Example sentences of "[indef pn] more [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All were somewhat fuddled with drink but none more than the Mayor and his party . |
| 2 | All departments would be under close scrutiny , but none more than the Department of Health and Social Security , which was by far the biggest spender in Whitehall . |
| 3 | Clacton won at Coggeshall by five wickets , but the champions then tumbled to a nine wicket reverse at home to Braintree the following day — their fourth loss of the season and one more than the whole of last summer ! |
| 4 | This reflects the fact that several kinds of considerations may lead to different and incompatible policies all of which are commonly regarded as policies of neutrality , because all of them demonstrate an even-handed treatment of the parties either by not helping one more than the other , or by not helping one more than the other to take special measures to improve his position in the conflict , and so on . |
| 5 | A polyurethane coating then seals the pores , usually making the surfaces slick and shiny , one more than the other . |
| 6 | Even when a set of stunt lines have been very carefully matched to each , it is inevitable that line tension will stretch one more than the other . |
| 7 | The high frequency with which oesophageal mucosal disease occurs in asthmatics is consistent with both the vagal reflex theory and the microaspiration theory , and does not support one more than the other . |
| 8 | The combination seems to point to some underlying form of ‘ essential history ’ of which each individual provides his variant but which can only be hinted at , not revealed , because when the voices join across time they never quite marry , though their coming together is an attempt to generate something which like a collective emotion is necessarily felt as something more than the experience of the individual , as something dominant and external' . |
| 9 | Any basic change in the executive branch of British government will need something more than the type of structural reform of the civil service proposed by the Fulton Committee . |
| 10 | The child , possessed by wonder and nameless hauntings , tried to join together the heavings and creakings and groans and gasps and little cries he had heard as he lay on the floor , his mother 's disturbed concentration now , his father 's stillness as if felled , and the sticky warmth in which he lay between them , something more than the sweat that was there before , a substance he divined as elemental , mysterious , newly decanted , that touched his flesh and his senses with profound , unattainable meaning . |
| 11 | The creation of a database in the school library can therefore be seen as something more than the provision of a catalogue of resources . |
| 12 | The importance of ensuring a high turnout amongst E C nationals surely warrants something more than the complacency and drift that has come to characterise this government 's whole policy towards the European community . |
| 13 | The introduction of a geographical dimension at this level could be taken up even by those who saw evolution as something more than the selection of random variation . |
| 14 | An occupier is in such a case liable only where the injury is due to some wilful act involving something more than the absence of reasonable care . |
| 15 | Maxim hoped it sounded as if he were hiding something more than the fact that Blagg had n't been able to tell what they were . |
| 16 | Surely this was something more than the heat of twelve geese cooking on a summer 's night ? |
| 17 | This would involve something more than the counselling which EWOs routinely provide in truancy cases . |
| 18 | Beryl needed firm handling but losing father and brother inside four days must mean something more than the prospect of a secure income . |
| 19 | I consider that we have a very important national duty to perform in this respect ; this city is something more than the mother of arts and eloquence ; she is the mother of nations ; we are peopling two continents , the Western and the Southern Continent , and we are organising , christianising and civilising large portions of two ancient continents , Africa and Asia ; and it is not right that when the inhabitants of those countries come to the metropolis , they should see nothing worthy of its ancient renown . |
| 20 | In fact , this emphasis has misled many students of price theory to understand the notion of the entrepreneur as nothing more than the locus of profit-maximizing decision-making within the firm . |
| 21 | As far as evolution is concerned , I , and this is really the essence of our modern view , I am really nothing more than the packaging of my genes , because after all this is what evolution acts on . |
| 22 | However , Pearson 's lack of interest in the methods of play construction led him towards even more unfocused ways of organizing his films , aiming for a sort of primitive naturalism — ‘ nothing more than the capture of things seen , life in the living , and by selection and arrangement , the flow of the human tale . ’ |
| 23 | In the event one finds a range of immediate answers , each one of which is too simple to reveal or even adequate to explain what soon emerges as a complex process : ‘ Reading is a creation of the sound form of the word on the basis of its graphic reproduction ’ ( the Russian educationist , El'konin , 1973 , p.552 ) ; ‘ Reading is a complex process by which a reader reconstructs , to some degree , a message encoded by a writer in graphic language ’ ( Goodman and Niles , 1970 , p.5 ) ; ‘ Reading involves nothing more than the correlation of a sound image with its corresponding visual image ’ ( Bloomfield , quoted in Harris and Hodges , 1981 , p.264 ) . |
| 24 | This expresses nothing more than the notion that the decision should proceed from the proofs and arguments advanced by the parties . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . |
| 26 | The wielding of government power is nothing more than the art of imposing one 's will . |
| 27 | ‘ I should scarcely have regretted my journey , ’ claimed Johnson , ‘ had it afforded nothing more than the sight of Aberbrothick . ’ |
| 28 | This child had not been embalmed and his preservation was due to nothing more than the construction of the coffin , for the wood was no less thick — 1½ inches — than that of an adult 's coffin , and the lead was likewise no different in gauge . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |