Example sentences of "[indef pn] more [subord] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had sensed something more than mere adoration in the way he had kissed her and been aware of her body 's response . |
| 2 | In the second year of recovery the recurrent cravings have mostly subsided and people in recovery develop progressively more insight into the nature of addictive disease in general and their own addictive disease in particular and also into the true , broader , meaning of recovery as something more than mere avoidance of previous addictive substances or behaviour . |
| 3 | This had been of something more than philosophical interest to Karen and I in our pre-coital phase , since it meant that we could count on at least a minute thirty seconds before he reappeared , or as much as three minutes forty-five seconds if we heard the seat go down for a big jobby . |
| 4 | To suggest that rape is something more than sexual intercourse without consent runs counter to the view of the Heilbron Committee which considered that this was precisely the meaning of rape . |
| 5 | It is hardly the same poem ; it seems to have meant more than slightly different things to three different people in different ages , if " meaning " involves something more than strict fidelity to content ( and even then the texts wander away from the original ) . |
| 6 | For Constantine , of course , God the Father would have entailed nothing more than new nomenclature for Sol Invictus , the sun god who already commanded his personal allegiance . |
| 7 | He embraced the moral grandeur of it with enthusiasm , and to his dying day aspired to nothing more than Indian membership of the British empire as an equal partner , regarding independence in isolation as a perhaps politically expedient but regrettable alternative . |
| 8 | Some social scientists did : most ignored the debate because it was , frankly , naive ( and often consisted of nothing more than special pleading from scientists working for institutions that had much to lose ) . |
| 9 | Information collected about the relatives of cancer patients showed that only a minority have anything more than superficial contact with the staff caring for the patient , and a number of these relatives would have welcomed an opportunity to share their anxiety , not only about the patient but about their own feelings ( Bond , 1982 ) . |
| 10 | I think it is worth emphasising that the agreement does not commit the Trust to anything more than regular monitoring of the Little Mill . |
| 11 | 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 . |