Example sentences of "[vb infin] [indef pn] more than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What could eat nothin' more than a couple o' chops … |
| 2 | ‘ The tae of ye will need somethin' more than a dispensation from the Pope , Ah would think , if ye go on like this . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Nobody dared to claim that Dukakis represented anything in particular or that he could reliably arouse anything more than a snore , but that was not the point . |
| 5 | A piece to be presented should have something more than a surface narrative quality in the characterisation . |
| 6 | Beryl needed firm handling but losing father and brother inside four days must mean something more than the prospect of a secure income . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The high frequency with which oesophageal mucosal disease occurs in asthmatics is consistent with both the vagal reflex theory and the microaspiration theory , and does not support one more than the other . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This would involve something more than the counselling which EWOs routinely provide in truancy cases . |
| 13 | When I wrote the program , I never thought that it would evolve anything more than a variety of tree-like shapes . |
| 14 | I mean , Stu would never attain anything more than a kind of addled bopping , but that summer he brought a certain careless vivacity to the matter of heel-and-toe . |