Example sentences of "but [pron] [noun sg] [is] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm gutted , but my eyesight 's more important than any mountain . ’ |
| 2 | Payment , it seems , is acceptable for professionals , but its legitimacy is more controversial for other ranks . |
| 3 | The word ‘ patronymic ’ is sometimes used as an easy synonym when referring to any surname , but its meaning is more limited than that , for a proper application restricts it to describing those names descending from fathers or ancestors . |
| 4 | Some cancers , such as Hodgkin 's disease , may not necessarily be more common , but their growth is more aggressive in HIV infection . |
| 5 | Lee , who is the subject of Sean Scully 's ‘ Catherine ’ series of paintings to be collected by the Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art in May , showed at the gallery in 1989 , her first solo exhibition in this country , and was included in a couple of mixed exhibitions in 1992 , but her reputation is more firmly established on the Continent , where an acclaimed survey exhibition took place recently at Munich 's Lenbachhaus and at the Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz in Austria . |
| 6 | A Belgian singer , René Jacobs , has long been admired as one of the most emotionally expressive of counter-tenors , but his exuberance is more in the line of Maria Callas than of Ethel Merman . |
| 7 | But his background is more mundane than the rags-to-riches story , recounted in numerous tabloid hagiographies , suggests : his circus-artist father was a small businessman by the time Major was born and both his parents were Conservative voters . |
| 8 | Michael Chapman is Guy 's first professor of gynaecology , but his manner is more casual than authoritative . |
| 9 | but I put him on some medicine I got from the chemist and it seems to have calmed it down but his nose is more er hot and cold |