Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] be more [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brazil had no such push factors at work : when capital fled it was more because of the debt crisis than its cause . |
| 2 | For example , when Rome 's first sundial was brought to the city from Sicily in 263 BC , during the first Punic war , and was erected in the Forum it was inaccurate because it indicated the time appropriate to the place whence it came which was more than four degrees to the south . |
| 3 | And the London-based scientist said he believed it was more than a coincidence that the same colony seemed to have been affected by a second strain of the gizzard worm infection which killed 137 birds last year . |
| 4 | I watch intently for a half-hour , seeing how often the chub move out of the darkness and into the light , and that the time spent there is more or less the same on each occasion . |
| 5 | ‘ I knew that Alan liked the odd drink but it was n't until we were living together that I realised her was more or less an alcoholic , and violent with it . ’ |
| 6 | And the funny thing is : I thought I was more or less over Irene . |
| 7 | Major and Mrs Burrows knew she was more than capable of weighing up the pros and cons , and living with the consequences . |
| 8 | She knew she was more than human — a goddess , born for the eternal burn of love . |
| 9 | Nineteen and a half pounds , I thought they were more than that actually . |
| 10 | In fact , I felt he was more than ready to discuss male-female relations . |
| 11 | Then she saw the look of steely determination in his eyes and knew he was more than capable of it . |
| 12 | She 'd offered to lend him the money to have the bike fixed , and when he accepted she said , ‘ I 've broken something precious , have n't I ? ’ and knelt in the street among the bits of glass , looking up at him as if she understood it was more than a lamp she had smashed . |
| 13 | He could n't understand how his world had collapsed and although he said to himself , several times a day , that it was all the fault of the theatre , that sick , all-pervading fever that seemed to turn everyone foolish and mad , in his heart he knew it was more than that . |
| 14 | I tried to tell myself it was purely physical and you were just an object of desire , but I knew it was more than that . ’ |
| 15 | She had an approved menstrual calendar and knew it was more or less — or at least with an acceptable risk factor — her safe time of the month . |
| 16 | Unnatural conditions became natural and as time passed it was more and more difficult to believe that there was any other life beyond that which went on inside the wire . |