Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] [adj] than [art] [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 | It offers nothing less than the prospect of giving substance to the idea of ‘ an academic community ’ , unknown since the medieval foundation of the university . |
| 3 | What Sartre needs to demonstrate , therefore , is that if the law of the dialectic works from the individual level , overall it produces nothing less than the intelligibility or the meaning of History as such : |
| 4 | What could eat nothin' more than a couple o' chops … |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | Of course , I had opened it and found nothing more than a piece of costly silk , blood-red and fringed at each end . |
| 8 | It proposed nothing less than the reclamation for her kingdom of an area 70 miles long and 30 broad , equivalent to a whole new county , the ‘ Great Level ’ of the Fens . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ The tae of ye will need somethin' more than a dispensation from the Pope , Ah would think , if ye go on like this . ’ |
| 11 | I want something deeper than the stuff you usually do for me , so do n't look for ways to cut corners . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I mean , you are n't going to find anything cheaper than the caravan . |
| 14 | Is there anybody who needs anything other than a piano to do their scale for an A minor key i.e. Tuesday 's homework . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ It is very difficult to see that the public can be educated to accept anything less than the fact that if there is a fraud present in an organisation which prevents the financial statements from showing a true and fair view , then it is up to the auditors to find it . ’ |
| 17 | Handsome young rascal with hands that had never lifted anything heavier than a pen by the look of them . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It seemed nothing less than a miracle . |
| 20 | ‘ Strathclyde and the people it serves deserve nothing less than a commission . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The reforms deserve something better than the babble that has followed them from birth . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | well it 's Today the Mail and the Guardian are the only ones that put anything other than the Party line |
| 25 | Did the plaintiff give anything other than the performance of his contract ? |
| 26 | It costs nothing more than a smile . ’ |
| 27 | Pool intends nothing less than the creation of a universe . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | If you have ever tried growing anything taller than a lettuce in a grow-bag , you will have encountered the problem of floppy stakes . |