Example sentences of "[be] [prep] more [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the most upbeat I have been for more than a year . ’ |
| 2 | But when , as his friend and director Mike Nichols asserts , an actor has inscribed upon popular history a character who has influenced the modern male personality , as did Henry Fonda , James Cagney , Spencer Tracy and Humphrey Bogart , his personal idiosyncrasies are worth more than a cursory glance . |
| 3 | One or two events which will be of more than a passing interest to Lothian Highways ' staff have occurred since the first edition of NETWORK was published . |
| 4 | It had about 164,000 regulars , of whom only some 80,000 were on more than a three-year engagement . |
| 5 | ‘ She 's worth more than a shepherd . ’ |
| 6 | For the reader about to abandon the book this may easily uncover previously undisclosed information ; for the committed reader it can add to his overall perspective on the book , thus helping him understand the relation of the parts to the whole , e.g. D. Marquand , Ramsay MacDonald ( 1977 ) , is about more than a former Prime Minister . |
| 7 | The Kaduna-based Hausa language newspaper Gaskiya ta fi Kwabo ( ‘ The Truth is Worth More than a Penny ’ ) , took this allegation further by quoting from a leading Kaduna State politician : |
| 8 | Try not to get pushed into this — your health is worth more than a few extra quid . |
| 9 | Hence , a pound paid out is worth more than a pound retained and reinvested . |
| 10 | Lewis 's popularity was part of this , and it was with more than a scent of victory in the air , victory over the agnostics and freethinkers , that he consented to be involved with the foundation of the Socratic Club in Oxford in 1941 . |