Example sentences of "there [vb mod] [be] [adv] to " in BNC.

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1 Yet there may be less to this unambiguous declaration than meets the eye .
2 There may be more to it .
3 But there may be more to this than comradely debate .
4 There may be more to this than meets the eye ( if you 'll excuse the pun ) as just once in a while I have taken zander during the daytime in water that has been so clear that I would have rated my chances as zero .
5 She said there must be more to it than just worrying about wanting a small waist , and she was right : out it came .
6 It is so simple that I have known clever men misunderstand it completely , thinking that there must be more to it !
7 But I ca n't help feeling that there must be more to it than that .
8 And I 've had at least three real girlfriends , so there must be more to me than bad skin , frizzy hair and a slouch .
9 Or we can decide that there must be more to being alive than this and , like Jonathan Livingston Seagull , become intrepid explorers of life 's possibilities .
10 In the same way that the spectacle of a butterfly or a peacock still arouses the feeling that there must be more to it than evolution , consciousness insists there must be more to itself than that .
11 In the same way that the spectacle of a butterfly or a peacock still arouses the feeling that there must be more to it than evolution , consciousness insists there must be more to itself than that .
12 Admittedly they were only nineteen , but surely , he reasoned , there must be more to married life than this ?
13 SO MANY have praised Graeme Hick that there must be more to him than has been revealed .
14 There must be more to this country squire than was disclosed by his clipped mannerisms and his habit of smiling each time he spoke , as though to ease his way through a dubious world .
15 There must be more to him than Beatrice thought .
16 It all started when he decided there must be more to life than selling plants and motor spares , and set off to seek his fortune in Australia with £100 in his pocket .
17 Without sounding too clichéd about it , there should be more to it than that .
18 Like many people , maybe you 're feeling that there should be more to a summer holiday than sun , sea and of course , crowds .
19 There should be more to alternative comedy than saying FILOFAX .
20 It seemed to the hedgehog that there should be more to it than that .
21 And if you 're old or poor or handicapped or just think there should be more to life than this — then go to hell .
22 ‘ Anyway , ’ he perked up , ‘ if it is the Old Ones , it would explain the telepathic pollution , and there 'll be more to it that we have n't thought about yet , but we 'll find out later . ’
23 In post-industrial Britain both the self-satisfied and the desperate are able to feel justified in clinging on to what they have , or grabbing what they have n't ; at no time — even in the middle of the Live Aid telethon — is there a suggestion that there might be more to life than such behaviour .
24 Or there might be more to it than that .
25 Thus though it might well be that the very short-term phases of memory are dependent on the continued electrical activity of the brain — and there will be more to be said about this in due course — in the longer term any persistent record or trace must demand some more permanent incarnation .
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