Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] more than [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These maxims , many of them reflecting nothing more than common sense , and taken from the recorded experience of the past , were to be found mainly in two works : the Facta et dicta memorabilia of Valerius Maximus , written in the first century AD , and the Stratagemata of Frontinus , composed in the same century by a man who had been for a short while Roman governor of Britain . |
| 2 | The problem is that this often encourages nothing more than mere farce . |
| 3 | There was a small knee-hole desk and he went through the drawers but found nothing more than discarded pens , broken pencils , old catalogues , a quantity of scrap paper , and an assortment of pins and clips . |
| 4 | The X-ray showed nothing more than bruising . |
| 5 | The X-ray showed nothing more than bruising . |
| 6 | It is highly unlikely that he envisaged anything more than joint diplomatic pressure on Russia which would bring Nicholas to the conference table to discuss the problems at issue , which explains why he used as a pretext the totally ridiculous question of the keys to the Holy places in Jerusalem , whose custody was disputed between the Latin Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches . |
| 7 | The landholding of few of the great monasteries of northern Francia shows anything more than temporary dislocation . |
| 8 | She had sensed something more than mere adoration in the way he had kissed her and been aware of her body 's response . |
| 9 | It is hardly the same poem ; it seems to have meant more than slightly different things to three different people in different ages , if " meaning " involves something more than strict fidelity to content ( and even then the texts wander away from the original ) . |
| 10 | Nothing much has changed in nearly 100 years however , and Mr. Walshaw has no plans to do anything more than careful , small scale enhancement and maintenance using traditional methods and family labour . |
| 11 | A set of four small pastel drawings depicting nothing more than burning leaves , haystacks , and a solitary tree convincingly carry nothing less than 400 years of European history — from the displacement of Catholicism , the enlightenment , the Holocaust to the decay of capitalism . |
| 12 | For Constantine , of course , God the Father would have entailed nothing more than new nomenclature for Sol Invictus , the sun god who already commanded his personal allegiance . |
| 13 | George Dempster , the member of parliament for Dundee burghs , whose election at St. Andrews would ‘ certainly turn on a single vote unless I am able to provide a Councillors son in a Kirk ’ , urged nothing more than political consequences when pressing for the settlement of the St. Andrews clergyman , and many presentations were indeed political bribes . |
| 14 | In truth , there seems something more than common about them . ’ |
| 15 | But it has also been apparent from the very beginning of the tale , where Wilekin " began to love a married woman " that " love " in this text may mean nothing more than carnal desire . |
| 16 | Nationalists had also called a one-day general strike for Oct. 1 against the proposed new union treaty , but only in the West Ukraine did this attract anything more than patchy support . |
| 17 | In his Philosophie anatomique of 1818–22 , Geoffroy argued that the basic similarity that allowed all the vertebrates to be assigned to a single type of organization reflected something more than mere engineering efficiency . |
| 18 | Silas 's eyes reflected something more than mere appreciation but he said nothing as he pulled out the chair for her to sit down . |
| 19 | There were a significant number of specialists even in the early decades of the century , including both the exponents of the Linnaean tradition of classification and the philosophical naturalists , who hoped to achieve something more than mere cataloguing . |
| 20 | Information collected about the relatives of cancer patients showed that only a minority have anything more than superficial contact with the staff caring for the patient , and a number of these relatives would have welcomed an opportunity to share their anxiety , not only about the patient but about their own feelings ( Bond , 1982 ) . |