Example sentences of "[art] more [noun] [subord] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once re-investigation becomes routine , the fact that a case has been referred for re-investigation should attract no more concern than the fact that a medical diagnosis has been subjected to the test of a second opinion . |
| 2 | Piper suddenly had the crazy idea that all the Doctor 's masks had been stripped away , leaving him with no more armour than the truth . |
| 3 | Obviously if this is accidental , there is no more chance than the average that it will recur , although if no accident or error has occurred , there may be some likelihood of a recurrence , perhaps one in 10 . |
| 4 | It is sometimes said that the difference of sex is of no more significance than the difference of race . |
| 5 | The unexpected development seemed to make no more sense than the feather and the note ; or , for that matter , the glass ball . |
| 6 | There had been no more calls since the informant had rung with the news of the cocaine shipment . |
| 7 | This accommodating and recommended summit is Bruach na Frithe , reached from Sligachan by a path leaving the pedestrian track over the Bealach a' Mhaim ; it is safe , without hazards , and calls for no more effort than the ascent of Scafell Pike in the English Lake District . |
| 8 | Thirty exit points would take no more room than the entrance to a multi-storey car park and the tunnel would carry one three-lane ‘ layer ’ of cars travelling in one direction and a bottom ‘ layer ’ travelling in the other . |
| 9 | You can not simply propose to me with no more reason than the discovery that I happen to sleep with a woman and expect an instant answer . |