Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [pron] more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | My first example would sound like this : ‘ The trade balance is One BILL ION Pounds in the red … ’ — pronounced ‘ bill -yun ’ with a strange rising cadence that reminds me of nothing more than Leslie Crowther : ‘ A bill -yun pounds — come on down ! ! ! ’ |
| 2 | Now , he was having to unveil himself for nothing more than curious inspection . |
| 3 | The clowns ' convention is , perhaps , Bognor 's way of proclaiming itself as something more than just another commuter dormitory and retirement town on the south coast . |
| 4 | At first they had no idea that the stretch of pale , shallow water beyond the Cape would present them with anything more than another disappointment . |
| 5 | Neither the National Trust , who own it , nor the County Listing Department , nor Nikolaus Pevsner can furnish one with anything more than technical descriptions . |
| 6 | It would be easy to dismiss her as nothing more than a minor accessory to ben Issachar 's crime against me : these women stay in the background , mind their own business over the cookpots and the infant 's cot , keep themselves out of public view . |
| 7 | Then like a fool he had spoken of Maud , and Sarah had seen him as nothing more than a philanderer . |
| 8 | He thought he would come to no harm both because people needed his services as a medical man and because he thought they would regard him as nothing more than a political eccentric . |
| 9 | But still it was clear that , amidst her preoccupations , there was scarcely room to think of him as anything more than a temporary ally . |
| 10 | One would think you intended her for something more than your waiting maid . |
| 11 | He had n't even used force , holding her with nothing more than the subtle movement of his mouth on hers . |
| 12 | Fate had thrown them together , but eventually their paths would separate , leaving her with nothing more than the memory of a powerful body pressed close and warm against her own . |
| 13 | And to us if we are to understand him in anything more than a superficial way . |
| 14 | But it would be foolish to dismiss it as nothing more than a gimmick . |
| 15 | By all means enjoy an autumn romance but do not think of it as anything more than that . ’ |
| 16 | All sorts of little sub-businesses grew after the first month or two and it was at this point that we thought it would be nice to turn it into something more than just a folk club . |
| 17 | This is the disastrous way in which they have trivialized the rich complexity of black life by reducing it to nothing more than a response to racism . |
| 18 | But the PE teacher was strong-willed and I associated myself with him more than anybody else . |
| 19 | Again , it is not quite like joining a club , because you simply attend , you do not have to commit yourself to anything more than that . |
| 20 | If I 'd ever done anything — made anything of myself more than a third-rate free-lance — it might 've been different . |
| 21 | a chivalric Don Quixote figure of absolute non-compromise in matters ( as he sees them ) of virtue and truth , in effect an overspill from The Idiot — which Dostoevsky seems to have recognized , for he abandoned the positive and sublime venture , and hived off the comic material he had accumulated into the drunken buffoon Captain Lebyadkin who grows into a substantial second-rank character in The Possessed ; , and as to Kartuzov , the novelist left us with nothing more than his cappy surname . |