Example sentences of "[verb] something more [subord] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had sensed something more than mere adoration in the way he had kissed her and been aware of her body 's response . |
| 2 | It is hardly the same poem ; it seems to have meant more than slightly different things to three different people in different ages , if " meaning " involves something more than strict fidelity to content ( and even then the texts wander away from the original ) . |
| 3 | In his Philosophie anatomique of 1818–22 , Geoffroy argued that the basic similarity that allowed all the vertebrates to be assigned to a single type of organization reflected something more than mere engineering efficiency . |
| 4 | Silas 's eyes reflected something more than mere appreciation but he said nothing as he pulled out the chair for her to sit down . |
| 5 | There were a significant number of specialists even in the early decades of the century , including both the exponents of the Linnaean tradition of classification and the philosophical naturalists , who hoped to achieve something more than mere cataloguing . |