Example sentences of "[pron] be [prep] more [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm of more use to him , if I carry his letters faithfully , than all the statutes and limitations and restrictions they 've clapped on the Welsh trade . |
| 2 | I 'm in more danger while Mason 's in England . |
| 3 | When the doors closed on the place in which I had dwelled , and I found myself alone in the world of Men , I was in more agony than you could dream exists . |
| 4 | I was in more pain than I think I have ever experienced . |
| 5 | I would certainly advise anybody to look at the policy , and if they want more cover speak to the dealer that they bought the vehicle from , because it may well be that they could have erm a much , much greater cover which is of more value to them . |
| 6 | But this only tells us the earliest date at which the book could have been written , not the latest date , which is of more interest . |
| 7 | If , however , you 're after more sophistication in both sound and facilities , and if you occasionally like to wander on the wild side , then the ME-10 is the way to go . |
| 8 | The partial remedy , for no one could think of exhaustive response , was to clear London and other big cities of children aged under fifteen , the sick and the handicapped : all those who were of more hindrance than help to the defence effort . |
| 9 | Also you have Nathan , who is of more value to you than a son . |
| 10 | Rudd 's promotions were probably attempts to remunerate a man who was of more value to the Tudor state as a cartographer than as a cleric . |
| 11 | Bert Head brought many fine footballers to the Palace from north of the border but none was of more value to the Palace than Tony . |
| 12 | At the end of the Saturday debate we were in more disarray than at any stage since either coming to power or Margaret Thatcher taking over the leadership . |
| 13 | In practice , not unexpectedly , they were of more value to the temporarily displaced skilled worker than to the chronically under-employed — the most intractable problem . |
| 14 | This can be traced back as far at least as Lord Mansfield , who said : ‘ In all mercantile transactions the great object should be certainty and therefore it 's of more consequence that a rule should be certain , than whether the rule is established one way or the other . |
| 15 | It is with more pleasure that I thank all those who have helped my ideas about the Lorenz equations to develop ; they are many , but I must mention particularly Peter Swinnerton-Dyer , Bob Williams and Paul Glendinning . |
| 16 | ‘ The charter will potentially have a very large impact on small firms because it is about more regulation . ’ |
| 17 | When he spoke again it was with more confidence . |
| 18 | A year later he was in more conflict with the BBBC which delayed granting him permission to fight in Australia after he had left the country . |
| 19 | The sheer size of the audience would have made the decade significant but what is of more interest in the 1930s was the way in which responses to Hollywood became more and more complex . |
| 20 | Nothing was of more significance in the intellectual and institutional development of medieval Europe , indeed of modern Europe , than the rediscovery of the Roman law texts in the eleventh century . |