Example sentences of "nothing [adj] than the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The salt air began to smell of rending , and the islanders in the water knew that Manjiku liked nothing better than the smell of blood . |
| 2 | In fact , this emphasis has misled many students of price theory to understand the notion of the entrepreneur as nothing more than the locus of profit-maximizing decision-making within the firm . |
| 3 | As far as evolution is concerned , I , and this is really the essence of our modern view , I am really nothing more than the packaging of my genes , because after all this is what evolution acts on . |
| 4 | However , Pearson 's lack of interest in the methods of play construction led him towards even more unfocused ways of organizing his films , aiming for a sort of primitive naturalism — ‘ nothing more than the capture of things seen , life in the living , and by selection and arrangement , the flow of the human tale . ’ |
| 5 | In the event one finds a range of immediate answers , each one of which is too simple to reveal or even adequate to explain what soon emerges as a complex process : ‘ Reading is a creation of the sound form of the word on the basis of its graphic reproduction ’ ( the Russian educationist , El'konin , 1973 , p.552 ) ; ‘ Reading is a complex process by which a reader reconstructs , to some degree , a message encoded by a writer in graphic language ’ ( Goodman and Niles , 1970 , p.5 ) ; ‘ Reading involves nothing more than the correlation of a sound image with its corresponding visual image ’ ( Bloomfield , quoted in Harris and Hodges , 1981 , p.264 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ Spurging ’ entailed the general washing of the body with spiced and aromatic water to remove the sweat of the death-bed and generally to clean the corpse ; ‘ cleansing ’ was the euphemism given to the assisted emptying of the bowels and the plugging of the rectum ; the removal of the soft organs , following an incision made from the bottom of the rib cage to the pelvic region , was known as ‘ bowelling ’ ; ‘ searing ’ was the cauterizing of the cavity blood vessels after the removal of the soft organs as a precaution against post-mortem haemorrhaging ; whilst the purification of the inner cavity was the technical ‘ embalming ’ ; the outer surface of the body was ‘ dressed ’ by the application of balms , a mixture of resins in volatile oils ; whilst ‘ furnishing ’ implied nothing more than the positioning of the sudarium ( a linen square covering the face ) and the close wrapping of the corpse in layers of cerecloth and waxed twine . |
| 7 | The wielding of government power is nothing more than the art of imposing one 's will . |
| 8 | ‘ I should scarcely have regretted my journey , ’ claimed Johnson , ‘ had it afforded nothing more than the sight of Aberbrothick . ’ |
| 9 | This child had not been embalmed and his preservation was due to nothing more than the construction of the coffin , for the wood was no less thick — 1½ inches — than that of an adult 's coffin , and the lead was likewise no different in gauge . |
| 10 | With his clammy hands and his face furrowed at nothing more than the flap of pigeons ' wings or the sight of a meter maid , he seemed to be waiting for it . |
| 11 | If officialdom plays the game , the great benefit should be an end to those long delays in customs which appear often to be caused by nothing more than the whimsy of officials . |
| 12 | Fate had thrown them together , but eventually their paths would separate , leaving her with nothing more than the memory of a powerful body pressed close and warm against her own . |
| 13 | The serious consequences of confusion between experts and arbitrators are underlined by the fact that the subject-matter of this case that the Court of Appeal had to deal with was nothing more than the rent of a car park . |
| 14 | De Man 's progress towards the aporia of hidden and manifest content in Proust is nothing more than the elaboration of his initial imperfect translation . |
| 15 | But more careful observation showed that the behaviour was simply an imitation of the trainer 's actions , combined with an association of certain ‘ symbols ’ or shapes with particular things — nothing more than the association of the sight or shape of a banana plant with bananas , combined with a sequence of actions required to pluck the banana or to reach the location of the plant in the wild . |
| 16 | It was left to Karl Marx to strip away the veil of capitalist ideology and reveal the wage system and the ‘ free labour market ’ as nothing more than the domination of one class over another . |
| 17 | RAI protests that this amounts to a colossal waste of money since it previously acquired Eurovision rights for nothing more than the duty of reciprocal access to material from Italy . |
| 18 | The Church , he insisted , was ‘ nothing more than the aggregation of these individuals . ’ |
| 19 | Currey noted : ‘ Although the treaty goes out to the World as the concurrent agreement of the tribe , it is in reality nothing more than the agreement of Lawyer and his band , numbering in the aggregate not a third part of the Nez Perce tribe . ’ |
| 20 | What Mead is calling the generalized other and its effects , can be read as nothing more than the process of socialization in which any one culture or social groupings ' values and norms are internalized . |
| 21 | When , in Frankfurt in October , the talks were foundering , North called it ‘ a great tragedy for those of us who live on this Planet Earth ’ ; nothing less than the misalignment of two spheres that had been about to dance in harmonious orbit . |
| 22 | But the play also acknowledges quite clearly that what is at stake is nothing less than the legitimacy of the whole social order , hinging as it does on a ‘ naturally ’ sanctioned law of sexual difference . |
| 23 | The European Political Community was not to be just a third community , but nothing less than the beginning of a comprehensive federation to which the ECSC and EDC would be subordinated . |
| 24 | ‘ I believe that what we have heard and seen this afternoon is nothing less than the beginning of the end of your premiership . ’ |
| 25 | Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown summed up the mood by telling Mr Major : ‘ What you have seen this afternoon is nothing less than the beginning of the end of your premiership . |
| 26 | Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown summed up the mood by telling Mr Major : ‘ What you have seen this afternoon is nothing less than the beginning of the end of your premiership . |
| 27 | It is nothing less than the invocation of a two-language model of social scientific inquiry : that of theory and that of research ; that of concepts and that of variables . |
| 28 | The development of creativity is nothing less than the stocking of the mind with innumerable images and allowing the mixture to work as in fermentation to produce its astonishing results . |
| 29 | For some , as indeed for T. E. Lawrence , this entailed not just the rejection of a repressive social order , but a disidentification from it requiring nothing less than the relinquishing of the self as hitherto constituted and inhabited by that order . |
| 30 | Ultimately , Acts offers a more or less reliable historical account of Paul 's dispute with the Nazarean Party , which would culminate in nothing less than the creation of an entirely new religion . |