Example sentences of "be [prep] more than [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Some things are worth more than money . ’ |
| 2 | It follows that management 's shares can not be worth more than par value at the date they subscribe . |
| 3 | But uneven development can be argued to be about more than patterns . |
| 4 | Handy accepted the appointment in 1977 as an alternative to joining the church , and his management thinking has always been marked by a belief that companies ought to be about more than performance and profitability . |
| 5 | I began to think erotically of Alison again ; of the dirty week-end pleasures of having her in some Athens hotel bedroom ; of birds in the hand being worth more than birds in the bush ; and with better motives , of her loneliness , her perpetual mixed-up loneliness . |
| 6 | On their pumping new single , ‘ Gold ’ , which is bizarrely reminiscent of New Order circa 1984 , East 17 go for the sneeringly philosophical angle , insisting that ‘ life is worth more than gold ’ . |
| 7 | It 's a sell-out and in Gloucester a ticket to the match is worth more than gold . |
| 8 | That to me is worth more than silver , for I think much about the state of the land in these strange times , with snow falling in midsummer and the Giants wandering the hills . ’ |
| 9 | John Major 's economic strategy is in more than tatters . |
| 10 | Many , particularly from The Times and Sunday Times , had been on the papers in Gray 's Inn Road and Printing House Square all their working lives , and for most of them the strike was about more than trade-union principles . |