Example sentences of "be [adj] than just [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 | ‘ Soon to be more than just friends , I think , ’ he said sardonically and laughed again as he moved off . |
| 7 | With football it SHOULD be more than just money . |
| 8 | Planning , is of course likely to be more than just identification of needs . |
| 9 | If the auditors ' role is to be expanded , however , the APB recognises that there has to be more than just shareholder involvement . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Rosie told me the other nurses who worked here have tried to be more than just assistants to him . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It was n't his fault that she had discovered her feelings were more than just desire . |
| 15 | But surely what we want is more than just housework to be waged and left as it is ? |
| 16 | It is more than just goodwill that rests on the outcome . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ Why do I get the feeling this is more than just coincidence ? ’ |
| 19 | She and her boyfriend Jonathan Clack have become convinced the vandalism is more than just coincidence . |
| 20 | Money is more than just notes and coin . |
| 21 | In other words , the ego is more than just consciousness . |
| 22 | ‘ In any case , Lucy happens to be someone who is more than just staff — as you put it . |
| 23 | We feel it to be important to dedicate an appeal like this , as the house is more than just bricks and mortar ; it takes a central place in the history of Simon . |
| 24 | It 's more than just revenge . |
| 25 | ‘ That 's more than just impetuosity , that 's sheer rashness . |