Example sentences of "be [adv] to this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There must be more to this country squire than was disclosed by his clipped mannerisms and his habit of smiling each time he spoke , as though to ease his way through a dubious world . |
| 2 | So the arms of Bern are there to this day . |
| 3 | How many layers were there to this man ? |
| 4 | When farmers and farm workers refer to the ‘ loss of community ’ in their village it is usually to this kind of change that they are implicitly referring , for there are bound to be changing patterns of sociability developing in the village to which they are unaccustomed or from which they feel excluded . |
| 5 | When the agricultural population complains of a loss of community in the English village it is usually to this loss of an enclosed , socially self-sufficient occupational community that they refer . |
| 6 | There is more to this speech , but this seems a good place to stop for a short and effective audition . |
| 7 | In print this wo n't look too good over breakfast , but I have to say there is more to this chapter of our being then we know . |
| 8 | And as if one needed reminding that there 's more to this year 's contest than Karaoke , four of the 11 acts competing were to provide their own original accompaniment . |
| 9 | Bizarrely , it 's a pork butcher 's shop , and there 's more to this business than a bacon slicer and a few trays of pies . |
| 10 | There was another track after ‘ Happy Hour ’ that we could have put out that probably would have done just as well , but instead we went for a ballad , ‘ Think For A Minute ’ , to make people think , ‘ Jesus , there 's more to this group than I 'd thought ’ . |
| 11 | Cranston roared ‘ There 's more to this house than sitting on your arse and stuffing your mouth with every bit of food you can lay your sticky little fingers on ! ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Working with Soul II Soul is definitely to this point the most rewarding experience I 've had as an artist and as a person ’ |
| 13 | The description of the Count as Alfonso 's " friend " suggests that there was more to this incident than simply the curbing of an unruly vassal . |
| 14 | I felt , however , that there was more to this seduction than met the eye , since genuine invention informs drawing after drawing . |
| 15 | But Minnie I ought to have suspected there was more to this kindness than appeared and so there is . |
| 16 | The Attorney General said he was grateful to QC and that there was more to this matter than QC had suggested . |
| 17 | There was more to this canal than just a final obstacle , however . |