Example sentences of "would [verb] be more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Send one of them to talk to this chap Jordan — Fowler will do it very well ; he 'd have been more than a match for the Ancient Mariner . |
| 2 | ‘ She 'd have been more than concerned if she 'd known what he 'd been up to over the previous few weeks ! ’ said Harris drily . |
| 3 | There was , however , no apparent motive , McLeish reminded himself , and he must not let his own uneasy conviction that Angela Morgan would have been more than capable of stirring up strong and complex emotions in those around her cloud his judgement . |
| 4 | This was done without the knowledge of Napoleon III , who was astonished by the amount and , interestingly , remarked that ‘ half of that would have been more than enough ’ . |
| 5 | At such close quarters , mistakes would have been more than evident but to the merit of all those involved , these were at a minimum and more than compensated for by sheer enthusiasm . |
| 6 | Karen had done her bit for me and I would have been more than happy to reciprocate . |
| 7 | Susan had nursed him tirelessly , and no one had ever heard her complain ; but she would have been more than human if she had not been thankful that her long and exhausting task had come to an end . |
| 8 | Wetting the underneath of the saddle with it would have been more than enough to kill the horse . |
| 9 | All too often professional pride or point-scoring results in the production of highly polished papers and presentations , often costing hundreds of pounds of lost chargeable-time , when a simpler approach would have been more than adequate . |
| 10 | He knew if he had only played ball , she would have been more than pleased to accommodate him , as she probably thought of it , when his attentions were not engaged elsewhere . |
| 11 | In other circumstances she would have been more than willing to engage in this conversation herself , for it was one she had frequently enjoyed ; she liked Otto , she had always mildly fancied that he liked her , she was amused by the offhand continental gallantries with which he interspersed , absent-mindedly , the rigour of his argument ; but tonight she was tired , her eyes were closing , she had had four hours of party already , had not enjoyed the Hargreaves drama , had not enjoyed her talks with Ivan Warner and Teddy Lazenby , had been polite enough for long enough , and wanted to go home ; so stood at Brian 's elbow , dully , a reproachful wife , slightly annoyed that neither of them took much notice of her , as Otto invoked the name of Max Weber , a name which meant nothing to her at all , a name which excluded her , exhausted her , and provoked her into prodding , yet again , but this time successfully , Brian 's arm , and murmuring of baby-sitter Sharon , who was only sixteen . |
| 12 | No doctor having been called , even had they been able to find one willing to attend since one glance would have been more than enough to convince any practitioner of medicine that his fee could not be paid . |
| 13 | Even if he had n't cheated you , which would have been more than enough on its own to make us put a stop to his plans , we certainly do n't intend to have a housing estate . |
| 14 | It would have been more than her life was worth . |
| 15 | Hill admitted too that his father would have been more than surprised to have seen him in action in Monaco three decades on from his supremacy in the 1960s . |
| 16 | Ignoring transactions costs this represents a profit of 6.5 per cent ( which in all probability would have been more than accounted for by brokerage etc . ) . |
| 17 | At that time , when Hitler was master of Europe , such discourtesy would have been more than enough to irritate him . |
| 18 | ‘ Under different circumstances , I would have been more than keen to join a club of their stature , ’ he said . |
| 19 | Just one star , just one memorable song , just one really spectacularly staged number , and the Leonardo effort would have been more than a might-have-been . |