Example sentences of "more than [art] [adj] [noun sg] for " in BNC.

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1 Evidently he thinks of the distinction as being no more than a useful device for developing and explaining his claim , that all ideas derive from experience .
2 As the music powered into focus , it suddenly seemed much more than a mere backdrop for Morrissey 's lyrical diatribes .
3 Harsh and angry with undercurrents of lovelorn bitterness , but you ca n't imagine them amounting to more than a mere outlet for crowd frustration .
4 In the West , the time of retirement for many people is the end of their usefulness and it means for them no more than a hopeless waiting for them .
5 The advanced study of History demands far more than a retentive memory for facts or an ability to describe fluently the course of an historical event .
6 Since the late 1950s , however , the importance of all of the above factors has diminished to the extent that , even taken together , they no longer offer more than a partial explanation for the restricted nature of Soviet — Latin American relations .
7 He was fast reaching the conclusion that Cora-Beth wanted him to feel more than a friendly affection for her ; that perhaps she even wanted him to fall in love with her .
8 In simple terms , skin is far more than a superficial covering for the body ; it is a living , breathing organism .
9 It will suffice to observe that those on higher assessments were mostly merchants , and the poorer ones manual workers , and to conclude that a tiny farming community was incapable of generating more than a limited demand for their services .
10 Yet I was no more than a modest petitioner for lodgment .
11 To grant these rights and judicial privileges to corporations ( and other organizations ) is simply to give them additional resources for a judicial battle in which many , particularly the transnationals , are already more than a fair match for national state regulatory agencies .
12 This is really not much more than a local plan for land use over a larger area , so there is now no strategic mechanism for the City of Tyneside .
13 The academy had become little more than a rubber stamp for huge prestigious projects drawn up by the industrial ministries .
14 Since there appear to be no consequences in judicial practice if the label constitutional is applied to a particular law , it is in the end no more than a convenient way for textbook writers to organise their material , just as they produce books on industrial law or commercial law .
15 A failure to consult in accordance with a clear duty to do so before the decision to close a unit may be ruled unlawful , but may amount to little more than a Pyrrhic victory for the applicants for judicial review .
16 Numbers of influential visitors to Germany , mostly connected with commerce , the aristocracy , or both , came back with more than a little sympathy for what Hitler was achieving .
17 ‘ He 's never ever mentioned that night to me since , so as far as he 's aware , ’ he rapped cuttingly , ‘ I could think you were nothing more than an easy one-nighter for him ! ’
18 It means that a plaintiff with no more than an arguable case for suppressing a story on breach of confidence grounds can obtain , at a secret High Court hearing , an injunction against one defendant ( perhaps a journal whose financial position does not permit a legal contest ) and thereafter enforce it against every media outlet in the country .
19 Sometimes a real sense of space is achieved , as on the second-millennium stele of Naramsin , where figures move up and down a tree clad hill under the stars ; but in general it seems no more than an alternative convention for the organisation of narrative over the surface .
20 It seems to have been a fairly general rule in the later enclosure awards that the minimum width for inter-village roads should be forty feet between the ditches , though local roads carrying more than the average traffic for the district were often laid down forty-five or fifty feet wide .
21 However , viewed on the international stage the UK 's recent increases in R&D expenditure rose 8% , 2% more than the aggregate figure for British companies .
22 The 200 must be perceived as a refined car , if Rover is to justify charging slightly more than the going rate for its class .
23 The comment that all of this prompts is first , that it amounts to no more than the well-understood case for good personnel management in conventionally organised manufacturing or service industry .
24 For £25 , £1 more than the new charge for MoT test for cars , a qualified driving instructor will give the driver an hour-long skills appraisal which will include at least 45 minutes of driving .
25 Its object was to reduce disparity in sentences of imprisonment , and to remove the difficulty which judges faced when Parliament had told them no more than the maximum sentence for a particular crime : see Reflections on the English Sentencing System by Professor Sir Rupert Cross , Child & Co .
26 ‘ It 's more than the last straw for Faye .
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