Example sentences of "[pron] [be] more [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am more than a little confident that its fruition will be more than evident before the last kick of the season . |
| 2 | But I 'm more than a big girl , she cried silently , gazing at her face , devoid now of any make-up . |
| 3 | The arrangements for the new style NHS assume a continuing need for a local organisation which is more than a tier of management . |
| 4 | ‘ We was in t'workhouse together and 'e 'll do as 'e 's told , which is more than a lot of 'usbands does . ’ |
| 5 | Well , you know , I always , I 'm always you have to drink two pints a day , which is more than a litre . |
| 6 | I occasionally got ten shillings , which was more than a week 's as much a week 's wages . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | You are more than a grandmother . |
| 9 | Since you 're more than a little accident prone at this time , exercise caution and be careful not to lead your owner into trouble . |
| 10 | If you were more than a reasonable time , they would claim that you were failing to work your beat , or gossiping — things like that . |
| 11 | In any case , the repressive methods employed by the Armed Police , the Civil Guard and the legal system itself were more than a match for unarmed industrial workers . |
| 12 | Further , it should be now , not so much a bizarre , attention-grabbing death as the murder of someone who is more than a mere blood-bathed cadaver . |
| 13 | Above all , there is the doubt as to whether induction itself is more than a logical fiction to justify the generalizations which regularly spring from spontaneous analogization . |
| 14 | we 're , we 're more than a quarter . |
| 15 | 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 ! |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But there are more than a few teething problems . |
| 18 | But it is just too hard to solve the equations when there are more than a few particles involved . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Of whom there were more than a few I would imagine , thinking of how she had thrown herself on the poor defenceless Marcus . |
| 22 | There were more than a few ‘ One Sergeant Wilko ’ and similar chants during the evening , perhaps making up for the heat-of-the-moment bollocking he got at Anfield for taking off a very industrious Rod Wallace . |
| 23 | Gillis accepts , against the advice of his chair-bound agent ( Miranda Richardson ) , but soon discovers that there 's more than a movie at stake . |
| 24 | There is more than a hint of the search for the philosopher 's stone . |
| 25 | To begin with , there is more than a hint of circularity about Eccleshall 's definition of Conservatism . |
| 26 | There is more than a hint of desperation in this unlikely selection . |
| 27 | There is more than a grain of truth in the observation by A. P. Herbert that royal commissions were usually appointed ‘ not so much for digging up the truth , as for digging it in . ’ |
| 28 | Some of the smaller , and most certainly highly active dinosaurs were about the size of a chicken , and there is more than a passing similarity between a running ostrich and the kind of reconstruction that shows fleet-footed , running dinosaurs . |
| 29 | There is more than a hint of Art Nouveau in its decoration . |
| 30 | There is more than a grain of truth in this scenario , despite Mrs Thatcher 's undoubted role in the creation of the new British Library building . |