Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Locke aroused considerable controversy with his suggestion that ‘ since we know not wherein thinking consists ’ , it may be , for all we know , that nothing more than matter is necessary for thought , and that God might have ‘ given to some systems of matter fitly disposed , a power to perceive and think ’ . |
| 2 | For example , Justice Foster said , ‘ Had the author [ of the advertisement ] wished to indicate that nothing more than an opinion was being expressed , he could have achieved this object quite simply by introducing the very same words ‘ we think ’ before the ‘ there is little evidence ’ . ’ |
| 3 | Oh she misses you obviously , more than she more than she 'll erm admit cos you 're very you were very close anyway were n't you , as brother and sister |
| 4 | The morphological nature of the neck is highly problematical and the available evidence suggests that something more than an enlarged intersegmental region may be involved . |
| 5 | This Report has already pointed out that something more than singing and playing may lie needed if boys and girls are to remain part of a choir or music group . |
| 6 | Even the evolutionists who accepted that species change in response to adaptive pressures realized that something more than simple adaptation was involved . |
| 7 | Jared Tunstall thought that something more than hard work had brought his daughter fulfilment and a new maturity — and , with them both , a deeper beauty . |
| 8 | He thought that something more than automatic associations were made as he observed that the chimpanzees seemed to understand the principle in solving the problems . |
| 9 | It seemed clear that anything more than a purely intergovernmental system of consultation and cooperation would be deemed undesirable by Britain . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ It may have been simply a moment of despair and nothing more than that . |
| 11 | But this measure of performance is a very narrow one and nothing more than an indication of stewardship . |
| 12 | Indeed it will make use of the laws of physics , and nothing more than the laws of physics . |
| 13 | she did n't say well er my husband brought me here because it was a decision that she had parted , it was a choice she had made as well and so she , she excepts her responsibility , she excepts her blame and she goes to return so there was , there was this sense of confession and , and confession can be costly when we 've got to admit that I was wrong , I did wrong , I was mistaken , I went the wrong way that could be a costly mistake and , and , and er costly experience for us to go through , but surely the , the true sign of repent is that we do acknowledge our sin , we acknowledge our failure , that we acknowledge what it means to god , we ca n't shift that blame onto somebody else then also consider not just the cost that Naomi had to pay in going back , but also there was a cost for Auper and for Ruth as well as Moabias there would be little joy for them in Israel , they were foreigners , they were strangers , there would n't be much hope for happiness for them , there would be very little likeliness for them ever getting married in or remarrying er in , in Israel , they would n't be able to worship there own god , they 'd be taken from one culture to another , there 'd be taken from one language to another , what was it gon na be like for them , alright , perhaps whilst they were living with Naomi perhaps she could pull a few strings for them , but what happens when she goes and they are left by themselves and yet it would appear that with Naomi making her decision to return that they too these two daughters in law they decided to go to Bethlehem with her and it tells us that they set out together but perhaps they had n't thought it really through because their not totally committed to us and as they come towards the frontier and their gon na pass into in , back into Judah with their few miserable possessions that they 've gathered together , Naomi again considers the consequences facing these two young women , Auper and Ruth , they continued with her , as she pleads with them to go back home , Judah is no place for a foreigner , Judah is no place for somebody to come unless they are part of gods people , and I 'm reminded of again of what it tells me in , in the book of acts , that in the early church , that people were actually frightened , frightened to join with the disciples , they were frightened to join the church , there was no room for , for stragglers , there was no room for hangers on , there was no room for those who went just because they thought it was gon na be the next , the in thing to do , but folk were actually frightened of joining because they knew they had to put their lives right , they knew they had to live holy lives , they knew that god had to be lord and master in their lives and unless they were willing to do that and be committed to him they were actually frightened of joining and one of the great weaknesses of the church today is that it becomes and it can becoming our thinking and nothing more than just something we join , something we belong to , something we go along to er as like a