Example sentences of "[be] more than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could see the image clearly enough in his mind 's eye ( since that night no two rememberings had been more than a minute apart ) but even the most basic sketch eluded his hand . |
| 2 | It 's been more than a year since a report was published on their position . |
| 3 | Hardly any part of it stood more than waist high now , much was covered in grass or blackthorn bushes , and it could never have been more than a chapel anyway . |
| 4 | Yet he felt convinced it had been more than a dream . |
| 5 | The ‘ new ’ systems being used in the Gulf have all been more than a decade in development . |
| 6 | Nevertheless it is my belief that without us , feminism would never have been more than a caucus of the broad left . |
| 7 | I 've never been more than a dabbler but I 've always had an eye for a painter and I saw at once that he was one . |
| 8 | Since the press seem to take any and every chance they can to doubt his ability to play , this article , and indeed all your support over the last few months , has been more than a pleasure to read . |
| 9 | We do not know how they were elected ; but in practice it can hardly have been more than a co-optation . |
| 10 | The loser then was Ray Laccohee who might well have been more than a match for Dale overall had he played more competition golf . |
| 11 | An officer for nearly 40 years , he should have been more than a match for a 24-year-old civilian but the first brush between the two sides , though neither commander was present in person , suggested otherwise . |
| 12 | Send one of them to talk to this chap Jordan — Fowler will do it very well ; he 'd have been more than a match for the Ancient Mariner . |
| 13 | Mar was initially joined by eighteen lords , bringing with them some 5,000 men , which should have been more than a match for the 1,500 regular troops stationed in Scotland . |
| 14 | ‘ Trumper , Private 7312087 , reporting as ordered , sir , ’ he bellowed , despite neither of them being more than a yard away from Captain Trentham . |
| 15 | This was n't a fair challenge , Harry being more than a head taller than Sam and built like an ox . |
| 16 | Politics , however — at least in the sense of nationalist feeling — had for many decades been an important and even a dominant theme in children 's fiction , and we would expect to find Ruritanian stones using nationalistic honour as a theme at least in books where adventure made any pretence of being more than a game . |
| 17 | In a dispassionate view , a century seems to have several advantages , as being more than a lifespan and being an evident but arbitrary division . |
| 18 | But this intervention was more than a defence of English interests in north-eastern France . |
| 19 | We have been spinning coins together since I do n't know when , and in all that time ( if it is all that time ) I do n't suppose either of us was more than a couple of gold pieces up or down . |
| 20 | Achimota was organised on the lines of a British public school with the boarders grouped in ‘ houses ’ which were supposed to inculcate the team spirit : however , it was more than a boarding school . |
| 21 | This , however , was more than a slogan — it was a strategy . |
| 22 | So , by my twentieth gig I was playing the Rainbow in Finsbury Park with Cozy , supporting Suzi Quatro , and was more than a bit nervous . |
| 23 | The fact was that Corbett was more than a bit of an embarrassment . |
| 24 | He was n't very bright and he was more than a bit of a bore with it . ’ |
| 25 | And the London-based scientist said he believed it was more than a coincidence that the same colony seemed to have been affected by a second strain of the gizzard worm infection which killed 137 birds last year . |
| 26 | There was more than a thread of incredulity in his tone . |
| 27 | But it was more than a shock when Julian admitted to Peter that he had been running up huge debts with their bank . |
| 28 | In these circumstances , the state officialdom was more than a bureaucracy . |
| 29 | If Minton was striving to produce a figurative subject far more ambitious than the café scenes associated with the Euston Road School , he was again defeated by his inability to find a style that was more than a pastiche . |
| 30 | Fabia , although she would have liked to ask that question , knew that they were not well enough acquainted for her to ask , or pass any comment that was more than a surface one . |