Example sentences of "be [adj] [subord] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Penny is in and out every few minutes at present , and we do n't want her to guess that we 're more than just owner and programme manager , do we ? ’ |
| 2 | For Craigendarroch 's lodges are more than just holiday homes . |
| 3 | These larger units of text are more than just sets of sentences , and convey more meaning than the sum of the individual sentences . |
| 4 | For overseas contracts , though , overseas students are more than just vectors of goodwill for the London experience . |
| 5 | You 'll find there are more than just sausages . ’ |
| 6 | While the Midland had expected that its reserves would be lower than either Barclays or NatWest , both newly merged , it was horrified to learn that the true capital of Lloyds , a bank it had always looked down on , was £266m , £73m higher than its own . |
| 7 | Active citizenship may not be possible as today life is geared around the individual and common interests are hard to identify — ; ‘ people are ill-informed judges of their own interests therefore representatives do a better job . ’ |
| 8 | Peter Reid 's City team — who will be unchanged if neither Niall Quinn nor Keith Curle show reactions to the hamstring problems they defied to play against Leeds — need little motivating , though . |
| 9 | ‘ Soon to be more than just friends , I think , ’ he said sardonically and laughed again as he moved off . |
| 10 | With football it SHOULD be more than just money . |
| 11 | Planning , is of course likely to be more than just identification of needs . |
| 12 | If the auditors ' role is to be expanded , however , the APB recognises that there has to be more than just shareholder involvement . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Rosie told me the other nurses who worked here have tried to be more than just assistants to him . ’ |
| 16 | This may be difficult if both gatekeepers and policy in the buying company aim to restrict such access . |
| 17 | It was n't a question of social security payments being too high , it was a question of wages being lower than even government estimates of subsistence ! |
| 18 | To Rabbi Moishe , however , they were more than just delicacies , more even than symbols of the hoped-for good week to come — they were remembrances from the past , taking him back forty and more years to his distant home in Lithuania . |
| 19 | It was n't his fault that she had discovered her feelings were more than just desire . |
| 20 | A certain number of people here ( there were more than So signatures ) addressed a petition to the Mayor ( I think his name is M.Tardieu ) describing me as a man not fit to be at liberty , or something like that . |
| 21 | This is lower than both types of silicon-based cell , but the thin-film cell is much cheaper to make . |
| 22 | With Becker in last night 's form , it 's doubtful if even Courier at his very best could have lived him . |
| 23 | A little French is useful as neither Eric nor Jerome speaks much English , but it is not vital : Jerome 's colleague Dominic speaks good English , and will translate . |
| 24 | Comparative studies in volunteers have shown that activated charcoal is better than either syrup of ipecacuanha or gastric lavage in reducing drug absorption . |
| 25 | When it is not , it is better than both clergy and congregation resort to speech . |
| 26 | But surely what we want is more than just housework to be waged and left as it is ? |
| 27 | It is more than just goodwill that rests on the outcome . |
| 28 | The ‘ Isle of Brasil ’ was mythical , but fifteenth-century Atlantic charts suggest that belief in lands across the ocean was not uncommon , and there is more than just possibility that the Bristol men had heard of some landfall in them before 1480 , perhaps when ships had been blown off course by abnormal wind conditions . |
| 29 | ‘ Why do I get the feeling this is more than just coincidence ? ’ |
| 30 | She and her boyfriend Jonathan Clack have become convinced the vandalism is more than just coincidence . |