Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [indef pn] more [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | St George Jackson Mivart 's Genesis of Species of 1871 offered a cornucopia of anti-Darwinian arguments based on the claim that evolution must be something more than a haphazard process of adaptation . |
| 2 | Consequently , ‘ risk ’ must be something more than a remote possibility but less than a probability . |
| 3 | It could be nothing more than a speculation , since at that point levels of attainment had no meaning other than their definition in the Report . |
| 4 | Even if he 'd shown any signs at all of wanting to have her around — which he had n't — she 'd be nothing more than a burden . |
| 5 | However , there is no evidence to show that British importers ever used fish caught by drift-net which suggests to some that the agreement may be nothing more than a clever marketing ploy . |
| 6 | Innate robotic responses or patterns of rapid learning in animals may be nothing more than an extension of their basic instincts . |
| 7 | In this sense , a ’ name ’ may be nothing more than an address in a computer 's memory , such as a pointer in a Pascal data structure . |
| 8 | Such a government , he argues , perpetually teetering on the brink of defeat and another election , would be nothing more than a lame duck . |
| 9 | This ‘ outsider ’ stance is , of course , nothing new , and if it bore the bulk of the band 's appeal , would be nothing more than a gimmick in itself . |
| 10 | The father 's solicitors appear to have thought perhaps otherwise and that the hearing on 27 January would be nothing more than a formality . |
| 11 | " It 's worth remembering , Chuck , that without the white man 's know-how this road would be nothing more than a dusty cart track today . |
| 12 | She would look out over the scenery and think serene thoughts , and before too long Rourke Deveraugh would be nothing more than a hazy memory , a burr on the skin that was shaken off and trampled underfoot . |
| 13 | This would be nothing more than an admission of the truth as it actually is , and would thereby be an important refutation of ‘ god-given ’ rights . |
| 14 | Reading is a process of identification with a work and a faithful reading will be nothing more than a word for word repetition of the text . |
| 15 | If a lake is built behind the barrage , it will be nothing more than a sewage pit . |
| 16 | If the expansionary fiscal policy is accompanied by an increase in the money supply to counter the crowding-out effect , the result will be nothing more than a higher rate of inflation . |
| 17 | If it is used unimaginatively , the microcomputer can be nothing more than a child-minding device aimed to drill certain concepts and skills into pupils with the minimum of teacher intervention . |