Example sentences of "be more [subord] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | To parents whose present and future livelihoods depend on their children , those deaths are more than an emotional tragedy . |
| 2 | Art has to be more than an ornament , or a reinforcement . |
| 3 | Normally Baccy would have come in closer but the wind was onshore and the storm could n't be more than an hour away . |
| 4 | I told Neil I would n't be more than an hour and he gets fussy if I 'm late because of the Whistler . ’ |
| 5 | Other resistances or blocks to communication can be more than an initial reluctance to talk about the main issues . |
| 6 | Grading is a method of achieving a shorthand synthesis of every possible quality that one might wish to be included in a profile , consolidated into a symbol which examiners understand pragmatically with reference to a platonic point of reference existing in the minds of a group of examiners who have worked together , while a profile , however detailed , can never be more than an attempt to put down all those qualities . |
| 7 | The talks were clearly to be more than an exchange of courtesies , for Vansittart , Hoare 's permanent under-secretary , was to be present for them . |
| 8 | She wanted to be more than an outsider in ‘ La Felicità ’ , more than a vague summertime nuisance for whose sake the family had to go travelling , someone only to be communicated with by notes or as a new source of rent . |
| 9 | The alternative , it should be stressed , must be more than an alternative governing group . |
| 10 | Clearly there may well be more than an element of exaggeration in this insistence , but it makes more sense if we accept their view that a great many features of literature that might not normally be recognized , at least at first sight , as terms of a comparison , nonetheless have a metaphorical or analogical function . |
| 11 | ‘ I promise I wo n't be more than an hour . |
| 12 | Learning an old language — Middle English , Old French , Latin — is more than an exercise in matching modern word for old word . |
| 13 | There is more than an even chance that the end will , in the end , be changed by a wise deployment of the means . |
| 14 | Their land is more than an address , it is a territory . |
| 15 | Gooch 's story is also a complex one , with the South African affair and its long-running repercussions , the perennial dilemma between touring and fulfilling family commitments , and the traumas and triumphs of his captaincy of Essex and England ; this is more than an account of his Trojan feats on the field . |
| 16 | But our Cathedral is more than an architectural achievement — it is an affirmation of belief , a place of community and worship , a symbol of unity and faith , a source of inspiration . |
| 17 | There is a grand piano , which is excellent , an electric sitar which is more than an okay Coral , a banjo that actually sounds like a banjo and a really good rock bass . |
| 18 | Ms Hampson believes the abuse is more than an incidental or sexual act . |
| 19 | That the magic of the place is more than an architectural phenomenon is expressed in both the introduction by the house 's present owner , the Duke of Buccleuch and an essay on its history by John Cornforth . |
| 20 | Studies by others on stained tissue using the electron probe and the proton probe , which is more than an order of magnitude more sensitive , have failed to confirm these findings . |
| 21 | For Conrad , this is as it should be : that see means both to perceive and to comprehend is more than an accident of metaphor . |
| 22 | Yet our strength is more than an army 's . |
| 23 | The rhetorical approach emphasizes that any attitude is more than an expression in favour of a position : it is also implicitly or explicitly an argument against a counter-position . |
| 24 | Programme evaluation is more than an examination of the manner in which a programme is implemented . |
| 25 | is more than an artistic style , |
| 26 | Thus , a group is more than an aimless crowd of people waiting in an airport lounge or at a bus-stop . |
| 27 | It is more than an atlas : it is a superbly illustrated synopsis of the characteristics of the major tropical diseases , their infective agents , their ecology , their life cycles and their vectors … probably the best value for money for anyone interested in obtaining an illustrated guide to tropical medicine and medical parasitology . " |
| 28 | Most of the members clung to the view that " the Labour Movement is more than an anti-Fascist Party … |
| 29 | With 3 gold medals , Steve Redgrave is more than an Olympic hero . |
| 30 | But the new Agatha Christie Society is more than an outlet for affectionate memories . |