Example sentences of "[am/are] more [adj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 If anything , you 're more intriguing as a woman than you were as a girl .
2 ‘ In America they 're more honest about their failure to produce a good figurative artist .
3 Erm there 's no choice everybody 's got to move , and you 're more involved with the , the removal of people , sort of , the sort of problems that they encounter finding removal firms , connection of electricity at the new places , and all that sort of thing .
4 You 're more involved with her than you want to let on , are n't you ? ’
5 If your fill is also a bit dodgy you 're more susceptible to CO poisoning , with the risk of blacking out underwater .
6 She said , ‘ Oliver loves his tortoises , Like I love Mo , only they 're more real to him than Mo is to me .
7 Fortunately , we 're more alive to the dangers inherent in the bruising of delicate psyches .
8 NB If you 're more used to working with computers , you 'll find that there 's a wide choice of basic payroll software available .
9 The best thing to do with that are you you 're more used to erm You 're more used to opposite over adjacent and things like that are n't you .
10 The best thing to do with that are you you 're more used to erm You 're more used to opposite over adjacent and things like that are n't you .
11 I only meant you 're more used to it . ’
12 and er I think they 're more affected by outside influences brainwash whatever you like to call it than one night a year of Halloween .
13 But sometimes because they are female they 're more suitable for interviewing men susceptible to so-called feminine charm . ’
14 Well actually , I think they 're more suitable like that as though the insurance companies certainly do n't !
15 ‘ We 've proved we can do it , and we 're more innovative at the moment than the Americans , ’ says Steve , who admits his career would have been far more difficult without the success of groups like Soul II Soul .
16 Okay so we 've got s we 've , we 've discussed it a little while , we 've already got some , I mean you 're more clever at crimes than I have really .
17 were , were you impressed by Rich , were you impressed with Sarah 's , sorry with Lorraine 's immaculate humour ? , but I 'm sure you 're more impressed with her immaculate assets
18 ‘ Because they 're more interested in ideas , in feelings , than in the way machines work . ’
19 Well I think they 're more interested in the five pounds !
20 From what I gather , you 're more interested in development projects — though I do n't know why you bother , since you 'll never be satisfied with anything you come up with — if you had your wits about you , you 'd be marketing your ideas , not sitting on them . ’
21 Here they 're more interested in preserving the past .
22 ‘ We 're more interested in making a profit than signing one , ’ says Newport 's Keith Newbery .
23 The Water Authority , well , there again , they 're interested to some extent in forecast rainfall , but they 're more interested in erm how much rain has fallen over quite a big area and erm over what a , what sort of period , so we maintain all the rainfall statistics throughout the country .
24 There was gradings of headings and gradings of weights , but it seems to me that you 're more interested in sort of through reading and doing , I mean , particularly on the tabloid size newspapers , doing different things .
25 We 're more sophisticated in our approach . ’
26 Caused by an excessive contraction of the head and neck muscles experienced as orgasm approaches , or by the accompanying rise in blood pressure , they 're more common in men than women , and may also occur during other sorts of physical exertion .
27 ‘ They 're more worried about job security than anything else , so they wo n't take risks .
28 You 're more worried about your brothers .
29 cos you 're more worried about theirs
30 Whereas somebody who is employed by the firm might be very worried about doing because they 're more bothered about keeping their job .
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