Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [be] more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says the trip was badly organised , and that her companion wanted their friendship to be more than platonic . |
| 2 | ‘ Some people expect a movie to be more than entertaining if they go and just laugh all the way through , they think there 's something wrong . |
| 3 | Because what makes the Horde potentially extraordinary is that they 're one of the handful of Irish acts outside the inner star circle genuinely possessed of an unquenched desire to be more than musical tradesmen . |
| 4 | Desire of Bachelors to be more than bachelors , to be husbands and fathers too . |
| 5 | In my view these characteristics serve only to require the court to be more than ever cautious before concluding that Parliament really intended to exclude one of the immunities which I have listed ; and as I have suggested , the words of the Act of 1987 admit of no doubt . |
| 6 | For example , in applying the first criterion — logicality — belief in God is held by religious people to be more than a matter of logic . |
| 7 | Desire of Bride to be more than a bride , to be a mother too . |
| 8 | They monopolise access to public positions , they hold competition in check , they allow their expenses to be more than comfortably met from tax revenue and whenever things Set tough they form an excessively large coalition , not against any parliamentary minority but instead against the majority of non-organised voters … |