Example sentences of "[adv] [indef pn] [adj] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | At the height of all the media fuss over a comic creation which was basically nothing more than a walking catch-phrase , it seemed as if Enfield 's career was in danger of burning out before it had properly ignited . |
2 | It 's just one bigger than the other . |
3 | before people twigged if you like , that what had actually happened amounted to hardly anything more than a change of sort of managerial personnel . |
4 | The process of the production of capital is clearly nothing other than the process of capitalist production ; in other words , of the production of commodities under conditions of capitalist production , not under conditions of simple commodity production . |
5 | To be honest , the evidence for druids having ever performed such grisly ceremonies is very dubious and the whole thing is probably nothing other than a piece of Romano-Christian propaganda aimed at destroying the pagan religion of the Celts . |
6 | We confidently expect that an investigation of all other cases of sacred prohibition would lead to the same conclusion as in that of the horror of incest : that what is sacred was originally nothing other than the prolongation of the will of the primal father [ my italics ] . |
7 | Her companion , ’ the landlord shrugged , ‘ really nothing more than a boy . |
8 | Programme analysis and review was really nothing more than a method of asking basic questions about programme resources and outputs , such as what is being done and why ? |
9 | As far as evolution is concerned , I , and this is really the essence of our modern view , I am really nothing more than the packaging of my genes , because after all this is what evolution acts on . |
10 | Now something more than a quelling look appeared on Lord Woodleigh 's fine-bred features . |
11 | In relation to nationalised industries , it is commonplace to vest in a particular Minister of the Crown a power to issue general directives as to the running of the industry in question but this is again nothing more than a matter of organisational preference ; not , of course a preference which is a matter of caprice but which is based on notions of the best procedures to attain the objective in view . |
12 | Liebknecht 's attempt to hold an anti-war rally in the Potsdamer Platz on May 1st , 1916 , was not yet anything more than a flash in the pan . |
13 | Lambourn was never anything greater than a country market . |