Example sentences of "[been] [prep] more [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This book is useful but could have been of more value if it had been more clearly grounded in practice . |
| 2 | In a community like this the printed word has always been of more importance than to most of those whose access to books was very much easier . |
| 3 | I mean I 've been in more pubs than I 'd say longer than most people who drink a lot and er you know it 's just be I think music and and song is the big addiction in Ireland not the drink but because er it it the chances of a music session starting in a pub is just you know the chances are that it probably will at some stage of the day . |
| 4 | In one of those disarming quotes that make him both loathsome and likeable , he once said ‘ I 've been in more courts than Bjorn Borg . ’ |
| 5 | They all put in their tenpenny 's worth about what they thought should be filmed , but nobody asked my opinion , and I 'd been in more films than the rest of the cast put together . |
| 6 | I bet I 've been to more schools than Australia , I 've been to four schools in Australia |