Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] [det] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What could eat nothin' more than a couple o' chops … |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 | It seemed nothing less than a miracle . |
| 9 | ‘ Strathclyde and the people it serves deserve nothing less than a commission . |
| 10 | It costs nothing more than a smile . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A piece to be presented should have something more than a surface narrative quality in the characterisation . |
| 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 | ( The Booker , thought Jeffrey , had recently become nothing more than a branch of Overseas Development . ) |
| 17 | The opposition though feels nothing more than a tickle with a feather boa , obviously a pink one . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Scorpios love nothing more than a chance to break a social taboo . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The first stage however remains nothing more than an extrapolation from the overall pattern of evolution Morgan believed he had discovered . |
| 25 | It then becomes nothing more than a research and development site for Novell . |
| 26 | The author becomes nothing more than an expert at his job , a craftsman , and the means whereby literature develops in a more or less autonomous way . |
| 27 | ‘ Until you put it all together for us , we had nothing more than a report from a cab driver that he saw a man and a woman pushing such a barrow along Holborn and up Charterhouse Street . ’ |
| 28 | In the autumn of 1984 , the evaluators could witness nothing more than a library skills lesson offered under the heading of IS and taught in one of its allocated periods . |
| 29 | You could n't get a job as a Nippy if you had anything more than an eighteen-inch waist . ’ |
| 30 | When I wrote the program , I never thought that it would evolve anything more than a variety of tree-like shapes . |