Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [be] [det] [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I found to be more than a little disconcerting was the feeling of drowning . |
| 2 | The sign contains sufficient of the content of the thing signified to be more than a symbol . |
| 3 | Most Communists , despite their theoretical commitment to sexual equality , looked askance at any woman who aspired to be more than a tractor driver or street-sweeper . |
| 4 | In practice , it proved to be more than a mere truce after two decades of mutual and unbridled hostility . |
| 5 | 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 ? ’ |
| 6 | To be worth two murders in eight days , Ascot had to be more than a mere gambling scam . |
| 7 | 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 . |