Example sentences of "more than a [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The king was furious at being tricked again , and by nothing more than a pair of animals , at that . |
| 2 | He hoped that the driver would remember nothing more than a pair of headlights . |
| 3 | The reduction of the other to means and of his own ends to survival , itself no more than a means without ends left to serve , would be tolerable , if at all , only because the variety of human ends will open up again for him if he ever gets to shore . |
| 4 | In a centralised education system , the setting up of machinery to undertake curriculum planning and development is no more than a means towards making possible the six processes I outlined at the beginning of this chapter and which in our ideal world should have happened logically at national level : laying a research base for change , deciding objectives , forming a strategy , developing materials , implementing them and evaluating both the process and the result — a clinical sequence which even the methodical Swedes did not perform to their satisfaction . |
| 5 | To her , language seemed to be nothing more than a means of discovering the price of butter or exchanging views about the weather . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The professorship in question was seen by the politicians as nothing more than a means of keeping the Laird of Cringletie happy ; it was , as Gorthie put it , ‘ a very good way to answer the Laird 's own expectations till once a good occasion offer ’ . |
| 8 | For a radical social theorist such as Sahlins ( and for a number of feminists ) sociobiology is no more than a means of justifying the status quo as inevitable and ‘ natural ’ . |
| 9 | Similarly , in twenty years ' time , the threat of the new media may prove to be no more than a means for liberating the viewer from the duopoly 's straightjacket . |
| 10 | It was said of Comte that ‘ the woman he chose as his wife was nothing more than a means for the immediate gratification of his crude sexuality ’ . |
| 11 | In the increasing number of critical surveys of the English novel published during the present century Conrad is the sole writer ever to be included in the safe , accepted procession from Fielding to Henry James and beyond who could , to some degree , be considered to write of adventure in the traditional sense ; and it is always made perfectly clear that Conrad 's moral and philosophical probings constitute his true value , his story-telling expertise being , by implication , no more than a means to an end . |
| 12 | The poem would then be little more than a series of distortions , ‘ propaganda for the victors ’ . |
| 13 | The sheller , it turned out , was no more than a series of rollers , covered with hard rubber . |
| 14 | He also suggested that planning as then envisaged could not really be more than a series of approximations . |
| 15 | In a further speech in August 1987 he complained that there had been a tendency both in the USSR and outside it to see the socialist construction of the 1930s as no more than a series of mistakes . |
| 16 | Are they more than a series of taboos ? |
| 17 | The way to the front door was of long , unevenly sunken slabs of concrete so that the path was little more than a series of stepping stones . |
| 18 | I sat in on a board meeting the week before last and the Manager 's alleged report was nothing more than a series of orders closely followed by a succession of demands . |
| 19 | This work with great and powerful climaxes in first and last movements ; with a scherzo as light as thistledown , a truly poetic slow movement and tremendous pageantry in the finale is much more than a series of vignettes of a great city . |