Example sentences of "[verb] there be [adv] to " in BNC.

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1 We sense there is more to it than that , but we have not known how to come to grips with it without giving ammunition to our opponents .
2 They were aware that in a deep way Jesus had dealt a death blow to sin and death , but they believed there was more to it than that .
3 If he truly believed there was more to her actions , if he had married her to protect her life or reputation , why could n't he spare a few insignificant minutes to listen to her now ?
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5 But Minnie I ought to have suspected there was more to this kindness than appeared and so there is .
6 To say this is not to play with words but to assert there is more to peace than a word with five letters .
7 But I sensed there was more to it than that .
8 If only they would read a little Dickens or Kipling they would soon discover there was more to life than cheating people and watching television .
9 But now , as she watched , she was forced to acknowledge there was more to it than that .
10 First of all I thought he was just some little fledgling that had fallen out of its nest , but I very soon realized there was more to him than that . "
11 He thinks there 's more to ‘ democracy ’ than voting for someone else .
12 ‘ She obviously decided there was more to life than a ship 's doctor had to offer . ’
13 Not , of course , all its human stuff ; when Dostoevsky told his biographer that the task of his own deeper realism was ‘ to find the human in the human being ’ , he meant there is more to us than filthy earth , and this ‘ more ’ must be found .
14 And when Rosa heard Caterina getting up next door , and coming towards the kitchen , she gave Sabina another hard pinch on the thin part of her arm , just to make sure she knew there was n't to be another word .
15 ‘ But as much as I 'd like to continue playing for the North , I suddenly thought there 's more to life than sitting on the M1 .
16 ‘ Yeah , ’ said Lydia , but she thought there was more to it than that .
17 But after a while I began to think there was more to it than that , and I did n't know how to handle it .
18 She 'd been investigating one of her peculiar groups and she said there was about to be a break-through .
19 He said there was more to be done but that the Chancellor deserved a cheer for going along this route at the moment .
20 In print this wo n't look too good over breakfast , but I have to say there is more to this chapter of our being then we know .
21 He 'll learn there 's more to being a man than hunting and lolling about the place .
22 Make people down South realize there 's more to the North than muck and football hooligans .
23 Neatly arranged opposite is an array of samplers , sequencers , drum machines and keyboards — just to prove there 's more to the man than the jingle-jangle of six strings over a pickup .
24 ‘ I want to prove there 's more to me than blonde hair and long legs . ’
25 Would Tim have persuaded Jan to throw away her book at last and learn there was more to life than work ?
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