Example sentences of "[be] more [conj] [adv] a " in BNC.
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1 | Giving good Press : Fashanu has always been more than just a footballer |
2 | But this may have been more than just a sartorial sign of the changing times . |
3 | I am more or less a consultant to them . ’ |
4 | Even if you are more or less an appropriate weight to begin with , you can benefit from exercise to tone the muscles . |
5 | I fell into one of those drooly , head-lolling dozes that seem to be more and more a feature of my advancing years . |
6 | These will increase in efficiency , and with strong belief in hard work and more education , and with the organisation and money provided by Japan , and helped by cheaper labour , will be more and more a threat to all Western economies . |
7 | I think that the rest of the situation should be more or less a straight across thing , and I 'm gon na see if we can get Paul |
8 | Beside me , Jeffrey Bernard was being more than just a little unwell . |
9 | Although it was hardly conclusive proof they were the same kegs as those discovered by the vagrant , all the signs pointed to it being more than just a coincidence . |
10 | I knew right then you were the one that I was caught up in physical objection but to my satisfaction baby you were more than just a phase . |
11 | Yet the London we inherited from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is more or less a success . |
12 | That means it was for use in climates and countries so benign that the natives require no shelter at all , and where a tent is more or less a decorative affectation . |
13 | Unfortunately , as we have already said , casein is more or less a mixture of cheese and lime and under prolonged moist conditions casein behaves very like cheese . |
14 | All the models of passive rifting discussed so far assume that rifting is more or less a symmetric process ; that is , we would expect the opposing passive margins formed through continental break-up to have a similar structure and morphology because they have experienced a similar tectonic history . |
15 | The move is more or less an insurance policy that Apple will at least have a place as a client in the enterprise . |
16 | The move is more or less an insurance policy that Apple will at least have a place as a client in the enterprise . |
17 | It is more and more a high tech event where the general public and even the family concerned have little , if any , role . |
18 | Erm , it 's once a week , but I think they 're coming in the they 're here twice this week er , and I think , it 's as and when they can , so if it 's more than once a week then they will be here . |
19 | It 's er it 's more or less a |
20 | It 's more or less a third of the marketplace will then be to the right . |
21 | There 's no rules in our business , but there 's more or less a convention that we do n't kill each other . |
22 | No I do n't , but So it 's more or less a threesome if anything at all . |
23 | By this stage , Des was more than just a mascot . |
24 | And this was more than just a professorship . |
25 | It was director Joseph L Mankiewicz who had given Brando the chance to prove he was more than just a mumbling slob by casting him as Mark Antony in Julius Caesar . |
26 | ‘ It was more than just a sexual attraction between us . |
27 | So test-tube fusion was more than just a media event with dollars on the line for the University of Utah , there were many private agendas riding along with it . |
28 | ‘ Falling in love ’ , therefore , was more than just a trivial pastime but a serious business . |
29 | The rest of us can make do with Profile 's fine new compilation ‘ Avanti ! ’ , 11 tracks to prove that Italian dance was more than just a passing fad . |
30 | It was my own experiences with herbal treatments , due to being ill over the past few years , that convinced me that there was more than just a placebo effect at work . |