Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] a [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | From now on , music could be no more than tone-painting or else a stimulant for jaded nerves , where the words hardly mattered ( as was already the case in Euripidean lyrics ) . |
| 2 | At the secondary-school stage it becomes less a partnership between all three and more a matter for the individual student and his or her advisers , whether from inside the school or outside . |
| 3 | As a sociolinguist Stubbs sees reading , for instance , as more than simply a mechanism for decoding written into spoken words : he prefers to concern himself with understanding meaning , pointing out that ‘ we do not normally read meaningless material ’ ( ibid. p. 15 ) . |
| 4 | In almost every other respect , certainly , the Celtic Church appears to have been something more than simply a repository for Nazarean thought — as Nestorian Christianity was , for example . |
| 5 | Your eurocheque card is much more than just a support for your eurocheques . |
| 6 | More than just a facelift for BMW 's most important model , the new 3-series marks a fundamental change of direction |
| 7 | The haircut , however , evolved into far more than just a one-off for a TV series . |
| 8 | This little rebellion annoyed the orthodox Communists , but maybe not the voters : the three rebels , all well known , provide voters with an assurance that the United Left is more than just a front for unreconstructed Communists . |
| 9 | But was it ever more than just a project for a project ? |
| 10 | This is the pub as social institution , so much more than just a place for drinking . |