Example sentences of "more [conj] [art] [noun sg] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , as far as James was concerned , this was no more than a PRECONDITION for the abolition of slavery . |
| 2 | EYE patients at Darlington Memorial Hospital are having to wait more than a year for an appointment with a specialist , it has been claimed . |
| 3 | MORE eye patients at Darlington Memorial Hospital are having to wait more than a year for an appointment with a specialist , it has been claimed . |
| 4 | The Khmer Rouge does not want to rock the boat , having waited patiently for more than a decade for the Vietnamese to leave . |
| 5 | I also have more than a thought for the people who do have homes but who are living in conditions of appalling squalor , for battered wives and abused children who stay at home because there 's nowhere safe for them to go , and for the husbands who choose to stay with their families in the north rather than abandon them for crazy periods of time because they could find work only in the south , And while we 're on the subject , I 'm sick and tired of listening to government and commerce saying it 's ‘ uneconomic ’ to locate businesses in the north of Britain when we 're currently importing billions of pounds ’ worth of consumer goods from the other side of the world . |
| 6 | ‘ The state is nothing more than a machine for the oppression of one class by another . ’ |
| 7 | The Paris museum ( colloquially known as the Jardin des Plantes ) was much more than a museum for the display of exotic specimens . |
| 8 | And finally , there are the ones that seem little more than a cue for a really good cackle . |
| 9 | Latterly , however , it had become no more than a framework for the recording of successes , with little attention being paid to problems such as the intensification of production or the improvement of food supplies . |
| 10 | Remove " the tough talk , all the swagger and the patriotic posturing " , he said , " and protectionism amounts to nothing more than a smokescreen for a country that 's running scared " . |
| 11 | Contrasts , however , is more than a manifesto for the Gothic : it is , implicitly , a diagnosis of the social and cultural evils of the time , and a proposal for political and social change . |
| 12 | The last leg of the expedition was proving more than a trial for the young naturalist . |
| 13 | ‘ The formal words about the necessity of the ‘ neutrality ’ of Afghanistan contained in the Carrington Plan ’ were described as ‘ no more than a screen for the creation of conditions in which it would be possible to achieve a restoration of the regime overthrown by the Afghan people ’ . |
| 14 | There was a minute cabin on the barge , no more than a place for the bargee to take shelter . |
| 15 | Unlike Wang , which has effectively withdrawn from systems manufacturing and is little more than a reseller for the IBM line , Bull will be taking up both the manufacturing and design rights it negotiated with IBM back in February ( UX No 370 ) . |
| 16 | That was a crucial part of turning the Royal Family into no more than a diversion for the public . |
| 17 | The 1961 Programme , for instance , had defined itself as a ‘ Programme for the building of communist society ’ ; the revised version of 1986 was no more than a Programme for the ‘ planned and all-round perfection of socialism ’ and for further advance to communism through the country 's ‘ accelerated socio-economic development ’ . |
| 18 | The tenant 's adviser should be on his guard against such a provision since it is little more than a trap for the tenant , particularly since the figure specified by the landlord need not be a bona fide and genuine pre-estimate of the market rent ( Amalgamated Estates Ltd v Joystretch Manufacturing Ltd ( 1980 ) 257 EG 489 ) . |
| 19 | Lukic was guilty of no more than a challenge for a 50–50 ball with the speeding Rob Jones around the 18-yard line . |
| 20 | The first Christians also knew that divine resources were more than a match for the dark powers . |
| 21 | If you can raise your eyes from the water long enough you 'll see that the scenery is more than a match for the fishing — it 's simply breathtaking . |
| 22 | The man endued with the Holy Spirit is more than a match for the unclean spirits which are such a feature in Mark 's account . |
| 23 | Fired by religious fervour and armed with weapons supplied by the United States and their Muslim neighbour Pakistan , the rebels resisted doggedly and fought a war in which their superior mobility and unconventional guerrilla tactics proved more than a match for the Soviet military machine . |
| 24 | The aircraft was set on automatic pilot , leaving Vologsky little more than a passenger for the time being . |
| 25 | In this it may have been little more than a mouthpiece for a Russian directorate but in an article , which , says Sacks , amounted to a reading of the riot act to the ICP , one finds this clear and unmistakable instruction in the French journal Cahiers du Boishévisme : |
| 26 | If ethologists are truly interested in an ethology of human relating we have to drop the pretence that , given present knowledge , evolutionary arguments are any more than a game for the psychologically literate . |
| 27 | A woman who waited more than an hour for an ambulance is to meet senior health managers to discuss the problem in Teesdale . |
| 28 | Was the Alpine orogeny no more than an encore for the Hercynian performance ? |
| 29 | Investment capital group 3i has made new investments worth £275m in the six months up to March , nearly 90pc more than the figure for the corresponding period a year ago . |