Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pron] more than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was indeed his year for honours since in January he had been awarded the Order of Merit by George VI ; some have said that this gratified him more than the Nobel , and certainly he seemed to enjoy wearing the medal and ribbon on ceremonial occasions . |
| 2 | This expresses nothing more than the notion that the decision should proceed from the proofs and arguments advanced by the parties . |
| 3 | It is important in using this method to exclude all transfer payments as these represent nothing more than a redistribution of income from taxpayers to the transfer recipients ; including them , therefore , would involve double-counting . |
| 4 | Many of you may be feeling the inset of charity fatigue as the London Marathon 1992 becomes nothing more than a passing memory . |
| 5 | Despite assurances from advisers over the confidentiality of information presented in the self-appraisal , it seems that most staff were unwilling to produce anything more than a public type of document , providing little more than factual information . |
| 6 | Some register entries are so rudimentary that they are unable to support anything more than a basic inventory . |
| 7 | Surely it was what he had seen as her present stupidity that had earned her his contempt , since the past was the past , and she was still reluctant to explain anything more than the absolute minimum necessary to put an end to his increasingly unbearable taunts . |
| 8 | This is unlikely to produce anything more than a slight increase in vaginal discharge which has no particular distinguishing features . |