Example sentences of "[prep] any more than " in BNC.
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1 | History can not be done away with any more than metaphysics : but its conditions of impossibility are also necessarily its conditions of possibility . |
2 | He knows so little about being loved , he can not really provide Miranda with any more than material gifts and force to persuade her to love him . |
3 | She left in the end without any more than a brotherly handshake on my part . |
4 | They shouted for us to stop , but we ai n't take that on any more than if they were Chinese in the film , we were recreating our life like how we recreate the film . |
5 | Nothing in her life had led her to suppose that men could be relied on any more than anyone else . |
6 | Nothing he had been told from the very first moment he had arrived in Perugia amounted to any more than salacious gossip , casual slanders , ill-informed rumours of no real value which elsewhere would never have reached his ears . |
7 | It 's not gon na come up to any more than anything . |
8 | And hope it does n't come to any more than that , otherwise I shall will be in your debt . |
9 | But Birch is a modest man , despite his immodest ideas , and would not see his book as any more than a starter . |
10 | It seems to us to be an evolutionary survival factor : the more intelligent a species , the more likely it is to survive in the long term ; this is a reasonable hypothesis , but it can hardly be considered as any more than that . |
11 | But you must have , you know , do n't ramble on about the same thing , right , cos , for , for , for any more than a couple of sentences , cos then , you know , you c start entering into sort of diminishing marginal returns very , very quickly on these short answer questions , what you want to , do is sort of say a sentence about as much as you can rather than go into in depth discussion about erm , any particular aspect . |