Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] be more " in BNC.
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| 1 | The previous evening , I could not have completed the last fifty yards without his help , but now if he had climbed on my back he could not have been more of a hindrance . |
| 2 | She was er I mean was a pop s ex pop singer , I 'd only just stopped singing a few weeks before I started to work with Sybil and she could not have been more gracious and generous in helping me get through it . |
| 3 | ‘ There is quite a sameness in high street stores in Britain , ’ he told the Clothes Show Magazine , ‘ whereas what customers really want is more individuality . |
| 4 | Well what we really want is more roads . |
| 5 | But Greenpeace says that what 's really needed is more action by the Government to stop pollution : |
| 6 | He says that there IS a major anti crime operation going on in areas like Quedgeley , but what they really need is more officers . |
| 7 | What a shame it could n't have been more of a humdinger . |
| 8 | ‘ Sorry I could n't have been more help . ’ |
| 9 | In this regard I could n't have been more fortunate . |
| 10 | The match could n't have been more of a thriller if it had been written in Hollywood . |
| 11 | It means there 've been more cries for help . |
| 12 | Likewise when we go to a country , we need somewhere to stay and over the last decade there have been more and more hotels built in virtually every place in the world . |
| 13 | Since 1968–70 there have been more strikes than in the fifties and sixties , and more of them have been unofficial . |
| 14 | I think what we actually want is more people who are more in tune with working people and their hopes , and their dreams and their aspirations , and tha in , in parliament , in the House of Commons than we 've got at the moment and so the motion I 'm putting forward which is to propose that we actually look at the Parliamentary Panel and make sure we get a few decent shop stewards in the House of Commons , a few people who got experience of actually being on the shop floor , a few people who got experience in the last fourteen years , that the last four Conservative governments have actually tried and defend and fight for the interests of working people right down the grass root , those are the people that we actually need in the House of Commons and we shall be looking at our Parliamentary Panel and we shall be looking at it very seriously to ensure that we get those sort of people onto that Parliamentary Panel and those sort of people into the House of Commons , that 's the best way to represent working people in Britain today and that 's the sort of contribution the G M B should be making . |