Example sentences of "[vb base] nothing [det] than [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Normally , if you want nothing more than a passage anchorage , Dale , down near the entrance , will serve very well , but we felt Neyland merited a first visit , and thanks to going there we had this early morning enchantment of seeing ships , great and small , going about their work . |
2 | ‘ Strathclyde and the people it serves deserve nothing less than a commission . |
3 | Such futile efforts can only bring something close to contempt and suspicion among the millions of human beings who crave nothing more than a simple faith based on a credible ‘ god ’ . |
4 | Even dissertations that manage to reach the library shelves usually face nothing more than the gnawing criticism of mice . ’ |
5 | Shareholders get nothing more than a bald one-year profit forecast . |
6 | By contrast , we see Tradescant lying on his newly sheeted bed , washed and with beard neatly trimmed , wearing a superfine linen shroud of the highest quality , the top-knot having now become nothing more than a small tassel attached to the linen itself . |
7 | ( The Booker , thought Jeffrey , had recently become nothing more than a branch of Overseas Development . ) |
8 | Children love nothing more than a good story . |
9 | Scorpios love nothing more than a chance to break a social taboo . |
10 | It is important in using this method to exclude all transfer payments as these represent nothing more than a redistribution of income from taxpayers to the transfer recipients ; including them , therefore , would involve double-counting . |
11 | ‘ You have nothing more than a dislike of Mr Connon and a very nasty twist in your mind which is going to get you into very serious trouble indeed . |