Example sentences of "be more than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But he 'll never be more than a pawn in their game . |
| 3 | Smack in the middle of Milton Keynes the £1m building sets out to be more than a church . |
| 4 | A growing number of people believe this may be more than a fantasy . |
| 5 | Speechreading should be more than a communication aid ; it should enrich your quality of life , perhaps assisting you to become a more observant person , more aware , more alive , with the flexibility to adapt and adjust to new circumstances and with the courage and confidence to persist . |
| 6 | It may be more than a fortnight — I do n't really know how long . " |
| 7 | Secondly , though such a society may exhibit the tension , already described , between those who accept the rules and those who reject the rules except where fear of social pressure induces them to conform , it is plain that the latter can not be more than a minority , if so loosely organized a society of persons , approximately equal in physical strength , is to endure : for otherwise those who reject the rules would have too little social pressure to fear … |
| 8 | ‘ But as you are , I can never be more than a friend to you . ’ |
| 9 | Putting patients first must be more than a slogan |
| 10 | The sign contains sufficient of the content of the thing signified to be more than a symbol . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Should be more than a bit but I got Marg . |
| 14 | The Tories had been in power for twelve years already , and a general election could not be more than a year away . |
| 15 | How long it will take to get over this shock is unclear , but it will be more than a year . |
| 16 | In Kaiser ( An Infant ) v Carlswood Glassworks Ltd ( 1965 ) 109 SJ 537 it was said that reports should not be more than a year old , but six months is probably safer . |
| 17 | Travelling and sitting with them might be more than a man can bear first thing in the new year . |
| 18 | When he had at last regained consciousness no one had expected him to be more than a vegetable . |
| 19 | Even if the committee agree to a grant , it ca n't be more than a couple of thousand — not enough to keep you going for a few months . |
| 20 | But he thought it could not be more than a couple of days . |
| 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 | It must be more than a coincidence that all this was happening simultaneously . |
| 23 | who thereupon took the road to heterodoxy in his disappointment : this can not be more than a fragment of the story . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | One might go on to say that if there are two or more consistent interpretations of the lowest level code , then it makes no sense to say that the computer is in fact , say , paying tax refunds rather than doing something else because that can never be more than a matter of pragmatic interpretation by some human users of the thing . |
| 26 | For example , in applying the first criterion — logicality — belief in God is held by religious people to be more than a matter of logic . |
| 27 | Desire of Bride to be more than a bride , to be a mother too . |
| 28 | I had never seen a police launch , but this one had an unmistakably official look about it , and in size and speed would be more than a match for either Stormy Petrel or Sea Otter . |
| 29 | You could see that he would be more than a match for some small female saint with no name . |
| 30 | It would be more than a week since he had thought of Millet . |