Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [indef pn] more [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even M31 , the Great Spiral in Andromeda , looks like nothing more than an ill-defined misty patch , though its elongated shape is clear enough . |
| 2 | Parents see relationships as the most important aspect of primary schooling and marketing has much to do with relationships , it simply starts with nothing more than an insistence on common courtesy — or is it more like uncommon courtesy ? |
| 3 | The report , from a correspondent in Bangkok , stated that this was the first occasion since the Vietnamese withdrawal from Cambodia in September 1989 [ see pp. 36881-82 ] that Vietnamese forces had been used in anything more than an emergency capacity . |
| 4 | Remove " the tough talk , all the swagger and the patriotic posturing " , he said , " and protectionism amounts to nothing more than a smokescreen for a country that 's running scared " . |
| 5 | These petty morals , partly overlapping , form a cascade of precepts none of which amounts to anything more than a trite platitude . |
| 6 | One developed into nothing more than a simple ball of cells with no gut at all , the other into a more or less normal larva . |
| 7 | The Open University freaks have taken so many short cuts that they are rudderless ships on that same deep ocean which you , most probably , crossed with nothing more than a paddle or ragged bit of sail under a stiff breeze and with a lively brain . |
| 8 | The music of Chopin , the poetry of Mickiewicz — both produced in exile — and the paintings of Jan Matejko are all powerful emotional and political responses to the reality of life in a country whose people were denied their own forms of government , and whose culture was relegated to nothing more than a set of quaint country ways . |
| 9 | Now this emphasis on focusing and honing everything right down to its simplest form can sound a bit like naked capitalism , treating rock ‘ n ’ roll as nothing more than a game . |
| 10 | We know Compaq wrote the specification when it was still a ploy — Systems Network Integration says they even have a prototype up and running — but whether this can ever amount to anything more than a high-end PC depends on sorting out fact from propaganda . |
| 11 | I think of the eclectic women on baby blankets , bare beside picnic baskets and one another , pleased to be sated by nothing more than a book and a cigarette , a glass of cider and a chat or a piece of quiche , meatless , of course . |
| 12 | His forecast for 1985 in the NME led to nothing more than a throwaway : ‘ Disability chic will reign rampantly in 1985 . |
| 13 | But at this stage the problem for research has not been defined at anything more than a very general level . |
| 14 | Recently published Dataquest figures indicate a potential market size of $300 million by 1990 but with less that a year of history to go on this can hardly be taken as anything more than a guideline . |
| 15 | In an anonymous introduction , the editor of De revolutionibus , Andreas Osiander , had implied that the earth 's motion was to be construed as nothing more than a convenient hypothesis . |
| 16 | Staff should be discouraged from carrying over anything more than a few holidays a few days holiday from one year to the next , unless it 's for specific purposes , such as climbing , catching dingo or visiting Aunty Mabel in New Zealand . |
| 17 | The special nature of the facts of the case mean that it has a very narrow reading and for this reason might amount to nothing more than an amalgam of common law duties not to be dishonest . |
| 18 | But if you put all of these together , do they amount to anything more than a restorationist position ? |
| 19 | And drastic measures are needed in the Serious Fraud Office , set up last year , to ensure that it moves at something more than a glacial pace . |
| 20 | Jack Lewis was a brilliant attacking wing-half whom Palace obtained for nothing more than a signing-on fee from West Bromwich Albion in the summer of 1938 . |
| 21 | It has been said many times that the word ‘ conviction ’ is ambiguous and it has sometimes been construed in a statutory context as referring to nothing more than a finding of guilt . |
| 22 | The explosives , which were described as nothing more than an experiment , were detonated just above a dam built in January and breached last week . |
| 23 | If the proposals of early 1858 reached the statute book , " The whole of Russia will turn into nothing more than a military colony ( obratitsia v odno voennoe poselenie ) , and who will save it from the new Arakcheev who is emerging in the person of Iakov Ivanovich Rostovtsev ? " |