Example sentences of "[indef pn] more [subord] [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The League 's leader , Umberto Bossi , announced on Nov. 27 that with his party now occupying 14 seats on the 50-seat city council — one more than any other party — he intended to appoint a mayor and put together a coalition adminstration . |
| 2 | Largely as a result of Donald Griffin 's book The Question of Animal Awareness ( Rockefeller UP , 2nd ed 1981 ) , ethologists have begun to re-examine the issue of animal intellect and to ask whether the organisms they study are , as we presume ourselves to be , something more than mere mindless circuitry . |
| 3 | ‘ In these dim November days I resemble nothing more than that poor Creature of RHA 's Fantasy , immured in her terrible In-Pace , quieted perforce and longing for her Quietus . |
| 4 | What we have there is nothing strikingly original , just a fantastically good club record that enforces nothing more than that irresistible urge to jack your body . |
| 5 | Punishment is just a word after all : nothing more than convenient political rhetoric meriting only lip-service from probation managers and practitioners poised at the ‘ window of opportunity ’ . |
| 6 | It is highly unlikely that he envisaged anything more than joint diplomatic pressure on Russia which would bring Nicholas to the conference table to discuss the problems at issue , which explains why he used as a pretext the totally ridiculous question of the keys to the Holy places in Jerusalem , whose custody was disputed between the Latin Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches . |
| 7 | In particular , what much of it fails to do is to convince all but a handful of academic specialists that its closely delineated studies are anything more than detailed local knowledge , an interesting but benign academic pursuit . |