Example sentences of "[prep] something more [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result of this potent combination of sentiment and self-interest , the war had assumed the character of something more than a military operation : in the minds of the military and of many civilians , left and right , it had quickly become a decisive test of France 's national will and international power . |
| 2 | The introduction of a geographical dimension at this level could be taken up even by those who saw evolution as something more than the selection of random variation . |
| 3 | The creation of a database in the school library can therefore be seen as something more than the provision of a catalogue of resources . |
| 4 | Horace is a highly allusive poet ; names of personages real and mythical fill the Odes , and nearly always with something more than a merely decorative intent . |
| 5 | We can perhaps only guess at what exactly lay behind such incidents , although these kinds of details begin to add up to something more than a fringe resentment of the police by a marginal ‘ criminal element ’ . |
| 6 | And drastic measures are needed in the Serious Fraud Office , set up last year , to ensure that it moves at something more than a glacial pace . |
| 7 | But the states of western Europe were now being driven by harsh experience if by nothing higher to aim at something more than the chaotic free-for-all which had marked the Italian wars and the Habsburg–Valois struggles of the first half of the sixteenth century . |