Example sentences of "[is] more [subord] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the new Agatha Christie Society is more than an outlet for affectionate memories . |
| 2 | Learning an old language — Middle English , Old French , Latin — is more than an exercise in matching modern word for old word . |
| 3 | Their land is more than an address , it is a territory . |
| 4 | Yet our strength is more than an army 's . |
| 5 | The offer is , apparently , to refund 20% of a fare if a train is more than an hour late . |
| 6 | Studies by others on stained tissue using the electron probe and the proton probe , which is more than an order of magnitude more sensitive , have failed to confirm these findings . |
| 7 | The rhetorical approach emphasizes that any attitude is more than an expression in favour of a position : it is also implicitly or explicitly an argument against a counter-position . |
| 8 | Programme evaluation is more than an examination of the manner in which a programme is implemented . |
| 9 | Gooch 's story is also a complex one , with the South African affair and its long-running repercussions , the perennial dilemma between touring and fulfilling family commitments , and the traumas and triumphs of his captaincy of Essex and England ; this is more than an account of his Trojan feats on the field . |
| 10 | It is more than an atlas : it is a superbly illustrated synopsis of the characteristics of the major tropical diseases , their infective agents , their ecology , their life cycles and their vectors … probably the best value for money for anyone interested in obtaining an illustrated guide to tropical medicine and medical parasitology . " |
| 11 | For Conrad , this is as it should be : that see means both to perceive and to comprehend is more than an accident of metaphor . |