Example sentences of "[adv] be more [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are several areas in which the continued health of the Course depends upon a collaborative response which must necessarily be more than the aggregate of views of individual fields and departments . |
| 2 | The Tories had been in power for twelve years already , and a general election could not be more than a year away . |
| 3 | During the menopause a drop in hormone levels may account for a temporary loss of sexual desire in women , but this need not be more than a passing loss . |
| 4 | In particular , because directness and safety are often traded-off by individual cyclists , safe routes must not be more than about ten per cent longer than less-safe , but direct , alternatives . |
| 5 | The drifts surely could not be more than chest-deep on the massive shire , she thought , and with a bit of luck she would get through . |
| 6 | Your monthly bills , including mortgage or rent , should not be more than half your monthly take-home pay . |
| 7 | Be sure to use really juicy tomatoes for this preserve , or the yield of juice will be very small , and at best will not be more than I pint from 2½ lb. of fruit . |
| 8 | A : hello Mr Parkin this is Guy Cook here B : yes A : er do you remember um sending us a er an estimate for electrical repairs * for a hundred and fifty pounds * well I 've er just had a word with the Electricity Board with an engineer called Mr Golding and he tells me that the er the list of jobs you gave us unless there 's any special circumstances should not be more than around one hundred pounds B : oh * A : well he said he 'd have to look at it of course but er is there some special reason why you thought it would cost more A : well would you be prepared to do it for the price he quoted B : no A : well why not B : I ca n't afford it not with my wages and overheads £ I have A : well £ why should I pay an extra fifty pounds if I can get it done cheaper * B : well if you can do that * do |
| 9 | Secondly , though such a society may exhibit the tension , already described , between those who accept the rules and those who reject the rules except where fear of social pressure induces them to conform , it is plain that the latter can not be more than a minority , if so loosely organized a society of persons , approximately equal in physical strength , is to endure : for otherwise those who reject the rules would have too little social pressure to fear … |
| 10 | But he thought it could not be more than a couple of days . |
| 11 | ( It is important that the cooker should not be more than half filled ) . |
| 12 | who thereupon took the road to heterodoxy in his disappointment : this can not be more than a fragment of the story . |
| 13 | Our data suggest that the biologically active amidated peptides that are potential mediators of these actions can not be more than a small proportion of the total progastrin produced . |
| 14 | Although such rescue excavation work can not be more than piecemeal , as sites become available , results already obtained have provided useful information on conditions of urban life , in the types of buildings where people lived , on the desertion of houses within towns and around them , and on the distribution of trades within the towns . |
| 15 | In Kaiser ( An Infant ) v Carlswood Glassworks Ltd ( 1965 ) 109 SJ 537 it was said that reports should not be more than a year old , but six months is probably safer . |
| 16 | Thus , the yearly incidence rate was 0.03% for the whole population , and even if it had been adjusted to an age-standardised incidence , the observed incidence of 1.2% would still be more than expected , considering that the uncorrected risk ratio was 40 . |
| 17 | There was never even a possibility that Barney Clark would ever be more than a wretched cripple . |
| 18 | For each belief whose justification we attempt there will always be a further belief upon whose justification that of the first depends , and since this regress is infinite no belief will ever be more than conditionally justified . |
| 19 | . The damage done to industry by any of these three methods would probably be more than the good done to it by the direct help and , anyway I am not clear on the sort of direct help that might be intended . ’ |
| 20 | After the last couple of days spent in her company , he 'd probably be more than delighted to welcome Suzie and her two glamorous friends . |
| 21 | You also need to allow for the cost of both building and tiling a separate shower enclosure ; this can often be more than the cost if installing the shower itself . |
| 22 | He also suggested that planning as then envisaged could not really be more than a series of approximations . |
| 23 | The resemblance to Marryat in O'Brian 's novels is unarguable in general terms and may even be more than a broad likeness . |
| 24 | The cost of the low-end word processor and desktop publishing program combined may well be more than the cost of a good word processor that can do many of the same functions . |
| 25 | Clearly there may well be more than an element of exaggeration in this insistence , but it makes more sense if we accept their view that a great many features of literature that might not normally be recognized , at least at first sight , as terms of a comparison , nonetheless have a metaphorical or analogical function . |
| 26 | Normally Baccy would have come in closer but the wind was onshore and the storm could n't be more than an hour away . |
| 27 | Even if the committee agree to a grant , it ca n't be more than a couple of thousand — not enough to keep you going for a few months . |
| 28 | I told Neil I would n't be more than an hour and he gets fussy if I 'm late because of the Whistler . ’ |
| 29 | Nobody there , but he could n't be more than a few yards away and Forester 's fingers would n't obey him enough to get the buckles properly secured . |
| 30 | The rather crude experiment that Marie Gibbs made by putting the methylanthranilate in the chicks ' bills when their eyes were closed arid showing that this did not result in a change in receptors is one such test , but , because being blindfolded is itself scarcely a neutral experience for the birds , it ca n't be more than suggestive . |