Example sentences of "be [adj] than just " in BNC.
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| 31 | With the obligatory ‘ W ’ across its malformed chest , the tousle-headed little aberration appears in the latest set of increasingly hep ‘ Be more than just a number ’ ads , |
| 32 | But it would be more than just a production job . |
| 33 | The sad truth is to tackle these subjects you have to be more than just willing , you have to be shite-hot . |
| 34 | From the outset , it has been clear that COSE , the Common Open Software Environment , would have to be more than just a unified desktop interface , and this week , two more pieces of the COSE puzzle appear to be dropping into place ( CI No 2,142 ) . |
| 35 | Peter Hewitt explains how a new managers ' toolkit proved to be more than just a game |
| 36 | From the outset we 've known COSE , the Common Open Software Environment , to be more than just a unified desktop interface , and this week , two more pieces of the COSE puzzle appear to be dropping into place . |
| 37 | For masturbation , it would have to be more than just a passing person . ’ |
| 38 | They 've become acutely aware that to succeed they need to be more than just well-informed , they need to be well-read in the widest sense . |
| 39 | But as Duke he was to be more than just the Count of Poitou . |
| 40 | For several weeks the project had been the talk of Polruan : the Russell had been put into extended refit , volunteers had been sought by extravagant promises of Spanish prizes and — to prove that this time Harry 's adventure was to be more than just talk — two six-pounder sakers and a couple of falconets had been delivered aboard a hoy from Plymouth , and hoisted onto the Russell 's deck under Harry 's personal supervision . |
| 41 | A label can be more than just a sequence of characters . |
| 42 | Be this as it may , the constitutional authorities who support the introduction of a Bill of Rights to limit Parliament , government , and the state , nevertheless recognise that it calls for a fundamental constitutional change if it is to be more than just a pious declaration of good intent . |
| 43 | ‘ There could be more than just a career , ’ she said softly . |
| 44 | From the very start , one must realise that WordStar for Windows 1.5 is meant to be more than just a word-processor , but is perhaps more aptly billed as a document processor . |
| 45 | She thought she could in the end be legitimized , be more than just the girl who had married the first man who came along in order to get away from home : daughter of a mother who 'd shacked up with her own mother 's boyfriend at that own mother 's unconscious behest — and had thereby had her life negated forever . |
| 46 | When quoting fees , which increasingly will be more than just time based , the requirement for them to be paid at the completion meeting , like other advisers and financiers , should be stipulated . |
| 47 | The link with Labour has got to be more than just signing a cheque . |
| 48 | With football it SHOULD be more than just money . |
| 49 | ‘ It 's going to be more than just perfect . ’ |
| 50 | Rosie told me the other nurses who worked here have tried to be more than just assistants to him . ’ |
| 51 | ‘ Soon to be more than just friends , I think , ’ he said sardonically and laughed again as he moved off . |
| 52 | For a true design data base to be established more information needs to be available than just these associations . |
| 53 | We decided to start the later group walk at Aberangell , because a mixed group of people will inevitably be slower than just two reasonably fit men and a dog . |
| 54 | Watched by her baffled cat , Mildred squeezed through the gap and hopped away down the corridor , convinced that nothing could be worse than just sitting helplessly in her room . |
| 55 | Mr Major , he said , wanted to use the move towards the year 2000 to ‘ celebrate our civilisation and leave some mark that we were more than just , hopefully , a successful entrepreneurial society . ’ |
| 56 | Solly 's years in the wilderness were more than just a dearth of high-profile wins . |
| 57 | ‘ But it was n't until I went to India that I cam to feel that humans were more than just mechanical responses . |
| 58 | To Rabbi Moishe , however , they were more than just delicacies , more even than symbols of the hoped-for good week to come — they were remembrances from the past , taking him back forty and more years to his distant home in Lithuania . |
| 59 | I think they were more than just a marauding band of outlaws . ’ |
| 60 | ‘ He 'd be more likely to confide in you then , if you were more than just his banker . |