Example sentences of "[verb] be more [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , the relationship has been more than mere friendship , but one of familial depth . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ … ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | IN HIS unorthodox pilgrimage there has been more than a normal share of ill-will , resentment and litigation . |
| 6 | The 3 = 10 9 years since the origin of life has been more than sufficient for this number of generations . |
| 7 | Thus there has been more than enough time for selection to generate specific DNA sequences of the required length . |
| 8 | The unhygienic situation described above has been more than enough reason for diarrhoeal diseases to become widespread . |
| 9 | The Iveco cuts — at Langley , Berks — will mean the hourly-paid workforce has been more than halved to 660 since June , 1990 , union chiefs said . |
| 10 | Since the press seem to take any and every chance they can to doubt his ability to play , this article , and indeed all your support over the last few months , has been more than a pleasure to read . |
| 11 | THOUGH it has been more than 30 years since Jim Chilchutt last cut a rug at a high-school dance , he recaptures his lost youth every weekend , cruising the streets of Ventura behind the wheel of a 1948 Studebaker . |
| 12 | As you know there have been the history of it is , is well known to most commissioners I 'm sure , there have been m there has been more than one attempt in the recent , in the last decade to bring something to the assembly er along these lines . |
| 13 | The growing weakness of local government in terms of making decisions has been more than counterbalanced by the increasing weight of government departments and the influence of civil servants . |
| 14 | Increased rents has also tipped the balance in favour of purchase , although this has been more than outweighed , at least in the short term , by increased interest rates . |
| 15 | Since the mid-1960s the growth rate of Eurodeposits has been more than double that of the world money supply and London has emerged as the major centre for Eurocurrency business . |
| 16 | ‘ Wait but a few moments here for me , ’ she said more gently , ‘ for I must make my farewell to the Lady Percy , who has been more than kind to me . ’ |
| 17 | Why is the worst record in Scotland that of the Forth Valley health board area — which includes the constituency of the Minister of State — where the increase has been more than 24 per cent ? |
| 18 | The hon. Gentleman has been more than usually maladroit in his choice of example . |
| 19 | Estate duty reliefs carried forward to CTT include freedom from tax where an interest in settled property comes to a end during the settlor 's life and the property then reverts to him ( unless , of course , the reverter is by reason of his purchase of the reversionary interest ) ; and an allowance analogous to the old Quick Succession Allowance where within four years there has been more than one chargeable transfer il which the value transferred has been determined by reference to the value of the same settled property in which an interest in possession subsists . |
| 20 | Activity at the quasi-governmental level , like the UN and OECD , has been more than paralleled by a plethora of unofficial pressure groups that monitor the activities of the TNCs , wherever they may be . |
| 21 | The price of low category security has been more than some inmates wanted to pay at Springhill Prison in Buckinghamshire . |
| 22 | Since the turn of the century there have been brief periods when Britain has been more or less self-sufficient in cereals , meat , and dairy produce — during the two World Wars , and today , under the extraordinary economics of the European Community . |
| 23 | I will not go into detail but your disappearance has been more or less accepted now . |
| 24 | In Great Britain , the proportion of smokers has been more or less static for several years at around 32% for men and 30% for women . |
| 25 | They have n't been as much part of my life as I would like , because for the last year or so it has been more or less taken up by the future of the channel . |
| 26 | One particular group of people which has been more or less completely overlooked are those who became disabled in childhood or adulthood , and who are now ageing with a disability . |
| 27 | Good courses of ore had been met with in Deep Level , but Leathart pointed out , " the whole of the ground has been more or less worked prior to the present adventurers " . |
| 28 | Total per capita consumption of alcoholic drinks has been more or less constant for a decade . |
| 29 | 2 But since the rise of structuralism in the sixties Marxist criticism has been more and more on the defensive . |
| 30 | When this has been entered ( unless a date has been given for the assessment ) the plaintiff should , when ready to prove his figures , apply for an appointment before the district judge , or , if the sum claimed is more than £1,000 , before the circuit judge ( unless the defendant admits liability ) . |