Example sentences of "[indef pn] more [subord] [art] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should like to be something more than a drill-master for competent philologists — the generation of present-day teachers , the care of the growing younger generation , this is what I have in mind . " |
| 2 | ‘ The state is nothing more than a machine for the oppression of one class by another . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Remove " the tough talk , all the swagger and the patriotic posturing " , he said , " and protectionism amounts to nothing more than a smokescreen for a country that 's running scared " . |
| 5 | It turned out to be nothing more than a charter for busybodies , lacking muscle and new money . |
| 6 | To Michael Powell documentary was nothing more than a refuge for ‘ disappointed feature filmmakers or out-of-work poets ’ , but the wartime films he made within an immensely fruitful collaboration ( the Archers ) with the Hungarian Emeric Pressburger , with the two of them sharing credits for production , direction and screenwriting , take on documentary concerns in ways which indicate that the absorption of the documentary filmmakers into commercial filmmaking was only an incidental part of a process with roots deep in wartime culture . |
| 7 | Ward had often threatened to have it converted into a work room but , as is the case with most attics , it remained nothing more than a storehouse for junk that was n't wanted elsewhere in the cottage . |