Example sentences of "be more [conj] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 're more than half way through the first series and I 've managed to keep both jobs going . |
| 2 | It was only much later that I remembered my speech had been more or less word for word something my dad had said to me once . |
| 3 | ‘ Willy 's been more or less gaga since the crash . |
| 4 | Oh I 'm more than half way through ! |
| 5 | Within a year or so you will have the satisfaction of moving in to the house you have built with your own hands ; your old home will have been sold , allowing you to pay back the building society loan you took out to buy the land and materials ; and there will be more than enough profit , considering how much you saved by using your own labour , to pay for some champagne to celebrate . |
| 6 | The kudos of the job , the implied associations and the admiration of others are felt to be more than enough compensation . |
| 7 | A strong and consistent recent trend in cinema advertising by major advertisers — as opposed to local stores and restaurants — has been for films to be more or less entertainment , as well as commercial . |
| 8 | And I think Don could read the music too but they 'd be more or less self taught otherwise but then they would have started playing by ear . |
| 9 | Depending upon the social circles in which the young adult moves there will be more or less pressure towards getting married . |
| 10 | There were more than that number tied up in the harbour , although most of these were smaller , and all traders . |
| 11 | He began making plans to fill Wembley Arena with 12,000 people a night , convinced there were more than enough Kylie fans waiting to see her . |
| 12 | Harrow had grounds for confidence at tea when they were more than half way there but Martin , taking six for 43 with his slow left-armers continued to attack and Harrow were out for 194 with a few minutes left , despite a valiant 97 from Charles Danby . |
| 13 | Oh they were n't blacksmiths in in the ordinary sense of the word , they were n't quarry blacksmiths as such because they were more or less engine smiths you see . |
| 14 | So I got up then and I spoke to the room you know and we were more or less helping one another out and I thought the Chairman had done well when he said erm they do n't speak er Welsh for fancy or anything they use it as every day . |
| 15 | In one sense , of course , there is more than enough knowledge available for everyone to have a sufficiency . |
| 16 | You do n't have to be a historian to know a pretty flower when you see one , and although this is not intended to be a text book — there is more than enough literature available to fulfil that function — I do suggest that your enjoyment of roses can be enhanced by knowing just a little about the many different kinds , and such matters as why they are cultivated in certain ways , why they are pruned , and so on — and to see a strange word , and know what it means ! |
| 17 | The eradication of hunger is not a threat to the well-being of people in the industrialised countries because there is more than enough food for everyone . |
| 18 | Yet is this country , though I am mainly Welsh , a kind of home , as I think it is more than any other to those modern people who belong nowhere . |
| 19 | Physics is more or less talking about actual things in life . |
| 20 | Er , this year hopefully er , with pressure , again as I said earlier but nevertheless we are hoping and having er , put in our new price increases for the season which is more or less beginning now . |
| 21 | Bound to be , as it 's more or less part of this . ’ |
| 22 | He supposed he was more or less honour bound to help her . |
| 23 | Five year apprenticeship yes and er it was more or less labourer work you were just a boy and run and did messages and carried whatever the journeymen bakers wanted . |
| 24 | That meant he carried on and when someone at the last moment dropped out , he dropped in ; it was more or less par for the course that , by the end of 1944 , a very large number of Pathfinders had notched up 70 or more sorties . |
| 25 | That was what Garvin was more or less saying , that was what , he suspected , Paul would say . |
| 26 | the was that the first one was was more or less science orientated an I I , I looked at it and thought how how I could how I could make it such that it was common |
| 27 | The contribution of such schemes to dollar receipts and colonial development alike was more or less zero . |