Example sentences of "of [pron] [det] than [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rachel and Nicky love getting up to their elbows in gloop , a slimy mixture of nothing more than cornflour mixed with water and food colouring . |
| 2 | A daily diet consisting of nothing more than bread and sultana water ( a drink made with coffee bean husks ) is commonplace . |
| 3 | Because Nicholas himself had entertained such dreams in passing , Pogodin could be accused at this stage of nothing more than super-patriotism . |
| 4 | But when he had asked her to marry him , she had declined out of nothing more than pique . |
| 5 | I then drafted a statement for the management side and sent it by hand to Mellowes who was sufficiently impressed by this initiative to pop his head around the door an hour later with a look of something less than mistrust . |