Example sentences of "[is] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | A newsletter in 1964 complains that ‘ it is clear that the requested £10 per annum is more than one group can manage . ’ |
| 2 | It is relatively brief , as can be seen by comparing it with a more recent competitor for the same market , H. W. Janson 's A History of Art , which is more than twice the length and has more illustrations ( 928 in 1962 ) . |
| 3 | The presenter of a television series has some advantage over a writer , since filming is more flexible than book production . |
| 4 | The construction here is more erudite than in the Madame Cézanne . |
| 5 | ‘ It is more difficult to be precise about this than about the earlier phases , partly because the pictures are rarer and less accessible , and have not been adequately photographed , partly because it includes considerable variations . ’ |
| 6 | The other major role of the sculptor is in the service of religion , where a high degree of interplay between artist and patron is not necessarily so important , making the sculptor 's situation into one which is more like the painter 's . |
| 7 | The spaces in a city are more valued , and their enhancing is more a matter of public concern . |
| 8 | It might appear that the whole life of the later novel is in its sting , but there is more to it than sting . |
| 9 | Fraser observes that ‘ analysis is more limiting because it recreates the past only in the forms in which it was internalised or repressed. , |
| 10 | Peter Ackroyd is all of the formidable pasticheur that he is praised for being , and Dyer 's tale , which affects to be that of someone who lived in the eighteenth century , and in which the element of imitation , present in writing of every kind , is more obtrusive than it is in the other tale , is the livelier of the two . |
| 11 | It has Charles in it , whose plight is more touching than anything in the nineteenth-century retrospects of Chatterton . |
| 12 | There is more than one Roth . |
| 13 | The technique required in presenting characters from these plays is usually more delicate than can be achieved in a first audition , whereas the work of Tom Stoppard , David Hare and Barry Keefe ( for example ) is more easily grasped by the young actor . |
| 14 | There is more to this speech , but this seems a good place to stop for a short and effective audition . |
| 15 | Arguably the modern play with a limited cast is more effective in drawing in professional agents and casting directors since there are fewer ‘ bit ’ parts for students to get lost in . |
| 16 | What is more , Cox suggests that support in the South is at best lukewarm . |
| 17 | For when it comes it is more violent , more annihilating , more interminable than I can remember it , this feeling in the pit of the stomach , this physical pain and physical desire to retch , to want to get rid of something , of everything , to want to make all that is inside emerge and disappear , drain away , mingle with the rest of the detritus of the world , but it is not only physical , a physical sensation , he wrote , it is physical but it is also something else , not moral , not psychological , not spiritual , but something else , something other than the purely physical . |
| 18 | Honest crap you can flush down the lavatory , he wrote , but dishonest crap , of the kind produced by so-called artists , is more difficult to dispose of . |
| 19 | The mouth is more agile than the eye , he wrote , the hand is more agile than the brain . |
| 20 | The mouth is more agile than the eye , he wrote , the hand is more agile than the brain . |
| 21 | Examples like the County Arms at Blaby in Leicestershire ( Pick , Everard , Keay and Gimson ) is more in the Tudor style , while Oliver Hill 's Prospect Inn at Minster in Thanet of 1938 is perhaps one of the most completely modern pubs of the inter-war period in its organic planning and use of floor decoration . |
| 22 | The report clearly stresses that the catering industry is more interested in quality than price . |
| 23 | The difference being that I have been fortunate to find a career that I love and , what is more , get paid reasonably for it . |
| 24 | Potentially the customer holds the strong cards at this stage of the discussion : the hotelier or restaurateur knows what his business problems are and knows what the computer system is going to have to achieve — and the potential buyer , who has thought this through before the supplier appears , is more likely to end up with the right system . |
| 25 | ItalBrokers managing director Carlo Gambuzzi adds : ‘ Egg pasta is more enjoyable to the palate than other pastas and remains better al dente . |
| 26 | Perhaps their essence is more difficult to grasp because they are perceived by customers in entirely different roles , depending on the customer — for example , as friend , wine expert or simple emissary of the kitchen . |
| 27 | Nolte is a declining star in a world he increasingly discovers is more about money and power than sport . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's designed around the principle that participation is more important than winning . |
| 29 | Property , it seems , is more important than people . |
| 30 | Nothing is more heartbreaking than to see a beautiful glider damaged by incompetent handling on the ground . |