Example sentences of "[pers pn] be more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I though we had already established that Steve and I are more than business partners . ’ |
| 2 | The Festival 's come of age of late and I am more than happy that my sax playing has been the soundtrack for the Festival 's cinema trailer in recent years . |
| 3 | I am more than pleased to see the Tiller troupe remain . |
| 4 | I have learnt enough about the Alexander Technique to realize that I have much more to learn , and that noticeable change can be a slow process , but I am more than happy with the benefits that I have received so far . |
| 5 | ‘ I am more than pleased with you . |
| 6 | I try to set an example , and I am more than willing to accept any degree of personal criticism and , indeed , get a lot of it — some of it rather hurtful . |
| 7 | I am more than a little confident that its fruition will be more than evident before the last kick of the season . |
| 8 | One of the top ANC men came back from the Dar Es Salaam talks and told us , ‘ I am more than ever convinced that violence is not the way . |
| 9 | ‘ After two years married to an Englishman , I am more than happy . ’ |
| 10 | I am more than happy to pay tribute to those gallant and courageous civil servants who led or followed my hon. Friend on that exciting detour on the continent . |
| 11 | I am more than grateful for their generous and spontaneous responses to our questionnaire , made in some cases in times of personal difficulty , strain or distress . |
| 12 | ‘ I am more than confident that the standard of athletics we will see in the Vauxhall Invitation meeting will be better than we have ever seen here before . ’ |
| 13 | I am more than happy to contribute whatever I can . ’ |
| 14 | If you 've got some new material on him that you want to share with us , I 'm more than happy to arrange another lecture for you later in the term , but frankly , as you 've apparently given the same lecture on him for the past ten years , I can hardly be accused of interfering with academic freedom , can I ? ’ |
| 15 | Dear love , I get plenty of time to think about us these days , and I 'm more than ever grateful that I have been given such a wonderful person as you to be my wife . |
| 16 | I do have to say that on occasion I found myself baulking at a certain inconsistent and artificialsounding short reverberation effect following the odd sudden soloist ( trumpet or saxophone ) sforzando ( two specific cases are mentioned above ) , but this is a price I 'm more than willing to pay for the added ambience and clarity that Nippon Columbia has afforded these treasurable recordings . |
| 17 | I 'm more than welcome . ’ |
| 18 | I 'm more than half convinced intellectually by him , but I still feel some of the paintings he says are bad are beautiful . |
| 19 | I mean it 's In actual fact the the number of people I 've had in and One thing I should say , if you feel you would like a visit one evening , to the plant , then I 'm more than welcome to try and organize something for you . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm more than happy with services rendered to date , ’ he mocked . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm more than happy to oblige . ’ |
| 22 | There 's no need for you to pick up strangers to escort you when , as you know , I 'm more than willing to do so . ’ |
| 23 | But I 'm more than a big girl , she cried silently , gazing at her face , devoid now of any make-up . |
| 24 | His tone had become thoroughly cynical ; then he went on , ‘ As it happens , I 'm more than happy with dear old Matt near by . |
| 25 | I 'm more than delighted that more recent revivals have reinstated the work to its rightful place in the repertoire . |
| 26 | My Lord I 'm more than happy to for your Lordship not to not look at the details of the accountant 's evidence at this stage a and concentrate on the witness statements and the documentation which which deals with liability matters . |
| 27 | ‘ I told you , I 'm more than happy to cover . |
| 28 | I 'm more than willing to carve my own career — I 'm raring to go , at least I shall be if I get my degree and if I can shake off this horrible mononucleosis , as Dr Newne pompously insists on calling it ! |
| 29 | Oh I 'm more than half way through ! |
| 30 | I 'm more than happy with something like that . |