Example sentences of "[be] more [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It would be more than a week since he had thought of Millet . |
| 32 | She wished she had been born into a different age , an age when women had been allowed to be more than a decorative possession . |
| 33 | I had never seen a police launch , but this one had an unmistakably official look about it , and in size and speed would be more than a match for either Stormy Petrel or Sea Otter . |
| 34 | In aiming to be more than a mere common market , the Treaty emphasised the principle that the problems of one member state would be the problems of all . |
| 35 | One might go on to say that if there are two or more consistent interpretations of the lowest level code , then it makes no sense to say that the computer is in fact , say , paying tax refunds rather than doing something else because that can never be more than a matter of pragmatic interpretation by some human users of the thing . |
| 36 | If the claim that they all legitimate the existing order is to be more than a dogma it must be refined , and Althusser 's work offers no suggestion as to how this is to be done . |
| 37 | But the relevant sense of constraint , and the aspects of society that are constrained in the two cases , are vastly different ; and if the longue durée is to be more than a ragbag of everything that endures these disparities would have to be elucidated . |
| 38 | But to be more than a failed one-term president , he must be driven by these brickbats to decide what kind of president — indeed , what kind of man — he really wants to be . |
| 39 | How long it will take to get over this shock is unclear , but it will be more than a year . |
| 40 | A growing number of people believe this may be more than a fantasy . |
| 41 | Within his own country , he is not so much a Leviathan as a Gulliver figure hemmed in and tied down by a complex network of restraints that must be thrown off if he is to be more than a helpless giant in the White House . |
| 42 | The resemblance to Marryat in O'Brian 's novels is unarguable in general terms and may even be more than a broad likeness . |
| 43 | Some of the artwork is nice but if you 've got a tenner or more to spend on nice artwork then you 're probably the subject of a public inquiry at the moment so you 're likely to be more than a little preoccupied . |
| 44 | It must be more than a " mere suspicion . " |
| 45 | In practice , it proved to be more than a mere truce after two decades of mutual and unbridled hostility . |
| 46 | This once-for-all improvement in the relative wage of women coincided with the implementation of the Equal Pay Act , and this is generally thought to be more than a coincidence ( see Zabalza and Tzannatos , 1985 ) . |
| 47 | 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 … |
| 48 | ‘ But as you are , I can never be more than a friend to you . ’ |
| 49 | Putting patients first must be more than a slogan |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | But he thought it could not be more than a couple of days . |
| 52 | Indeed , you get the feeling that there 'd be more than a few pro-war songs knocking about if it shifted the units . |
| 53 | who thereupon took the road to heterodoxy in his disappointment : this can not be more than a fragment of the story . |
| 54 | Nigel got most of the estate , but would be more than a little embarrassed by estate duty ; and provision for Jacqui and her baby would be sorted out in time . |
| 55 | You could see that he would be more than a match for some small female saint with no name . |
| 56 | It may be more than a fortnight — I do n't really know how long . " |
| 57 | She was beginning to be more than a bit worried about the expenses involved in her escape , and hoped it would n't be too long before she could escape back to anonymity and London . |
| 58 | It must be more than a coincidence that all this was happening simultaneously . |
| 59 | And I figured that it would be more than a racing cert that it was situated in another alleyway . |
| 60 | 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 . |