Example sentences of "[am/are] more than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since you 're more than a little accident prone at this time , exercise caution and be careful not to lead your owner into trouble . |
| 2 | maybe no only they 're more than a year . |
| 3 | we 're , we 're more than a quarter . |
| 4 | I am more than a little confident that its fruition will be more than evident before the last kick of the season . |
| 5 | No doubt you 're very switched on , when it comes to good productivity but in case , like me , you are more than a touch muddy , here are some helpful hints . |
| 6 | The amp manufacturers ' answer to the dilemma is to provide sufficient flexibility to suit all tastes , and there are more than a few ways of going about that , too ! |
| 7 | There are more than a few Hungarians who would happily revert to the good old days of Kadarism , when the Hungarian president , Janos Kadar ( 1956–1986 ) , offered the ‘ cheeriest barracks ’ in eastern Europe a relatively high standard of living in return for political passivity . |
| 8 | These perceptions are more than a sad reflection of how little sex roles have changed : women seem to have much invested in keeping things the way they are , in seeing their partners as stronger and saner . |
| 9 | But there are more than a few teething problems . |
| 10 | The public , as clients , equally base their attitudes to the quality of the services they receive on subjective assessments that are more than a little conditioned by their individual social attitudes . |
| 11 | But it is just too hard to solve the equations when there are more than a few particles involved . |
| 12 | You are more than a grandmother . |
| 13 | If there are more than a handful of lawyers doing personal injury work get a member of the support staff to compile and distribute a monthly newsletter . |
| 14 | ‘ What with missing sleep and everything else , my nerves are more than a bit wrung-out , I 'm afraid . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Others have understandably wanted to recoup their investment and the rents they are asking are more than a student can afford on a £750 a term grant . ’ |
| 16 | They are more than a spark but less than a small fire and exporters have high hopes . |
| 17 | And that misuse of the aerosol sprays is probably responsible for about three thousand five hundred deaths , but I think you 've got to put that into perspective , first of all against the six thousand people who are killed on the roads every year in Britain , and you 've also got to set it against our estimate that there are more than a quarter of a million people alive today who would have died in childhood if it had n't been specifically for the advantage of being able to take medicines , anti-biotics generally in their childhood to keep them alive . |
| 18 | Possible tests of success in this facet of the changes is whether non-executives are clear about their contribution and whether decisions are more than the sum of executive preferences . |
| 19 | Good learning environments are more than the sum of their parts ; they are exciting , attractive , motivating and challenging for those within them . |
| 20 | A man 's wife , his child , these things are more than the world to him . |
| 21 | To parents whose present and future livelihoods depend on their children , those deaths are more than an emotional tragedy . |
| 22 | But I 'm more than a big girl , she cried silently , gazing at her face , devoid now of any make-up . |