Example sentences of "were more [subord] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But it was n't until I went to India that I cam to feel that humans were more than just mechanical responses . |
| 2 | Perhaps they were more than just good friends . |
| 3 | They were more than fairly high , merry as grigs , and prepared to go on all night . |
| 4 | Yet objects were more than merely utilitarian or symbols of status and achievement . |
| 5 | The landowners ' letters to the Home Secretary revealed the extent to which they were initially unable to accept that their labourers were more than usually discontented ; according to the more alarmist gentry , ‘ travelling incendiaries respectably attired ’ were racing round the area in fast carriages , firing incendiary pellets from slings or crossbows into haystacks . |
| 6 | As we have seen , they were amongst the staunchest Bolshevik supporters in the voting for the Constituent Assembly , and in Belorussia they were more than usually numerous and influential due to the fact that this territory had lain directly in the path of invading and retreating forces in the Civil War . |
| 7 | Yet the Commonwealth was after all invented at a time when the British were more than ever enamoured of their capacity for effecting the bloodless obedience of subject peoples . |
| 8 | We were more than pleasantly surprised at the result — a pleasant mixture of practical equipment choice and money saving tips . |