Example sentences of "something more than [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were a significant number of specialists even in the early decades of the century , including both the exponents of the Linnaean tradition of classification and the philosophical naturalists , who hoped to achieve something more than mere cataloguing . |
| 2 | Something more than mere loneliness , mere senile fantasies and quirks , burnt in his striking eyes , in that abrupt , probing then dropping conversation , in those sudden oblique looks at nothing . |
| 3 | Now that he had moved nearer Fran could see that there was a muscle ticking along the hard line of his jaw and that his eyes were glittering with something more than mere mockery , and she went cold . |
| 4 | She had sensed something more than mere adoration in the way he had kissed her and been aware of her body 's response . |
| 5 | In the second year of recovery the recurrent cravings have mostly subsided and people in recovery develop progressively more insight into the nature of addictive disease in general and their own addictive disease in particular and also into the true , broader , meaning of recovery as something more than mere avoidance of previous addictive substances or behaviour . |
| 6 | In his Philosophie anatomique of 1818–22 , Geoffroy argued that the basic similarity that allowed all the vertebrates to be assigned to a single type of organization reflected something more than mere engineering efficiency . |
| 7 | Silas 's eyes reflected something more than mere appreciation but he said nothing as he pulled out the chair for her to sit down . |
| 8 | The Divisional Court , presided over by the Lord Chief Justice , Lord Parker , emphasized that there had to be a ‘ real possibility ’ of a breach of the peace , but went on to find that just such a situation of menace existed here : eighteen people ‘ milling about ’ when there were only eight people in the works created a ‘ real danger of something more than mere picketing ’ . |
| 9 | This had been of something more than philosophical interest to Karen and I in our pre-coital phase , since it meant that we could count on at least a minute thirty seconds before he reappeared , or as much as three minutes forty-five seconds if we heard the seat go down for a big jobby . |
| 10 | These could not be entirely distinct centres of evolution , but the existence of provinces implied that migrations were controlled by something more than accidental factors . |
| 11 | The people considered themselves ‘ God 's chosen ’ , and the king of such a people was regarded as something more than other kings — more even than the Emperor of Rome . |
| 12 | He could almost believe in the concept of the soul , because something more than physiological processes had inhabited this boy 's body , something total , something unique ; the pathetic shell it had left behind , with a luggage label hanging from the toe , bore silent witness to that . |
| 13 | Mr Smith is right to shed old baggage , but he will have to offer voters something more than dull blamelessness . |
| 14 | We should mean something to each other , something more than animated objects , walking . |
| 15 | The efforts of the Russian Formalists were directed towards justifying the independent existence of literary studies , and transforming students of literature into something more than second-rate ethnographers , historians or philosophers . |
| 16 | He thought that something more than automatic associations were made as he observed that the chimpanzees seemed to understand the principle in solving the problems . |
| 17 | Even the evolutionists who accepted that species change in response to adaptive pressures realized that something more than simple adaptation was involved . |
| 18 | But he meant something other by the word : something more than simple agreement . |
| 19 | Jared Tunstall thought that something more than hard work had brought his daughter fulfilment and a new maturity — and , with them both , a deeper beauty . |
| 20 | To suggest that rape is something more than sexual intercourse without consent runs counter to the view of the Heilbron Committee which considered that this was precisely the meaning of rape . |
| 21 | It is hardly the same poem ; it seems to have meant more than slightly different things to three different people in different ages , if " meaning " involves something more than strict fidelity to content ( and even then the texts wander away from the original ) . |
| 22 | It gave them something more than local interest to build on . |
| 23 | In the past something more than this suspicion was required . |
| 24 | But the fit of jealousy in which he beats her would appear to mean something more than these words of explanation enable one to understand . |