Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] than [art] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | So viewed , the decision is entirely consistent with the test laid down by Best J. The benefit of the covenant to repay could not touch and concern the land because someone other than the owner for the time being of the term could take the benefit of it … |
| 2 | The archbishop of 1101 , with a clear command which required his obedience , was a different man from the Anselm of 1097 who asked for nothing better than an opportunity for escape . |
| 3 | I should like to be something more than a drill-master for competent philologists — the generation of present-day teachers , the care of the growing younger generation , this is what I have in mind . " |
| 4 | Neurosis is socially isolating , and there is no social concern for others based on something other than the desire for a sexual object . |
| 5 | ‘ The state is nothing more than a machine for the oppression of one class by another . ’ |
| 6 | Reading is a process of identification with a work and a faithful reading will be nothing more than a word for word repetition of the text . |
| 7 | Remove " the tough talk , all the swagger and the patriotic posturing " , he said , " and protectionism amounts to nothing more than a smokescreen for a country that 's running scared " . |
| 8 | It turned out to be nothing more than a charter for busybodies , lacking muscle and new money . |
| 9 | To Michael Powell documentary was nothing more than a refuge for ‘ disappointed feature filmmakers or out-of-work poets ’ , but the wartime films he made within an immensely fruitful collaboration ( the Archers ) with the Hungarian Emeric Pressburger , with the two of them sharing credits for production , direction and screenwriting , take on documentary concerns in ways which indicate that the absorption of the documentary filmmakers into commercial filmmaking was only an incidental part of a process with roots deep in wartime culture . |
| 10 | Ward had often threatened to have it converted into a work room but , as is the case with most attics , it remained nothing more than a storehouse for junk that was n't wanted elsewhere in the cottage . |
| 11 | It proposed nothing less than the reclamation for her kingdom of an area 70 miles long and 30 broad , equivalent to a whole new county , the ‘ Great Level ’ of the Fens . |
| 12 | He come to the remarkable conclusion that Ardakke was nothing less than the setting for the next evolutionary step for mankind . |
| 13 | She was inspired , it is argued , by nothing higher than a desire for self-advertisement and for the applause of Voltaire and his fellow-writers in Western Europe . |
| 14 | The three characters are portrayed with vivid detail and lively humour : two sailors who flirt with a girl but find her more than a match for either of them . |
| 15 | She also knew that it was probably quite beyond Mrs Bennett to appreciate that a trained nanny , even as young and nice a one as Karen , would not take kindly to being asked to do anything other than the job for which she had been engaged . |