Example sentences of "[vb -s] [indef pn] [adj] than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It offers nothing less than the prospect of giving substance to the idea of ‘ an academic community ’ , unknown since the medieval foundation of the university . |
| 2 | What Sartre needs to demonstrate , therefore , is that if the law of the dialectic works from the individual level , overall it produces nothing less than the intelligibility or the meaning of History as such : |
| 3 | Taken literally , it involves nothing less than a judgment about the competition for alternative uses of public resources , and involves the individual police officer making a judgment about what the ordinary ‘ life of the community ’ entails . |
| 4 | In the event one finds a range of immediate answers , each one of which is too simple to reveal or even adequate to explain what soon emerges as a complex process : ‘ Reading is a creation of the sound form of the word on the basis of its graphic reproduction ’ ( the Russian educationist , El'konin , 1973 , p.552 ) ; ‘ Reading is a complex process by which a reader reconstructs , to some degree , a message encoded by a writer in graphic language ’ ( Goodman and Niles , 1970 , p.5 ) ; ‘ Reading involves nothing more than the correlation of a sound image with its corresponding visual image ’ ( Bloomfield , quoted in Harris and Hodges , 1981 , p.264 ) . |
| 5 | Is there anybody who needs anything other than a piano to do their scale for an A minor key i.e. Tuesday 's homework . |
| 6 | It costs nothing more than a smile . ’ |
| 7 | Pool intends nothing less than the creation of a universe . |
| 8 | Observation of operator performance within many high technology systems reveals nothing more than a person sitting at a desk scanning various kinds of displays at intervals and just occasionally picking up a telephone , making a note in a log-book or manipulating a control . |
| 9 | the written transcript will only be used in preference to the tape if neither prosecution nor defence sees any advantage in playing it , but it does not necessarily follow from this that the tape discloses nothing more than the transcript . |
| 10 | This expresses nothing more than the notion that the decision should proceed from the proofs and arguments advanced by the parties . |
| 11 | The opposition though feels nothing more than a tickle with a feather boa , obviously a pink one . |
| 12 | Roy Morgan from Gloucester is a life-long darts fan and enjoys nothing better than a game over a glass of rum at his local , the Plough in Tredworth . |
| 13 | Now , if the phrase heavy rock means nothing more than a pile of boulders , then you may fear that what follows is not your cup of tea . |
| 14 | The first stage however remains nothing more than an extrapolation from the overall pattern of evolution Morgan believed he had discovered . |
| 15 | It then becomes nothing more than a research and development site for Novell . |
| 16 | The author becomes nothing more than an expert at his job , a craftsman , and the means whereby literature develops in a more or less autonomous way . |
| 17 | Some of them are very , very frail and they really get something out of the music , ’ said Mr Harper who likes nothing better than a foot-tapping , clapping and smiling congregation . |
| 18 | In collective entrepreneurship , individual skills are integrated into a group ; this collective capacity to innovate becomes something greater than the sum of its parts . |
| 19 | And , just like the Aussie original , Newcastle United 's number nine relishes nothing better than a backs-to-the-wall shootout . |
| 20 | The importance of ensuring a high turnout amongst E C nationals surely warrants something more than the complacency and drift that has come to characterise this government 's whole policy towards the European community . |