Example sentences of "[noun prp] be more [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LVMH is the largest champagne company in the world with consumption of Moët et Chandon being more than double that of its nearest competitor . |
| 2 | er when Pearl , my other daughter came over Christmas , course Andrea was more or less still going through a bit of a rough period with between her grandfather and her , you know ? |
| 3 | A pattern emerged whereby shipping belonging to or destined for Kuwait was more or less assured of Iranian attention . |
| 4 | The fact was that Corbett was more than a bit of an embarrassment . |
| 5 | Most of the farmers interviewed in the south-west of England were more than 50 year old , and the very small farms represented 30 per cent of all agricultural holdings in that region . |
| 6 | This had been banned throughout Albania 's more than four decades of communist rule , and the only motorized vehicles seen on the streets were those used by state enterprises , by the army and police , and by senior officials . |
| 7 | About how much of Scotland is more than 10 km from a railway ? |
| 8 | Christopher 's more than four eight is n't he Geoff ? |
| 9 | To account for this , we would need first of all to explain how the form how about VERBing is more or less restricted to usages in suggestions ( again , this looks like a linguistic form that has pragmatic rather than semantic content , a problem discussed in Chapter 5 ) . |
| 10 | Glasgow and Edinburgh airports had 9pc passenger number increases last month while Aberdeen was more than 5pc up . |
| 11 | Coming back to England from one of these school-holiday visits to Hungary , Jane was more than ever struck by the contrast . |
| 12 | In the second of the Superbike races , which was cut short , winner Fogarty was more than delighted when clerk of the course Billy Nutt announced that the full prize money would be paid out . |
| 13 | However , in the short run , Gdynia was more than capable of causing the Danzigers severe economic distress and genuine hardship . |
| 14 | Now ten years old , Ellie was more or less expected to run the house day by day . |
| 15 | But whereas TMTSF is more or less planar , in BEDT-TTF methylene groups ( CH 2 ) at the ends of the molecule lie out of the main plane . |
| 16 | The possibility of bumping into Ven in Prague was more than remote , she knew that . |
| 17 | I know Alain was more than generous to her . ’ |
| 18 | Leaning out of the window , just before the guard blew his whistle , she said in a desperate voice , ‘ My darlings , my darlings , you are happy here , are n't you ? ’ and Carrie was more than frightened then ; she was terrified . |
| 19 | The position of the Spice Islands was more or less well known . |
| 20 | But , of course , Franklin was more than an experimenter . |
| 21 | At the meeting of the Down Presbytery , the first difficulty was innate sympathy towards the army and reluctance to admit that the shooting of Black was more than another of those unfortunate accidents which occur in war . |
| 22 | To Abie Klugman , Celtic Crescent was more than just board and lodgings . |
| 23 | So perhaps Kinsey was more or less right after all . |
| 24 | Gas and oil pipelines were already being laid and the first oil and gas field at Eckofisk was more or less ready to come on stream at that time . |
| 25 | This was n't a fair challenge , Harry being more than a head taller than Sam and built like an ox . |
| 26 | So far , China is more or less on course . |
| 27 | With its declination of 63 degrees south , Acrux is more or less circumpolar from much of South Africa and Australia , and never sets over New Zealand . |
| 28 | I mean , I do n't know what sort of taxes they have on eh , on drink and that sort of thing , but I think Austria is more or less the same same sort of tax . |
| 29 | The reply of Jesus states clearly that Jesus was more than a prophet . |
| 30 | Sam was more than ever convinced that she could not be . |