Example sentences of "[be] more [noun sg] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're more bear than squirrel today . |
| 2 | Most Christian communicators have been more message than receptor oriented . |
| 3 | The activists ' message scrawled on a wall near the ground is some way removed from the burning passions normally aroused by football , while the T-shirts are more machismo than menace , and pop songs peppered with heavy breathing are apparently in vogue if not in keeping with pre-match entertainment . |
| 4 | And yet Victoria has accused me of exactly the same sin as I am so lightly attributing elsewhere ( incidentally , to people who are more fiction than fact ) . |
| 5 | But they are more symptom than cause . |
| 6 | There 'll be more rail than road in this country of ours one day . |
| 7 | Finally it is safe to predict that in any catalogue there will be more information than art criticism . |
| 8 | All week long , the Hollywood gossip about this case was of drugs , mysticism and off-beat sex , and for once there may be more truth than fantasy in the flashy talk of the town . ’ |
| 9 | The Bishop is more statesman than priest . ’ |
| 10 | The whole thing is more dance than maths and more Ramanujan than either . |
| 11 | However , nature for us men is more depth than surface … |
| 12 | And yet it is no more than a nine-horse race , even if one of the teams is more pony than stallion , and no extreme predictions will be found in this column ; the taste of the printed page proved far too unpalatable in 1983 , when criticism of India , eventual World Cup winners , was duly exposed as unwarranted and the urgent suggestion that one should eat one 's words was honourably met . |
| 13 | In short , I am suggesting that there is more continuity than discontinuity in the development of the novel as a literary form . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's more entertainment than politics . |
| 15 | Keith subscribes to the theory that it 's more luck than judgement . |
| 16 | Country traditions are shown at the diagram , in North Italy erm , there 's more land than south in the diagram . |
| 17 | Because there 's more patience than skill involved in stencilling , it 's a great technique for absolute beginners . |
| 18 | But for the rowers taking part there 's more pain than pleasure in a contest where only the fittest survive . |
| 19 | ‘ The 1979 Canal Treaties were not in jeopardy , there was no sign of danger to the Canal , and the war declaration by Noriega was more rhetoric than reality , ’ commented Mr Larry Birns , director of the respected regional think-tank , the Council for Hemispheric Affairs . |
| 20 | I must admit there was more enjoyment than effort in making this easy , yet delicious meal . |
| 21 | A N'pani of Alexei 's household had designed the garden , and as a result there was more art than agriculture to its appearance . |
| 22 | There was more gloom as house prices slumped by 2.7 per cent in last month . |
| 23 | The only concrete information I had , and that was more sand than cement , was from Froggy Davies 's sister . |
| 24 | In reality , he was more pawn than player , talented , hard-working , and insecurely based . |
| 25 | And what they used to sell a er er at er in the lace market at dinnertime , they used to make a big roly pudding , like that , with jam in it and sauce on it , white sauce , it was more water than sauce , you know ? |
| 26 | Napier was not the only sheriff to find that there was more honour than reward in his office , for according to the petition submitted by Erskine of Alva , who had been appointed sheriff-depute of Perthshire in 1748 , his salary of £250 per annum did not take him very far , for his county , |
| 27 | The death of the old Daily Herald , the longest surviving Labour daily , founded in 1912 and owned by the Labour party for a period between the wars , was more agony than trauma when compared with the demise of the News Chronicle , but equally disturbing for its supporters . |
| 28 | There was a narrow bridge across a gap that was more ravine than moat . |
| 29 | ‘ Julian claimed his new Ferrari was more investment than status symbol . ’ |
| 30 | The room the two men looked into was massive ; was more garden than room . |