Example sentences of "it was more [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was speaking Norse , and it was more than insulting . |
| 2 | It was more than 10 years before Serfaty could bring himself to speak and write about the terrible things that had happened to him and his colleagues . |
| 3 | Reid the player took no active part in City 's biggest win of the season — it was also Leeds ' biggest defeat — and it was more than coincidental that McMahon , his recent recruit from Liverpool , produced possibly his most influential performance since that £900,000 transfer . |
| 4 | While the judge said some questions remained unresolved , Microsoft 's lawyer David McDonald concluded : ‘ If it is n't a complete victory , it was more than 95 p.c. of the way . ’ |
| 5 | It was more than five years since she had seen him and she was saying he had n't changed . |
| 6 | At the end of 1886 the tunnel was opened to passenger and goods traffic ; it was more than four miles long and its construction occupied almost fourteen years , at a cost of more than £2 million . |
| 7 | It was more than possible that Zhukov had already taken off more prints for himself . |
| 8 | It was more than possible that this businessman was in the business of spying . |
| 9 | It was more than nine metres long and three metres tall . |
| 10 | Some five days after the last girder had gone up — it was more than fifty metres high — Mrs Goreng came to me , eyes alight and finger on her lips . |
| 11 | In 1977 , when I joined the organization , it was more than apparent that the other women did not have the remotest idea about women 's liberation , felt that doing the cooking for men was their political contribution , etc . |
| 12 | Fred Goodyear was so shocked that it was more than eight hours before he raised the alarm . |
| 13 | The horrendous blunder of thinking it was more than that filled hir with shame . |
| 14 | What prompted her to invite him she could not have explained , but there was something about him — an air of loneliness , perhaps , though it was more than that — which made her suddenly want to tell him that he could rely on her friendship . |
| 15 | ‘ No , it was more than that . |
| 16 | But it was more than that . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , I know , ’ said Constance , ‘ but it was more than that . |
| 18 | But it was more than that . |
| 19 | But it was more than that . |
| 20 | It was more than that , for now all anxieties were dispelled . |
| 21 | It was even worse when I realised that it was more than that . |
| 22 | ‘ But with my mother it was more than that . |
| 23 | It was a clever illusion , but it was more than that . |
| 24 | He could n't understand how his world had collapsed and although he said to himself , several times a day , that it was all the fault of the theatre , that sick , all-pervading fever that seemed to turn everyone foolish and mad , in his heart he knew it was more than that . |
| 25 | No , it was more than that . |
| 26 | But it was more than that . |
| 27 | I tried to tell myself it was purely physical and you were just an object of desire , but I knew it was more than that . ’ |
| 28 | Amidst scenes of carnage it was more than two hours before Muawad 's death was officially announced . |
| 29 | Amidst scenes of carnage it was more than two hours before Muawad 's death was officially announced . |
| 30 | It was more than two decades since he had taken offence at the term-a term used all the while in court , where the Han were predominant and the few Caucasians treated as honorary Han — yet here , in the Domain , he felt the words incongruous , almost — surprisingly — insulting . |