Example sentences of "for [indef pn] more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | RAI protests that this amounts to a colossal waste of money since it previously acquired Eurovision rights for nothing more than the duty of reciprocal access to material from Italy . |
| 2 | People will nevertheless say that the desire is for nothing more than alcohol . |
| 3 | Jack Lewis was a brilliant attacking wing-half whom Palace obtained for nothing more than a signing-on fee from West Bromwich Albion in the summer of 1938 . |
| 4 | As with the BROWNIES , gruagachs will happily serve their masters for nothing more than a cup of milk . |
| 5 | The union is as yet unconvinced that BT 's intentions are to use the robots for nothing more than to make their members ' jobs ‘ more interesting ’ . |
| 6 | We all need windows in our lives , and at the moment we can ask for nothing more than the scenes flicking past the carriage until , at last , we reach open country and the long dark hours ahead we plough on towards the East and the border . |
| 7 | SunSoft Inc borrowed the laid-back format of the Tonight Show and Johnny Carson — down to the band , the couch and the jokes — to make its announcements at the end of last month : it would be a shame if those well-crafted anti-Microsoft Corp anti-NT ads they ran as ersatz commercials during the breaks do n't get a wider airing , if for nothing more than their amusement value . |
| 8 | It 'd be a shame if those well-crafted anti-Microsoft anti-NT ads they ran as ersatz commercials during the breaks do n't get a wider airing , if for nothing more than their amusement value . |
| 9 | I merely ask that you keep a sceptical , but open mind and ask for nothing more than that you check the figures given to you . |
| 10 | Both must be considered useful for nothing more than maintaining a battery 's charge . |
| 11 | Now , he was having to unveil himself for nothing more than curious inspection . |
| 12 | We can hope for nothing more than speculation when the events we are talking about took place four billion years ago and took place , moreover , in a world that must have been radically different from that which we know today . |
| 13 | You have paid , Monsieur , for nothing more than a pack of lies . ’ |
| 14 | For nothing more than being true to himself . ) |
| 15 | Estimates that creating the Fsx would cost only ¥165 billion ( at 1985 prices ) were good for nothing more than selling the project to parliament which had to vote the money . |
| 16 | One would think you intended her for something more than your waiting maid . |
| 17 | The great danger of cluster sampling is that one must be able to take the clusters together as a total unit if they are to be used for anything more than just cluster comparisons . |
| 18 | I 'm so damned tired after the drive down here that I doubt I 'll have the energy for anything more than sleep . ’ |