Example sentences of "be [verb] more than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Government 's efforts to ensure that all 10 water authorities are successfully floated on the Stock Exchange in December are becoming more than a little disingenuous . |
| 2 | ‘ With actresses you 're getting more than a face — a character and a personality as well . ’ |
| 3 | Yes that does n't exclude but includes all of that , but at the same time although everybody that 's going to read it may not understand the intricacies of it all as professionals we 're giving more than a passing nod , so that was something else , er er and something more involved than English teacher than making them jump through loops |
| 4 | ‘ Up ’ ( and I think we 're talking more than the one level of ambiguity in that solitary two-letter word ) is a record that actually makes you feel happy , in that all of it is uplifting ( oi ! spiritually , not trouserly ) , you can dance to some of it and sing along to the rest , the words are rude and witty and always smart , and Richard Fairbrass is a fantastic pop singer , all post-Bowie and Ferry and languid , a sort of brightly-coloured Neil Tennant . |
| 5 | If you 're casting more than a couple of rod-lengths it 's advisable to use a waggler if only to avoid tangles . |
| 6 | At the end of September 143 people had been waiting more than a year . |
| 7 | For behind the public posturings , there 's no doubt that both of these gentlemen have been having more than a little local difficulty with their respective parties . |
| 8 | What we 're , in effect what we 're saying is that for a a number of years the Communist Party has provided , has made that moral economy work i in a s and made it work very well because rents have been reduced more than the peasants would expect erm er interest rate is extremely low . |
| 9 | Both sides are gambling because the defendant may be paying more than a judge would award at trial . |
| 10 | But as two months had already elapsed since the end of the previous contracts , this would mean that for some weeks the players would be getting more than the permitted £4 a week maximum . |
| 11 | I forget who had mentioned to me that Geoff was rumoured to be taking more than a passing interest in her . |
| 12 | In cases where we can identify people who would be penalized more than the usual sort of fifty pence charge . |
| 13 | According to a new study from the Ministry of Agriculture , one in six 2–5-year-olds are consuming more than the recommended daily intake of saccharin , largely through soft drinks . |
| 14 | But er e English er guises were favoured more than the French ones even by the French themselves . |
| 15 | His elders were becoming more than a little worried because people were saying his teaching was heretical . |
| 16 | If regional officers were to take more than a passing interest in this pattern of change the writing would have appeared to be on the wall , but as the comments of the regional medical and nursing officers cited above revealed , it was some time before their interest was kindled . |
| 17 | In some of the comments which follow , we can see that students are discussing more than a subject which they happened to choose to study at college : they are discussing issues which are central to their lives . |
| 18 | ‘ We should like to see parents control the amount of time their children spend on computer games , especially if it becomes clear that it is becoming more than a normal hobby , ’ said the PAT deputy general secretary , Jackie Miller . |
| 19 | One thing you must not do , however , is add more than a small amount of paint to control surfaces . |
| 20 | Other leakages include : ( a ) the holding of excess reserves by banks — that is holding more than the minimum reserve requirement ; ( b ) an increase in the public 's desired cash holdings ; and ( c ) a net outflow of currency overseas as a result of a balance of payments deficit . |
| 21 | Erm , I really feel that this consultation is coming more than a too late because we started on the slippery slope when the consortium was er first dreamed of o , you know about a year ago and set up in April and that really this is the sort of the inexorable next move , and this consultation is far far too late ! |
| 22 | But if your report is to produce more than the predictable yawn then it must be different . |
| 23 | ACTRESS Lesley-Anne Down is planning more than a kiss under the mistletoe this Christmas . |
| 24 | The last leg of the expedition was proving more than a trial for the young naturalist . |
| 25 | The waits were officially disbanded in 1832 but existed as am independent body until the late nineteenth century , by which time their peculiar custom was becoming more than a little irritating to certain residents of the town . |
| 26 | It was a day or two before I realized that his behaviour was becoming more than a little frenetic , to say the least . |
| 27 | ‘ There were times when Sid James sowed dissatisfaction among the other artists by claiming that he was getting more than the others . |
| 28 | There were also rumours that newspaper tycoon Robert Maxwell was showing more than a passing interest in Storehouse . |
| 29 | Swayne was a dealer , it was doubtful whether he was making more than a bare living out of his stamps and coins . |
| 30 | By then Leith was feeling more than a shade guilty that she was the one responsible for the two having met . |