Example sentences of "be [art] [noun] more [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are the categories more or less clearly distinguished ? |
| 2 | It could have been a lot more but for the brave actions of some people . |
| 3 | No , there are a lot more than sixteen . |
| 4 | Well that will seem to me to be a bit more but obviously it 's up to you but it may not quite work out as neatly as erm but you may well like to think about the role of women as perceived , the way they treat men and relationships . |
| 5 | It 's got to be a bit more than that . |
| 6 | Might be a bit more than that , but erm , could of been nine . |
| 7 | So that 's what he said , it might be a bit more than twenty pound . |
| 8 | It might be a bit more than that and can actually scare off . |
| 9 | The leading frog realized that if they were ever going to get to the new flower and survive there , there 'd need to be a lot more than one frog . |
| 10 | It could be , there might be a lot more where that came from . |
| 11 | Everything within her was reaching out to him — to be denied now would be a torture more than she could bear . |
| 12 | I now consider the older person to be a victim more than the carer . |
| 13 | But in the heady tour of parties , testimonials , public houses and charity functions that come with footballing success , many footballers have discovered to their cost that drink can be an obligation more than a pleasure . |
| 14 | Oh they were a lot more than that were n't it ? |
| 15 | Or is the organisation more than the sum of its parts ? |
| 16 | ‘ It 's a bit more than two days , ’ said Maud . |
| 17 | The new college which cost eighteen million to build was destroyed there was a death toll , what about a final death toll was , it 's a bit more than there was a , it 's a bit boring , see what I 'm saying ? |
| 18 | Angina 's a bit more than stress , is n't it . |
| 19 | Well it 's a bit more than one year really cos sometimes there 's |
| 20 | If we ca n't see anything more unusual suppose we could always fall back on the bubble baths or the anyway I think that 's a bit more than but there you go . |
| 21 | Yeah , no it 's a bit more than that I think it 's a bit of a case of please help her with her maths sheets . |
| 22 | I think that 's a bit more than that now . |
| 23 | there 's a lot more than two |
| 24 | Well , there 's a lot more than two . |
| 25 | As the crow flies , or rather those rooks in A. K. Savrasov 's famous painting , the distance south-east from Smolensk to Kursk is 480 km. , which is a fraction more than the distance due north from Kursk to Moscow , and 80 km. deeper into the provinces than Smolensk from the capital . |
| 26 | Yes in fact , to be perfectly honest with you the relationship is a bit more than she wants Ron is a bit of a pain I told him over and over again not to push his luck , I said for goodness sake , Ron , be grateful for what you 've got apparently she does n't like to make love with the lights on I said well if that 's what she does n't like that 's what she does n't like , you 're not going to change a woman of sixty eight ! |
| 27 | No wonder Milton was aware that the ways of God needed more justifying than even the greatest of English epics could contrive to do ; and Paradise Lost , as Empson believed , is a poem more than occasionally conscious of the ultimate injustice of the dogma of atonement , and it thrives poetically on its contradictions . |
| 28 | Daniels is a thinker more than a doer when it comes to rehearsing tricks . |
| 29 | This was the pattern more or less throughout , with only occasional snatches of George 's lead playing on show . |
| 30 | Er a a and with a family row in in it as well you can imagine the work involved was a bit more than initially might have been expected and I got criticized because the bill was bigger than I had first estimated cos I did n't expect there 'd be trouble from the father . |