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 . |