Example sentences of "nothing more [conj] a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Scorpios love nothing more than a chance to break a social taboo . |
2 | Wood 's principles are those of Loudon more than three decades later : ‘ a palace is nothing more than a cottage IMPROVED ’ , he wrote . |
3 | Observation of operator performance within many high technology systems reveals nothing more than a person sitting at a desk scanning various kinds of displays at intervals and just occasionally picking up a telephone , making a note in a log-book or manipulating a control . |
4 | The fact that you report through him is nothing more than a formula to save his face . |
5 | It was a tiny place — nothing more than a shop knocked through from the street at ground level , no more than 60 feet long At one end was a small bar — from which we sold orange juices on top of the counter with the booze tucked away underneath . |
6 | The promotion was nothing more than a device to give Richard Sharpe some status on the Prince of Orange 's staff , but so far as Sharpe himself was concerned he was still a Rifleman . |
7 | Such an obligation , usually thought of as nothing more than a reason to obey , may be based on reasons other than the authority of the law . |
8 | The right of assembly , as Professor Dicey puts it , is nothing more than a view taken by the court of the individual liberty of the subject . |
9 | The right of assembly , as PROFESSOR DICEY puts it ( LAW OF THE CONSTITUTION ( 8TH Edn. ) p. 499 ) , is nothing more than a view taken by the courts of individual liberty of speech . |
10 | It was against this sort of thing — the view that chapel attendance was nothing more than an opportunity to sit , to listen and , in part , to worship the preacher — that many Nonconformists reacted . |
11 | Realising that Macleod had perceived him clearly , Boswell introduces a short apologia pro vita sua , ‘ a short defence of that propensity in my disposition ’ , in which he justifies his pursuit of the great and famous as ‘ nothing more than an eagerness to share the society of men distinguished either by their rank or talents ’ , and calls it a search for knowledge . |