Example sentences of "more [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was there more as a minder than anything else , ’ he explained . |
| 2 | Like Anne , Maureen had often felt uneasy about Sarah 's relationship with Terry and thought that she seemed to regard him more as a brother than a lover . |
| 3 | At £110 Alfonzo is beyond most piggy-banks , so look on him more as an investment than a bedfellow . |
| 4 | Perhaps the title led one to hope for more of a synthesis than is possible in the space . |
| 5 | This is soccer , BSkyB-style , more of a circus than a ‘ Whole new ball game ’ . |
| 6 | If ( and hopefully when ) you do finally quit , it may create more of a problem than if you gird your mental loins at the outset and make up your mind to do it first and foremost . |
| 7 | On the other hand , girls ' lack of femininity or their ‘ masculinity ’ may be seen as more of a problem than that of underachievement . |
| 8 | It was noted that the Hibbs contribution suggested that right-wing governments tended to see inflation as more of a problem than unemployment . |
| 9 | We found indications that homophonic phrases were more of a problem than had previously been thought . |
| 10 | A retired solicitor will not be treated as continuing to hold himself out as a partner merely because he has neglected to ensure that revised letterheads are used by the firm from the date of his retirement , but there could be more of a problem when he has been party to a lease of partnership property and steps have not been taken to replace him as one of its lessees/trustees. ( e ) Sureties Section 18 of the Partnership Act contains a special provision which applies , in the absence of contrary agreement , whenever there is a change in the membership of a firm : A continuing guaranty or cautionary obligation given either to a firm or to a third person in respect of the transactions of a firm is , in the absence of agreement to the contrary , revoked as to future transactions by any change in the constitution of the firm to which , or of the firm in respect of transactions of which , the guaranty or obligation was given . |
| 11 | Purchases are up more than I thought people purchasing all the time is , that 's fine , they 've got a system , we can describe that in a paragraph here and that 'll satisfy them but there 's more of a problem when we 're buying in the software , more than a one off thing . |
| 12 | Dealing with the threat of logical security breaches poses much more of a problem because it demands a thorough understanding of the computer systems and the workings of the business they support . |
| 13 | Ruth would become more of a problem as she grew older . |
| 14 | These cause more of a problem as it is thought that a scheme of arrangement under CA 1985 , s425 can not bind a member who did not have an opportunity to be present or represented at the court-ordered meeting . |
| 15 | Company worker and team worker are very very similar , except the team worker is more of a person that 's interested in the other people within that team , whereas the company worker 's more interested in the organisation of the company itself . |
| 16 | Linda says : ‘ What David has gone through makes him more of a person than a lot of other people . |
| 17 | I think you feel more of a person because you 're independent . |
| 18 | Kano regarded his judo as more of a sport than a fighting system . |
| 19 | As I recall it had all started about three months ago when Miss Court first joined the group of church helpers but she was more of a helper as we had never seen her at church before . |
| 20 | AIESEC Debate : ‘ This house believes that a University degree is more of a hindrance than a help to a career in British industry . ’ |
| 21 | However , he could also be a tiresome prankster and thus often more of a hindrance than a help about the house — Briggs tells of practical jokes such as ‘ blowing ashes over shelled oats spread out to dry ’ ( from The Fairies in Tradition and Literature ) . |
| 22 | Later that month the Union 's largest society , AIESEC , the international organisation for students of all subjects who are interested in business and management , organised a debate on the motion that ‘ This House believes that a university degree is more of a hindrance than a help to a career in British industry ’ . |
| 23 | But I thought that 'd be more of a hindrance than a help |
| 24 | Middle-class professional man ; solicitor perhaps ; denizen of pine-and-heather country ; pepper-and-salt tweeds ; a moustache hinting — perhaps fraudulently — at a military past ; a sensible wife ; perhaps a little boating at weekends ; more of a gin than a whisky man ; and so on ? |
| 25 | The trouble is that in England a tomato good enough to be eaten raw and unadorned is becoming a good deal more of a rarity than a ripe avocado , and nearly as elusive as a perfect fresh peach or purple fig . |
| 26 | It 's more of a noise than a sound sometimes , but in a way it 's how a proper bass should sound . |
| 27 | Speculation that its soldiers would attack the town of Pailin on the Thai border has died down , as it became clear that to hold Pailin would be more of a liability than an asset . |
| 28 | It is more of a liability than an amenity . |
| 29 | Soviet influence , moreover , was overwhelmingly concentrated among the poorest and least important countries in terms of population and GNP , whose support was often more of a liability than an asset ; the world 's major military and industrial powers , by contrast , were all allied or aligned with the United States . |
| 30 | Although he was one of her most enthusiastic supporters , Mrs Thatcher often found he was more of a liability than an asset . |