Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [indef pn] more than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A piece to be presented should have something more than a surface narrative quality in the characterisation . |
| 2 | Beryl needed firm handling but losing father and brother inside four days must mean something more than the prospect of a secure income . |
| 3 | ‘ I ai n't simple , mister , I bet you 'll want something more than no answering back . |
| 4 | It occurs as that in Judges 9.9 and 13 , and here it might indicate nothing more than the all-embracing nature of the struggles which Jacob has engaged in during the course of his life . |
| 5 | What could eat nothin' more than a couple o' chops … |
| 6 | While the administration of the Marshall Plan through OEEC was giving Western Europe a first lesson in economic cooperation , it was clear to the dedicated disciples of a united Europe that neither OEEC nor the Council of Europe could have anything more than a limited application . |
| 7 | In the autumn of 1984 , the evaluators could witness nothing more than a library skills lesson offered under the heading of IS and taught in one of its allocated periods . |
| 8 | The court accepted at least part of that argument , allowing that the sculptures may contain something more than the original work . |
| 9 | However , formulae such as " adjectives precede their nouns " do not take us beyond a very shallow level of linguistic description ; nor is it an improvement to find phrases such as " an attributive adjective " unless the description proceeds in some way to give an account of how a term like attributive may mean something more than a simple statement about formal grouping . |
| 10 | When I wrote the program , I never thought that it would evolve anything more than a variety of tree-like shapes . |
| 11 | He hoped that the driver would remember nothing more than a pair of headlights . |
| 12 | Not that the tribesmen would attempt anything more than a quick raid by night , not until the legions were withdrawn . |
| 13 | The Hancock Half Hours seemed to be finally at an end and both Ken and his public were ready for something in which ‘ Stop messing about ’ would mean something more than an admonition to an actor to concentrate on his script . |
| 14 | This would involve something more than the counselling which EWOs routinely provide in truancy cases . |
| 15 | Any basic change in the executive branch of British government will need something more than the type of structural reform of the civil service proposed by the Fulton Committee . |
| 16 | ‘ The tae of ye will need somethin' more than a dispensation from the Pope , Ah would think , if ye go on like this . ’ |
| 17 | Maybe it is true that it will take something more than a 44-points thrashing by France to force the IRFU into serious action . |
| 18 | Even if the ethos does permit them to check out how they are doing , it remains unlikely that it will encourage anything more than a superficial sharing of doubts about what they are doing : about the disparity between their hopes for teaching and the effects , or lack of them , that they and their colleagues seem to be achieving . |
| 19 | Even when a set of stunt lines have been very carefully matched to each , it is inevitable that line tension will stretch one more than the other . |
| 20 | For example , the ‘ village community ’ can signify nothing more than a type of settlement — a small number of people living together in a rural location usually in a nucleated pattern . |