Example sentences of "[vb past] [indef pn] [adj] than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A TEAM of young archaeologists were disappointed when a dig in Darlington revealed nothing more than a Victorian cellar . |
| 2 | Of course , I had opened it and found nothing more than a piece of costly silk , blood-red and fringed at each end . |
| 3 | His response was predicated on the idea that he was dealing with an IRA insurrection when he was actually faced with a group of unarmed demonstrators who posed nothing more than a difficult public order problem . |
| 4 | It involved nothing less than a new paradigm and a new approach to the relationship of theory and practice in educational management " ( Hughes et al. |
| 5 | It seemed nothing less than a miracle . |
| 6 | Until the 1930s a ruling was in force which forbade anyone other than a French citizen from starting a newspaper . |
| 7 | The Greek ideal as founded by Winckelmann implied something more than a purely scholarly pursuit . |
| 8 | Li'l Abner — without the colour of the comic strip in the Sunday paper — seemed bogus , and bogus hillbilly at that ; but David and Earl , both schooled in the macho preference for raucous art , liked nothing better than a bogus barnyard . |
| 9 | THEY were a typical Seventies university football team — boozy , rowdy , long-haired fun-lovers who liked nothing better than a riotous party . |
| 10 | Lady Thatcher liked nothing better than a good old ding-dong , whether her opponent was François Mitterrand or Mikhail Gorbachev or King Kong . |
| 11 | He was described by the engineering historian Samuel Smiles [ q.v. ] as a ‘ heavy-browed man without any polish of manner or speech ’ whose head was ‘ a complete repertory of inventions ’ and who liked nothing better than a ‘ tough job ’ . |
| 12 | Well , he enjoyed every moment of it , as though he liked nothing better than a brawl . |
| 13 | My beautiful bike did everything cleverer than a clever cowboy 's horse , with me in the saddle . |
| 14 | ‘ Until you put it all together for us , we had nothing more than a report from a cab driver that he saw a man and a woman pushing such a barrow along Holborn and up Charterhouse Street . ’ |
| 15 | She had sleepless nights and was sick every morning of that week — and she was sick , too , when she had nothing more than a simple monthly medal on her hands . |
| 16 | Not that they expected anything other than a hard time when they visited Barnsley . |
| 17 | But then there was the question of replacing Susy , without James running himself ragged with the thousand-and-one chicks who wanted nothing better than a quick hop in the bed with a world star . |
| 18 | He wanted nothing less than a revival of the Romantic movement in literature , only a revival under firm Christian management . |
| 19 | Ward had often threatened to have it converted into a work room but , as is the case with most attics , it remained nothing more than a storehouse for junk that was n't wanted elsewhere in the cottage . |