Example sentences of "nothing [adj] than the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One walks between the banks that show where the houses stood , marking how blocks of squared masonry thrust in one place out of the turf ( a more important building than most of them ) , and how the tree-roots twist among the rubble footings of the peasant dwellings ; and one picks up pieces of twelfth- and thirteenth-century pottery — mere sherds , bits of rim , of sides , of bases , but all datable : nothing later than the Black Death , when the great silence descended . |
| 2 | but there 's nothing smaller than the first size |
| 3 | For if we are to follow through the themes outlined in Chapter 3 , then the process which is identified as ‘ depoliticization ’ is nothing more than the gradual erosion of the supremacy of explicit political content in the press and it is not germane to any specific period . |
| 4 | He had n't even used force , holding her with nothing more than the subtle movement of his mouth on hers . |
| 5 | He would make occasional forays into the United States or films , but Lynn 's only real home was in Aldwych farces as part of the Travers team which ran triumphantly into the 1930s , and he stayed with them , creating and recreating the role of the silly ass forever working his way out of impossible situations , often armed with nothing more than the famous monocle , a daft grin , and an apparently inexhaustible ability to triumph over adversity by the sheer idiocy of his own imagination . |
| 6 | See D. N. MacCormick Essays in Social Democracy , Oxford , 1982 , ch. 10 ; and P. Atyiah , Promises , Morals and Law , Oxford , 1983 , for two of several analyses of promising which attempt to reduce it to what is in effect nothing more than the general principle of personal responsibility for one 's actions . |
| 7 | Evolution ultimately selects for the erm reproductive success of individual organisms , and you can see very clearly in the case of the T four bac bacterial that it is really nothing more than the temporary protein packaging of its D N A. |
| 8 | Best response of the night — not bad going in the face of St Etienne 's new-found libidinous following — and a fitting end to a night that fed off nothing more than the sheer character of the individual bands . |
| 9 | Is this nothing more than the perennial appearance of uneven development , one of the principal diagnostic phenomena of capitalism , only this time at the intra-urban rather than a regional or national scale ? |
| 10 | At least , things happened there ; it was obvious to Schaffer that his presence in Langstone was nothing more than the merest nod towards protocol , but Stoneley had refused to let him return and make the police withdrawal complete . |
| 11 | Thus during the period of restrictions the contras grew , and occasionally even thrived , apparently on air : or on nothing more than the scattered largesse of rich Americans . |
| 12 | The fundamental strength of the Libertarian Ideal consists of nothing more than the proud assertion that freedom is an end-product that people value . |
| 13 | It occurs as that in Judges 9.9 and 13 , and here it might indicate nothing more than the all-embracing nature of the struggles which Jacob has engaged in during the course of his life . |
| 14 | The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships , the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas . |
| 15 | Sure , the rumours continued , but while Nirvana were n't actually doing anything it was n't hard to dismiss this as nothing more than the idle tittle-tattle that was the inevitable lot of a multi-million selling rock band . |
| 16 | Even dissertations that manage to reach the library shelves usually face nothing more than the gnawing criticism of mice . ’ |
| 17 | Maybe it was nothing more than the statistical impossibility of everyone staying home all of the time . |
| 18 | Miss Marple is , in fact ( quiet-mannered village pussy though she was ) , an example of nothing less than the Great Detective . |
| 19 | After Pentecost , they became assured that their experience of God 's activity in their midst and in their mission was nothing less than the continued work and presence of Jesus among them . |
| 20 | Even then there were some books for which not even the critical number was enough , and nothing less than the whole text had to be sampled to determine its average readability . |
| 21 | What gives this discussion an additional interest , though , is that it is incorporated into an ambitious overarching historical schema , which aims to ‘ explain' nothing less than the whole development of world music . |
| 22 | Christian presuppositions are nothing less than the whole truth of who God is and what he has done for us . |
| 23 | There 's nothing worse than the straight man who shouts it from the rooftop . ’ |
| 24 | Were they really ruling huge areas of land when my family 's ambitions were for nothing grander than the next meal and the work to pay for it ? |
| 25 | Substitute anxiety in the spectator , he wrote , brought about by nothing other than the apparent lack of anxiety in the image . |
| 26 | The gentlest way of doing this is to use the effect of the deprivation of something desired , and where the training of children is concerned , that something need be nothing other than the temporary withholding of manifestations of love . |
| 27 | Since industrial anarchy was nothing other than the other side of the coin of the rapidly rising crime levels , both would be defeated by tough measures which would restore to the citizen a feeling of security and freedom . |
| 28 | Nothing other than the whole theory is conclusively falsified by untoward experience . |