Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [art] more than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in 1824 , André Jullien rated the ‘ light and agreeable but weak wines ’ of Beaumont-sur-Vesle no more than a fifth growth in his five-tier ranking of Champagne . |
| 2 | If he is of a poetic turn of mind , will he even see a kind of justice in the eventual return to silicon-based life , with DNA no more than an interlude , albeit one that lasted longer than three aeons ? |
| 3 | In total no more than a few dozen local groups existed at different times in the 1840s and 1850s . |
| 4 | Nether Stowey — usually known in Coleridge 's day , and since , simply as Stowey — had called itself a town for as long as anyone could remember , but by the late eighteenth century it was in reality no more than a large , straggling village whose inhabitants numbered fewer than six hundred . |
| 5 | While the lizard scuttles away to safety , the predator is left to discover , little by little , that its apparently succulent meal is in reality no more than a scaly scrag-end . |
| 6 | entire mass was guarded , on its left flank , by Kummer 's Army Group — in reality no more than a cavalry division , 44 infantry battalions and some artillery and bicyclists — and on the right , by the Kovess Army Group of two corps . |
| 7 | And we do not charge the earth — in fact no more than a good quality single or double ‘ standard ’ bed . |