Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adj] than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking back to the period between the two world wars and even to that of 1939–45 , any newcomer to the scene would have foreseen nothing other than a future of amicable and mutually beneficial co-operation . |
| 2 | What could eat nothin' more than a couple o' chops … |
| 3 | Taken literally , it involves nothing less than a judgment about the competition for alternative uses of public resources , and involves the individual police officer making a judgment about what the ordinary ‘ life of the community ’ entails . |
| 4 | Of course , I had opened it and found nothing more than a piece of costly silk , blood-red and fringed at each end . |
| 5 | Normally , if you want nothing more than a passage anchorage , Dale , down near the entrance , will serve very well , but we felt Neyland merited a first visit , and thanks to going there we had this early morning enchantment of seeing ships , great and small , going about their work . |
| 6 | ‘ The tae of ye will need somethin' more than a dispensation from the Pope , Ah would think , if ye go on like this . ’ |
| 7 | Next is Aled Williams of Bridgend , whose consistency in domestic matches , which might not be transferred to internationals , should have earned him more than a replacement honour ( out of position ) against Namibia in 1990 . |
| 8 | Is there anybody who needs anything other than a piano to do their scale for an A minor key i.e. Tuesday 's homework . |
| 9 | Nobody dared to claim that Dukakis represented anything in particular or that he could reliably arouse anything more than a snore , but that was not the point . |
| 10 | Handsome young rascal with hands that had never lifted anything heavier than a pen by the look of them . |
| 11 | It is not clear that one has to postulate anything more than a reaction like Pavlov 's dog learning to anticipate its dinner whenever it hears the bell . |
| 12 | It seemed nothing less than a miracle . |
| 13 | ‘ Strathclyde and the people it serves deserve nothing less than a commission . |
| 14 | We always had to chase after him for it and he 'd never give her more than a pound a week . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm sure it 's all right this time , but you should n't carry anything heavier than a handbag — that 's what my old love used to say . |
| 16 | It costs nothing more than a smile . ’ |
| 17 | Dickins had had nothing more than a back pass and a free-kick to deal with in the first 30 minutes but showed signs of nervousness when Bull challenged for a Birch free-kick . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | If you have ever tried growing anything taller than a lettuce in a grow-bag , you will have encountered the problem of floppy stakes . |
| 20 | This time with a light plastic bag containing nothing more than a sketchpad and a book ( Sleeman 's Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official ) I set out to have a look at Roscommon Town . |
| 21 | In MAKING IT BETTER , the improbably , coolly glamorous Jane Asher plays Diana Harrington , half of a couple who work for the BBC and have sex problems : her husband of 20 years tells her he is leaving her to set up as an homosexual , an announcement which seems to disturb her less than a wheel clamp . |
| 22 | A piece to be presented should have something more than a surface narrative quality in the characterisation . |
| 23 | The three characters are portrayed with vivid detail and lively humour : two sailors who flirt with a girl but find her more than a match for either of them . |
| 24 | ‘ You 've known her less than a week , Mike , ’ he protested . |
| 25 | ‘ But I 've never known him closer than a mile to a pick-up . |
| 26 | She had known him less than a week , yet it seemed natural to turn to him . |
| 27 | She 'd known him less than a week and was already on to his annoying habits . |
| 28 | And er I lost touch with her after that but Joyce was very nice , very , very a down to earth cockney girl from Hockston and she said er she 'd tell her sister she said I do admire my sister she said they 'll never have anything other than a council house , I do n't suppose but she said my brother-in-law mends people 's motorcycles as a side line and the money that he gets from that he gives her most of it and she buys things on hire purchase , this was the days when hire purchase was n't fearsomely expensive |
| 29 | But to argue that such developments marked anything more than a beginning would be to over-estimate the significance of what was done . |
| 30 | Doctors have given her more than a fighting chance and I just have that to cling to . ’ |