Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] more [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | RAI protests that this amounts to a colossal waste of money since it previously acquired Eurovision rights for nothing more than the duty of reciprocal access to material from Italy . |
| 2 | People will nevertheless say that the desire is for nothing more than alcohol . |
| 3 | Jack Lewis was a brilliant attacking wing-half whom Palace obtained for nothing more than a signing-on fee from West Bromwich Albion in the summer of 1938 . |
| 4 | As with the BROWNIES , gruagachs will happily serve their masters for nothing more than a cup of milk . |
| 5 | The union is as yet unconvinced that BT 's intentions are to use the robots for nothing more than to make their members ' jobs ‘ more interesting ’ . |
| 6 | We all need windows in our lives , and at the moment we can ask for nothing more than the scenes flicking past the carriage until , at last , we reach open country and the long dark hours ahead we plough on towards the East and the border . |
| 7 | SunSoft Inc borrowed the laid-back format of the Tonight Show and Johnny Carson — down to the band , the couch and the jokes — to make its announcements at the end of last month : it would be a shame if those well-crafted anti-Microsoft Corp anti-NT ads they ran as ersatz commercials during the breaks do n't get a wider airing , if for nothing more than their amusement value . |
| 8 | It 'd be a shame if those well-crafted anti-Microsoft anti-NT ads they ran as ersatz commercials during the breaks do n't get a wider airing , if for nothing more than their amusement value . |
| 9 | I merely ask that you keep a sceptical , but open mind and ask for nothing more than that you check the figures given to you . |
| 10 | Both must be considered useful for nothing more than maintaining a battery 's charge . |
| 11 | Now , he was having to unveil himself for nothing more than curious inspection . |
| 12 | We can hope for nothing more than speculation when the events we are talking about took place four billion years ago and took place , moreover , in a world that must have been radically different from that which we know today . |
| 13 | You have paid , Monsieur , for nothing more than a pack of lies . ’ |
| 14 | For nothing more than being true to himself . ) |
| 15 | Estimates that creating the Fsx would cost only ¥165 billion ( at 1985 prices ) were good for nothing more than selling the project to parliament which had to vote the money . |
| 16 | Now this emphasis on focusing and honing everything right down to its simplest form can sound a bit like naked capitalism , treating rock ‘ n ’ roll as nothing more than a game . |
| 17 | They may have felt a degree of excitement as they turned their cameras on a train arriving at a station , waves crashing on the beach , or a group of workers emerging from their daily grind in the factory , but these early pieces of reportage were seen as nothing more than ‘ animated photographs ’ , a further step in the development of photography . |
| 18 | It was natural to see these moving pictures as nothing more than a novelty , perhaps merely a passing gimmick ; they were , after all , only shown as an additional turn on the music-hall programme . |
| 19 | The explosives , which were described as nothing more than an experiment , were detonated just above a dam built in January and breached last week . |
| 20 | It has been a tactic of both supporters and opponents of economic and monetary union to play down the significance of these proposals , the first saying that monetary union will not significantly compromise sovereignty , the others sometimes dismissing talk of European union as nothing more than Euro-waffle . |
| 21 | Charlotte : Charlotte is a wealthy woman in her early forties who views aromatherapy as nothing more than an upmarket beauty treatment . |
| 22 | Then like a fool he had spoken of Maud , and Sarah had seen him as nothing more than a philanderer . |
| 23 | But it would be foolish to dismiss it as nothing more than a gimmick . |
| 24 | They had a son called Michael and a daughter called Matilda , and the parents looked upon Matilda in particular as nothing more than a scab . |
| 25 | The professorship in question was seen by the politicians as nothing more than a means of keeping the Laird of Cringletie happy ; it was , as Gorthie put it , ‘ a very good way to answer the Laird 's own expectations till once a good occasion offer ’ . |
| 26 | In an anonymous introduction , the editor of De revolutionibus , Andreas Osiander , had implied that the earth 's motion was to be construed as nothing more than a convenient hypothesis . |
| 27 | This part of the ceremony was regarded as nothing more than formal ritual . |
| 28 | He thought he would come to no harm both because people needed his services as a medical man and because he thought they would regard him as nothing more than a political eccentric . |
| 29 | It would be easy to dismiss her as nothing more than a minor accessory to ben Issachar 's crime against me : these women stay in the background , mind their own business over the cookpots and the infant 's cot , keep themselves out of public view . |
| 30 | In fact , this emphasis has misled many students of price theory to understand the notion of the entrepreneur as nothing more than the locus of profit-maximizing decision-making within the firm . |