Example sentences of "[prep] be more [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well there 'd ought to of been more control but apparently now , you know how the Indians come over here , all the time do n't they ? |
| 2 | And with Venus in your own sign between February 2 and June 6 , there has to be more love and fulfilment around than for some time . |
| 3 | The may maybe I just comment on that that last that last point , which as I understand it it the the justification for a new settlement is brought about solely by increasing the requirement for Greater York to twelve thousand seven hundred , going through those figures there seems to me , for instance , for both Ryedale and Selby to be more provision than could be met in a single settlement , I I think the the figures put forward by Barton Willmore are more than can be met in existing allocations and a single new settlement of a reasonable size . |
| 4 | These days we try to be more communautaire than thou . |
| 5 | But this seemed to be more work than charring — for less pay . |
| 6 | She had worked hard last week , but there seemed to her to be more work than ever landing on her desk this week . |
| 7 | A whole range of contributory factors are singled out , and evidence offered , notably on age stratification leading children to be more peer than adult-orientated , and television viewing increasingly dominating their waking lives . |
| 8 | In a later article , he points to research findings which show that pupils who are good at maths tend , on the whole , to be more conformist and obedient than other pupils . |
| 9 | In 1734 , for example , Gabriel Napier of Craigannet , the sheriff-depute of Stirlingshire , pressed Lord Ilay to help him add the office of keeper of the register of sasines for Stirling and the stewartry of Menteith to his official holdings , for he found the sheriffship to be more trouble than it was worth . |
| 10 | Rangers initially were of the opinion that their share of the tickets for the Velodrome in Marseille was so unsatisfactory as to be more trouble than it was worth . |
| 11 | But for the talks to be resumed in a favourable climate , there would have to be more confidence that the violence could be contained , agreement or no agreement . |