Example sentences of "was more [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fraser 's fork took several forms , as I say : or one might prefer to say that there was more than one fork to reckon with . |
| 2 | Yes , she was the first person who made me realise that acting was more than just speaking and doing . |
| 3 | I was part of the furniture , yes , but I was more than that : I was part of the family . |
| 4 | My practical mastery had made me acutely aware of the boundaries which separate those inside the institution from those excluded from the specialist knowledge of ‘ doing the business ’ and I was more than ever aware of the suspicions which would have been aroused if I had introduced questions of an academic nature , or had distributed questionnaires . |
| 5 | His father was more than six foot and could toss the caber further than any man in Bunarkaig . |
| 6 | I was more than a little put out . |
| 7 | By this stage , Des was more than just a mascot . |
| 8 | However , it was more than three years later ( The New Republic , March 1926 ) that Wilson brought Eliot 's poetry home to the bosoms of his countrymen . |
| 9 | By 1982 , the Minority Rights Group in London was unofficially estimating the Muslim population was more than two million while the Christians numbered barely 1.5 million . |
| 10 | His vote was more than halved in the party 's northern region , and nearly halved in both Yorkshire and the north-west . |
| 11 | The smaller number of A and C allowances was more than made up for by the greater number of B and D allowances . |
| 12 | For the United States , the assimilation of wave after wave of immigrants into an egalitarian society was more than a pious hope . |
| 13 | Security was more than 100 per cent . |
| 14 | Only those with short memories would subscribe to the notion that he guided a hick club to new heights — Real Sociedad were twice Spanish champions in the early Eighties — but his record was more than respectable . |
| 15 | The current account surplus in 1985 was more than entirely accounted for by oil , which had improved from a deficit of about £700m in 1979 to a surplus of £8bn in 1985 . |
| 16 | A strong merchant banking contribution was more than offset by losses on investment management and stockbroking and some heavy loan provisions . |
| 17 | After a hot mess-tin full of oxtail soup , I was more than ready to get into any old slit trench to have some desperately needed sleep . |
| 18 | On the political left , a popular approach was to adopt the terminology of the long-dead Italian Marxist , Antonio Gramsci , to argue that Thatcherism was more than a governmental system , more even than an ideological banner . |
| 19 | But for the clients of the Thatcher order in the south and east of the nation , it was more than enough . |
| 20 | Because the number of members who took an active part in the fund-raising is comparatively small , the true amount contributed by everyone who was actually involved was more than £200 . |
| 21 | This discovery of Frank 's atheism was more than a perturbation to Michael . |
| 22 | And this was more than just a professorship . |
| 23 | But it was more than these to those in the quarrel . |
| 24 | Ramsey knew that as a bishop he had a teaching ministry , and that this needed a journal which was more than diocesan news . |
| 25 | After eight years in the public sector , Cuckney was more than ready to become involved with private industry , but he firmly believes more top executives in the UK ought to join the traffic between the two sectors . |
| 26 | The uncle 's car was an old Ford V8 with enormous fins and there was more than enough room for all of them in the back . |
| 27 | Sheila was more than good at school , impulsive and assertive , yet she withdrew into a shell at a hint of opposition . |
| 28 | It was more than Wexford 's life was worth to admit his craven fear of the lift . |
| 29 | His immediate superior and his superintendent had departed ten minutes before for a conference at Lewes and he was more than somewhat at a loss . |
| 30 | It was immediately apparent that the main challenge to the ingenuity of the designers was the considerable width of the building , which , at 20m ( 66ft ) , was more than double the dimension usually found in residential buildings . |