Example sentences of "any [det] than a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gassendi does not claim , of course , that it is any more than a hypothesis that the properties , changes , and actions of things are to be explained by reference to their atomic parts . |
| 2 | Well is it any more than a tennis court ? |
| 3 | But you must have , you know , do n't ramble on about the same thing , right , cos , for , for , for any more than a couple of sentences , cos then , you know , you c start entering into sort of diminishing marginal returns very , very quickly on these short answer questions , what you want to , do is sort of say a sentence about as much as you can rather than go into in depth discussion about erm , any particular aspect . |
| 4 | But is it any more than a legend ? |
| 5 | A distrust of social revolutions was not absent from their considerations , any more than a distrust of traditional religion whose sacred texts committed it to discontinuous change ( ‘ creation ’ ) and interference with the regularity of nature ( ‘ miracles ’ ) . |
| 6 | But Birch is a modest man , despite his immodest ideas , and would not see his book as any more than a starter . |
| 7 | Thus ethical statements can not be true or false in a basic way , any more than a command can be . |
| 8 | There was never a time when any more than a handful of eccentrics advocated the establishment of a separate nowhere else to go . |
| 9 | There was never a time when any more than a handful of eccentrics advocated the establishment of a separate black nation-state . |
| 10 | But not having a learning difficulty is no guarantee of competent parenthood , any more than a learning difficulty label automatically means the reverse . |
| 11 | No professional counsellor can " fix " or " caretaker for " a sufferer any more than a family member or other concerned person can do so . |
| 12 | This adds further interest in the picture , but you should be careful not to have any more than a corner of sky in the final print . |
| 13 | Wisely , perhaps , she avoids any more than a hint of her own view of female membership of MCC . |
| 14 | So we can not have a strategy for teacher development any more than a teacher can have a strategy for child development . |
| 15 | A book of ethics does not have to spell it out , any more than a book about mathematics or zoology has to include the reminder ‘ Read me attentively , intelligently ’ . |
| 16 | Mystics can not be prevented from contemplation any more than a poet can be prevented from writing poetry . |
| 17 | If ethologists are truly interested in an ethology of human relating we have to drop the pretence that , given present knowledge , evolutionary arguments are any more than a game for the psychologically literate . |
| 18 | I think , I mean , he makes the emphasis here that the body is not any more than a tool |
| 19 | Characteristics may be refined by breeding to some relatively small degree , but such behaviour can never be fundamentally altered , any more than a dog can be bred into a cat , or a pigeon into a parrot . |