Example sentences of "[vb base] [indef pn] [adj] than a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Normally , if you want nothing more than a passage anchorage , Dale , down near the entrance , will serve very well , but we felt Neyland merited a first visit , and thanks to going there we had this early morning enchantment of seeing ships , great and small , going about their work .
2 ‘ Strathclyde and the people it serves deserve nothing less than a commission .
3 ( The Booker , thought Jeffrey , had recently become nothing more than a branch of Overseas Development . )
4 The plants featured , however , embrace nothing larger than a fly , so humans are quite safe .
5 If there are to be sacrifices and belt-tightening , the Soviet leaders love nothing better than a backdrop of international threat to add pathos and realism to the drama .
6 ‘ I adore children and love nothing better than a household full of youngsters . ’
7 I adore children — and love nothing better than a house full of youngsters
8 Scorpios love nothing more than a chance to break a social taboo .
9 It is important in using this method to exclude all transfer payments as these represent nothing more than a redistribution of income from taxpayers to the transfer recipients ; including them , therefore , would involve double-counting .
10 ‘ You have nothing more than a dislike of Mr Connon and a very nasty twist in your mind which is going to get you into very serious trouble indeed .
11 Most were still bewildered by the way Northampton opened out the game to create openings for surprise attacks , and after a 4–1 win at Swindon , the Railwaymen 's international winger Fleming told Chapman : ‘ You have something more than a team : you have a machine . ’
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