Example sentences of "[adv] [indef pn] more [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the height of all the media fuss over a comic creation which was basically nothing more than a walking catch-phrase , it seemed as if Enfield 's career was in danger of burning out before it had properly ignited . |
| 2 | before people twigged if you like , that what had actually happened amounted to hardly anything more than a change of sort of managerial personnel . |
| 3 | Her companion , ’ the landlord shrugged , ‘ really nothing more than a boy . |
| 4 | Programme analysis and review was really nothing more than a method of asking basic questions about programme resources and outputs , such as what is being done and why ? |
| 5 | Now something more than a quelling look appeared on Lord Woodleigh 's fine-bred features . |
| 6 | In relation to nationalised industries , it is commonplace to vest in a particular Minister of the Crown a power to issue general directives as to the running of the industry in question but this is again nothing more than a matter of organisational preference ; not , of course a preference which is a matter of caprice but which is based on notions of the best procedures to attain the objective in view . |
| 7 | Liebknecht 's attempt to hold an anti-war rally in the Potsdamer Platz on May 1st , 1916 , was not yet anything more than a flash in the pan . |