Example sentences of "[pron] more [conj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the beginning , photographers have recorded every facet of our own society , and many also made superb visual documents of foreign races and cultures , none more than John Thomson |
| 2 | From the beginning , photographers have recorded every facet of our own society , and many also made superb visual documents of foreign races and cultures , none more than John Thomson |
| 3 | He 'll be on duty for his country for the 86th time … and that 's one more than Chelsea defender Mal Donaghy , of the current batch our highest capped player . |
| 4 | He 'll be on duty for his country for the 86th time … and that 's one more than Chelsea defender Mal Donaghy , of the current batch our highest capped player . |
| 5 | The need for flexibility in plan making was stressed ; something more than land use maps were required and they had to be more responsive to the rapid changes then being experienced in the 1960s in terms of economic and social trends , population forecasts and traffic growth . |
| 6 | Something more than emergency rations are required in a country where 80% of children under the age of five suffer from malnutrition . |
| 7 | Midshipman Callender 's friends no doubt were aware that efficiency united to interest was the strongest claim to promotion in the navy , and Lord Keith 's correspondence abounds in references to interest being a motive in bringing a man forward in the service : ‘ I have made McKenzie a lieutenant into the Rattlesnake ; he was a friend of Mr. Dunsmuress and recommended by Lord Elphinstone to me , so I am glad to have served him ’ , a comment which suggests that the admiral was influenced by something more than Mr. McKenzie 's personal abilities . |
| 8 | And you can manufacture bucketfuls of this marvellous stuff from nothing more than kitchen waste . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , a little humility does not ill become the social scientist , and a contribution to theory , no matter how small , which derives from careful enquiry , is more worthy of the accolade ‘ scholarship ’ than is the sweeping generalization based upon nothing more than armchair speculation . |
| 10 | Notice that the symbols unc are really nothing more than place markers . |
| 11 | The official ADN news agency said that Mr Honecker told the visiting Chinese Deputy Prime Minister , Yao Yilin : ‘ Any attempt by imperialism to destabilise socialist construction , and slander its achievements , is now and in the future nothing more than Don Quixote 's futile charge against the steadily turning sails of a windmill . ’ |
| 12 | 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 ! ! ! ’ |
| 13 | There are stick insects that look like twigs , butterflies that resemble bird droppings , seahorses that appear to be pieces of floating seaweed , moths that look like bark and frogs that seem to be nothing more than leaf litter on the forest floor . |
| 14 | Note that suppliers are not obliged to offer anything more than cash compensation . |
| 15 | They are unacceptable in drinking water in anything more than trace concentrations , and there is increasing evidence of organochlorine contamination in water-supply boreholes . |