Example sentences of "any more [subord] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 160 , the visitors observed that Lord Denning was not using the word ‘ delegate ’ in the narrow sense in which it is sometimes used today any more than Lord Mansfield had when he used the same word in a similar context in Rex v. Benchers of Gray 's Inn , 1 Doug .
2 Gerard said that " all kinds of Hyssope do grow in my Garden " and disdained to describe it , any more than Dioscorides did : " as being a plant so well known that it needed none " ( description ) , and it was illustrated in an Italian Herbal published in 1744 , where it was called H. vulgaris .
3 He also saw to the payment of the doctors and nurses who looked after Paul , though he never visited him , any more than Dinah did .
4 Whether anything has changed in the issues which divide the US and its European partners is no clearer after this encounter , and we are left with only the haziest idea of whether the mutual admiration is any more than skin deep .
5 When , therefore , the Board was entrusted with appeals this did not mean that any particular official should undertake the task , nor was the Board bound to disclose the report any more than minutes made on the paper before a decision was arrived at .
6 The UK maintains a strong doctrine of extraterritoriality which means that UK competition policy can not be applied in such cases , any more than US antitrust policy would be permitted to pursue a cartel of UK firms exporting to the US .
7 Most of the new local authorities based their management structure on the Bains recommendations ( Alexander 1982a:69 — 72 ) , usually with modifications affecting the number of committees : local authorities did not follow Bains any more than Maud in the creation of programme committees .
8 She had no way of knowing it was the same man who had interrogated Madeleine , then made her his mistress , any more than Madeleine could know that her friend was in the building being interrogated by him .
9 Any more than Albert was .
10 I do n't like being deceived any more than Marc does .
11 Lord Hunter had been unable to free himself from the idea of Meehan as a participant any more than Sir Daniel Brabin had been able to free himself from the assumption of Timothy Evans 's guilt ; neither could bring himself to admit , perhaps for the sake of the reputation of their profession , that the miscarriage of justice had been total , that Meehan as much as Evans had played no part whatever in the crime with which he had been charged .
12 He believed in — or rather , he did not fail to notice — the perpetual evolution of humanity , and therefore the evolution of its social forms : ‘ Democracy is n't mankind 's last word , any more than slavery was , or feudalism was , or monarchy was . ’
13 The war was not a concept which claimed Julia 's attention any more than land girls .
14 Palottino had no answer to that , any more than Zen himself , though the question had tormented him for the whole drive back to Perugia .
15 Households are similarly rationed in the goods market , i.e. , on account of ( a ) their failure to sell labour services and ( b ) the unwillingness of firms to produce any more than Y. By way of contrast , firms are in continuous neoclassical equilibrium and are not subject to quantity rationing in either the goods market or the labour market .
16 And this awareness should not be merely as a result of receiving more ideas from others ( although that is important ) ; teachers should not , any more than students , be the objects of a pure " banking " education .
17 There is no need to tell everyone all the details , any more than Peter makes any mention or testimony in his letters about the day he messed it up .
18 Well now , it 's not that any of us are exactly against egalitarianism , democracy and ecological responsibility , any more than Americans are supposed to be ( or were , at least in pre-feminist and less health-conscious days ) against motherhood and apple pie .
19 Yet few Dutchmen worry , any more than Americans do about Alaska .
20 This is not to say that Locke accepts all the details of the scholastic account of scientia any more than Gassendi did .
21 All the other people are getting younger too , but they do n't seem to mind , any more than Tod minds .
22 There is no evidence that dioxins — any more than PCBs themselves — are carcinogenic in humans .
23 It is an activity of the brave and strong and not of the cowardly , for ‘ Cowardice and Ahimsā do not go together any more than water and fire . ’
24 Analysis will not enable Larry to access the causes of the emotions and fears he ‘ reads ’ in the maps of people 's minds any more than physicists will be able to ‘ discover ’ the origin of the universe .
25 Anyone can work out who the ‘ subspecies ’ Marxomanni , Mussolimini and Swastici are meant to represent , but they do not really play an important part in the story , since we can feel that John , the Pilgrim , is not really tempted or overwhelmed by them , any more than Lewis ever felt the slightest inclination to become a Maminst or a Fascist .
26 He does n't know the inside track any more than Klepner . ’
27 Bees do not need to be labelled ‘ Honey ’ any more than honey pots do : all that 's needed in each case is a memorably distinctive appearance .
28 — has the Prime Minister read the comment by police commander David Stevens that the police are not responsible for crime any more than doctors are responsible for disease , and that crime is an indicator of economic and social malaise ?
29 History can not be done away with any more than metaphysics : but its conditions of impossibility are also necessarily its conditions of possibility .
30 Germany can not afford to build a new airliner on its own , any more than Britain or France can .
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