Example sentences of "to [be] more [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In 1933 its total membership was believed to be about 300 , but the cost of a fund-raising appeal for £25,000 proved to be more than the sum collected and the movement went £800 into debt . |
| 32 | But it will have to be more than the mysterious death used in the old , simple detective story . |
| 33 | This is impossible to answer , but he does suggest that it is likely to be more than the planners currently recommend . |
| 34 | Effective cross-cultural briefing , such as that practised at the Farnham Castle International Briefing Centre , has to be more than the provision of information . |
| 35 | It had to be more than the trauma of the afternoon . |
| 36 | It is quite possible Chaucer 's attitude to such explicitly serious literature was uncertain , appreciating its moral worth but also sensing it to be more than the " " litel hevynesse " " that " " is right ynogh for muche folk " " ( the Knight , in the epilogue of the Monk 's Tale , VII : 2769 – 70 ) , or to be preaching the " " inportable " " ( the Clerk 's Tale , IV : 1144 ) . |