Example sentences of "[prep] be more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would n't of been more than five . . |
| 2 | Concentration has nothing to do with gritting your teeth and braving it out ; it 's the secret of being more and more relaxed and aware of everything that is going on at the same time . |
| 3 | It is clear then that the DUP will receive the votes of the working-class loyalists so long as it retains an image of being more unionist than the Officials , unless there should be an alternative to the right of the DUP . |
| 4 | The tendency to centralise power over time is frankly admitted by the Commission , albeit diplomatically : ‘ the list of policies which qualify on the grounds of being more efficiently discharged at Community level than at national level is likely to evolve gradually over time . |
| 5 | Beyond that , she had shown that women were capable of being more than simpering wallflowers , or unpaid housekeepers . |
| 6 | Almost men have at some time an intimation of being more than the material , and the appearance and personality . |
| 7 | One head of department thought that it had increased marginally as a result of being more involved in decision-making , but this was less important to him than teaching . |
| 8 | Oil is easier to obtain and to transport , and it has the advantage of being more homogenous as well as containing hydrocarbons with a higher hydrogen to carbon ratio . |
| 9 | M.J. talked a lot , and Donald said I encouraged her too much , and that I.C.B. was on the point of being more personal and interesting if I had let her — but I was rather shy of it . |
| 10 | It is important that the counsellor , observing the problems and deprivations within the group , does not fall into the trap of being more concerned with what he or she can do for the group than what the group can do for itself . |
| 11 | It is thus not employed in the sense in which people speak of being more ‘ cultured ’ ( or ‘ cultivated ’ ) than others . |
| 12 | Politics , however — at least in the sense of nationalist feeling — had for many decades been an important and even a dominant theme in children 's fiction , and we would expect to find Ruritanian stones using nationalistic honour as a theme at least in books where adventure made any pretence of being more than a game . |
| 13 | The decision was strongly opposed by the Labour Party who suspected the Conservative minister of being more concerned to destroy the Labour-controlled LCC than to reform local government . |
| 14 | By comparison , socially created inequality ‘ consists of the different privileges which some men enjoy to the prejudice of others , such as that of being more rich , more honoured , more powerful , or even in a position to exact obedience ’ ( quoted in Bottomore , 1965 , pp. 15–16 ) . |
| 15 | He was shorter out of the City , but gave the impression of being more solid . |
| 16 | This method of heating has the advantage of being more economical as no heat is wasted keeping water hot and none is lost in the pipes between the hot water cylinder and the hot tap . |
| 17 | Many delegates reportedly accused Mexico of being more interested in developing trade with the developed world and in particular the USA than with poorer countries . |
| 18 | They were joined by hundreds of the unemployed who accused the Endara government of being more concerned with US free market policies and US military objectives than the plight of most Panamanians . |
| 19 | And they have a real sense of being more credible . |
| 20 | Mr Christopher , who flew from Damascus to Riyadh for talks with Saudi Arabia 's King Fahd , has been stressing his intention of being more active in the peace process — ‘ a full partner ’ — than his predecessor , James Baker . |
| 21 | Alarmed by the scale of public outrage over the attack , the Provisional Irish Republican Army accused the police of being more interested in protecting property than saving lives and claimed they had not wanted to hurt anyone . |
| 22 | We should be looking at ways of being more selective about treatment , and I think one of the reasons for wishing to study miocenia gravis in such detail is to be able to get so inside the mechanism of production of the disease that we can in fact simply turn off the miocenia disease process and leave the rest of the immune system just as it was . |
| 23 | ‘ The Sierra , despite being more roomy and having a 2.3-litre motor , gets along nicely on a lot less . |
| 24 | Despite being more nervous than he 'd ever been in his life he hit a 3-iron from the edge of the fairway bunker to within 20 feet of the flag . |
| 25 | The only difficulty is , is er the interpretation of of the words and er whether or not the the words er er er er in the vicinity of is more constricting than we anticipate and it is that point which will be needn which needs to be addressed , but I think I can assure the No Noble Lord that erm er they w w will have full jurisdiction on and in the vicinity of the stations which is the point which she which she is anxious about and that will continue just the same after April the first before . |
| 26 | The latter initially looked like being more successful . |
| 27 | Because women 's work is never done , and underpaid , or unpaid , or boring or repetitious and we 're the first to get the sack , and what we look like is more important than what we do , and if we get raped it 's our fault , and if we get bashed we must have provoked it , if we raise our voices we 're nagging bitches , and if we enjoy sex we 're nymphs and if we do n't we 're frigid , and if we love women it 's because we ca n't get a real man , and if we ask our doctor too many questions we 're neurotic and if we expect the community to care for our children we 're selfish , and if we stand up for our rights we 're aggressive and unfeminine , and if we do n't we 're typical weak females , and if we want to get married we 're out to trap a man , and if we do n't we 're unnatural , and because we ca n't get adequate safe contraceptives , but men can walk on the moon , and we ca n't cope or do n't want a pregnancy we 're made to feel guilty about abortion , and for lots and lots of other reasons we 're all part of the Women 's Liberation Movement . |
| 28 | Experiments by Prentice , Barrett and Semmel ( 1966 ) , Harris ( 1977 ; 1978 ) and Dewart ( 1979 ) have shown that the passive is likely to be used when the acted-upon is more animate than the actor . |
| 29 | As predicted , most passives were produced when the acted-upon was more animate than the actor and least when the actor was more animate than the acted-upon . |
| 30 | The difference between these conditions was striking : 154 passives were produced when the acted-upon was more animate and only 3 when the actor was more animate . |