Example sentences of "be anything more [subord] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 His mate was never to know that this could be anything more than wishful thinking .
2 I 'm not sure that rock'n'roll should be anything more than joyous noise — maybe ultimately one that means nothing , but then so what … ? ’
3 The groups themselves need very careful organising if the work is to be anything more than structured play .
4 Very few of the stations on what was built of the Cape to Cairo railway were anything more than small wayside halts .
5 He challenges the notion that local government is anything more than local administration , whose claim to be government is merely another reflection of the high self-regard in which officials hold themselves rather than any expression of locally based decision-making .
6 After Terry had gone upstairs we heard the dreadful shriek of tape being torn and so , when Mahmoud came down and asked which was Terry 's pee-bottle , we really could n't believe that this was anything more than another move .
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