club , like an association , but that 's not the picture we see it in the New Testament , it is a very exclusive body , it is a very exclusive grouping , a grouping of those who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ and that 's why not every body is a member of the local church , not every body who goes to church on a Sunday is a member of a church to Jesus Christ now they know if they are , but other people may not know , they know and the lord knows , I know if I belong to him and he knows if I belong to him other people may not , I can put on the act , I can look as though I 'm playing the part , I can go through the routine , I can , I can , I can fool every body , but he knows and I know , and he knows and you know and so Jesus said not every body who says lord , lord on that day will I acknowledge and recognize and so for Ruth and Nao er yes Ruth and Auper it was gon na be different of course for them as foreigners in Judah especially when Naomi goes and she pleads with them go back home , Judah is not place for Moabias , she knew what it had been like to be a foreigner , she knew what it had been like to be an alien land in an alien culture in a different religion with a different language she had known the bitterness of it all , she pleads with them go back home she prayers for them the lord bless you , the lord you know be gracious to you and so on , but they refused and again Naomi puts it to them , to please go back and Auper reconsiders and she takes the counsel and advice of her mother in law but no so Ruth and Naomi turns and says look your sister in law 's gone back , she 's gone home , you go as well , you ca n't do it , its a too greater price for you to pay , its a choice you must n't make , a decision you must n't make , your gon na have poverty , your gon na have loneliness , your gon na have hardship . |
| 14 | Erm I think it it is beneficial mainly in the sense that erm if nothing more than running round the vehicle to make sure there are no marks and bangs and scratches on it which you 're going to inherit from the the previous run that it had er with a different driver perhaps . |
| 15 | Scientific dating techniques , and none more than radiocarbon , have revolutionised the archaeologist 's understanding of human cultural development . |
| 16 | Clacton won at Coggeshall by five wickets , but the champions then tumbled to a nine wicket reverse at home to Braintree the following day — their fourth loss of the season and one more than the whole of last summer ! |
| 17 | Interest was needed to obtain any office , but all too often it was also required to rise in rank thereafter , and something more than the ‘ ability and character ’ mentioned by Scott would be needed to take the junior clerk to the headship of a department . |
| 18 | The following remark , for example , made in the realization that physics was both something less and something more than an objective body of knowledge , was very similar to remarks made by the arts students about English : |
| 19 | All departments would be under close scrutiny , but none more than the Department of Health and Social Security , which was by far the biggest spender in Whitehall . |
| 20 | All were somewhat fuddled with drink but none more than the Mayor and his party . |
| 21 | Like others I would meet , but none more than himself , Barry had found in Peru both challenge and congeniality , even turning its frustrations into occasion for satisfaction . |
| 22 | All the family were delighted to have him home again , but none more than Maureen . |
| 23 | He could almost believe in the concept of the soul , because something more than physiological processes had inhabited this boy 's body , something total , something unique ; the pathetic shell it had left behind , with a luggage label hanging from the toe , bore silent witness to that . |
| 24 | This is the very reason why good spiritual directors do not mind the title because they more than anyone , recognize that the prime director is the Holy Spirit . |
| 25 | Such an obligation , usually thought of as nothing more than a reason to obey , may be based on reasons other than the authority of the law . |
| 26 | A less glamorous version of its origin sees the first Manx cat as nothing more than a Manx sailor 's pet — a curiosity brought home after travels to the Orient . |
| 27 | If the materially minded evolutionists were right and mind patterns whether in humans or animals are genetically transmitted as nothing more than expressions of biochemistry , then why do dogs still retain the same instincts as the wolf ? |
| 28 | Sure , the rumours continued , but while Nirvana were n't actually doing anything it was n't hard to dismiss this as nothing more than the idle tittle-tattle that was the inevitable lot of a multi-million selling rock band . |
| 29 | Even with × 20 it shows up as nothing more than an elliptical blur , more or less devoid of detail , though it is possible to see the smaller companion galaxy M32 close beside it . |
| 30 | What Mead is calling the generalized other and its effects , can be read as nothing more than the process of socialization in which any one culture or social groupings ' values and norms are internalized . |