Example sentences of "to [be] more [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Desire of Bride to be more than a bride , to be a mother too . |
| 2 | But the declaration issued by the congress left no doubt that the decision was intended to be more than a mere facelift : ‘ The present concept of socialism , the Stalinist system , has exhausted all its social , economic , political and moral reserves , and has proved unsuitable for keeping pace with global developments . |
| 3 | Civilization had to be more than a mere confluence of economic interests : ‘ And until we set in order our own crazy economic and financial systems , to say nothing of our philosophy of life , can we be sure that our helping hands to the barbarian and the savage will be any more desirable than the embrace of the leper ? ’ |
| 4 | If it is to be more than a symbolic marker of the moment when North and South decided in principle to work together for mutual survival , a number of decisions on how to administer it will have to be made . |
| 5 | However , for most airports with overall impact of the Tunnel is unlikely to be more than a temporary hiccup in the strong growth of traffic . |
| 6 | What I found to be more than a little disconcerting was the feeling of drowning . |
| 7 | To be worth two murders in eight days , Ascot had to be more than a mere gambling scam . |
| 8 | Most Communists , despite their theoretical commitment to sexual equality , looked askance at any woman who aspired to be more than a tractor driver or street-sweeper . |
| 9 | The sign contains sufficient of the content of the thing signified to be more than a symbol . |
| 10 | However , the booklet is intended to be more than a list of records . |
| 11 | The old lady who dare not allow herself to be more than a few yards from the toilet or the old man whose underclothes are frequently wet with urine , may often react by limitation of social life and consequent days of isolation and low morale … |
| 12 | Climbing has to be more than a race for E points , pumping away on raddled lumps of overhanging bolt-protected , sweaty limestone , or cavorting on plywood Towers of Babel , studded with artificial holds , floodlit for a ‘ quick-fox ’ titillation of the idle masses . |
| 13 | She wished she had been born into a different age , an age when women had been allowed to be more than a decorative possession . |
| 14 | In aiming to be more than a mere common market , the Treaty emphasised the principle that the problems of one member state would be the problems of all . |
| 15 | If the claim that they all legitimate the existing order is to be more than a dogma it must be refined , and Althusser 's work offers no suggestion as to how this is to be done . |
| 16 | But the relevant sense of constraint , and the aspects of society that are constrained in the two cases , are vastly different ; and if the longue durée is to be more than a ragbag of everything that endures these disparities would have to be elucidated . |
| 17 | But to be more than a failed one-term president , he must be driven by these brickbats to decide what kind of president — indeed , what kind of man — he really wants to be . |
| 18 | Within his own country , he is not so much a Leviathan as a Gulliver figure hemmed in and tied down by a complex network of restraints that must be thrown off if he is to be more than a helpless giant in the White House . |
| 19 | Some of the artwork is nice but if you 've got a tenner or more to spend on nice artwork then you 're probably the subject of a public inquiry at the moment so you 're likely to be more than a little preoccupied . |
| 20 | In practice , it proved to be more than a mere truce after two decades of mutual and unbridled hostility . |
| 21 | This once-for-all improvement in the relative wage of women coincided with the implementation of the Equal Pay Act , and this is generally thought to be more than a coincidence ( see Zabalza and Tzannatos , 1985 ) . |
| 22 | She was beginning to be more than a bit worried about the expenses involved in her escape , and hoped it would n't be too long before she could escape back to anonymity and London . |
| 23 | For example , in applying the first criterion — logicality — belief in God is held by religious people to be more than a matter of logic . |
| 24 | If the thing 's to be more than a game there 'll have to be some risks . |
| 25 | When he had at last regained consciousness no one had expected him to be more than a vegetable . |
| 26 | Smack in the middle of Milton Keynes the £1m building sets out to be more than a church . |
| 27 | Art has to be more than an ornament , or a reinforcement . |
| 28 | The talks were clearly to be more than an exchange of courtesies , for Vansittart , Hoare 's permanent under-secretary , was to be present for them . |
| 29 | She wanted to be more than an outsider in ‘ La Felicità ’ , more than a vague summertime nuisance for whose sake the family had to go travelling , someone only to be communicated with by notes or as a new source of rent . |
| 30 | Wages , for those who can find work , are unlikely to be more than the equivalent of $15 a month , paid in clumsy wads of devalued roubles . |