Example sentences of "[be] [indef pn] more [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But although new roofs have been built , many windows remain smashed and most bathrooms are nothing more than rubble . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I knew it must be something more than flu . |
| 4 | ’ In my view there must certainly be something more than infringement before the assistance of civil proceedings can be invoked and accorded for the protection or promotion of the interests of the inhabitants of the area . |
| 5 | In the passage I have just quoted , Lord Templeman said that there must certainly be something more than infringement before the assistance of civil proceedings can be invoked . |
| 6 | We feel this important , however , to counterbalance the view of crime , promoted by the Conservative Party , and accepted by some on the left , as being nothing more than violence , mugging and burglary . |
| 7 | Some theologians have suggested that the essence of the gospel is nothing more than forgiveness as it is enshrined in the story of the prodigal Son . |
| 8 | A common criticism is that their ‘ telepathy ’ is nothing more than mumbo-jumbo covering the clever ‘ detective ’ work of extracting clues and information from their naive victims . |
| 9 | It 's about time somebody killed this ‘ debate ’ dead in its tracks , even if it meant stating the obvious ; that postmodernism is nothing more than Situationism without the socialism , the archetypal assimilation of revolutionary technique and terminology . |
| 10 | Heat is nothing more than energy of atoms in motion , so if you can slow down atoms , you are in effect cooling them . |
| 11 | The only thing that really matters is feeling and living what you believe — so long as it 's something more than belief in your own comfort . |
| 12 | But this was something more than intelligence . |
| 13 | Perhaps there was something more than coherence at stake . |