Example sentences of "not [be] more [adj] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lilly had not been more beautiful than the other women who sought him , just more clever . |
| 2 | I felt — I could not be more certain than that — that when I had treated polio cases on previous occasions I had actually sensed wasting muscles making slight quivers , contracting with the pain of a spasm ; and it was these contractions of muscles which , following normal treatment , so often caused shortening of the leg when the muscles withered . |
| 3 | ( Except , of course , that the type can not be more general than the lexical item used to refer to it : this apple can not refer to fruit in general . ) |
| 4 | I must check those feelings which are the expression of physical instinct craving for satisfaction , but God knows celibacy is as painful to women ( even from the physical standpoint ) as it is to men — could not be more painful than it is to a woman . |
| 5 | Uncle Rory could not be more depressing than reality was , just now . |
| 6 | The most consummate Kapellmeister could not be more profound than he in the science of harmony and of modulations … |
| 7 | Causal inferences are constructions built upon foundations of assumptions , and can not be more valid than the assumptions . |