Example sentences of "[prep] nothing more [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , he was having to unveil himself for nothing more than curious inspection . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In addition , there are also examples of a more eclectic but " static " figural sequence , whose composite arrangements are extremely rich in figures but whose figures are linked only conceptually or are envisaged as nothing more than numerous , individual representations . |
| 4 | This part of the ceremony was regarded as nothing more than formal ritual . |
| 5 | Some social scientists did : most ignored the debate because it was , frankly , naive ( and often consisted of nothing more than special pleading from scientists working for institutions that had much to lose ) . |
| 6 | And — yes — I got through my ‘ appreciation ’ of Philip without crying once , and with recourse to only one swig from the Rescue Remedy , with nothing more than red , puffy eyes , a bursting heart and a thumping head for the next twenty-four hours . |
| 7 | That Saints managed to cause an upset with nothing more than direct running and honest endeavour , bodes well for Great Britain , though the Kiwis can not be expected to enter the Test arena in such a generous mood . |
| 8 | ‘ In the past this has mainly been done from London with nothing more than token force based either in Edinburgh or Glasgow . |
| 9 | The desperate conviction of the publishing trade that famous people are somehow obliged to write for it may well lead to nothing more than four-figure fax bills . |
| 10 | But Katherine Lundy did n't believe in omens ; she imagined her untroubled night 's sleep was due to nothing more than complete exhaustion . |
| 11 | He embraced the moral grandeur of it with enthusiasm , and to his dying day aspired to nothing more than Indian membership of the British empire as an equal partner , regarding independence in isolation as a perhaps politically expedient but regrettable alternative . |
| 12 | The family 's possessions , also described by Van der Post , amount to nothing more than ostrich-egg containers , animal skins , the man 's spear , bow and arrows , and the woman 's ‘ grubbing-stick ’ , pestle and mortar . |
| 13 | The Muslim cemetery of Um Al-Farajh was a field of rubble and undergrowth , distinguished over most of its area by nothing more than small mounds of earth and scattered , broken stones . |