Example sentences of "is more [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is more at stake here than just bringing boxes of sophisticated equipment to remote areas . |
| 2 | AS THE talk develops , the strikers reveal their belief that there is more at stake than just their rights . |
| 3 | Lowther , who regularly pops up at advertising awards ceremonies and is more at home in the pony-tailed world of agency ‘ creatives ’ than nervy politicians , penned the Tories ' election broadcast on defence . |
| 4 | Such occasions are not the rule though , for their whole design suggests a fish that is more at home when his hollow belly is gripping the bottom and the surging current is pushing down on his drooping snout and coursing past his streamlined body . |
| 5 | Graeme , a town-bred Yorkshireman , is more at home on the kitchen range than on the prairie . |
| 6 | The plant is more at home in marshy conditions than in the aquarium , where it will grow to a considerable height . |
| 7 | It works quite well in that he is more at home in wide positions than Speed , but not being left-footed means he cuts back usually . |
| 8 | The man who is more at home on the classical stage is getting to pay a tribute to his idol at the Ulster Hall . |
| 9 | The interesting question is whether business is more at risk from short-term fluctuations or long-term trends . |
| 10 | The only conceivable answer is that there is more to life than molecules ; that behind the sensory level of experience , we are dealing with a complex and dynamic tapestry of Mind energy . |
| 11 | It takes time for any new middle class to realise that there is more to life than the sudden enjoyment of prosperity . |
| 12 | There is more to life than the mind , young woman . ’ |
| 13 | There is more to motherhood than this , of course ; it is a source of vital feelings and responses which come about no other way . |
| 14 | However , there is more to marriage than family structure . |
| 15 | But there is more to pollution than meets the eye . |
| 16 | Clearly there is more to memory than the reproduction of numbers or lists and another distinction which has arisen is between episodic and semantic memory . |
| 17 | To say this is not to play with words but to assert there is more to peace than a word with five letters . |
| 18 | ‘ There is more to Operation Blade than simply an amnesty . |
| 19 | As an exercise in questioning ‘ traditional ’ ideas regarding masculinity and femininity this work contends with basics such as there is more to femininity than putting on a skirt ! |
| 20 | As these examples suggest , there is more to weediness than meets the eye . |
| 21 | There is more to partnership than juxtaposition and faith . |
| 22 | There is more to training than attending courses . |
| 23 | There is more to crime and criminals than the state reveals . |
| 24 | ‘ There is more to fishing than just to fish ’ and how right he was . |
| 25 | And there is more to politics than economics . |
| 26 | But we also acknowledge that there is more to politics than choosing the next Government and what that Government attempts to do when in office . |
| 27 | Speech is , of course , in its very nature a highly organised and complex sequence of sounds , but there is more to speech and language than sequential motor activity ( Poeck and Huber , 1977 ) . |
| 28 | The next test is more to Beau 's liking — dealing with a mob that gets out of control . |
| 29 | There is more to planning than law . |
| 30 | But O'Neil 's line is more for effect than to express any real fears . |