Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] more than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | See D. N. MacCormick Essays in Social Democracy , Oxford , 1982 , ch. 10 ; and P. Atyiah , Promises , Morals and Law , Oxford , 1983 , for two of several analyses of promising which attempt to reduce it to what is in effect nothing more than the general principle of personal responsibility for one 's actions . |
| 2 | The golden circle and the golden cap which form the basis of Stephen 's Crown became for Hungary something more than the mere symbol of royalty . |
| 3 | The United States required continuing evidence of PLO acceptance of Israel and repudiation of violence as the price for diplomatic contact , but it was unclear whether it was yet willing to encourage Palestinian accommodationist tendencies by granting the PLO anything more than a hearing . |
| 4 | Is morality nothing more than a set of cultural conventions ? |
| 5 | In fact , Laura had refused to accept from her friend anything more than a small token sum towards the other girl 's rent . |
| 6 | Seeing in black life nothing more than an answer to racism means moving on to the ideological circuit which makes us visible in two complementary roles — the problem and the victim . |
| 7 | The legend of the Dent vampire is in all probability nothing more than an elaborate leg-pull , but it 's worth relating in case you have n't heard it before . |
| 8 | And we also know of his early life something more than the official biography , since , thirty years ago , his sister defected to here . |
| 9 | Currey noted : ‘ Although the treaty goes out to the World as the concurrent agreement of the tribe , it is in reality nothing more than the agreement of Lawyer and his band , numbering in the aggregate not a third part of the Nez Perce tribe . ’ |
| 10 | This is implied in the following passage from his memoirs : ‘ We had n't given the Cubans anything more than the Americans were giving their allies in Italy and Turkey . |
| 11 | A ‘ backwards ’ proton is in fact nothing more than an antiproton : what the experimenters at CERN look for is a proton ( rather than a neutron ) meeting an antiproton to produce a W particle which then decays to an electron and a neutrino . |