Example sentences of "[modal v] be [det] than [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | With football it SHOULD be more than just money . |
| 3 | Depending on the fitness of the horse , twenty or thirty minutes schooling should be more than enough initially . |
| 4 | ‘ I feel a pressure 'cause there ai n't that many people who 've been able to look , speak or represent the types of styles I have , but I ai n't doing this for everyone , I 'm just doing what I do best and that should be more than enough . ’ |
| 5 | The display must be more than just conspicuous . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Calculations made by Don N. Page , then of the California Institute of Technology , and me , based on measurements of the cosmic background of gamma radiation made by the satellite SAS-2 , show that the average density of primordial black holes in the universe must be less than about two hundred per cubic light-year . |
| 8 | WITH the sun at the heart of your horoscope until the 21st and Venus bringing her sweetness to bear on relationships from the 8th , December could be the most crucial month of the year for love and partnership matters — the 19th could be more than just a magical moment . |
| 9 | ‘ There could be more than just a career , ’ she said softly . |
| 10 | The very fact that philip Augustus made no serious attempt to invade or attack Gascon ) , in the campaigns of 1202–4 may be more than simply a comment upon the military limitations of the French crown . |
| 11 | Even acute fear of dentistry may be more than just fear of the drill : California dentist James Rota says that women who are most frightened of dentists are those who have been sexually molested as children . |
| 12 | It also follows that the quality of orchestra playing may be more than usually critical . |
| 13 | Thus , while Tough 's work may provide some interesting ideas for dealing with functional aspects of spontaneous speech , it may be less than entirely satisfactory as a means of obtaining reliable and objective assessment information . |
| 14 | ‘ Though no doubt Quirinus would be more than slightly curious as to our errand in the Greshorns . |
| 15 | But it would be more than just a production job . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Two courses out of the whole menu would be more than enough . |
| 18 | However , this suggests that it might be a good thing to prevent anyone being born who would be less than maximally happy ( on average , throughout his life ) since he would be lowering the average happiness by his existence . |
| 19 | So A would be less than fully co-operative or rational if he did not think that B knew ( or could find out ) where he was . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Cargo forecasts suggest that a growth rate of 11.4 percent for Europe-Far East trade over the next 20 years will be more than double the expected increase across the North Atlantic . |
| 22 | You may be making a parafoil , or an inflatable animal shape , in which case the paper pattern will be more than just a flat plan . |
| 23 | When quoting fees , which increasingly will be more than just time based , the requirement for them to be paid at the completion meeting , like other advisers and financiers , should be stipulated . |
| 24 | And I 'm just want to draw your attention very quickly and I will emphasize that a lot of the information you 're hearing from me are in a brief sense , will be more than adequately covered when |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | As a result , the brunt of investment pressures will have to be borne by an ever-decreasing stock of pubs ; and what good pubs we have left will be more than ever exposed to the cold winds of change . |
| 27 | ‘ We are fast approaching the point when the risk of attempting a rescue — and there is the risk that we could force them to beach — will be less than simply leaving leaving them alone , ’ Dr Martin added . |
| 28 | Because bills are now lower , fewer people face large increases , so the number of people entitled to a reduction will be less than originally expected . |
| 29 | Mr Lang remains convinced that savings are still there to be made even though he appears to accept that these will be less than originally envisaged . |
| 30 | Many labour markets appear to fall into this category , with wage rates being determined through complex institutional arrangements and bargaining processes which seem to imply that they will be less than fully flexible . |