Example sentences of "[noun] [be] more than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In these circumstances , the state officialdom was more than a bureaucracy . |
| 2 | The fact was that Corbett was more than a bit of an embarrassment . |
| 3 | The twinning budget on Grenoble City Council is more than a million pounds . |
| 4 | Well in Britain we decided we 'd be on the safe side , we 'll reduce that to a thousand we put another factor of ten in and what 's more i if one sheep in , in a whole flock is more than a thousand units , er then we will condemn the whole flock . |
| 5 | But this intervention was more than a defence of English interests in north-eastern France . |
| 6 | This was n't a fair challenge , Harry being more than a head taller than Sam and built like an ox . |
| 7 | Sophie glanced at Joanna , who shrugged , then at Helen , who was looking anxious , and , although Mr Greenwood 's attitude towards professional etiquette was more than a little arrogant , the last thing she wanted to do was to upset her godmother . |
| 8 | And he insisted the new service was more than a temporary offer , declaring : ‘ This is n't a promotion — it is for always . ’ |
| 9 | The reply of Jesus states clearly that Jesus was more than a prophet . |
| 10 | A truth of modern warfare , which was first disclosed in the Russo-Japanese War ( 1904–5 ) , had been underscored though leaders on neither side fully comprehended it as yet ; defensive weaponry was more than a match for charging infantry . |
| 11 | On the political left , a popular approach was to adopt the terminology of the long-dead Italian Marxist , Antonio Gramsci , to argue that Thatcherism was more than a governmental system , more even than an ideological banner . |
| 12 | The declaration of policy was more than a statement of priorities and objectives , designed to disavow as misdirected Mr Benn 's essay in Industrial Co-operation and to restore credibility to the idea — and , incidentally , to meet Signor Prandini 's dismissive criticism . |
| 13 | Hamid was more than a million dollars richer and the second Iranian-born player in three years to be crowned world champion . |
| 14 | Sitting in the cinema one evening a woman was more than a little surprised to see a man walk in just before the film began with his pet crocodile at his side . |
| 15 | Ace was more than a frontier auxiliary , Defries had realized that on meeting her , but she was no academic , and certainly no civilian . |
| 16 | But God was more than a heavenly speaking clock to Richie . |
| 17 | Gloom and despondency hung over the royal party and Anne was more than a little resentful of having been required to join them in sanctuary . |
| 18 | For the United States , the assimilation of wave after wave of immigrants into an egalitarian society was more than a pious hope . |
| 19 | I suspect his own life was more than a match for the movies , although he did like to imitate Hopalong Cassidy . |
| 20 | The transcendent importance of this constitution in the subsequent history of Spanish constitutionalism conceals that liberalism was more than a political creed . |
| 21 | The argument between Watson and Forbes was more than a mere priority dispute — it reflected a basic disagreement over the purpose of gathering geographical information . |
| 22 | The trick with the watches was more than a technical stunt , it actually worked in the context of the piece , sucking the audience even further into the spell . |
| 23 | This discovery of Frank 's atheism was more than a perturbation to Michael . |
| 24 | Palestrina 's more than a hundred Masses are of all the familiar types : Masses like ‘ Aeterna Christi munera ’ , based on the plainsong Matins hymn , ‘ parodies ’ like ‘ Assumpta est Maria ’ based on his own six-part motet , freely composed ones like the Missa Papae Marcelli and Missa brevis , to mention only a few supremely fine examples . |
| 25 | After only 40 doublings the number of cells is more than a trillion . |
| 26 | The house was more than a building ; it was an art , a way of life . |
| 27 | Surely a Leo was more than a match for a Scorpio , no matter how deadly its sting . |
| 28 | Some of these saw Communism as a pretty serious threat to a way of life that included cricket , and for these people Hitler was more than a passing attraction . |