Example sentences of "be more [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since you 're more than a little accident prone at this time , exercise caution and be careful not to lead your owner into trouble . |
| 2 | maybe no only they 're more than a year . |
| 3 | we 're , we 're more than a quarter . |
| 4 | I am more than a little confident that its fruition will be more than evident before the last kick of the season . |
| 5 | No doubt you 're very switched on , when it comes to good productivity but in case , like me , you are more than a touch muddy , here are some helpful hints . |
| 6 | The amp manufacturers ' answer to the dilemma is to provide sufficient flexibility to suit all tastes , and there are more than a few ways of going about that , too ! |
| 7 | There are more than a few Hungarians who would happily revert to the good old days of Kadarism , when the Hungarian president , Janos Kadar ( 1956–1986 ) , offered the ‘ cheeriest barracks ’ in eastern Europe a relatively high standard of living in return for political passivity . |
| 8 | These perceptions are more than a sad reflection of how little sex roles have changed : women seem to have much invested in keeping things the way they are , in seeing their partners as stronger and saner . |
| 9 | But there are more than a few teething problems . |
| 10 | The public , as clients , equally base their attitudes to the quality of the services they receive on subjective assessments that are more than a little conditioned by their individual social attitudes . |
| 11 | But it is just too hard to solve the equations when there are more than a few particles involved . |
| 12 | You are more than a grandmother . |
| 13 | If there are more than a handful of lawyers doing personal injury work get a member of the support staff to compile and distribute a monthly newsletter . |
| 14 | ‘ What with missing sleep and everything else , my nerves are more than a bit wrung-out , I 'm afraid . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Others have understandably wanted to recoup their investment and the rents they are asking are more than a student can afford on a £750 a term grant . ’ |
| 16 | They are more than a spark but less than a small fire and exporters have high hopes . |
| 17 | And that misuse of the aerosol sprays is probably responsible for about three thousand five hundred deaths , but I think you 've got to put that into perspective , first of all against the six thousand people who are killed on the roads every year in Britain , and you 've also got to set it against our estimate that there are more than a quarter of a million people alive today who would have died in childhood if it had n't been specifically for the advantage of being able to take medicines , anti-biotics generally in their childhood to keep them alive . |
| 18 | But I 'm more than a big girl , she cried silently , gazing at her face , devoid now of any make-up . |
| 19 | Desire of Bride to be more than a bride , to be a mother too . |
| 20 | But the declaration issued by the congress left no doubt that the decision was intended to be more than a mere facelift : ‘ The present concept of socialism , the Stalinist system , has exhausted all its social , economic , political and moral reserves , and has proved unsuitable for keeping pace with global developments . |
| 21 | Civilization had to be more than a mere confluence of economic interests : ‘ And until we set in order our own crazy economic and financial systems , to say nothing of our philosophy of life , can we be sure that our helping hands to the barbarian and the savage will be any more desirable than the embrace of the leper ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ But where the sentence is substantial the offence will be grave , the risk the offender represents to the public can be significant and the difference which decision to grant or not to grant parole makes , may be more than a few months . |
| 23 | If it is to be more than a symbolic marker of the moment when North and South decided in principle to work together for mutual survival , a number of decisions on how to administer it will have to be made . |
| 24 | In the end the consequences of Chernobyl may be more than a horrifying collection of statistics about unleashed radiation , deformed lives , premature deaths . |
| 25 | But he 'll never be more than a pawn in their game . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Napoleon III had no intention of allowing this to happen and so he determined that the Court should never be more than a set-piece , a backdrop in front of which the principal figures of the regime could be seen to advantage . |
| 28 | The Tories had been in power for twelve years already , and a general election could not be more than a year away . |
| 29 | British film practice , to fulfil its potential function , must be more than a business enterprise . |
| 30 | In the section entitled ‘ Juvenile Employment ’ , Beveridge pressed the view that the exchange should be more than a place of registration and placement : it should be ‘ both a market-place and a centre of guidance and supervision in the choice of ‘ careers ’ . |