Example sentences of "[pron] 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 | ‘ I only know that there is more that I do not know than that I know , , I answered . |
| 3 | It 's more that you just pick up on something . |
| 4 | It 's more that I 'm his son . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Dot wanted to explain it was more that she just did n't know him yet , and she was sorry about him being ill . |
| 8 | It was more that it was genuinely in those days a club . |
| 9 | ‘ It kind of was , but it was more that he was forced into that position . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I think it was more that she wanted to get rid of Wyatt . |
| 12 | It was more that he carried them reluctantly with him . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Perhaps it was more that she just wanted to be somewhere else . |