Example sentences of "[be] more [subord] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His warning to the American President that he would support Native Americans ( ‘ Red Indians ’ , whom he presumes to be tribally organized ) against the federal government is consistent with his view that natural ties are more than just rational ones . |
| 2 | Harry Eyres discovers that the Grands Crus of Alsace are more than just reliable wine bar whites |
| 3 | He offers heartache loud and clear on songs that are more than just minor vehicles of angst . |
| 4 | Transactions that are more than just once-only exchanges can not be organized , therefore , by a long-term market contract , agreed at the outset , specifying terms appropriate to any future state of the world . |
| 5 | The idea that the two areas , arts and science , are more than simply subject groupings , is not a new one . |
| 6 | Despite the congenial air of unhurried calm you are more than usually assertive and ambitious now . |
| 7 | With age , the sensitivity to external influence decreases , but there are critical points in the process of growing up when children are more than usually pliable . |
| 8 | So , right now , they are more than usually concerned about your votes . |
| 9 | Dear love , I get plenty of time to think about us these days , and I 'm more than ever grateful that I have been given such a wonderful person as you to be my wife . |
| 10 | ‘ Though no doubt Quirinus would be more than slightly curious as to our errand in the Greshorns . |
| 11 | However , we think that Club Couples should be more than slightly special , and to this end our Couples Clubreps will be on hand with a few ideas , designed with a slightly more subdued mood in mind . |
| 12 | I do not overlook De Gourmont 's plea for a meeting of the nations but I do believe that when they meet Paris will be more than slightly abashed to find parodies of the middle ages , Dante and Langue D'Oc foisted upon it as the best in United States poetry . |
| 13 | It will contain one of the finest and openest quadrangles in this country ; its details will be more than ordinarily lively and cheerful ; its amount of window light will exceed that of , probably , any public building in this country ; its construction will embody every modern improvement , invention , and appliance ; its materials will be the most perfect which long and earnest study enable me to render them , while its cost will not in the least exceed what is customary with public buildings in the usual style . |
| 14 | They 've become acutely aware that to succeed they need to be more than just well-informed , they need to be well-read in the widest sense . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's going to be more than just perfect . ’ |
| 16 | The sad truth is to tackle these subjects you have to be more than just willing , you have to be shite-hot . |
| 17 | The display must be more than just conspicuous . |
| 18 | They also appear to be more than usually keen on human prey . |
| 19 | It also follows that the quality of orchestra playing may be more than usually critical . |
| 20 | In my view these characteristics serve only to require the court to be more than ever cautious before concluding that Parliament really intended to exclude one of the immunities which I have listed ; and as I have suggested , the words of the Act of 1987 admit of no doubt . |
| 21 | Exploitation of the press , radio and television would be more than ever indispensable , as would awareness that image matters not in a figurative sense only : votes can be won and lost by hair-styles , complexions , teeth and apparel . |
| 22 | All the same , her dreamy enjoyment faded and as Felipe was almost smothered by Candace and Mitch was utterly involved with Ana , who refused to be more than primly polite to the new arrivals , Maggie found herself encumbered with Peter Rainford , who sat as close as he could get and set out to entertain her . |
| 23 | Now , as Darwin sees it , at this time , for a change to be an adaptation it must be more than merely hereditary and advantageous ; it must be necessary rather than accidental , elicited , that is , by the very conditions that make it advantageous , as albinism sometimes seems to be by cold . |
| 24 | ‘ But it was n't until I went to India that I cam to feel that humans were more than just mechanical responses . |
| 25 | Perhaps they were more than just good friends . |
| 26 | They were more than fairly high , merry as grigs , and prepared to go on all night . |
| 27 | Yet objects were more than merely utilitarian or symbols of status and achievement . |
| 28 | The landowners ' letters to the Home Secretary revealed the extent to which they were initially unable to accept that their labourers were more than usually discontented ; according to the more alarmist gentry , ‘ travelling incendiaries respectably attired ’ were racing round the area in fast carriages , firing incendiary pellets from slings or crossbows into haystacks . |
| 29 | As we have seen , they were amongst the staunchest Bolshevik supporters in the voting for the Constituent Assembly , and in Belorussia they were more than usually numerous and influential due to the fact that this territory had lain directly in the path of invading and retreating forces in the Civil War . |
| 30 | Yet the Commonwealth was after all invented at a time when the British were more than ever enamoured of their capacity for effecting the bloodless obedience of subject peoples . |