Example sentences of "be more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally it is safe to predict that in any catalogue there will be more information than art criticism . |
| 2 | It is a distinction which may in the end prove more suggestive than serviceable : the author who tells , and who can be accounted something of a ventriloquist , may well , for instance , be more than capable of carnival , and may even be every bit as plural in his works as his dialogic counterpart . |
| 3 | The voice and movement work is very important but the professional requirements have changed , particularly in respect of film and television and there should be more training in this area . |
| 4 | There will always be more people wanting to act than there are jobs available . |
| 5 | Desire of Bride to be more than a bride , to be a mother too . |
| 6 | Desire of Bachelors to be more than bachelors , to be husbands and fathers too . |
| 7 | As a result , the brunt of investment pressures will have to be borne by an ever-decreasing stock of pubs ; and what good pubs we have left will be more than ever exposed to the cold winds of change . |
| 8 | Hungry and cold would have to wait until I could go back to the cafe , dirty was obviously going to be more of a problem . |
| 9 | We had agreed at the start of this thing that pressing the Harwich local council for housing would probably be more trouble than it was worth : if one of their inspectors had decided to check my circumstances with the port authorities , the customs people would inevitably have found out about the way in which I had been using their cupboard ( and would have had a pink fit , probably ) . |
| 10 | Then , and only then , begin the side-slip and use up sufficient height to be sure that full airbrake will be more than adequate to get down for a spot landing . |
| 11 | ( Tye does compare this learning to learning to balance a pencil on your nose , but if that comparison is made to do any work , Tye 's theory will simply be a behaviouristic one , and he usually seems to want it to be more than this . ) |
| 12 | There may be more complexities , too . |
| 13 | Helen Gardner was aware of the problem , observing that the pursuit of image patterns , or of the ideas in a poem , can be useful to the interpreter , but can not ‘ be more than auxiliary in leading us to the true ‘ meaning' ’ of the work , which is the meaning which enlarges our own imaginative life . ’ |
| 14 | I do not overlook De Gourmont 's plea for a meeting of the nations but I do believe that when they meet Paris will be more than slightly abashed to find parodies of the middle ages , Dante and Langue D'Oc foisted upon it as the best in United States poetry . |
| 15 | They will be more than grateful to the English Poundstretcher League for the experience being gained by 13 of their 16-man squad . |
| 16 | A recession would cut back London 's traffic but so long as the economy keeps growing , the result will be more cars , more traffic and more pollution . |
| 17 | So there are going to be more lock-outs . |
| 18 | ‘ The short term benefit of certainty in household budgeting can be more than offset by a nasty shock when the rate is revised , ’ said the Abbey , which adds that its research reveals no demand for budget schemes . |
| 19 | One unremarked consequence for both sexes , for example , is that since wives ' allowances can henceforth be set against investment income , there will be more non-taxpayers among bank and building society depositors — and the composite rate of tax on their yield will then be reduced for everybody . |
| 20 | But the declaration issued by the congress left no doubt that the decision was intended to be more than a mere facelift : ‘ The present concept of socialism , the Stalinist system , has exhausted all its social , economic , political and moral reserves , and has proved unsuitable for keeping pace with global developments . |
| 21 | But as workers were busily removing the offending logo from the congress hall yesterday , there were many signs that the change this time would be more than superficial . |
| 22 | But this modification may be more of a public relations coup than a genuine therapeutic improvement . |
| 23 | Speculation that its soldiers would attack the town of Pailin on the Thai border has died down , as it became clear that to hold Pailin would be more of a liability than an asset . |
| 24 | This time , it runs an extra day and there will be more sculpture . |
| 25 | Mr Lawson received a standing ovation for his low-key conference speech , but that appeared to be more of a defensive rank-and-file reaction to widespread media reports of party dissent than enthusiasm for the unflinching substance of the message . |
| 26 | While it is a premium to the market , it should be more than accounted for by the property . |
| 27 | If we move them on to the street , there 'll be more trouble . |
| 28 | It is perhaps significant that there appeared to be more choice of newspaper than of television news . |
| 29 | There are many members who are uncomfortable shaking a can in public but would be more than willing to man a City of London style distribution , counting and recording centre while the enthusiastic collectors stretch themselves to the limit . |
| 30 | Also , uncertainty on your part can lead to the risk of you surrendering all control over the session to the engineer , who will be more than happy to move into the producer 's chair . |