Example sentences of "more [subord] the [adj -est] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Neither country has more than the sketchiest experience of democracy . |
2 | At least , things happened there ; it was obvious to Schaffer that his presence in Langstone was nothing more than the merest nod towards protocol , but Stoneley had refused to let him return and make the police withdrawal complete . |
3 | The most casual obscenities , the most hackneyed endearments , coming to me from your rose-red lips , are worth more than the sagest advice of all the old men in the world . |
4 | It is to the netting of that protean reality that Joyce now bends all his energies , and my mixing of metaphors can give no more than the faintest hint of what that strange act entails . |
5 | So it had been quite refreshing when Luke had said goodbye with no more than the lightest brush of his lips against her cheek . |
6 | If so , the timber structure need have been little more than the simplest type of tailor 's dummy . |
7 | Few of the newcomers know any Hebrew and few have more than the vaguest idea about Israel . |