Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] more [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What could eat nothin' more than a couple o' chops … |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | Of course , I had opened it and found nothing more than a piece of costly silk , blood-red and fringed at each end . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ The tae of ye will need somethin' more than a dispensation from the Pope , Ah would think , if ye go on like this . ’ |
| 6 | Any basic change in the executive branch of British government will need something more than the type of structural reform of the civil service proposed by the Fulton Committee . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She disliked the casual way in which he made decisions profoundly affecting other people 's lives — choosing whose tale of woe should be front page news , and whose story deserved nothing more than the wastepaper bin . |
| 11 | We always had to chase after him for it and he 'd never give her more than a pound a week . |
| 12 | Since the poetic structure includes only those elements which evoke a response in the reader , it is this response that must be taken as the analyst 's starting point ; the linguist as such can not tell us what is interesting or important about a work ( ‘ No grammatical analysis of a poem can give us more than the grammar of the poem ’ ( p. 213 ) ) . |
| 13 | It costs nothing more than a smile . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This reflects the fact that several kinds of considerations may lead to different and incompatible policies all of which are commonly regarded as policies of neutrality , because all of them demonstrate an even-handed treatment of the parties either by not helping one more than the other , or by not helping one more than the other to take special measures to improve his position in the conflict , and so on . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Maxwell still thinks he can run this himself , pay up and leave with his daughter rather than keep his money and have the case come to court so that his affairs might have to be examined — that could cost him more than the ransom . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | the written transcript will only be used in preference to the tape if neither prosecution nor defence sees any advantage in playing it , but it does not necessarily follow from this that the tape discloses nothing more than the transcript . |
| 21 | A piece to be presented should have something more than a surface narrative quality in the characterisation . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But to argue that such developments marked anything more than a beginning would be to over-estimate the significance of what was done . |
| 24 | Doctors have given her more than a fighting chance and I just have that to cling to . ’ |
| 25 | Well , if you want my advice , I 'd say make him more than a friend , if you get my meaning . |
| 26 | ( The Booker , thought Jeffrey , had recently become nothing more than a branch of Overseas Development . ) |
| 27 | This expresses nothing more than the notion that the decision should proceed from the proofs and arguments advanced by the parties . |
| 28 | The opposition though feels nothing more than a tickle with a feather boa , obviously a pink one . |
| 29 | Maxim hoped it sounded as if he were hiding something more than the fact that Blagg had n't been able to tell what they were . |
| 30 | Beryl needed firm handling but losing father and brother inside four days must mean something more than the prospect of a secure income . |