Example sentences of "more than an [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the snakes too are now familiar with Laverne and he is nothing more than an accepted local nuisance . |
| 2 | The morphological nature of the neck is highly problematical and the available evidence suggests that something more than an enlarged intersegmental region may be involved . |
| 3 | Despite costing £4250 more than an equivalent used model . |
| 4 | But it soon became apparent that Britain still preferred little more than an effective interlocking system of treaties along the lines of the Treaty of Dunkirk : increasingly , if these were initiated , they would be little more than holding operations until the United States shared in the defence of Western Europe . |
| 5 | The alternative , it should be stressed , must be more than an alternative governing group . |
| 6 | There 's nothing they love more than an interesting little family tragedy , or a nice little disease to muck themselves up with . ’ |
| 7 | In the aftermath of Kristallnacht the NL had to be treated by the authorities as more than an eccentric lunatic fringe organization . |
| 8 | Little more than an English mixed salad … |
| 9 | Even M31 , the Great Spiral in Andromeda , looks like nothing more than an ill-defined misty patch , though its elongated shape is clear enough . |