Example sentences of "more than [art] [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Can it be that without the accompanying ‘ form ’ of the lessons of the past , of which memory is a vital part , ‘ freedom ’ can never be more than a fragile short-lived luxury ? |
| 32 | Despite the presence of sound Trinomic cushioning and stability technology in the two main Disc shoes , it is hard to believe runners will shell out hefty sums for a central concept which appears to be little more than a glorified lacing system . |
| 33 | The room contained little more than a long wooden table covered with lino , a barber 's chair that had been slightly modified to accommodate dental patients , another deep earthenware sink , and a basketwork bed — mounted on what looked like pram wheels — for patients forced to lie supine . |
| 34 | Old Bolingbroke , now no more than a picturesque small village but once much larger and with a castle , was the birthplace of Henry IV |
| 35 | It was thought to be nothing more than a shattered argillaceous deposit , produced by repeated submarine landslipping and carrying with it exotic blocks ranging in size from small fragments ( plate 4.2 ) up to whole mountains . |
| 36 | Seen from this vantage point , those microprocessor-based products whose introduction into non-domestic premises the British Government is currently endorsing appear as more than a simple technical solution to a particular economic problem — the conservation of energy . |
| 37 | For more manipulative members of the older generation , a will is much more than a simple legal document — it is a voice from beyond the grave , rewarding good children with the best spoons , and cutting the naughty ones off with a shilling |
| 38 | A ’ glossary ’ of sayings , proverbs , clich s , etc. for human use may require no more than a simple alphabetical listing of all recorded combinations ; but for text recognition , the design of the dictionary and its subsequent use must be considered in conjunction , to reflect the run-time processing needs . |
| 39 | Flying in the face of today 's ubiquitous electronickery , the turbocharger uses nothing more than a simple spring-loaded wastegate to regulate boost , which is never allowed to build too high in deference to the engine 's life expectancy . |
| 40 | She had sleepless nights and was sick every morning of that week — and she was sick , too , when she had nothing more than a simple monthly medal on her hands . |
| 41 | That he was no more than a simple well-bred Roman , going about his daily business , kind to animals and women , his motives constantly misconstrued … |
| 42 | As we watched the train 's shadows turn and fold on the snowy shore , it became clear that she had not forgotten the stories which made this much more than a stark inland sea stretching as far as the eye can follow . |
| 43 | That is why it is so terrible that what we offer , by and large , is a limited liability Christianity which is little more than a modern social convenience and more convenient to the white man than the black . |
| 44 | It warns users interested in open systems to be wary of NT because of Microsoft 's reluctance to implement standards or create something more than a limited proprietary system . |
| 45 | Far more than a further unsavoury tale of professional infighting for accreditation amongst the greats , the out-come — on the principle that the discoverer leaves his imprint on his discovery — has profoundly affected the subsequent tenor of both science and the humanities . |
| 46 | His response was predicated on the idea that he was dealing with an IRA insurrection when he was actually faced with a group of unarmed demonstrators who posed nothing more than a difficult public order problem . |
| 47 | Men with periodontitis had more than a twofold increased risk of dying compared with men who had no periodontal disease at baseline . |
| 48 | Nobody will mind if he just grabs a few minutes ' rest before he moves on — although rest , for Pavel , has become little more than a bothersome physical requirement with no spiritual element in it . |
| 49 | A movement moves : it does not , and dares not , coalesce ; and to capitalise it was no more than a modest journalistic hyperbole and a useful summary of an undoubted shift in literary taste . |
| 50 | In truth , for the most part , town planning at the outbreak of the Second World War had become little more than a token regulatory hand , useful in developing areas , but of little consequence in the existing areas . |
| 51 | The alarm was raised by team leader Chris Bonington — who also fell 150m on steep ice as he went to Venable 's assistance , miraculously emerging with no more than a minor facial wound . |
| 52 | ‘ Did you now ? ’ said Hilary , coming in to the sick bay , which was really no more than a scruffy little room with only a slight hospital smell about it to bespeak its function . |
| 53 | Similarly , the Britons Society and Publishing Company appeared to be nothing more than a minuscule middle-class organization with a bee in its bonnet about Jews . |
| 54 | Lucille 's home was very grandly called a château , though in truth it was nothing more than a large moated farm with a crenellated tower to remind passers-by that the building had once been a small fortress . |
| 55 | If you are getting income support and you have high fuel charges at a fixed rate , you will not have to pay more than a maximum fixed amount . |
| 56 | For loading and unloading sacks of coal , and driving a lorry round the villages , that was £440 per annum more than a Senior Scientific Officer earned slaving for the defence of his country . |
| 57 | For instance , when Oliver Reed made his now famous appearance with slightly more than a little Dutch courage inside him , he suddenly took it into his head that he wanted to sing . |
| 58 | More than a little private problem : On the eve of Nigel Lawson 's key address to the Conservative conference , Roger Bootle says the Chancellor must take the balance of payments deficit more seriously , and Nicholas Faith argues that the Tories have failed the entrepreneur |
| 59 | What reality lay behind this piece of youthful bombast — written when Joyce was still only sixteen — proved no more than a little amateur gathering of information by a schoolboy in association with other schoolboys . |
| 60 | I learned that sex without emotional involvement or more than a fleeting physical attraction was more sad than fulfilling and that ‘ getting even ’ could only motivate me for so long — particularly since my husband was blithely unaware that I was evening the score . |