Example sentences of "[vb past] [indef pn] more [subord] [art] " 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 | She disliked the casual way in which he made decisions profoundly affecting other people 's lives — choosing whose tale of woe should be front page news , and whose story deserved nothing more than the wastepaper bin . |
| 5 | ‘ Spurging ’ entailed the general washing of the body with spiced and aromatic water to remove the sweat of the death-bed and generally to clean the corpse ; ‘ cleansing ’ was the euphemism given to the assisted emptying of the bowels and the plugging of the rectum ; the removal of the soft organs , following an incision made from the bottom of the rib cage to the pelvic region , was known as ‘ bowelling ’ ; ‘ searing ’ was the cauterizing of the cavity blood vessels after the removal of the soft organs as a precaution against post-mortem haemorrhaging ; whilst the purification of the inner cavity was the technical ‘ embalming ’ ; the outer surface of the body was ‘ dressed ’ by the application of balms , a mixture of resins in volatile oils ; whilst ‘ furnishing ’ implied nothing more than the positioning of the sudarium ( a linen square covering the face ) and the close wrapping of the corpse in layers of cerecloth and waxed twine . |
| 6 | The Greek ideal as founded by Winckelmann implied something more than a purely scholarly pursuit . |
| 7 | Robert felt something more than the natural peevishness of a betrayed parent or guardian . |
| 8 | For the time being they could evade Allen 's choice by challenging the assumption that the League represented anything more than the collective security of a group of satisfied imperial powers . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The simple organizational structure of the army and the short careers of its officer corps meant that no one had anything more than the most rudimentary administrative skills . |
| 12 | You could n't get a job as a Nippy if you had anything more than an eighteen-inch waist . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | NOT CONTENT with Physics or Maths homework 25 years ago , a group of young men wanted something more than the usual pastime so they built a railway . |
| 15 | And it was impossible to tell whether her own gaze held anything more than the bewildered gratitude and regret that were clearly there . |