Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] was more [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , two of the people I spoke to did n't know there was more than one strip on the race-course and the one who did — a non-pilot — failed to tell me that Newbury was busy building a new runway in the centre of the course . |
| 2 | I made you live again and I wanted to know there was more than mere excitement for you . ’ |
| 3 | They did do it , like you say it was more or less just covering for itself now and then use |
| 4 | Brazil had no such push factors at work : when capital fled it was more because of the debt crisis than its cause . |
| 5 | But the relations that developed were much more than simply instrumental ; when families did survive it was more than a product of what Stone called , for an earlier period , ‘ psychic numbing ’ . |
| 6 | For example , when Rome 's first sundial was brought to the city from Sicily in 263 BC , during the first Punic war , and was erected in the Forum it was inaccurate because it indicated the time appropriate to the place whence it came which was more than four degrees to the south . |
| 7 | And the London-based scientist said he believed it was more than a coincidence that the same colony seemed to have been affected by a second strain of the gizzard worm infection which killed 137 birds last year . |
| 8 | But I was kind of forced into that because it was only bass and guitar and I was trying to do as much rhythm as I could , but stab a few notes in here and there to make it sound like there was more than there really was . |
| 9 | A brilliant officer with more than twenty commendations , he had grown to believe he was omnipotent ; and when Mathews refused to tell him the names of his accomplices , saying it was more than his life was worth , Drury , obsessed with clearing up another case , offered him a deal : make a statement that three men whose names I will give you were your accomplices , testify against them in the witness-box , and in return no charges will be brought against you , and we 'll come to an arrangement about the reward money offered by the Post Office . |
| 10 | ‘ I knew that Alan liked the odd drink but it was n't until we were living together that I realised her was more or less an alcoholic , and violent with it . ’ |
| 11 | To lose her was more than Paul himself could contemplate ; and surely she had not been indifferent to him . |
| 12 | I do n't suppose I was more than 10 when the harvesters sent me off to the nearest pub to get some cider in a couple of bottles . |
| 13 | And the funny thing is : I thought I was more or less over Irene . |
| 14 | I do n't suppose she was more than forty , yet — It was n't that she looked old , but there was something about her , as if she was somehow apart from what was going on . ’ |
| 15 | Major and Mrs Burrows knew she was more than capable of weighing up the pros and cons , and living with the consequences . |
| 16 | She knew she was more than human — a goddess , born for the eternal burn of love . |
| 17 | In fact , I felt he was more than ready to discuss male-female relations . |
| 18 | Then she saw the look of steely determination in his eyes and knew he was more than capable of it . |
| 19 | She 'd offered to lend him the money to have the bike fixed , and when he accepted she said , ‘ I 've broken something precious , have n't I ? ’ and knelt in the street among the bits of glass , looking up at him as if she understood it was more than a lamp she had smashed . |
| 20 | He could n't understand how his world had collapsed and although he said to himself , several times a day , that it was all the fault of the theatre , that sick , all-pervading fever that seemed to turn everyone foolish and mad , in his heart he knew it was more than that . |
| 21 | I tried to tell myself it was purely physical and you were just an object of desire , but I knew it was more than that . ’ |
| 22 | She had an approved menstrual calendar and knew it was more or less — or at least with an acceptable risk factor — her safe time of the month . |
| 23 | Unnatural conditions became natural and as time passed it was more and more difficult to believe that there was any other life beyond that which went on inside the wire . |
| 24 | I think he was more than capable of shooting Barak in the back . |
| 25 | I think it was more that she wanted to get rid of Wyatt . |
| 26 | The horrendous blunder of thinking it was more than that filled hir with shame . |
| 27 | Dot wanted to explain it was more that she just did n't know him yet , and she was sorry about him being ill . |
| 28 | It was director Joseph L Mankiewicz who had given Brando the chance to prove he was more than just a mumbling slob by casting him as Mark Antony in Julius Caesar . |