiders of the lost ark and its sequels , in which actor Harrison Ford played Indiana Jones , an heroic archaeologist , have proved to be more than just financially successful productions . |
| 20 | What I found to be more than a little disconcerting was the feeling of drowning . |
| 21 | Planning , is of course likely to be more than just identification of needs . |
| 22 | Barbara Conroy , in her book on library staff development discusses evaluation in terms of how far stated objectives have been achieved , and emphasizes that although evaluation requires careful identification of what is being evaluated and why , to decide the ‘ how , when and where ’ , of evaluation if it is to be more than ‘ just a way of channelling impressionistic information into a required report form ’ , that it is not a highly ‘ esoteric ’ activity , necessarily involving ‘ complex research methodology ’ . |
| 23 | To be worth two murders in eight days , Ascot had to be more than a mere gambling scam . |
| 24 | Virtually any dried foods can be prepared in this way at very little cost and this has been found to be more than adequate to get the fry . |
| 25 | Any future attempt to end our oppression or to re-draw the boundaries will , if it is to be more than tokenistic , have to touch on the question of how we learn our sexuality — or , as some of us see it , how we experience heterosexist socialization . |
| 26 | In her enchanting story of The Velveteen Rabbit , Margery Williams ' tells of a cloth rabbit who longs to be more than just a toy . |
| 27 | Finally , in respect of the Wandjina , it appears to be more than chance that the word ‘ Wandjina ’ — sometimes spelled ‘ Wondjina ’ — can be formed from two Sanskrit words , ‘ Vand ’ and ‘ Jina ’ . |
| 28 | If the auditors ' role is to be expanded , however , the APB recognises that there has to be more than just shareholder involvement . |
| 29 | I have altered my Mind ; I should not like it cloth , but duffil , let it be cloth , and not to be more than 11s at most , and full yard long , and two if you please , both of a length , and both large ones , full yard long , both of a price , they both be for one Woman — they must be exactly alike for goodness and price — fail not on Wednesday — and full yard long . |
| 30 | 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 . |