Example sentences of "[pron] more than the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the most remarkable of all , the Norfolk Broads , which are actually nothing more than the flooded workings of a huge medieval peat extraction industry , have recently been raised to the status of an Environmentally Sensitive Area and given their own Planning Authority . |
| 2 | Apart from George Rodney with his distinctive male top-knot , the head-dress of the other five appears to be nothing more than the broad folds of the linen winding-sheet . |
| 3 | She was grotesquely dressed in what I took to be nothing more than the two sheets that had covered her on the bench , clumsily knotted about her vast frame ; perhaps because of that , there was something poignant in those androgynous movements parodying grace . |
| 4 | What was more , the Substitute gave the impression that he could cope with any third party interference , at any level , with nothing more than the pursed lips and flicker of amusement with which he seemed to regard everything that went on around him . |
| 5 | He was suspicious of the bipolar system , which , in his view , increasingly reflected nothing more than the national interests of the two superpowers . |
| 6 | Most of the so called Multi media packages available today are nothing more than the original versions supplied on CD-ROM . |
| 7 | I think that galled her more than the ghostly sound-effects . ’ |
| 8 | These need not be anything more than the rough headings under which the detailed questions will fall . |