Example sentences of "this [was/were] more [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even Darwin admitted that his confidence was tested when he contemplated the vertebrate eye , although he went on to say that this was more a failure of the imagination than of the intellect . |
| 2 | Fighting went on in New France for another twelve months , but after the fall of Quebec this was more a matter of moving forces over long distances than of confronting threats that the French might retrieve their position . |
| 3 | If the inland waterways came even close to being a nation-serving system , this was more a matter of outcome rather than of preconception . |
| 4 | This was more the experience of females than males because , as has already been noted , more of the males ' friends also used heroin . |
| 5 | Not physically ; this was more the sort of fear you had as a child — of ghosties and ghoulies and long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night . |
| 6 | This was more an increase in efficiency than in output . |