Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] more than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | What could eat nothin' more than a couple o' chops … |
| 2 | ‘ The tae of ye will need somethin' more than a dispensation from the Pope , Ah would think , if ye go on like this . ’ |
| 3 | Nobody dared to claim that Dukakis represented anything in particular or that he could reliably arouse anything more than a snore , but that was not the point . |
| 4 | We always had to chase after him for it and he 'd never give her more than a pound a week . |
| 5 | Nor need she expect anything more than a strictly business afternoon , she warned herself . |
| 6 | One of the criticisms sometimes levelled at the whole group drama approach is that it always seems to involve lots of meetings and discussions , and that this disadvantages those children whose grasp of language is uncertain ; that this " type " of drama can rapidly become nothing more than a heated discussion involving only the teacher and the more articulate members of the class . |
| 7 | He hoped that the driver would remember nothing more than a pair of headlights . |
| 8 | It had been splendidly undemanding ; because of his family , she did not see him more than a few times a month , always meetings snatched at short notice and with absolutely no expectation from him that she would be available . |
| 9 | Her pleading frail voice went straight to my heart every time , and quite often I would crack her more than a few eggs to make up the dozen . |
| 10 | A piece to be presented should have something more than a surface narrative quality in the characterisation . |
| 11 | Maybe it is true that it will take something more than a 44-points thrashing by France to force the IRFU into serious action . |
| 12 | Even if the ethos does permit them to check out how they are doing , it remains unlikely that it will encourage anything more than a superficial sharing of doubts about what they are doing : about the disparity between their hopes for teaching and the effects , or lack of them , that they and their colleagues seem to be achieving . |
| 13 | Not that the tribesmen would attempt anything more than a quick raid by night , not until the legions were withdrawn . |
| 14 | While the administration of the Marshall Plan through OEEC was giving Western Europe a first lesson in economic cooperation , it was clear to the dedicated disciples of a united Europe that neither OEEC nor the Council of Europe could have anything more than a limited application . |
| 15 | However , formulae such as " adjectives precede their nouns " do not take us beyond a very shallow level of linguistic description ; nor is it an improvement to find phrases such as " an attributive adjective " unless the description proceeds in some way to give an account of how a term like attributive may mean something more than a simple statement about formal grouping . |
| 16 | I feel I commit myself more than a lot of people . |
| 17 | For example , the ‘ village community ’ can signify nothing more than a type of settlement — a small number of people living together in a rural location usually in a nucleated pattern . |
| 18 | In the autumn of 1984 , the evaluators could witness nothing more than a library skills lesson offered under the heading of IS and taught in one of its allocated periods . |
| 19 | When I wrote the program , I never thought that it would evolve anything more than a variety of tree-like shapes . |
| 20 | I mean , Stu would never attain anything more than a kind of addled bopping , but that summer he brought a certain careless vivacity to the matter of heel-and-toe . |