Example sentences of "[prep] anything more [conj] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Britain still talks of anything more than a 15 per cent cut in the CEGB 's emissions within ten years as being ‘ impracticable ’ .
2 In fact , he had no need of anything more than a lock of hair he showed me . ’
3 Is nursing purely a matter of imitating and repeating rote tasks , and therefore unworthy of anything more than the sympathetic application of a set of predetermined rules ?
4 It is also easier to stop the forward movement in this situation , since many models require a positive effort to make headway against anything more than a stiff breeze .
5 The prince , who took his force into Wales from Chester in good tight order , and at every mile ensured his lines behind him , was on his guard against his own instinctive enthusiasm as well as against Welsh armies , and knew enough about them by this time to feel no surprise that he should probe ever more deeply and carefully into North Wales , and never touch hands with anything more than a darting patrol , gone almost as soon as sighted .
6 And to us if we are to understand him in anything more than a superficial way .
7 The report , from a correspondent in Bangkok , stated that this was the first occasion since the Vietnamese withdrawal from Cambodia in September 1989 [ see pp. 36881-82 ] that Vietnamese forces had been used in anything more than an emergency capacity .
8 We know Compaq wrote the specification when it was still a ploy — Systems Network Integration says they even have a prototype up and running — but whether this can ever amount to anything more than a high-end PC depends on sorting out fact from propaganda .
9 These petty morals , partly overlapping , form a cascade of precepts none of which amounts to anything more than a trite platitude .
10 But if you put all of these together , do they amount to anything more than a restorationist position ?
11 But this begs the question : does ‘ pride and dignity ’ amount to anything more than the aspiration to participate in society on its own terms ?
12 It may be that with a patient who is terminally ill or aged , the doctor 's obligation does not extend to anything more than the relief of pain and making the patient comfortable .
13 The ancient streets could perhaps have been left to enforce their own low driving speeds through their narrowness , their cobbled surfaces and their lack of visibility over anything more than a few metres .
14 Staff should be discouraged from carrying over anything more than a few holidays a few days holiday from one year to the next , unless it 's for specific purposes , such as climbing , catching dingo or visiting Aunty Mabel in New Zealand .
15 But at this stage the problem for research has not been defined at anything more than a very general level .
16 Indeed , if anything , they seem to have been too demoralised politically to organise effectively at anything more than a local level , and that in itself is testimony to the devastating effect of the Kulturkampf and Polenpolitik .
17 Recently published Dataquest figures indicate a potential market size of $300 million by 1990 but with less that a year of history to go on this can hardly be taken as anything more than a guideline .
18 But still it was clear that , amidst her preoccupations , there was scarcely room to think of him as anything more than a temporary ally .
19 Nor were the books that Edward showed me the kind of thing I would normally have read — not , at least , as anything more than a casual browse among the dustier nooks of human eccentricity .
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