Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] more [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What could eat nothin' more than a couple o' chops … |
| 2 | Of course , I had opened it and found nothing more than a piece of costly silk , blood-red and fringed at each end . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ The tae of ye will need somethin' more than a dispensation from the Pope , Ah would think , if ye go on like this . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We always had to chase after him for it and he 'd never give her more than a pound a week . |
| 9 | It costs nothing more than a smile . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A piece to be presented should have something more than a surface narrative quality in the characterisation . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But to argue that such developments marked anything more than a beginning would be to over-estimate the significance of what was done . |
| 16 | Doctors have given her more than a fighting chance and I just have that to cling to . ’ |
| 17 | Well , if you want my advice , I 'd say make him more than a friend , if you get my meaning . |
| 18 | ( The Booker , thought Jeffrey , had recently become nothing more than a branch of Overseas Development . ) |
| 19 | The opposition though feels nothing more than a tickle with a feather boa , obviously a pink one . |
| 20 | The Hancock Half Hours seemed to be finally at an end and both Ken and his public were ready for something in which ‘ Stop messing about ’ would mean something more than an admonition to an actor to concentrate on his script . |
| 21 | Unconcerned that it took him more than a year to prepare for , he points out the record wait for a first speech is 40 years and even Margaret Thatcher took 18 months before she made hers . |
| 22 | I feel I commit myself more than a lot of people . |
| 23 | We were not used to drinking anything more than a glass of watered wine with our meals , and the effect on us , while not immediate , was catastrophic . |
| 24 | It took us more than an hour to make our way down those 47 double flights of metal stairs , but we were young and healthy and we enjoyed steins of lager when we finally reached a ground level bar . |
| 25 | For example , the ‘ village community ’ can signify nothing more than a type of settlement — a small number of people living together in a rural location usually in a nucleated pattern . |
| 26 | Now , if the phrase heavy rock means nothing more than a pile of boulders , then you may fear that what follows is not your cup of tea . |
| 27 | Scorpios love nothing more than a chance to break a social taboo . |
| 28 | Whether or not the Communist Party leaders expected such a letter to have anything more than a propaganda appeal they can hardly have been surprised by the Labour Party reply on 27 January 1936 which rejected the application and outlined the history of relations between the two parties , particularly during the social fascist " period . |
| 29 | The first stage however remains nothing more than an extrapolation from the overall pattern of evolution Morgan believed he had discovered . |
| 30 | It then becomes nothing more than a research and development site for Novell . |