Example sentences of "be any more [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile the individual authorities are gagged from revealing anything meaningful about their business or aims and it is doubtful that the prospectuses , when they are published , will be any more illuminating . |
| 2 | There is , in other words , no guarantee that the Board 's meagre attempt at overcoming the laissez-faire economic approach will be any more successful in creating diversity . |
| 3 | Yet at the same time — here is the Red Queen effect again — there is no general reason for expecting either side in the arms race to be any more successful at doing its job than it was at the beginning of the arms race . |
| 4 | We could devise alternative definitions of these phenomena but they are not likely to be any more helpful than those we have . |
| 5 | It all begins when a gloomy figure blindly stumbles forth — on to a stage which could n't possibly be any more black — clutching a minor forest of fuming joss sticks . |
| 6 | They need not necessarily be any more expensive than enrolling on a course . |
| 7 | However the high cost of closed-loop systems can be attributed to their small share of the market ; would closed-loop be any more expensive than open-loop if a comparable set of integrated circuit control packages was available ? |
| 8 | Perhaps more worryingly , it is not yet clear whether the future generation of RISC-based AS/400s will be any more amenable to parallelisation . |
| 9 | But whether the French will be any more amenable to being ganged up on in this fashion remains to be seen . |
| 10 | Or it can negotiate a new deal with the Justice Department — with no guarantee that this will be any more acceptable to Judge Holland . |
| 11 | And veteran peace campaigner , retired Methodist minister Rev Eric Gallagher said : ‘ At the present time the meeting could not be any more important . |
| 12 | So that into the turn of the year , I ca n't be any more precise er than that , certainly we would hope to be seeing er the wood er from the trees . |
| 13 | Bob David , a senior HSE administrator , says ‘ no one has any specific evidence that large-scale genetic engineering will be any more hazardous than the conventional biotechnology industry . |
| 14 | Civilization had to be more than a mere confluence of economic interests : ‘ And until we set in order our own crazy economic and financial systems , to say nothing of our philosophy of life , can we be sure that our helping hands to the barbarian and the savage will be any more desirable than the embrace of the leper ? ’ |
| 15 | Police say there 's no need for genuine fans to be any more worried now that Swindon 's in the big league . |
| 16 | Choosing a bank account in a foreign currency need not be any more complicated than choosing a normal current account . |
| 17 | But more likely is the possibility that it will continue to respond to events , in the way it has done in the past — and there is no guarantee that the evolution Cox envisages will be any more natural than the modernization of Iran seemed to be in the 1970s . |
| 18 | Here it may be advisable to point out that we are not advising the rational man to be any more spontaneous than he already is , merely inviting him to continue reasoning about means , ends and principles as before , with his mind at rest about that little puzzle about passing from ‘ is ’ to ‘ ought ’ . |
| 19 | There was , however , room for two pages of details of other excerpts records in the same series : why anyone would be any more interested in these than in the Humperdinck if they had not more information than that supplied with this CD was not clear . |
| 20 | He would n't be any more interested than I am . ’ |
| 21 | It says other small scale RFTs will follow in the fashion of the graphical user interface GAIA follow-on , but there is unlikely to be any more big and costly new technology requests . |
| 22 | Child support will therefore not necessarily be any more reliable or regular in the future than it has been in the past . |
| 23 | I trust you wo n't be any more churlish , telling her not to smoke in the wood shop ! |