Example sentences of "[indef pn] more [adj] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone more thoughtful than the rest had ordered to be shut the big river gates that were at the point where the Ankh flowed out of the twin city . |
| 2 | Moreover , ’ I glanced sideways at my master , ‘ surely the Scottish nobles will want to treat with someone more important than the Cardinal 's nephew and , ’ I added bitterly , ‘ his manservant . ’ |
| 3 | Lucy would find nothing more disgusting than a tumbler of sweet sherry with her dinner . |
| 4 | ‘ I mean that you could probably spend the rest of your life doing nothing more taxing than the sunbathing you were so clearly enjoying today . ’ |
| 5 | ( Note : There really is nothing more comforting than a chicken from the kosher butcher . |
| 6 | From that moment on they were trading on nothing more substantial than every banker 's memory of their ‘ soundness . ’ |
| 7 | Josie 's hand slid from around her as if she 'd been holding nothing more substantial than a wisp of smoke . |
| 8 | The small yellow tablets coated in sugar and containing nothing more stimulating than a couple of stiff cups of coffee became the most bitter pill that Bud Johnson ever swallowed . |
| 9 | There is nothing more annoying than a computer system that works beautifully , say , in a library , and then one goes in at nine thirty in the morning and you ca n't get books out because the power has gone off , and if we are sure to go on having a society with industrial disputes , we want a system that is not capable of being completely ruined by one small section of workers deciding not to work on a particular day , and so I think while we 're putting them in , while we want to put them in in a way which that is compatible , we also need to think of having a kind of fail-safe system , particularly in the sort of more serious applications such as medicine and transport and so on , whereby we ca n't be held to ransom by very a small group of people , or indeed by just some technical fault , such as a power failure or something of this kind . |
| 10 | Meredith , who had served in nothing more bloody than the Catering Corps , called a break and clambered into the orchestra pit to mangle Bach on the piano . |
| 11 | In addition , all that is required is a chemical room-temperature mechanism which involves nothing more complicated than an experiment in a high school science lab . |
| 12 | Night on Earth Another road movie from cult hero Jim Jarmusch — but this time the vehicle is nothing more romantic than a taxicab . |
| 13 | Bainbridge has a lovely village green which was the setting for nothing more remarkable than the fact that I arrived there one day to walk over from Bainbridge to Cam Houses with Tony and Eddie , the landlord from my local pub , only to discover that I 'd left my walking boots back at home in Dentdale and had to do the entire walk in a pair of fur-lined cowboy boots , which earned me the nickname of Roy Rogers for the rest of the week . |
| 14 | As matters stand , some 27.4 per cent of my sexuality is of the Grecian or musical persuasion ; 71.6 prefers a quiet evening in with nothing more erotic than a gardening magazine and a steaming mug of Mr Horlicks 's malted beverage , whilst the remaining one per cent has become attached to one of Miss Esther Rantzen 's saucy root vegetables . |
| 15 | For myself , I lay down with nothing more erotic than the Guardian . |
| 16 | Transaction facilities are built into kiosks either by providing online or other forms of communication facilities , sometimes nothing more sophisticated than a voice telephone link , or by allowing on-site , consolidated storage of customer requests which can be manually collected at a later time . |
| 17 | Imagine hosting Christmas for a similarly huge number in a disused warehouse , with nothing more sophisticated than a Portakabin for a kitchen . |
| 18 | There is nothing more depressing than a collection of so-called first editions and rare items displaying faded spines , mull bursting through cracked hinges , scarred leather inadequately treated with greasy polish , mending tape of various hues round the spine , head and tail bands hanging forlornly and , perhaps worst of all , a badly lettered brown paper cover holding the whole thing together . |
| 19 | Solidarity ministers , who this time last year were huddled in places like Warsaw 's scruffy Czytelnik café plotting nothing more ambitious than the legalisation of their union , now wake up each morning to the daunting task of building a new democratic Poland on the rubble of the old communist one . |
| 20 | AFM Michael Ferguson played the Dalek claw seen at the end of episode four , but although convincing to the audience , this claw was nothing more elaborate than a joke shop gorilla hand covered in grease . |
| 21 | There could be nothing more suspicious than a Secretary of State or one of his administrative officials deciding for political or administrative reasons that a particular accident should not be investigated when a vital matter of air safety was at issue . |
| 22 | It was already dark but the square glowed with marquee brilliance , and none more brilliant than the Empire 's . |
| 23 | Discussion in the Yachting World office has taken some interesting turns lately , none more interesting than the campaign for the single black box , or the all-things-in-one instrument . |
| 24 | ‘ Of all the charges brought against the gay community there is none more common than the assumption that gay and paedophile are one and the same . |
| 25 | What the tourist will also find is that among the Arab nations , there are none more genial than the Omanis . |
| 26 | Javad v Aquil [ 1991 ] All ER 243 confirms that the concept of a tenancy at will remains a reality and while the landlord may be concerned that the tenant should not become a periodic tenant until the grant of the lease , the tenant may wish to ensure that it has something more concrete than a tenancy at will . |
| 27 | What many need is to be told that they can achieve something more constructive than a profit from others ' financial predicament . |
| 28 | Something more imposing than the way the Hogans had it . |
| 29 | Mr Mellor has never been given proper credit for showing sufficient resolution during the passage of the Broadcasting Bill to persuade his colleagues that ITV deserved to have its future determined by something more subtle than a contest to see who could stuff the most pound notes into a brown envelope earmarked for the Treasury . |
| 30 | If Casaubon had in mind something more precise than an alternative to the disguised Machiavellianism of the contemporary Tacitists , he did not make it clear . |