Example sentences of "it [verb] nothing more " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It represents nothing more nor less than the imposition of the temple architecture of an extinct Mediterranean civilization upon the house design of a northern people ’ , remarks Olive Cook in her English House Through Seven Centuries . |
| 2 | It involves nothing more than putting up 80-foot masts all over the land . |
| 3 | But perhaps the general , median view that was held by the garrison of this strange behaviour of the Collector was that it signified nothing more than his eccentricity . |
| 4 | It costs nothing more than a smile . ’ |
| 5 | The statement that the actions we ought to do are those which promote the general happiness would be useless if it meant nothing more than that they do promote it , and that something more can only be given by an intuition . |
| 6 | It enjoys nothing more than people 's lives being destroyed — including our own . |
| 7 | The forensic scientist had finally left the road at last light , certain it had nothing more to yield . |
| 8 | If it does nothing more than act as an educational lubricant or leaven , it serves its purpose well , by enriching minds , broadening outlooks , removing prejudice and opening vistas . |
| 9 | ‘ I should scarcely have regretted my journey , ’ claimed Johnson , ‘ had it afforded nothing more than the sight of Aberbrothick . ’ |
| 10 | Ward had often threatened to have it converted into a work room but , as is the case with most attics , it remained nothing more than a storehouse for junk that was n't wanted elsewhere in the cottage . |
| 11 | Heres , for example ( in , " the greedy clutches of your heir " ) , denotes something perhaps rather less cosy and familial than the English word " heir " ; in many contexts it suggests nothing more than a legal designate with a contractual , post-obituary option on some hapless benefactor 's goods and chattels.5 Pietas is a notoriously difficult word to render , " piety " being the last recourse of the weary translator ; it involves " integrity " , " probity " , " purity " , " fidelity " , " devotion " , " decency " — a complex of related moral attributes which Romans sought and recognised in the upright man . |