Example sentences of "[pers pn] be more [that] " in BNC.

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1 It 's more that you just pick up on something .
2 It 's more that I 'm his son .
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 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 .
5 Dot wanted to explain it was more that she just did n't know him yet , and she was sorry about him being ill .
6 It was more that it was genuinely in those days a club .
7 ‘ It kind of was , but it was more that he was forced into that position .
8 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 .
9 I think it was more that she wanted to get rid of Wyatt .
10 It was more that he carried them reluctantly with him .
11 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 .
12 Perhaps it was more that she just wanted to be somewhere else .
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