Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] be more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps if I had been more of an expert the differences would have been more apparent , but experts always tend to obscure the obvious . |
| 2 | And I must admit once I 'd been I 'd , early on when I did n't know an awful lot , then , yeah , but , later on when I had been more experienced there was n't , there was very little difference between how I treated people whether they made a fuss or not . |
| 3 | erm No , no I do n't think so , I 've erm been a successful I 've been more successful that most and I it would appear greedy if I erm said that there was something that I think I would have done differently . |
| 4 | If she 'd been more of a woman , he believed , she would have meekly accepted his word and left it at that . |
| 5 | There was two thousand , we er you know was more than a union , it was it was a first class Friendly Society as well and it was friendly . |
| 6 | if you in fact avoid or reduce your loss , you can not recover the amount so saved , even if the steps that you took were more than could reasonably have been expected ; |
| 7 | I do n't think , probably she has n't really thought it , she 's , she 's been more concerned with her own self but she 's . |
| 8 | No , Brother , ’ he tapped Athelstan lightly on the fingers , ‘ what you need is more sleep . |
| 9 | But surely what we want is more than just housework to be waged and left as it is ? |
| 10 | And of course it would n't if we 'd been more accurately given the address , but |
| 11 | but this cake that I made erm we thought was more like a a pudding and I |
| 12 | But what , I think we do need to have is quite a a a a a we 've not a no solution body who would agree with me , er you know , some of the things that have gone on within the er er agricultural industry in terms of gang masters , which is if if surely if if if we had been more clearly defined if would enforce probably the whole industry into disrepute , and I feel that we do need a a a a a a a framework , with a with a supply into Europe , because in the end we will not just be competing against other European countries we will be competing against the third world and some producers that are producing very different situations , so , I I think er , and and I 'm concerned that it is the , it is that delegation , and it is the interpretation that our own government will put on it , because there 's been so much mythology surrounding Europe . |
| 13 | What we need are more homes and more resources . ’ |
| 14 | I do n't want you coming back and telling me that what we need is more data . |
| 15 | What we need is more of the same type of good ideas , but in a form to give employment to a much greater number of unskilled , as well as skilled , people . |
| 16 | The main penalty of recession is unemployment , and what we need is more jobs , not more consumption . |
| 17 | The form of ‘ unofficial ’ war which they fought was more characteristic of brigandage and open robbery , but it would be wrong to assume that those who constituted the Companies were all , of necessity , men of criminal background or low degree . |
| 18 | Pete Harvey flies … races … and competes for fun … for him hangliding is more than a sport … more than a hobby … it 's a passion |
| 19 | In recent years the Employment Department and the Department of Trade and Industry have been responsible for appropriate interventions but they have been more of a fire fighting nature than a sustained development of policy and role — which in any case , has not been the way government departments have tended to behave since they are organised to implement government policy in the immediate rather than long term . |
| 20 | It has been more of a blessing than a curse . |
| 21 | But what 's more serious is that one of the phrases that he used was more people are going to suffer in cover . |
| 22 | When the boy had first come to the house he 'd been more of a child and had naturally been treated as a child . |
| 23 | He said that what he needed was more contact with ordinary people . |
| 24 | Now much of the rest of the stone of the building also dates from the medieval period but in fact in the nineteenth century the building er was very popular as a church and the vicar at the time decided that what he needed was more space and so they knocked down virtually the whole building apart from the tower and the east erm erm window and rebuilt it to put in the er gallery at the level that we 're standing here . |
| 25 | Teachers who claim to have been highly involved also claim to have used a wider variety of methods and feel more competent to conduct the review , believing it to have been more of a whole-school effort , more thorough and more useful in producing proposals for change . |
| 26 | It had been more of a shock than she could have anticipated . |
| 27 | That 's quite good because y often there is a country though , we have n't had many campaigns on countries sort of lately have we , it 's been more on different aspects on Amnesty 's work so they 're obviously going back to picking on countries where they deal , that 'll . |
| 28 | oh it 's been more |
| 29 | I er , I suppose he 's been more of a stage |