Example sentences of "[indef pn] [det] than the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | With his clammy hands and his face furrowed at nothing more than the flap of pigeons ' wings or the sight of a meter maid , he seemed to be waiting for it . |
| 32 | If officialdom plays the game , the great benefit should be an end to those long delays in customs which appear often to be caused by nothing more than the whimsy of officials . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | She crossed to Patrick 's bed and rested her hand on his forehead ; it felt hot and his cheeks were certainly flushed — but perhaps that might be nothing more than the heat in the room . |
| 35 | Yet it is misleading to suggest that this means that legal authority depends on nothing more than the testator 's intention , whatever it may be . |
| 36 | If it is the case that we are motivated by nothing more than the need to reproduce , then it makes sense that women are programmed to be broody and men to satisfy that broodiness . |
| 37 | The serious consequences of confusion between experts and arbitrators are underlined by the fact that the subject-matter of this case that the Court of Appeal had to deal with was nothing more than the rent of a car park . |
| 38 | This ‘ staff ’ he referred to was , of course , nothing more than the skeleton team of six kept on by Lord Darlington 's relatives to administer to the house up to and throughout the transactions ; and I regret to report that once the purchase had been completed , there was little I could do for Mr Farraday to prevent all but Mrs Clements leaving for other employment . |
| 39 | As it also happens to be the only drinker on the Cherwell until you get to Islip , the murderous conspiracies and dark plots which so excite the Kidlington Kops amount to nothing more than the fact that when I opened my curtains that morning I saw the sun shining in a cloudless blue sky and decided to go for the longest and most pleasant of the river walks open to me . |
| 40 | This , however , may have been nothing more than the fact that nuclear energy constituted a clearly defined and nascent policy sector , and one which , since unlike other policy areas such as coal or agriculture there were hardly any national interests or groups to consider , could quite easily be separated from the rest of national policy making . |
| 41 | Equally , however , there may be some circumstances where ‘ strong ’ government amounts to nothing more than the power to force upon the country crass , stupid and mistaken policies lacking even the virtue of endorsement by a majority of , presumably , misguided electors . |
| 42 | Wide-eyed as any of the cockpit 's meaningless dials , I flew over the most spectacular scenery , feeling nothing more than the pain from my broken wings . |
| 43 | De Man 's progress towards the aporia of hidden and manifest content in Proust is nothing more than the elaboration of his initial imperfect translation . |
| 44 | But more careful observation showed that the behaviour was simply an imitation of the trainer 's actions , combined with an association of certain ‘ symbols ’ or shapes with particular things — nothing more than the association of the sight or shape of a banana plant with bananas , combined with a sequence of actions required to pluck the banana or to reach the location of the plant in the wild . |
| 45 | It was left to Karl Marx to strip away the veil of capitalist ideology and reveal the wage system and the ‘ free labour market ’ as nothing more than the domination of one class over another . |
| 46 | RAI protests that this amounts to a colossal waste of money since it previously acquired Eurovision rights for nothing more than the duty of reciprocal access to material from Italy . |
| 47 | Their overall effect is to permit detention for up to ninety-six hours , a far cry from the limit of twenty-four hours suggested by section 41 , and to allow it notwithstanding that its primary purpose is nothing more than the questioning and interrogation of the suspect . |
| 48 | To many people , talk of greater denominational unity was nothing more than the application to religion of current political nostrums like collectivism or , worse , ‘ socialism ’ . |
| 49 | The Church , he insisted , was ‘ nothing more than the aggregation of these individuals . ’ |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | Currey noted : ‘ Although the treaty goes out to the World as the concurrent agreement of the tribe , it is in reality nothing more than the agreement of Lawyer and his band , numbering in the aggregate not a third part of the Nez Perce tribe . ’ |
| 52 | What Mead is calling the generalized other and its effects , can be read as nothing more than the process of socialization in which any one culture or social groupings ' values and norms are internalized . |
| 53 | the written transcript will only be used in preference to the tape if neither prosecution nor defence sees any advantage in playing it , but it does not necessarily follow from this that the tape discloses nothing more than the transcript . |
| 54 | With France in chaos , its king a prisoner , Navarrese forces in control in Normandy and English garrisons established not just in Brittany and Aquitaine but also in Anjou , Maine and Touraine , it must have appeared to Edward that his ultimate triumph was in sight , and it is arguable that now , after the failure of the Second Treaty of London , Edward 's aim was nothing less than the crown . |
| 55 | Many outer estates are nothing less than the architect-designed , system-built slums of our post-war era . |
| 56 | When , in Frankfurt in October , the talks were foundering , North called it ‘ a great tragedy for those of us who live on this Planet Earth ’ ; nothing less than the misalignment of two spheres that had been about to dance in harmonious orbit . |
| 57 | But the play also acknowledges quite clearly that what is at stake is nothing less than the legitimacy of the whole social order , hinging as it does on a ‘ naturally ’ sanctioned law of sexual difference . |
| 58 | The European Political Community was not to be just a third community , but nothing less than the beginning of a comprehensive federation to which the ECSC and EDC would be subordinated . |
| 59 | ‘ I believe that what we have heard and seen this afternoon is nothing less than the beginning of the end of your premiership . ’ |
| 60 | Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown summed up the mood by telling Mr Major : ‘ What you have seen this afternoon is nothing less than the beginning of the end of your premiership . |