Example sentences of "[prep] anything more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain still talks of anything more than a 15 per cent cut in the CEGB 's emissions within ten years as being ‘ impracticable ’ . |
| 2 | Neither was there evidence of anything more than superficial surface treatment . |
| 3 | Is nursing purely a matter of imitating and repeating rote tasks , and therefore unworthy of anything more than the sympathetic application of a set of predetermined rules ? |
| 4 | In fact , he had no need of anything more than a lock of hair he showed me . ’ |
| 5 | It is also easier to stop the forward movement in this situation , since many models require a positive effort to make headway against anything more than a stiff breeze . |
| 6 | Neither the National Trust , who own it , nor the County Listing Department , nor Nikolaus Pevsner can furnish one with anything more than technical descriptions . |
| 7 | At first they had no idea that the stretch of pale , shallow water beyond the Cape would present them with anything more than another disappointment . |
| 8 | Though Edie became Vita 's final lover , and was with her when she died , she is unlikely to have treated homosexuality with anything more than tacit acceptance . |
| 9 | Ultimately , none of the readily available solutions — dandyism , literary experimentation , cinematic experimentation , fascism , communism — provided Nizan with anything more than brief respite from an increasingly acute perception of the contradiction lodged at the heart of his existence . |
| 10 | The prince , who took his force into Wales from Chester in good tight order , and at every mile ensured his lines behind him , was on his guard against his own instinctive enthusiasm as well as against Welsh armies , and knew enough about them by this time to feel no surprise that he should probe ever more deeply and carefully into North Wales , and never touch hands with anything more than a darting patrol , gone almost as soon as sighted . |
| 11 | And to us if we are to understand him in anything more than a superficial way . |
| 12 | They are unacceptable in drinking water in anything more than trace concentrations , and there is increasing evidence of organochlorine contamination in water-supply boreholes . |
| 13 | For the same motive Ackroyd is reluctant to broach the unfathomed topic of Dickens and sex ( once memorably described by John Carey as ‘ not a promising subject ’ ) : when Dickens went trawling through the prostitutional regions of Paris with Wilkie Collins , Ackroyd says that ‘ it is unlikely that Dickens himself ever took part in anything more than close observation ’ . |
| 14 | The report , from a correspondent in Bangkok , stated that this was the first occasion since the Vietnamese withdrawal from Cambodia in September 1989 [ see pp. 36881-82 ] that Vietnamese forces had been used in anything more than an emergency capacity . |
| 15 | Love was between a man and a woman , love was for marriage , and each would have died before admitting to anything more than they ‘ got on well ’ together . |
| 16 | But this begs the question : does ‘ pride and dignity ’ amount to anything more than the aspiration to participate in society on its own terms ? |
| 17 | It may be that with a patient who is terminally ill or aged , the doctor 's obligation does not extend to anything more than the relief of pain and making the patient comfortable . |
| 18 | Again , it is not quite like joining a club , because you simply attend , you do not have to commit yourself to anything more than that . |
| 19 | We know Compaq wrote the specification when it was still a ploy — Systems Network Integration says they even have a prototype up and running — but whether this can ever amount to anything more than a high-end PC depends on sorting out fact from propaganda . |
| 20 | The misspelling may be because the child has not previously seen the word written down , but more likely because he has seen it in the context of his reading , without paying much attention to anything more than its contour — that is , he has recognised the word without having to decode it , and has understood it without giving its spelling structure close attention . |
| 21 | The occurrence of tapirs in South America and South East Asia , for instance , could be explained quite easily without recourse to anything more than minor changes in the earth 's conditions : |
| 22 | P.C. Clifford , the driver of the car , got her name and address and a statement from her , though it does n't amount to anything more than that she was looking over the bridge and saw the body . |
| 23 | I think it is worth emphasising that the agreement does not commit the Trust to anything more than regular monitoring of the Little Mill . |
| 24 | These petty morals , partly overlapping , form a cascade of precepts none of which amounts to anything more than a trite platitude . |
| 25 | But if you put all of these together , do they amount to anything more than a restorationist position ? |
| 26 | But Jamie Blandford can inherit a dukedom , a palace and a lifelong seat in the House of Lords without anything more than his blood to recommend him . |
| 27 | The ancient streets could perhaps have been left to enforce their own low driving speeds through their narrowness , their cobbled surfaces and their lack of visibility over anything more than a few metres . |
| 28 | Staff should be discouraged from carrying over anything more than a few holidays a few days holiday from one year to the next , unless it 's for specific purposes , such as climbing , catching dingo or visiting Aunty Mabel in New Zealand . |
| 29 | But at this stage the problem for research has not been defined at anything more than a very general level . |
| 30 | Indeed , if anything , they seem to have been too demoralised politically to organise effectively at anything more than a local level , and that in itself is testimony to the devastating effect of the Kulturkampf and Polenpolitik . |