Example sentences of "more than [art] [noun sg] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reading is a process of identification with a work and a faithful reading will be nothing more than a word for word repetition of the text . |
| 2 | Firstly , it represents no more than a proposal for reform of the internal structure of the public company and not an accurate description of how the board at present functions in such a company . |
| 3 | Climbing has to be more than a race for E points , pumping away on raddled lumps of overhanging bolt-protected , sweaty limestone , or cavorting on plywood Towers of Babel , studded with artificial holds , floodlit for a ‘ quick-fox ’ titillation of the idle masses . |
| 4 | An art critic also needs a gift for persuasion , perhaps rather more than a head for exposition and argument . |
| 5 | In 1953 Antenor 's eighteen-year-old daughter , Maria Isabel , met and fell in love with James Goldsmith ( then the son of a hotel manager with little more than a taste for gambling and various romantic exploits to recommend him ) , and informed her father that she wished to marry him . |
| 6 | Noreen 's role had diminished to little more than a chaperone for Maria . |
| 7 | Wytch Farm proved more than a match for Savills , the property services and estate management consultants to BPX , during a friendly game of cricket in August . |
| 8 | Ward had often threatened to have it converted into a work room but , as is the case with most attics , it remained nothing more than a storehouse for junk that was n't wanted elsewhere in the cottage . |
| 9 | It turned out to be nothing more than a charter for busybodies , lacking muscle and new money . |
| 10 | If each party has his own private end to gain , but yet the joint aim is no more than a desire for prosperity or peace in industry , there is no tort . |