Example sentences of "nothing more than [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While some might see in all this nothing more than economic fulfilment , the ultimate political goal , with which the other four signatories were more in sympathy , was already implicit in the Rome Treaty 's preamble with its desire ‘ to establish the foundations of an even closer union among the European peoples ’ . |
| 2 | They are the tools through which life manifests and functions on the material plane , but without the animating principle — the life force or vital energy — they are nothing more than complex chemistry . |
| 3 | It has been a tactic of both supporters and opponents of economic and monetary union to play down the significance of these proposals , the first saying that monetary union will not significantly compromise sovereignty , the others sometimes dismissing talk of European union as nothing more than Euro-waffle . |
| 4 | Pollen grains , which consist largely of precious genetic material , are quite demanding for a plant to produce and many flowers offer , either in addition or as an alternative , a payment that is considerably cheaper for it is nothing more than sweetened water , nectar . |
| 5 | Curved , yes , he had expected that , he had known he was n't going to find a flat plateau , but something to hold on to he had expected , a double ridge perhaps , pipes or cables , not what was in fact there , nothing more than shallow flanges at the tops of the double-leaf doors . |
| 6 | That 's nothing more than circumstantial evidence — even you ca n't brand me guilty on that ! ’ |
| 7 | It was nothing more than ridiculous hysteria and totally unreal , but only a few people saw this and John Keith in Forres was one of them . |
| 8 | Sometimes younger people consider this to be nothing more than morbid indulgence , and refuse to listen , mainly because it is a subject they do not care to think about . |
| 9 | The Littlewoods formula , built so successfully by Liverpool legend Sir John Moores , seemed hopelessly outdated — nothing more than boring clothes in boring stores . |
| 10 | Engagement through the Offices was , they claimed , nothing more than legal crimpage , and the Register Ticket could be bought at many lodging houses . |
| 11 | A set of four small pastel drawings depicting nothing more than burning leaves , haystacks , and a solitary tree convincingly carry nothing less than 400 years of European history — from the displacement of Catholicism , the enlightenment , the Holocaust to the decay of capitalism . |
| 12 | The Muslim cemetery of Um Al-Farajh was a field of rubble and undergrowth , distinguished over most of its area by nothing more than small mounds of earth and scattered , broken stones . |
| 13 | In fact , the quack cancer therapy laetrile is nothing more than apricot kernels , and although high-sounding claims were made for the effects of nature 's cyanide on rampant cells , laetrile has proved useless . |
| 14 | Some have been toppled , and some are so eroded that they appear to be nothing more than wind-scoured boulders . |
| 15 | George Dempster , the member of parliament for Dundee burghs , whose election at St. Andrews would ‘ certainly turn on a single vote unless I am able to provide a Councillors son in a Kirk ’ , urged nothing more than political consequences when pressing for the settlement of the St. Andrews clergyman , and many presentations were indeed political bribes . |
| 16 | These products are often caustic cleaners , sometimes nothing more than caustic soda , in granular form , packed in a tin . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ It may have been simply a moment of despair and nothing more than that . |
| 20 | I heard him ask her to pass the salt and I heard her tell him to fill the van with petrol and unpack the crates — nothing more than that . |
| 21 | erm , the thing about it is is that I mean , one of we we 've at the minute we 've been faced with with some individuals reckoning that they have er rashes forming around the face er in a number of areas and there 's an indication that , and it 's nothing more than that , that it could actually be to do with the laser printers and people sitting near them in the light . |
| 22 | Nothing more than that . |
| 23 | Nothing more than that someone , by no means necessarily the purchaser of the record , has in the past bought not from Nestle 's but from a retail shop three bars of chocolate and that the purchaser has thus directly or indirectly acquired the wrappers . |
| 24 | To me the danse macabre was a work of art , skilfully executed ; nothing more than that . |
| 25 | She was comfortable with Glyn and she wanted nothing more than that . |
| 26 | It 's a proposal , nothing more than that at the moment , Derek from Barnet , good morning . |
| 27 | Nothing more than that ? ’ |
| 28 | National Socialism is nothing more than applied biology . |
| 29 | The problem is that this often encourages nothing more than mere farce . |
| 30 | He could n't believe that those nobs in the West End were willing to pay good money for things that seemed to him to be nothing more than unnecessary luxuries . |