Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] be more [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything here was different and therefore better : the stiff-backed brass taps , the cut of the banister , the genuine oil paintings ( we had a genuine oil painting too , but not as genuine as that ) , the library which somehow was more than just a roomful of books , the furniture old enough to have woodworm in it , and the casual acceptance of inherited things . |
| 2 | She really was more than half-minded to take them downstairs again and post them through the hole in the mahogany skirting board of the dining-room where they could lie in wait for crumbs of bread and cheese and apple peels that she would be careful to drop … |
| 3 | Or , if we prefer it , we may say the physical body as it is described by the anatomist is the more ghostly thing , a phantasy of cells and cell assemblies , a convenient way of talking about ourselves and that we really are more or less what we feel ourselves to be . ’ |
| 4 | There is some evidence that the rate of increase has slowed down in the 1980s , but there still were more than 160,000 divorces in 1985 . |
| 5 | But a confrontation with him now was more than Lisa could handle . |
| 6 | The Stephen They 're not all I mean I 'm saying that 's right but that some of them there are more than one answer to . |
| 7 | Whatever the justification there may have been in the past , when a high degree of ability may have been necessary to acquire and work at the trade , that reason has forever passed away if it ever was more than a trade gild superstition . |