Example sentences of "[is] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think he s more use in the squad for the money wed get for him . |
| 2 | I do think it is a possibility to use him as a substitute to come on when there s more space around on the pitch . |
| 3 | OK — and there s more futba to come — Leeds on SkySport this Sunday ; guess i find me a little pub here in Trondheim which showes the game live . |
| 4 | The execution , however , and this is typical of the 17th century Dutch masters , is more minute ; and the composition , completely determined by a diagonal , is stricter than that of the English painters . |
| 5 | There is more than a hint of the search for the philosopher 's stone . |
| 6 | The most notable recipe , in historical terms , is mostarda di cremona , a 17th-century grape marmalade , made with whole grains and crystalised fruit , it is more of a hot-and-sweet preserve and good with bollito . |
| 7 | ‘ Working Title ’ have a slate of releases for 1991 which is more than impressive : in addition to ‘ ROBIN HOOD ’ produced by Sarah Radclyffe for 20th Century Fox , they have also completed two American based productions : ‘ DROP DEAD FRED ’ with Rik Mayall and Phoebe Cates and ‘ RUBIN AND ED ’ . |
| 8 | Unless the wind is more than about 45° to the direction of take-off , a strong cross wind seldom creates problems . |
| 9 | Being healthy is more than a question of not being ill . |
| 10 | Also there is more hostility towards academics than in Holland where their status is higher . |
| 11 | There is more freedom in Canada and that is where I will go . |
| 12 | While provision for his guests is more than adequate , his bedroom consists of a single bed with a small television at its foot , remotely controlled . |
| 13 | On the third day Susan received a letter from him in which he explained that he was in a clinic for marioc addicts , ‘ Not that I could be called an addict , ’ he wrote , ‘ and this place is more of a health farm , really . ’ |
| 14 | 'You look fresh as a daisy which is more than can be said for the rest of us. ’ said John . |
| 15 | Indeed brain-mind identity is more than a belief , it is a hypothesis which seems to be the simplest explanation of the mind-brain problem , if it is a problem , and therefore one which parsimony requires us to accept . |
| 16 | If your income is more than your ‘ applicable amount ’ the maximum benefit you could get is reduced by 15% ( 15p in every £1 ) of the difference between the applicable amount and the income . |
| 17 | In other words it is more of a true ‘ real ale ’ than that from other sources . |
| 18 | Nature is likely to follow art , art here being the pure abstraction of Stavrogin 's remark that even negation is more than he can manage . |
| 19 | A toneless , disjunctive fact , droll and very uneasy , one of those amputated thoughts I have just mentioned and –so a sensation , a crawling sensation of the time being out of joint ; there is more Hamlet to The Possessed than what is personal to Stavrogin , ‘ the Prince ’ as he first appears , though on the surface of his mind Dostoevsky evidently meant Prince Hal , not the Prince of Denmark . |
| 20 | This is more than triple the national average , itself one of the worst in the developed world . |
| 21 | There is more involvement with companies on mainland Europe as an insurance policy against any loss of London 's pre-eminence after 1992 . |
| 22 | Unlike the leaders of the other three ‘ independent ’ homelands — all toadies of Pretoria — he is more than ready to pour scorn on the fundamental fraudulence of the nation he purportedly leads . |
| 23 | Boundary disputing is more than demeaning ; it is also expensive . |
| 24 | ‘ I feel there is more prestige in winning the order of merit , ’ Parry said . |
| 25 | There is more to enjoy in Decca 's Barber of Seville — particularly Cecilia Bartoli 's fresh and delightful performance as Rosina . |
| 26 | The plot is more than faintly ludicrous but the music is Rossini at his most inspired — even when one suspects that he is writing with tongue in cheek . |
| 27 | To quench is more than to refresh although our lying , lascivious eyes tell us the two are the same . |
| 28 | A financier in the Manchester broking community said yesterday : ‘ It is more than a possibility that he will make an offer to get Knighton out of his hole . ’ |
| 29 | There is an invisible frontier just a mile or so on the road north out of Luanda , but it is more of a feeling than anything else . |
| 30 | Law and order in Uganda IT IS more than a decade since Kampala was one of the world 's danger capitals , when Uganda was under the sway of Idi Amin , the murderous clown now in exile in the Middle East . |