Example sentences of "[verb] anything more than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It is not clear that one has to postulate anything more than a reaction like Pavlov 's dog learning to anticipate its dinner whenever it hears the bell . |
| 3 | Few children remember anything more than the adverts . |
| 4 | But to argue that such developments marked anything more than a beginning would be to over-estimate the significance of what was done . |
| 5 | We were not used to drinking anything more than a glass of watered wine with our meals , and the effect on us , while not immediate , was catastrophic . |
| 6 | Whether or not the Communist Party leaders expected such a letter to have anything more than a propaganda appeal they can hardly have been surprised by the Labour Party reply on 27 January 1936 which rejected the application and outlined the history of relations between the two parties , particularly during the social fascist " period . |
| 7 | You could n't get a job as a Nippy if you had anything more than an eighteen-inch waist . ’ |
| 8 | When I wrote the program , I never thought that it would evolve anything more than a variety of tree-like shapes . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This kind of mistreatment highlights how descriptive words and terms can be confusing if they are taken to mean anything more than a means of distinguishing form — and not size , for instance . |