Example sentences of "more [conj] [art] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the disastrous way in which they have trivialized the rich complexity of black life by reducing it to nothing more than a response to racism . |
| 2 | The change to a community-based service … involves much more than a change to the pattern of service provision . |
| 3 | This remake of Jackie Mittoo 's Studio One organ classic is typical of current Taxi fare : subtle , gently rocking , and offering more than a nod to rocksteady , right down to the drum fills probably sampled from the original version . |
| 4 | The year has been good for programme sales , particularly overseas where sales increased more than a half to £18.8m . |
| 5 | This suggests that the fall in equity prices in October 1987 may have been no more than a correction to the market . |
| 6 | ‘ But as you are , I can never be more than a friend to you . ’ |
| 7 | Crime is much more than a statistic to Rosemary Hunt . |
| 8 | IN SPITE of their success with chilled lamb in some Scottish stores last year , New Zealand suppliers seem to have accepted this is little more than a coals to Newcastle exercise . |
| 9 | For some this means no more than a trip to the supermarket and a loading-up of the metal basket ; for others it means being lost on a plain in Greece , in the dark , in snow , in the rain , and finding what you seek only by some rare trick such as barking like a dog . |
| 10 | ‘ It is declared that a good wife is a crown to her husband , but Mrs. Crawley had been much more than a crown to him … she had been crown , throne and sceptre all in one ’ . |
| 11 | On the foreign exchanges , the pound was a fraction down at $1.6020 but gained more than a pfennig to DM2.7760 . |
| 12 | It provides little more than a footnote to the account of the journey home . |
| 13 | In my view Labour 's stunning defeat requires of it much more than a commitment to PR and a pre-electoral arrangement with the Liberal Democrats . |
| 14 | Can we expect to achieve sufficient political agreement to formulate the necessary dispute-resolving rules in an ideologically divided world , even if the avowed intention is to establish rules which are neutral as between such ideologies , the acceptance of which would not be taken as manifesting more than a commitment to getting some agreed rules ? |
| 15 | And he had spoken of her as though she were no more than a female to be used and then discarded . |
| 16 | If the OED were left as no more than a monument to the English of the twentieth century it would not remain the twenty-first century 's dictionary for long . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The great features of that map , which make it something more than a picture to be imperfectly copied by laborious childish pens , are the great promontories of Caernarvon , of Pembroke , of Gower and of Cornwall , jutting out into the western sea , like the features of a grim large face , such a face as is carved on a ship 's prow … . |
| 19 | Now that it was over Edward seemed to have gone a very long way away from her , as if she was no more than a stranger to whom he was giving a lift . |
| 20 | Add the life and colour of cities such as New York , Washington , San Francisco and Vancouver , and this is a land it would take more than a lifetime to truly discover . |
| 21 | In substance , the Church of England is now self-regulating and Parliament 's role in connection with its legislation little more than a throwback to the days when the established Church had a more substantial role to play in the affairs of the State . |
| 22 | So sex education becomes crucially important , but while the 1986 Education Act and Section 28 remain in place , sex education in Britain will consist of little more than a hymn to family life , largely devoid of any education about sex . |
| 23 | Once this alienation had set in , it was inevitable that , as in our day , the loved one should come to be regarded — at least by the conscious mind — as no more than a body to be disposed of as quickly and hygienically as possible . |
| 24 | It should n't take more than an hour to type up . |
| 25 | It may be concluded from this that prey size can be used as no more than an approximation to predator type , and size spectra are certainly not predator-specific . |
| 26 | Although this may well be a valuable facility , it really forms no more than an appendage to the database , since we can not search a videodisc image for details within it in the way we can search text . |
| 27 | After suffering strokes in 1983 and 1986 , Abernathy caused controversy in 1989 when he published his autobiography And the Walls Came Tumbling Down , in which he expressed regret for having been seen as " no more than an appendage to Martin " . |
| 28 | A great deal of it amounted to little more than an adjunct to farming , typically by smallholders plying a trade on the side . |
| 29 | On that Friday morning three weeks ago , I was little more than an irritant to dozens of drivers caught in a traffic jam as police cars and ambulances blocked their way to work or school . |
| 30 | The Hancock Half Hours seemed to be finally at an end and both Ken and his public were ready for something in which ‘ Stop messing about ’ would mean something more than an admonition to an actor to concentrate on his script . |