Example sentences of "[pers pn] be more " in BNC.
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1 | If I am dependent on you ( subordinate-boss ) , then your perceptions of me are more distorted , and vice versa . |
2 | From this road it is possible to make small diversions down into the villages of Jardim do Mar and Paúl do Mar , although the roads in and out of them are more spectacular than the villages themselves . |
3 | A whole range of worms is available to fishkeepers , though some of them are more suitable than others , especially since we know that live foods can be a source of infection . |
4 | Because larger crests are preferred , auklets bearing them are more likely to obtain mates or form pair bonds earlier , a suggestion supported by observations of the marked auklet population . |
5 | Perhaps the artists in this exhibition and book are united by only one thing other than that they have made use of some aspect of photographic technology : most of them are more likely than not to be familiar with the ideas of the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard . |
6 | Thus the large datasets are still there , but those who manage them are more likely to place them on a file server with appropriate network access ( Knight 1993 ) . |
7 | Yeah I know some of them are more suitable . |
8 | ‘ Cost obviously plays a big part-we are more likely to support a car load for a day nearby , than a person for a day in Carlisle or Penzance ’ . |
9 | David Esterley working on a Gibbons reproduction with the tools ‘ to which I am more attached than anything . ’ |
10 | Having tried it both ways , I am more comfortable with the single act approach , and in the history of rock management , that has generally been the most successful route . |
11 | I can understand why Neil Kinnock might think so , but I am more optimistic . |
12 | ‘ I am more and more intrigued , every minute , ’ Catherine said . |
13 | In the longer term I am more optimistic . |
14 | You see although I wear the German uniform , you might really say that I am more neutral than anything else . |
15 | There is no artist with whom I am more frank , because I admire the man tremendously and need not by sycophantic . |
16 | Now I am more cautious . |
17 | I introduce the letters in the theatre sign but I keep it intentionally vague , I am more concerned with the feeling of light emanating from the theatre sign than with its readability . |
18 | Instead , try ‘ I am more and more at peace with myself , or ‘ I am healthy , and becoming more and more healthy ’ . |
19 | But in spite of the fact that I am more attentive to my own affairs than to yours , the disproportion of awareness is not necessarily in my own favour . |
20 | As a consumer I am more ambivalent . |
21 | I am more certain of that than I am of anything in my life , and although it is a slow and at times agonizing road I tread , the time will come when I shall be heard and cleared of the indictment held against me . |
22 | But I am more and more convinced that the problem is not at heart a technical problem capable of a technical solution but a moral problem concerned with the values of our age . |
23 | It was definitely a case of two points lost , but I am more disappointed that we played so well and did not win . ’ |
24 | I introduce the letters in the theatre sign but I keep it intentionally vague , I am more concerned with the feeling of light emanating from the theatre sign than with its readability . |
25 | At this moment she looked to Joe like a witch and her voice and words sounded as ominous as any that could have been uttered by an authentic witch , as she hissed at him , ‘ I am more concerned about what happens to you than what a lot of stupid men do in their aim to kill each other . |
26 | I am more interested in the varying symbolic functions they fulfil . |
27 | I am more confident than ever that recovery is under way . |
28 | But I am more clumsy than dirty . ’ |
29 | FORMER tennis champion Bjorn Borg — being sued for £400,000 — claimed yesterday : ‘ I am more or less bankrupt . ’ |
30 | ‘ Do n't think you 've heard the last of this matter , ’ he said through his teeth , ‘ you wo n't get away with it , taking from me my home and my birthright , I should have been the eldest son , I am more worthy of the position . |