Example sentences of "more than an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's never ever mentioned that night to me since , so as far as he 's aware , ’ he rapped cuttingly , ‘ I could think you were nothing more than an easy one-nighter for him ! ’ |
| 2 | It was certainly never more than an individual analysis of my own work practices — a personal time-and-motion study . |
| 3 | Even with × 20 it shows up as nothing more than an elliptical blur , more or less devoid of detail , though it is possible to see the smaller companion galaxy M32 close beside it . |
| 4 | Having made what is no more than an interim custody order , the Ontario court , in my judgment , retained what article 5 ( a ) of the Convention calls ‘ the right to determine the child 's place of residence . ’ |
| 5 | McIllvanney had offered to let her stay on board Wavebreaker , so long as the boat 's air conditioners were disconnected , but his offer was not as generous as it seemed for Ellen would have been little more than an unpaid security guard and also subject to Bellybutton 's endlessly tedious suggestions , and she far preferred her small hot room in the busy crowded apartment block that smelt of cooking all day and marijuana all night . |
| 6 | Gandalf 's advice , ‘ But leave your trowels and sharpen your swords ! ’ , has more than an immediate relevance . |
| 7 | At present , however , screening for c-ras mutations on their own is too insensitive to procide any more than an auxiliary technique to colonoscopy , since mutant alleles are found in only 24% of carcinomas , and between 0% and 33% of high grade dysplasia . |
| 8 | It means that a plaintiff with no more than an arguable case for suppressing a story on breach of confidence grounds can obtain , at a secret High Court hearing , an injunction against one defendant ( perhaps a journal whose financial position does not permit a legal contest ) and thereafter enforce it against every media outlet in the country . |
| 9 | At first , the difficulty he had in opening the door of his room seemed no more than an irritating trifle . |
| 10 | When lie emigrated to Australia at the age of nineteen Robert Burrows was little more than an irreligious rebel . |
| 11 | Could it be that the bloody human history of the past 5,000 years is nothing more than an evolutionary side-road ? |
| 12 | But the world of the transcendent is far more than an ecstatic journey . |
| 13 | The software , called Multimedia Interactive Control ( MIC ) , is rather more than an authoring tool . |
| 14 | Local schools , for example , might be involved in more than an annual carol service . |
| 15 | to u on more than an annual basis from this end . |
| 16 | To parents whose present and future livelihoods depend on their children , those deaths are more than an emotional tragedy . |
| 17 | The distinction between capital and maintenance schemes can sometimes amount to little more than an administrative technicality , and as grants for capital schemes are reduced , there is a possibility that old-style capital works will be slipped by under the banner of maintenance . |
| 18 | Before December 's adjournment , Israel had offered nothing more than an administrative body . |
| 19 | In the countries of advanced capitalism , on the other hand , sub-central government is rather more than an administrative device . |
| 20 | In our forthcoming activities as private dealers we will require no more than an administrative infrastructure . |
| 21 | To walk was to risk breaking it , but there could be no more than an overnight stop before Adrar , the end of the macadam and the last supply point before open desert . |
| 22 | Hatfield 's view was that ‘ the wit is too brittle and the inventiveness too superficial to make more than an ephemeral appeal ’ even though he had been enthusiastic when he first saw it . |
| 23 | Can it really have been much more than an up-market doss-house ? |
| 24 | On housing ‘ it is not in general desirable to seek to control the disposal of private houses through planning restrictions ’ ; on industry and commerce ‘ policies and proposals … should promote and not hinder the regeneration of industry and reflect an up to date and realistic view of the scale , pattern and diversity of industry ’ ; on retail development ‘ policies and proposals should neither seek to regulate competition between retailers nor to stifle the evolution of new forms of retail provision ’ ; and on agriculture and forestry ‘ authorities should take account of the need to ensure that no more than an essential minimum of agricultural land is diverted to development ’ . |
| 25 | To outsiders , the two events may seem little more than an international organization at work , but for Amnesty members these events are charged with significance . |
| 26 | Within the Council there were no surprises or novelties about the Committee of Ministers : with each state having one vote and a veto , it became little more than an intergovernmental conference of foreign ministers meeting twice yearly . |
| 27 | Thus the Sizewell inquiry is little more than an expensive public relations exercise . |
| 28 | Scrounges — unofficial ways of resisting the uniformity of the beat — often meant little more than an illegal cigarette or a beer , forms of resistance accompanied by their own surreptitious rituals . |
| 29 | So , you see , we owed her far more than an occasional box of chocolates could repay . |
| 30 | He does more than an ordinary caretaker would do at the small plastics company where he has worked for years . |