Example sentences of "more [subord] [vb base] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When his father died he felt nothing and had done nothing more than take a day off for the funeral . |
| 2 | You may also find icons which do no more than invoke an error message because the associated program or file has been erased from the harddisk . |
| 3 | Effective management of a county interest required the politician to do more than strike a bargain in which a vote , or votes , was the return for immediate patronage . |
| 4 | The road to Rimini by-passed the town and in a few moments they were out in the wilds again , labouring up a steep , tortuous medieval track on which modern civilization had done no more than slap a layer of asphalt and a road number . |
| 5 | AI programs are primarily symbolic processes that do more than follow an algorithm , as in traditional ( procedural ) computing . |
| 6 | Realising that it is far too late in her life to expect her to do more than make an effort to modify this trait in her character , you should see if you can direct it away from the home . |
| 7 | He did no more than raise an eyebrow . |
| 8 | Did it do no more than keep a subsistence economy running ? |
| 9 | Indeed he would be doing so if he did no more than move an item from one place on a shelf to another . |
| 10 | said that if the defendants were doing no more than perform an obligation already cast upon them by law there was no consideration for the plaintiffs agreement not to sue . |
| 11 | I do not pretend that these notions can do more than offer a way of thinking about the quantum world with some hope of doing justice both to the idiosyncrasy of its ways and also to the beautiful structure of the microworld which has been laid bare by the discoveries of elementary particle physics . |
| 12 | The trouble is that museum exhibitions , as traditionally arranged , do little more than offer a catalogue of seemingly-unrelated assertions about the subject matter . |
| 13 | Although this programme can not do more than offer an introduction to the mastery of the skills needed by instructors , it is nevertheless of considerable importance in that it is a measured and significant attempt to provide the sort of training upon which the success of YOP and , even more important its successor , the Youth Training Scheme , will depend . |