Example sentences of "[am/are] more [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A buzzard 's feathers have almost a glossy look to them , and they 're more than one shade of brown . |
| 2 | Ironically , if you 're more than five points ahead in a two-player game , you can deliberately kill off your team to win ! |
| 3 | If they 're more than eighty , I , I ca n't have it anyway . |
| 4 | she , you 're more , you 're more than five six and a half measure yourself |
| 5 | That is probably the worst one day figure which happened , as I say , combination of war and the snow , when the shops were pretty well closed off , and yes we certainly saw figures that , on a day for day basis to last year , they were seventy five per cent down , but cumulative I mean the position 's much better than that erm nowhere near that sort of figure , and erm we are very confident that the summer market for overseas holidays will recover steadily and we 'd be very surprised if , by the end of September , we 're more than five or six per cent down on summer holiday bookings compared to last year , and we 're confident enough to have brought back our campaigns and our advertising starts this week , and we 've even been confident enough to announce to our staff that their annual salary review will take place on the first of April as scheduled . |
| 6 | They 're more or less accusing us of some kind of fraud . ’ |
| 7 | Birds do not have large reserves of fat ; in the wild they 're more or less constantly at their perfect flying weight . |
| 8 | We 're more or less stationary now . ’ |
| 9 | Well they 're more or less no different to what we 're walking down here now . |
| 10 | We 've got to cross the river to get to the nearest shop which is about two miles away ; and in the winter when the weather is bad we 're more or less cut off . |
| 11 | They 're more or less as a , I do n't think there 's a great lot of difference onl I d I , they 're not pushing , they have n't the same , the , I would like to say , I would say they have n't the same interest in their union , they 've not the same interests in the union as they had in the earlier days when there was a union . |
| 12 | ‘ So you 're more or less convinced that we pulled it off ? ’ |
| 13 | So we 're more or less where we left off last November . |
| 14 | but they 've changed now , they 're more or less on the same basis as the U R C |
| 15 | er I think we 're more or less set really . |
| 16 | It had 2 big inns , and we 're more or less , well , we are on the site of the first one , Blue Boar Inn , and on your map , rather strangely , it seems to be built across the opening of Blue Boar Lane , I do n't know if you can see . |
| 17 | FORMER tennis champion Bjorn Borg — being sued for £400,000 — claimed yesterday : ‘ I am more or less bankrupt . ’ |
| 18 | I am more or less a consultant to them . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I am more and more intrigued , every minute , ’ Catherine said . |
| 20 | Instead , try ‘ I am more and more at peace with myself , or ‘ I am healthy , and becoming more and more healthy ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ I am more and more Christian as I walk the unchristian ways of Christendom ’ , he wrote , confessing himself ‘ a conscientious objector with a very seared conscience ’ . |
| 23 | THERE are more than 200 pasta shapes , with more than 600 names for these shapes . |
| 24 | If there are more than 2 people , the threshold for help is increased by £52 for each extra person . |
| 25 | There are more than ten million pensioners in the United Kingdom today . |
| 26 | And , of course , the Pub Section points the way to nearly 5,000 pubs that serve top-notch cask beer — there are more than 1,500 new entries from last year . |
| 27 | There are more than 40 nuclear reactors and 22,000km of gas pipeline passing through built-up areas . |
| 28 | There are more than 1,500 hatcheries in Taiwan alone . |
| 29 | They are Mr Sisulu , Andrew Mlangeni , Raymond Mhlaba , Ahmed Kathrada and Elias Motsoaledi , all of whom are more than 60 years old . |
| 30 | There are more than 2,000 strains of salmonella . |