Example sentences of "more [conj] [vb base] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When his father died he felt nothing and had done nothing more than take a day off for the funeral . |
| 2 | Effective management of a county interest required the politician to do more than strike a bargain in which a vote , or votes , was the return for immediate patronage . |
| 3 | The road to Rimini by-passed the town and in a few moments they were out in the wilds again , labouring up a steep , tortuous medieval track on which modern civilization had done no more than slap a layer of asphalt and a road number . |
| 4 | Did it do no more than keep a subsistence economy running ? |
| 5 | I do not pretend that these notions can do more than offer a way of thinking about the quantum world with some hope of doing justice both to the idiosyncrasy of its ways and also to the beautiful structure of the microworld which has been laid bare by the discoveries of elementary particle physics . |
| 6 | The trouble is that museum exhibitions , as traditionally arranged , do little more than offer a catalogue of seemingly-unrelated assertions about the subject matter . |
| 7 | ‘ I could never agree to that , ’ he said : he smiled no more and let a silence grow uncomfortable . |