Example sentences of "[be] [pron] more than [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are the tools through which life manifests and functions on the material plane , but without the animating principle — the life force or vital energy — they are nothing more than complex chemistry . |
| 2 | The resulting final accounts are nothing more than summarized cash books . |
| 3 | Sometimes younger people consider this to be nothing more than morbid indulgence , and refuse to listen , mainly because it is a subject they do not care to think about . |
| 4 | His mate was never to know that this could be anything more than wishful thinking . |
| 5 | I 'm not sure that rock'n'roll should be anything more than joyous noise — maybe ultimately one that means nothing , but then so what … ? ’ |
| 6 | The groups themselves need very careful organising if the work is to be anything more than structured play . |
| 7 | Does he recall saying in his Disraeli lecture to a Conservative audience that high levels of borrowing were nothing more than deferred taxation ? |
| 8 | Very few of the stations on what was built of the Cape to Cairo railway were anything more than small wayside halts . |
| 9 | That 's nothing more than circumstantial evidence — even you ca n't brand me guilty on that ! ’ |
| 10 | National Socialism is nothing more than applied biology . |
| 11 | Pollen grains , which consist largely of precious genetic material , are quite demanding for a plant to produce and many flowers offer , either in addition or as an alternative , a payment that is considerably cheaper for it is nothing more than sweetened water , nectar . |
| 12 | Is that because the report does not substantiate the proposals in the Education ( Schools ) Bill , which is nothing more than English ideology that the Government are transmitting to Wales ? |
| 13 | To suggest that rape is something more than sexual intercourse without consent runs counter to the view of the Heilbron Committee which considered that this was precisely the meaning of rape . |
| 14 | He challenges the notion that local government is anything more than local administration , whose claim to be government is merely another reflection of the high self-regard in which officials hold themselves rather than any expression of locally based decision-making . |
| 15 | It was nothing more than ridiculous hysteria and totally unreal , but only a few people saw this and John Keith in Forres was one of them . |
| 16 | Perhaps it was nothing more than idle curiosity . |