Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [pron] more than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Greek ideal as founded by Winckelmann implied something more than a purely scholarly pursuit . |
| 2 | Scorpios love nothing more than a chance to break a social taboo . |
| 3 | In the event one finds a range of immediate answers , each one of which is too simple to reveal or even adequate to explain what soon emerges as a complex process : ‘ Reading is a creation of the sound form of the word on the basis of its graphic reproduction ’ ( the Russian educationist , El'konin , 1973 , p.552 ) ; ‘ Reading is a complex process by which a reader reconstructs , to some degree , a message encoded by a writer in graphic language ’ ( Goodman and Niles , 1970 , p.5 ) ; ‘ Reading involves nothing more than the correlation of a sound image with its corresponding visual image ’ ( Bloomfield , quoted in Harris and Hodges , 1981 , p.264 ) . |
| 4 | Robert felt something more than the natural peevishness of a betrayed parent or guardian . |
| 5 | But Mrs Porter 's back was turned as she unplugged and packed up the vacuum cleaner , and the very private smile Tom telegraphed across the room to Belinda told her more than the most sweetly worded compliment could have done . |
| 6 | A TEAM of young archaeologists were disappointed when a dig in Darlington revealed nothing more than a Victorian cellar . |
| 7 | The shadow of Tig masked him more than the ferocious wound that had blinded his left eye and decorated his cheeks with scars . |