Example sentences of "be 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 | Indeed , the relationship has been more than mere friendship , but one of familial depth . |
| 18 | Any disappointment he may feel over the delay has been more than compensated for by the news that tickets for this year 's event are already selling fast . |
| 19 | Certainly in recent years Pound 's interest in mystery-cults has been more than antiquarian ; in ‘ was Erigena ours ? ’ he asks whether the philosopher Scotus Erigena was one of the Eleusinian brotherhood , and ‘ ours ’ can be given full weight — Noel Stock goes so far as to claim ( op. cit. p.22 ) that some of the obscurity of these later Cantos is deliberate and arcane — ‘ he writes about them as an initiate in words that are both ‘ published and not published ’ … ’ . |
| 20 | However , the physician which has been more than happy to dish out expensive advice to clients on how they they should deal with their own ills , has been unable to heal itself . |
| 21 | See , the other week there , I was on beat duty and this wee nipper , could n't have been more than 6 or 7 , came round the corner and says to me , ‘ Fuck off , ya black bastard . ’ |
| 22 | We knew he was the owner of the club and — while he ca n't have been more than four-foot-nine inches tall — we knew that Soho was run by Maltese gangsters just like him . |
| 23 | Many an anti-dog man joins the ranks of dog lovers because he is too weak to resist the demands of beloved children , but in Wexford 's household the demands had never been more than half-hearted , so he had passed through this snare and come out unscathed . |
| 24 | It had been more than a long time , Erika reflected . |
| 25 | THE Berlin Wall has long been more than the ugliest symbol of Europe 's division . |
| 26 | IN HIS unorthodox pilgrimage there has been more than a normal share of ill-will , resentment and litigation . |
| 27 | Lower advertising revenue in some US markets was offset by new publications and there have been more than 40 acquisitions so far this year . |
| 28 | Lower advertising revenue in some US markets was offset by new publications and there have been more than 40 acquisitions so far this year . |
| 29 | The structure of the developing national authority has been both diffuse enough to prevent it from being destroyed by any one single sweep of arrests ( there have been more than 50,000 arrests since the Intifada 's outbreak ) , and coherent enough to allow for the existence of a unified resistance strategy . |
| 30 | The look she flicked him reminded him that this was one area where she would not appeal for his help ; she had been more than careful to protect him from any involvement with a drug-taking brother . |