Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adv] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was more than a little put out . |
| 2 | Well , I was more than a little crazy in those days . |
| 3 | The day was moving on faster than I was now and a heat haze shimmered over the Tarn as I came to its banks to sit and eat my lunch . |
| 4 | ‘ Never have you been less than a living spirit . ’ |
| 5 | You 're constantly and a motorway going through your house so they give you less than the pro than the market value |
| 6 | They went to cabin 10 that night ; Jane because nothing would have kept her away ; Lucinda because she had nothing better to do ; and Vi reluctantly , because someone had to keep an eye on Lilith and her peculiar ways and maybe , though the eldest of the trio would never have admitted it , because she was more than a little curious about the birthday message . |
| 7 | To them she was more than a mass of steel and wood ; she had moods and feelings which they understood and to which they fitted their own . |
| 8 | She was more than a wee bit confused . |
| 9 | These days she was more than a match for his bullying ! |
| 10 | She was more than a little astounded , however , that , as Naylor stood facing her in the hall of her home , she should suddenly feel breathless and find that she was extending that courtesy even further . |
| 11 | Rory put in mildly , though in truth she was more than a little disturbed by what she was hearing . |
| 12 | We were less than a hundred miles away from Adrar , and it was New Year 's Eve . |
| 13 | Yes , and er there is a when we were there cos a good town , and I |
| 14 | And possibly Tina and that is off so they 'll just have to struggle on as if we were there and a lot of others were off . |
| 15 | ‘ Trumper , Private 7312087 , reporting as ordered , sir , ’ he bellowed , despite neither of them being more than a yard away from Captain Trentham . |
| 16 | Reviews of exhibiting societies ' shows have constantly presented difficulties to critics , as it is only possible to give brief comments on some of the artists ' work ; how could it be otherwise when an exhibiting society shows several thousand works ? |
| 17 | If it were n't that a judge has to decide a case , quite a few of Edward 's legal opinions would probably end in a question mark . ’ |
| 18 | The then Lord Chief Justice in 1980 commented that , If it were not that a high proportion of cases are compromised long before they reach court the administration of justice would soon grind to a halt ; the courts would be overwhelmed by the volume of work . ’ |
| 19 | It 's just that a couple of ideas occurred to me , one of which will have occurred to you and one which you probably do n't know about . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's just that a few days ago I heard one of our members say something about Connie . |
| 21 | It 's just that a lot of the heads have worn they |
| 22 | Ehm just to get back about the point the studio being dark erm it 's just as a suggestion has anybody thought of actually running say a week 's worth of drama courses with er an artist in residence or something like that coming in to do work shops . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , Duncan , it 's here or a hotel . |
| 24 | The BPI would class this record as an album since it has seven songs on it , but as the BPI are the catamites of despair and the handmaidens of drear , it 's here as an EP and it 's very odd . |
| 25 | If it 's less than a hundred it 's smaller if it 's more than a hundred it 's greater . |
| 26 | We pay thirty five percent if it 's more than a hundred miles away from home . |
| 27 | But it 's not for sale at any price — it 's more than a hundred years old , and was snapped up for a thousand pounds at auction . |
| 28 | If it 's less than a hundred it 's smaller if it 's more than a hundred it 's greater . |
| 29 | It 's it 's more than a hundred miles from us . |
| 30 | It 's more than a hundred pounds I bet . |