Example sentences of "be [adv] than [adv] a " in BNC.
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1 | Giving good Press : Fashanu has always been more than just a footballer |
2 | But this may have been more than just a sartorial sign of the changing times . |
3 | Beside me , Jeffrey Bernard was being more than just a little unwell . |
4 | Although it was hardly conclusive proof they were the same kegs as those discovered by the vagrant , all the signs pointed to it being more than just a coincidence . |
5 | I knew right then you were the one that I was caught up in physical objection but to my satisfaction baby you were more than just a phase . |
6 | Erm , it 's once a week , but I think they 're coming in the they 're here twice this week er , and I think , it 's as and when they can , so if it 's more than once a week then they will be here . |
7 | By this stage , Des was more than just a mascot . |
8 | And this was more than just a professorship . |
9 | It was director Joseph L Mankiewicz who had given Brando the chance to prove he was more than just a mumbling slob by casting him as Mark Antony in Julius Caesar . |
10 | ‘ It was more than just a sexual attraction between us . |
11 | So test-tube fusion was more than just a media event with dollars on the line for the University of Utah , there were many private agendas riding along with it . |
12 | ‘ Falling in love ’ , therefore , was more than just a trivial pastime but a serious business . |
13 | The rest of us can make do with Profile 's fine new compilation ‘ Avanti ! ’ , 11 tracks to prove that Italian dance was more than just a passing fad . |
14 | It was my own experiences with herbal treatments , due to being ill over the past few years , that convinced me that there was more than just a placebo effect at work . |
15 | But nervousness and vacillation over direct state intervention was more than just a problem of administration . |
16 | There was more than just a matter of fifty years separating her life from that of Johnny Latimer . |
17 | Everything here was different and therefore better : the stiff-backed brass taps , the cut of the banister , the genuine oil paintings ( we had a genuine oil painting too , but not as genuine as that ) , the library which somehow was more than just a roomful of books , the furniture old enough to have woodworm in it , and the casual acceptance of inherited things . |
18 | Luke 's no fool ; he could see that so far as I was concerned Elise was more than just a client . |
19 | In de Gaulle 's mind , the empire was more than just a source of potential recruits . |
20 | He was more than just a hypochondriac . |
21 | But it was more than just a physical thing . |
22 | The man was more than just a mystery , he was an intricate , mesmerising maze . |
23 | She 'd never wanted anything more in her life — but it was more than just a physical need , much much more . |
24 | But it was more than just a pub crawl . |
25 | His games connection that year was more than just a marketing one ; it was also the third time he had been chosen for the Scotland team as a pole-vaulter . |
26 | But her desire to be a ballerina was more than just an adolescent fancy and she returned to New York to study at the American School of Ballet . |
27 | International commerce was more than just an exchange or European manufactures for primary produce from the rest of the world . |
28 | Wayne , in her mother 's view , was more than just an ordinary valley kid ; he was a walking symbol of everything that she did n't want for her daughter . |
29 | But the speech was more than just an attack on the Commission , for it was also an astute defence of his good name and reputation . |
30 | I do n't think the implication penetrated my mind all that quickly — that it was more than just an ordinary race . ’ |