Example sentences of "anything more [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the same motive Ackroyd is reluctant to broach the unfathomed topic of Dickens and sex ( once memorably described by John Carey as ‘ not a promising subject ’ ) : when Dickens went trawling through the prostitutional regions of Paris with Wilkie Collins , Ackroyd says that ‘ it is unlikely that Dickens himself ever took part in anything more than close observation ’ . |
| 2 | His mate was never to know that this could be anything more than wishful thinking . |
| 3 | Though Edie became Vita 's final lover , and was with her when she died , she is unlikely to have treated homosexuality with anything more than tacit acceptance . |
| 4 | I 'm not sure that rock'n'roll should be anything more than joyous noise — maybe ultimately one that means nothing , but then so what … ? ’ |
| 5 | Neither the National Trust , who own it , nor the County Listing Department , nor Nikolaus Pevsner can furnish one with anything more than technical descriptions . |
| 6 | Information collected about the relatives of cancer patients showed that only a minority have anything more than superficial contact with the staff caring for the patient , and a number of these relatives would have welcomed an opportunity to share their anxiety , not only about the patient but about their own feelings ( Bond , 1982 ) . |
| 7 | Neither was there evidence of anything more than superficial surface treatment . |
| 8 | Sometimes , of course , bags are searched , but the removal of company property from the premises of licensed dealers is rarely punished by anything more than instant dismissal , acceptable enough at the time to the culprits , as it coincides with their own plans . |
| 9 | None of this criticism is aimed directly at Kylie , who does , in all fairness , endeavour to instill some life into a bunch of staid , production-line work outs that could never be anything more than pointless . |
| 10 | It is highly unlikely that he envisaged anything more than joint diplomatic pressure on Russia which would bring Nicholas to the conference table to discuss the problems at issue , which explains why he used as a pretext the totally ridiculous question of the keys to the Holy places in Jerusalem , whose custody was disputed between the Latin Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches . |
| 11 | Very few of the stations on what was built of the Cape to Cairo railway were anything more than small wayside halts . |
| 12 | The landholding of few of the great monasteries of northern Francia shows anything more than temporary dislocation . |
| 13 | I think it is worth emphasising that the agreement does not commit the Trust to anything more than regular monitoring of the Little Mill . |
| 14 | ‘ That you are anything more than good friends ? |
| 15 | There is a tendency when first writing objectives to limit them to simple forms of behaviour , such as the reproduction of facts and the demonstration of skills ; but if we , as teachers , are to offer our students anything more than simple training , we must be able to devise objectives that describe more complex operations . |
| 16 | In particular , what much of it fails to do is to convince all but a handful of academic specialists that its closely delineated studies are anything more than detailed local knowledge , an interesting but benign academic pursuit . |
| 17 | Clearly this , had it really existed , would have threatened his livelihood , but there is no evidence of its being anything more than imaginary . |
| 18 | Similarly , though from a different historical perspective , Adorno and Horkheimer , confronting the massive extension and technical development of that rationality , acknowledge the possibility , and even the residue , of difference and negation in the nonsense of eccentric entertainment — a residual refusal of official meaning — but can place no faith in its capacity to survive as anything more than fun , as anything other than acceptable difference within the logic of capitalist culture and the totality of the culture industry . |
| 19 | He challenges the notion that local government is anything more than local administration , whose claim to be government is merely another reflection of the high self-regard in which officials hold themselves rather than any expression of locally based decision-making . |
| 20 | The occurrence of tapirs in South America and South East Asia , for instance , could be explained quite easily without recourse to anything more than minor changes in the earth 's conditions : |
| 21 | Nationalists had also called a one-day general strike for Oct. 1 against the proposed new union treaty , but only in the West Ukraine did this attract anything more than patchy support . |
| 22 | The groups themselves need very careful organising if the work is to be anything more than structured play . |
| 23 | Ultimately , none of the readily available solutions — dandyism , literary experimentation , cinematic experimentation , fascism , communism — provided Nizan with anything more than brief respite from an increasingly acute perception of the contradiction lodged at the heart of his existence . |
| 24 | After only five days in the complex and , to almost all of us , unfamiliar environment of Lewis and Harris , our views can not be anything more than initial impressions . |
| 25 | Nothing much has changed in nearly 100 years however , and Mr. Walshaw has no plans to do anything more than careful , small scale enhancement and maintenance using traditional methods and family labour . |