Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] [adv] [adj] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I can think of nothing more destructive than the Labour party 's proposals . |
| 3 | I know of nothing more beautiful than the pure eyes of |
| 4 | But do not dismiss the risk of something much worse than a ‘ meaningful downturn ’ . |
| 5 | Tempo 30 zones need not therefore consist of anything more complex than a set of signs , an arrangement which pays lip-service to safety improvement yet costs little money . |
| 6 | Well , of course , it is inevitable that one thinks of it from that angle from the way one has been brought up but actually one ca n't think of anything more barbaric than the Crucifixion and that way of killing somebody . |
| 7 | In fact the volume of traffic on Scotland 's mountains is making the sighting of anything more exotic than a slug increasingly difficult . |
| 8 | But Anne is unlikely to wear white and will almost certainly opt for something less formal than a traditional wedding gown for the ceremony at Crathie Church near Balmoral . |
| 9 | For example if you go on an overland trip trekking in erm South America , you 're clearly looking for something totally different than the person who goes on the sort of typical Club Eighteen to Thirty type holiday . |
| 10 | Feeling one day the need for something more aggressive than the healing ball , I again turned back to my military roots . |
| 11 | Clarissa did n't intend to be drawn into any trouble with Charity , so she ignored the music until she recognised the tune as something quite other than the Hörst Wessel Song . |
| 12 | New radiators come in metric sizes , and if the one you are replacing is an old imperial size , go for one fractionally smaller than the original if possible . |
| 13 | After 17 years of first-class cricket with nothing more serious than a broken finger or two , he chased a ball into the outfield while playing for Devon against Berkshire at Reading and fell awkwardly , breaking his ankle . |
| 14 | They lay their eggs in these chalices and there the young go through their entire development , sharing their pool with nothing more dangerous than a few innocuous insect larvae . |
| 15 | Imagine hosting Christmas for a similarly huge number in a disused warehouse , with nothing more sophisticated than a Portakabin for a kitchen . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | For myself , I lay down with nothing more erotic than the Guardian . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | The second attempt to replace the Quebec Agreement with something more useful than the modus vivendi began in September 1949 , just after the detonation of the first Soviet atomic bomb was confirmed , and coincidentally with a devaluation of sterling , which threw a spotlight on the shakiness of the British economy . |
| 20 | I hope therefore that your Executive Committee can come up with something more positive than the present draft . |
| 21 | And even then it took a few more strangled moments before she could force her numbed brain to function with anything more coherent than a scream of anguish . |
| 22 | Recalling that Freeborn was recovering from nothing more serious than a successful operation for varicose veins , he approached the bed and said tentatively : |
| 23 | As so often occurs in these situations , I had become blind to the obvious — that is , until my pondering over the implications of Miss Kenton 's letter finally opened my eyes to the simple truth : that these small errors of recent months have derived from nothing more sinister than a faulty staff plan . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | From that moment on they were trading on nothing more substantial than every banker 's memory of their ‘ soundness . ’ |
| 26 | This combination of an insistence on the relativity of history and an attempt to express the significance of Jesus in terms which appeal to something more universal than the concrete particular person of Jesus himself was indeed widely characteristic of much nineteenth-century thought . |
| 27 | Can we , can we do it on something else other than the captain though ? |
| 28 | Robin-Anne had her mother 's fair hair , so fair that it looked bleached , and she had her mother 's delicate good looks etched on to a face so pale that it seemed as though her skin must burn if it was exposed to anything more powerful than a light bulb . |
| 29 | Not that she was admitting to anything more definite than a quiver of tingling excitement every time he came near her , of course . |
| 30 | Because if you 've got your back garden flooded with foul water , you 're not really concerned about anything else other than the d than getting the blockage cleared . |