Example sentences of "be more that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teachers in today 's schools and colleges have to concern themselves with a bewildering multiplicity of factors ; some of them were hinted at in preceding chapters and there are more that were ignored because they were not directly relevant to our theme . |
| 2 | Clearly if , if the fines were more that would help , but I do think now because of the consciousness of the general public and because of the involvement of the media in , in the environment , er that firms are not keen and the third parties , whoever they may be , are not keen to be fined in court for pollution , because public opinion is such that it 's very much disapproved of . |
| 3 | As the constable quoted above makes clear , it is not that all neighbourhood policemen defuse every situation by the display of patience , sympathy , tolerance , and understanding , it is more that this is their first choice and they use other recipes , by becoming ‘ heavy-handed ’ and resorting to arrests , only when this one fails . |
| 4 | ‘ I only know that there is more that I do not know than that I know , , I answered . |
| 5 | This is not to say that Hewison denies outright the possibility of a career — his concentration throughout the book on the films of Derek Jarman speaks otherwise — it is more that the pessimism of his viewpoint stops him from looking for them . |
| 6 | It would be appropriate not simply as a true alternative to expulsion where the grounds for the latter exist but also where the circumstances make it difficult to identify some particular breach or failure by the partner served with notice , where the problem is more that his face no longer fits , where his general approach to the business of the firm is inconsistent with the policy which the other partners have decided to adopt , and so on . |
| 7 | It 's more that you just pick up on something . |
| 8 | It 's more that I 'm his son . |
| 9 | Dot wanted to explain it was more that she just did n't know him yet , and she was sorry about him being ill . |
| 10 | It was more that it was genuinely in those days a club . |
| 11 | ‘ It kind of was , but it was more that he was forced into that position . |
| 12 | Although it felt like a miraculous coincidence for us at the time , it was more that we were all ready to grapple with this issue in our lives . |
| 13 | I think it was more that she wanted to get rid of Wyatt . |
| 14 | It was more that he carried them reluctantly with him . |
| 15 | For Laura , work had now become an end in itself ; although some of her colleagues began to describe her as a workaholic it was more that she found working a pleasurable state . |
| 16 | Perhaps it was more that she just wanted to be somewhere else . |