Example sentences of "anything more than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And to us if we are to understand him in anything more than a superficial way . |
| 2 | However the Tube is not designed as anything more than a temporary tent so it should n't be expected to give normal tent performance . |
| 3 | Some register entries are so rudimentary that they are unable to support anything more than a basic inventory . |
| 4 | Britain still talks of anything more than a 15 per cent cut in the CEGB 's emissions within ten years as being ‘ impracticable ’ . |
| 5 | The United States required continuing evidence of PLO acceptance of Israel and repudiation of violence as the price for diplomatic contact , but it was unclear whether it was yet willing to encourage Palestinian accommodationist tendencies by granting the PLO anything more than a hearing . |
| 6 | This is unlikely to produce anything more than a slight increase in vaginal discharge which has no particular distinguishing features . |
| 7 | In the case of Santiaguito , there is little evidence that the dome is actually growing at all — one can sit and watch it for hours without seeing anything more than a few wisps of steam from the top — and it 's quite safe to scramble all over it . |
| 8 | But at this stage the problem for research has not been defined at anything more than a very general level . |
| 9 | In general , the idea of forming anything more than a temporary joint household with one or other spouse 's parents is not seen to be a serious option . |
| 10 | Indeed , if anything , they seem to have been too demoralised politically to organise effectively at anything more than a local level , and that in itself is testimony to the devastating effect of the Kulturkampf and Polenpolitik . |
| 11 | He was too much of a loser to have been anything more than a hired hand . |
| 12 | The ancient streets could perhaps have been left to enforce their own low driving speeds through their narrowness , their cobbled surfaces and their lack of visibility over anything more than a few metres . |
| 13 | If you guys really want to be anything more than a footnote in the annals of British history get this — ‘ Egalitarianism is for Losers ’ . |
| 14 | It is also easier to stop the forward movement in this situation , since many models require a positive effort to make headway against anything more than a stiff breeze . |
| 15 | It is not clear that one has to postulate anything more than a reaction like Pavlov 's dog learning to anticipate its dinner whenever it hears the bell . |
| 16 | First my father 's plans for my marrying a French princess , precluded my offering you anything more than a clandestine attachment — and now , with the future so uncertain , I fear that clandestine attachment and French princess are each as remote as the other . |
| 17 | He really did n't think the Revolution was anything more than a few peasants kicking up a fuss , like they had been doing for hundreds of years . |
| 18 | Some breeders I rang did n't have any left , others did n't have any chicks of the age I wanted ( and after Barny , I was very wary of buying anything more than a few weeks old ) , and others lived in the Highlands of Scotland or somewhere equally inaccessible to me . |
| 19 | Yet when one starts to look at the overall picture a little more deeply , will the obvious strengthening of what will be nine single Championship weeks , be anything more than a move which enables the rich to get richer and actually sets into motion what could become a long term contraction , rather than expansion of the sport , especially if the much-needed revival in the world economy takes longer to become bullish than some of the optimists have been forecasting . |
| 20 | Even if the ethos does permit them to check out how they are doing , it remains unlikely that it will encourage anything more than a superficial sharing of doubts about what they are doing : about the disparity between their hopes for teaching and the effects , or lack of them , that they and their colleagues seem to be achieving . |
| 21 | It seemed clear that anything more than a purely intergovernmental system of consultation and cooperation would be deemed undesirable by Britain . |
| 22 | While the administration of the Marshall Plan through OEEC was giving Western Europe a first lesson in economic cooperation , it was clear to the dedicated disciples of a united Europe that neither OEEC nor the Council of Europe could have anything more than a limited application . |
| 23 | This kind of mistreatment highlights how descriptive words and terms can be confusing if they are taken to mean anything more than a means of distinguishing form — and not size , for instance . |
| 24 | And is the difference between a ‘ process ’ and a ‘ function ’ anything more than a semantic quibble ? |
| 25 | Unlike some of its competitors , Bull says it has yet to work out whether or not Posix compatibility for proprietary systems is anything more than a marketing gimmick , and so it has not yet embarked on the expensive process of adapting the GCOS operating systems to comply with Posix . |
| 26 | We know Compaq wrote the specification when it was still a ploy — Systems Network Integration says they even have a prototype up and running — but whether this can ever amount to anything more than a high-end PC depends on sorting out fact from propaganda . |
| 27 | If this was anything more than a straightforward clerical error — the only parallel case being Robert Harold of Hungerford , who was stated to own a copyhold worth 8s. — it poses the question , was customary land ever assessed , whether by accident or design ? |
| 28 | To put it another way , bargaining provides the cement essential if the American polity is to be anything more than a conglomeration of unintegrated fragments . |
| 29 | But to argue that such developments marked anything more than a beginning would be to over-estimate the significance of what was done . |
| 30 | I mean , Stu would never attain anything more than a kind of addled bopping , but that summer he brought a certain careless vivacity to the matter of heel-and-toe . |