Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [indef pn] more [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! ! ! ’ |
| 2 | At first they had no idea that the stretch of pale , shallow water beyond the Cape would present them with anything more than another disappointment . |
| 3 | It would be easy to dismiss her as nothing more than a minor accessory to ben Issachar 's crime against me : these women stay in the background , mind their own business over the cookpots and the infant 's cot , keep themselves out of public view . |
| 4 | Then like a fool he had spoken of Maud , and Sarah had seen him as nothing more than a philanderer . |
| 5 | He thought he would come to no harm both because people needed his services as a medical man and because he thought they would regard him as nothing more than a political eccentric . |
| 6 | But still it was clear that , amidst her preoccupations , there was scarcely room to think of him as anything more than a temporary ally . |
| 7 | One would think you intended her for something more than your waiting maid . |
| 8 | He had n't even used force , holding her with nothing more than the subtle movement of his mouth on hers . |
| 9 | Fate had thrown them together , but eventually their paths would separate , leaving her with nothing more than the memory of a powerful body pressed close and warm against her own . |
| 10 | And to us if we are to understand him in anything more than a superficial way . |
| 11 | But it would be foolish to dismiss it as nothing more than a gimmick . |
| 12 | By all means enjoy an autumn romance but do not think of it as anything more than that . ’ |
| 13 | All sorts of little sub-businesses grew after the first month or two and it was at this point that we thought it would be nice to turn it into something more than just a folk club . |
| 14 | This is the disastrous way in which they have trivialized the rich complexity of black life by reducing it to nothing more than a response to racism . |
| 15 | a chivalric Don Quixote figure of absolute non-compromise in matters ( as he sees them ) of virtue and truth , in effect an overspill from The Idiot — which Dostoevsky seems to have recognized , for he abandoned the positive and sublime venture , and hived off the comic material he had accumulated into the drunken buffoon Captain Lebyadkin who grows into a substantial second-rank character in The Possessed ; , and as to Kartuzov , the novelist left us with nothing more than his cappy surname . |