Example sentences of "[prep] something more [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somebody called John Hawley reviewed the novel for the Times , and he was rather sniffy : ‘ Begley is clearly after something more than entertainment here : he wants to write The Great Gatsby . |
| 2 | The Divisional Court , presided over by the Lord Chief Justice , Lord Parker , emphasized that there had to be a ‘ real possibility ’ of a breach of the peace , but went on to find that just such a situation of menace existed here : eighteen people ‘ milling about ’ when there were only eight people in the works created a ‘ real danger of something more than mere picketing ’ . |
| 3 | This had been of something more than philosophical interest to Karen and I in our pre-coital phase , since it meant that we could count on at least a minute thirty seconds before he reappeared , or as much as three minutes forty-five seconds if we heard the seat go down for a big jobby . |
| 4 | As a result of this potent combination of sentiment and self-interest , the war had assumed the character of something more than a military operation : in the minds of the military and of many civilians , left and right , it had quickly become a decisive test of France 's national will and international power . |
| 5 | I do n't know how Dawn really feels about me , whether love or trust mean anything to her or not , but I do know that there is something special between us , and it feels like something more than just conditioning . |
| 6 | One would think you intended her for something more than your waiting maid . |
| 7 | The clowns ' convention is , perhaps , Bognor 's way of proclaiming itself as something more than just another commuter dormitory and retirement town on the south coast . |
| 8 | The introduction of a geographical dimension at this level could be taken up even by those who saw evolution as something more than the selection of random variation . |
| 9 | In the second year of recovery the recurrent cravings have mostly subsided and people in recovery develop progressively more insight into the nature of addictive disease in general and their own addictive disease in particular and also into the true , broader , meaning of recovery as something more than mere avoidance of previous addictive substances or behaviour . |
| 10 | Long linear field banks or persistent field boundaries can often be suggested as something more than just divisions in the fields . |
| 11 | By doing this , the Chancellor was beginning to recognise the rights of the family against the grantee as something more than personal . |
| 12 | The creation of a database in the school library can therefore be seen as something more than the provision of a catalogue of resources . |
| 13 | He knew I worked with Malcolm because he was one of the few teachers I could have a conversation with about something more than homework or football . |
| 14 | You were talking about something more than just a feeling . ’ |
| 15 | She must wrap up her head well and she must protect her feet with something more than her felt shoes … |
| 16 | Her vision was starting to blur , with something more than just tears . |
| 17 | ‘ I began to realise that you had wonderful qualities , though I had to convince my mother with something more than my own feelings and impressions . |
| 18 | Horace is a highly allusive poet ; names of personages real and mythical fill the Odes , and nearly always with something more than a merely decorative intent . |
| 19 | Now that he had moved nearer Fran could see that there was a muscle ticking along the hard line of his jaw and that his eyes were glittering with something more than mere mockery , and she went cold . |
| 20 | All sorts of little sub-businesses grew after the first month or two and it was at this point that we thought it would be nice to turn it into something more than just a folk club . |
| 21 | The efforts of the Russian Formalists were directed towards justifying the independent existence of literary studies , and transforming students of literature into something more than second-rate ethnographers , historians or philosophers . |
| 22 | Roth has left off with his mythologising fury — and his memoir lets us know that the benefits that come to the writer who tries , or even seems , to stick to the facts may amount to something more than those of hindsight . |
| 23 | ‘ The historical resistance of the expectations gap , ’ it says , ‘ points to something more than just an ‘ ignorance' ’ gap and suggests there exists scope for the profession to respond more actively to the views and demands of those relying on the audit function . ’ |
| 24 | The most radical Westerners , following a path very close to that of the Petrashevtsy , aspired to something more than liberalism and embraced socialism . |
| 25 | We can perhaps only guess at what exactly lay behind such incidents , although these kinds of details begin to add up to something more than a fringe resentment of the police by a marginal ‘ criminal element ’ . |
| 26 | And drastic measures are needed in the Serious Fraud Office , set up last year , to ensure that it moves at something more than a glacial pace . |
| 27 | But the states of western Europe were now being driven by harsh experience if by nothing higher to aim at something more than the chaotic free-for-all which had marked the Italian wars and the Habsburg–Valois struggles of the first half of the sixteenth century . |
| 28 | Midshipman Callender 's friends no doubt were aware that efficiency united to interest was the strongest claim to promotion in the navy , and Lord Keith 's correspondence abounds in references to interest being a motive in bringing a man forward in the service : ‘ I have made McKenzie a lieutenant into the Rattlesnake ; he was a friend of Mr. Dunsmuress and recommended by Lord Elphinstone to me , so I am glad to have served him ’ , a comment which suggests that the admiral was influenced by something more than Mr. McKenzie 's personal abilities . |
| 29 | For example , the ways in which a child , boy or girl , relates to the parent of the same sex seems to be produced by something more than what is given in the actual family situation . |
| 30 | These could not be entirely distinct centres of evolution , but the existence of provinces implied that migrations were controlled by something more than accidental factors . |