Example sentences of "[adv] [indef pn] more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Despite your obvious fondness for the place , you 're none the less nothing more than a temporary caretaker . |
| 2 | It could also , as readily , be ascribed to hallucination , hysterical or psychotic reaction , or perhaps nothing more than a guilty conscience . |
| 3 | At the height of all the media fuss over a comic creation which was basically nothing more than a walking catch-phrase , it seemed as if Enfield 's career was in danger of burning out before it had properly ignited . |
| 4 | There were three of them , two were large , well-built men , obviously nothing more than muscle , while the third man , tall and thin , was the boss . |
| 5 | Opinions differ but most view Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland as useful prospects — and perhaps something more than that . |
| 6 | " They 're quite pretty tiles , dear , not anything more than that . " |
| 7 | Best response of the night — not bad going in the face of St Etienne 's new-found libidinous following — and a fitting end to a night that fed off nothing more than the sheer character of the individual bands . |
| 8 | Ordinary pumice , by contrast , shows a wide range in density , depending upon the degree of vesiculation that has taken place in the magma , but it is still nothing more than a solidified rock froth . |
| 9 | before people twigged if you like , that what had actually happened amounted to hardly anything more than a change of sort of managerial personnel . |
| 10 | ‘ Monsieur Gebrec 's death was probably nothing more than a tragic accident , ’ Melissa went on , ‘ but ’ — she hesitated for a moment before saying — ‘ there is some talk of suicide . ’ |
| 11 | Answer : by sending printed forms of questions to the seller 's solicitor and the local council , which yield no useful information and are often nothing more than a time-wasting ritual . |
| 12 | And this can so easily be the case , for such premises are instilled into the scientific mind set at an early age , becoming accepted points of reference , though really they are often nothing more than habits of thought . |
| 13 | Similarly at secondary school level lessons in English language were often nothing more than pedantic exercises . |
| 14 | We know little of the living conditions of the people of Halling at this period , but examples of other area 's tell us that life for the village labouring class was hard with few comforts , houses being often nothing more than hovels with earth packed floors on which rushes would be strewn . |
| 15 | He was now nothing more than the neatly tapered ends of corduroy slacks , and a pair of well-worn Canadian hide moccasins . |
| 16 | Notice that the symbols unc are really nothing more than place markers . |
| 17 | Programme analysis and review was really nothing more than a method of asking basic questions about programme resources and outputs , such as what is being done and why ? |
| 18 | Her companion , ’ the landlord shrugged , ‘ really nothing more than a boy . |
| 19 | Thus the crime of Oedipus — murder of the father , mating with the mother — is really nothing more than what comes naturally to the gelada male , and , I think , to our hominid ancestors who , when they acquired numerous gelada-like physical adaptations , must also have acquired the appropriate behavioural responses and instinctual drives . |
| 20 | Now , you may think that er you and I are very different from a T four bacteria but personally , and I on can only speak for myself , I ca n't speak for you of course , but personally I 'm prepared to accept that basically I 'm really nothing more than a very very complicated and much bigger T four bacterial . |
| 21 | As far as evolution is concerned , I , and this is really the essence of our modern view , I am really nothing more than the packaging of my genes , because after all this is what evolution acts on . |
| 22 | Evolution ultimately selects for the erm reproductive success of individual organisms , and you can see very clearly in the case of the T four bac bacterial that it is really nothing more than the temporary protein packaging of its D N A. |
| 23 | So that , erm just as you can construct a house out of bricks and mortar , and really , although the house looks very different from just bricks and mortar , it is just bricks and mortar arranged in a certain way , so the glass , the bottle , erm although it looks a very different thing from a sense experience , is really nothing more than a very complicated pattern of actual and possible sense experiences . |
| 24 | Now something more than a quelling look appeared on Lord Woodleigh 's fine-bred features . |
| 25 | So images of organizations that are more like symphony orchestras or hospitals or the British Raj are surely nothing more than metaphors to express a desired feeling of togetherness — the togetherness produced by a conductor 's baton , the shared concern of doctors and nurses for their patients , or the apparent unity of the British civil service in India . |
| 26 | And — my lord — there is here something more than strange . ’ |
| 27 | These products are often caustic cleaners , sometimes nothing more than caustic soda , in granular form , packed in a tin . |
| 28 | Clearly , if the party input into the development of policy is to be significant then something more than an isolated individual is needed to make the system effective . |
| 29 | In relation to nationalised industries , it is commonplace to vest in a particular Minister of the Crown a power to issue general directives as to the running of the industry in question but this is again nothing more than a matter of organisational preference ; not , of course a preference which is a matter of caprice but which is based on notions of the best procedures to attain the objective in view . |
| 30 | Liebknecht 's attempt to hold an anti-war rally in the Potsdamer Platz on May 1st , 1916 , was not yet anything more than a flash in the pan . |