Example sentences of "[be] [pron] more than the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the so called Multi media packages available today are nothing more than the original versions supplied on CD-ROM . |
| 2 | The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships , the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The additions mentioned can be nothing more than the Pactus pro tenore pacis itself . |
| 6 | if the return to Conservatism is to be something more than the transient apparition of a spectre from the past , and its voice in national affairs not merely to be a sepulchral warning against the dangers of rash courses , the Conservative leaders must bestir themselves to some purpose … [ the Conservative Party ] must be ready to meet the programme of the Labour Party not simply with a non-possumus but with an alternative which will in some measure satisfy certain of the needs which Labour is concerned to satisfy , and at the same time avoid the perils with which it insists Labour policy is beset . |
| 7 | The order of the B-tree is said to be one more than the maximum number of keys per index block . |
| 8 | These need not be anything more than the rough headings under which the detailed questions will fall . |
| 9 | For if we are to follow through the themes outlined in Chapter 3 , then the process which is identified as ‘ depoliticization ’ is nothing more than the gradual erosion of the supremacy of explicit political content in the press and it is not germane to any specific period . |
| 10 | The little dumpling stands to attention with its arms stiffly by its sides , as if being told off by a parent ; the shroud appears to be a shift with separate head-cloth but in actuality is nothing more than the usual loosely gathered linen , parted with greater than usual emphasis to show the entire face . |
| 11 | At least , things happened there ; it was obvious to Schaffer that his presence in Langstone was nothing more than the merest nod towards protocol , but Stoneley had refused to let him return and make the police withdrawal complete . |
| 12 | Maybe it was nothing more than the statistical impossibility of everyone staying home all of the time . |
| 13 | There was no initial reason to suspect Daine 's Dream was anything more than the usual hacker incursion , too tiny to bother about . |