Example sentences of "[be] something more [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lewis , whose youthful enthusiasm had been for Norse sagas and the verse tales of William Morris , seems to have been converted to Christianity by considering whether the Christian myth might not , after all ‘ be something more than a fiction . |
| 2 | St George Jackson Mivart 's Genesis of Species of 1871 offered a cornucopia of anti-Darwinian arguments based on the claim that evolution must be something more than a haphazard process of adaptation . |
| 3 | I should like to be something more than a drill-master for competent philologists — the generation of present-day teachers , the care of the growing younger generation , this is what I have in mind . " |
| 4 | Consequently , ‘ risk ’ must be something more than a remote possibility but less than a probability . |
| 5 | if the return to Conservatism is to be something more than the transient apparition of a spectre from the past , and its voice in national affairs not merely to be a sepulchral warning against the dangers of rash courses , the Conservative leaders must bestir themselves to some purpose … [ the Conservative Party ] must be ready to meet the programme of the Labour Party not simply with a non-possumus but with an alternative which will in some measure satisfy certain of the needs which Labour is concerned to satisfy , and at the same time avoid the perils with which it insists Labour policy is beset . |
| 6 | In the end , if this crime turned out to be something more than an abortive mugging , he would have a portrait of the victim and through that portrait some indication of why he had become one . |
| 7 | This is something more than a mere disturbance of the public calm or quiet but it appears that in the context of public order , the element of violence deemed essential in R. v. Howell ( C.A. , 1982 ) , in relation to powers of summary arrest , has not always been required . |
| 8 | If you have succeeded in fully engaging the sympathies of your readers you will probably have produced for them a main character who is something more than a stereotype , who has about him or her a good deal of the complexity of real life . |
| 9 | [ T ] he state is something more than a mere collection of families , or an agglomeration of occupational organisation , or a referee holding the ring between the conflicting interests of the voluntary associations which it permits to exist . |
| 10 | Writers on policy analysis are agreed that a policy is something more than a decision . |
| 11 | And this is something more than a literary point . |
| 12 | I consider that we have a very important national duty to perform in this respect ; this city is something more than the mother of arts and eloquence ; she is the mother of nations ; we are peopling two continents , the Western and the Southern Continent , and we are organising , christianising and civilising large portions of two ancient continents , Africa and Asia ; and it is not right that when the inhabitants of those countries come to the metropolis , they should see nothing worthy of its ancient renown . |
| 13 | It 's something more than a Crucifixion ; it 's almost a piece of slaughter , butchery ; meat and flesh . |
| 14 | It was clearly not an all-party government , yet , until September 1932 at least , it was something more than a mere Conservative front . |
| 15 | But these days she was stepping way out of line , coming on like she had something on him , like she was something more than a two-bit secretary . |
| 16 | She was something more than a housekeeper , more also than a nurse . |
| 17 | Photography is 80 per cent casting , and with Kate it was something more than a beautiful face . |
| 18 | The community was something more than a collection of species working together for mutual advantage — it obeyed laws that could only be understood at a level transcending that of the individual organisms . |
| 19 | It appeared as if there was something more than a cupboard there . |
| 20 | The next chapter examines the governmental context of Charles 's fiscal and monetary methods : his imitation of late-Roman emperors was something more than a charade or a figleaf for impotence . |
| 21 | Surely this was something more than the heat of twelve geese cooking on a summer 's night ? |