Example sentences of "[indef pn] [det] than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The tae of ye will need somethin' more than a dispensation from the Pope , Ah would think , if ye go on like this . ’ |
| 2 | Something less than a precision guided missile would do the trick . |
| 3 | Mrs Guest was born to polite society , but broke with convention as a wayward débutante , taking to the stage and sitting for Diego Rivera in something less than a presentation gown . |
| 4 | The ‘ synod ’ or , in Latin , ‘ council ’ ( the modern distinction making a synod something less than a council was unknown in antiquity ) became an indispensable way of keeping a common mind , and helped to keep maverick individuals from centrifugal tendencies . |
| 5 | Inouye : I just wanted the record to be clear , because somehow I felt like something less than a patriot all day long . |
| 6 | Writers on policy analysis are agreed that a policy is something more than a decision . |
| 7 | If you have succeeded in fully engaging the sympathies of your readers you will probably have produced for them a main character who is something more than a stereotype , who has about him or her a good deal of the complexity of real life . |
| 8 | I should like to be something more than a drill-master for competent philologists — the generation of present-day teachers , the care of the growing younger generation , this is what I have in mind . " |
| 9 | The next chapter examines the governmental context of Charles 's fiscal and monetary methods : his imitation of late-Roman emperors was something more than a charade or a figleaf for impotence . |
| 10 | Lewis , whose youthful enthusiasm had been for Norse sagas and the verse tales of William Morris , seems to have been converted to Christianity by considering whether the Christian myth might not , after all ‘ be something more than a fiction . |
| 11 | Now something more than a quelling look appeared on Lord Woodleigh 's fine-bred features . |
| 12 | A piece to be presented should have something more than a surface narrative quality in the characterisation . |
| 13 | We can perhaps only guess at what exactly lay behind such incidents , although these kinds of details begin to add up to something more than a fringe resentment of the police by a marginal ‘ criminal element ’ . |
| 14 | It appeared as if there was something more than a cupboard there . |
| 15 | She was something more than a housekeeper , more also than a nurse . |
| 16 | It 's something more than a Crucifixion ; it 's almost a piece of slaughter , butchery ; meat and flesh . |
| 17 | The community was something more than a collection of species working together for mutual advantage — it obeyed laws that could only be understood at a level transcending that of the individual organisms . |
| 18 | Most were still bewildered by the way Northampton opened out the game to create openings for surprise attacks , and after a 4–1 win at Swindon , the Railwaymen 's international winger Fleming told Chapman : ‘ You have something more than a team : you have a machine . ’ |
| 19 | The great features of that map , which make it something more than a picture to be imperfectly copied by laborious childish pens , are the great promontories of Caernarvon , of Pembroke , of Gower and of Cornwall , jutting out into the western sea , like the features of a grim large face , such a face as is carved on a ship 's prow … . |
| 20 | Something more than a vote was expected in return for the major posts , but essentially they too were employed to aid the development of a political interest . |
| 21 | What could eat nothin' more than a couple o' chops … |
| 22 | ‘ The state is nothing more than a machine for the oppression of one class by another . ’ |
| 23 | Then they turn against the Prime Minister with a viciousness and a bitterness that suggests that previous talk of unity was nothing more than a charade . |
| 24 | Diana was nothing more than a schoolgirl , unworldly in the extreme . |
| 25 | ( The Booker , thought Jeffrey , had recently become nothing more than a branch of Overseas Development . ) |
| 26 | It could be nothing more than a speculation , since at that point levels of attainment had no meaning other than their definition in the Report . |
| 27 | If a lake is built behind the barrage , it will be nothing more than a sewage pit . |
| 28 | One obvious possibility here is to regard the union Parliament as representative of all parties and thus as empowered to vary the terms of union — nothing more than a rationalisation of its sovereignty . |
| 29 | They had a son called Michael and a daughter called Matilda , and the parents looked upon Matilda in particular as nothing more than a scab . |
| 30 | It costs nothing more than a smile . ’ |