Example sentences of "any more than the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor is it any more than the incidental music to a play that captured the composer 's imagination and inspired him to conjure up the ‘ goings on in the Magicked Athenian wood ’ . |
| 2 | Mrs Thatcher 's heart would not be in that approach , any more than the Labour Party has yet taken the need for high interest rates to its bosom . |
| 3 | However , I confess that I do not believe a party , any more than the society which it serves , can fail to suffer if it knowingly allows institutions to fall more and more out of correspondence with contemporary needs . |
| 4 | Any more than the white man ’ ( Black Skin , 93 , 231 ) . |
| 5 | For example , the Eskimos , who as hunters and fishermen are right at the bottom of Marx 's and Engels 's technological scale , have a kinship terminology which does not classify relatives any more than the English system does — a sign for Morgan of the presence of monogamy — while the Malays , who have possessed for a very long time highly advanced agricultural techniques , use a kinship terminology which Morgan and Engels associated with the earliest stages of evolution . |
| 6 | Nevertheless do not tell me of it , even to confirm me ; for it is what we can not analyse or arrange , any more than the rich simplicity of childhood . |
| 7 | And I know I 'm not stupid , any more than the next person is . |
| 8 | There were no grounds for redrawing borders ; ‘ The Germans of Switzerland and Alsace do not desire to be reunited to Germany any more than the French in Belgium and Switzerland wish to become attached politically to France ’ . |
| 9 | The presence of a few colonies of candida does not constitute infection , however , any more than the presence of many other organisms in small numbers in the vagina means that they are there in a pathogenic capacity . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , the idea ( which many people have held at different times ) of a national ballet for South Africa has not come to fruition even now , four decades later , any more than the dream which John cherished when working in Germany of forming a national company there . |
| 11 | It is not , any more than the swing- and quiver-tip are not the answer to everything . |
| 12 | I have stopped the bullet close to the hook for two reasons , the first being that crust is light and buoyant to an extent even when soaked , so the closeness of the bullet will stop it from rising off the bottom any more than the 1½ inch distance of the plastic leger-stop from the hook . |
| 13 | Is social development any more than the provision of village halls and recreation facilities ? |
| 14 | Mind is not to be found in molecules any more than the works of Shakespeare were to be found in his genes . |
| 15 | Then life retreats to the equatorial zones , though there is little doubt that the ice-bound regions of such eras are far from devoid of life , any more than the Arctic and Antarctic zones are today . |
| 16 | You can say as much as you like in a letter and it will not cost you any more than the price of a stamp . |
| 17 | So why should she be protected , any more than the rest of them ? |
| 18 | The sowing of the seed of the gospel does not happen just with a look , any more than the sowing of barley occurs by the farmer going out and smiling at his field . |
| 19 | He 'll not put up wit' yer nonsense any more than the Major would . ’ |
| 20 | The truth was that I did n't know how to effect such an aim , and if I found myself eating any more than the minimum — that is , enough for me to remain undetected by the authorities-I considered myself guilty of backsliding , and had to punish myself by eating even less the next day or at the next meal . |
| 21 | The blazer brigade does n't say anything about that now , any more than the Metropolitan Police will risk making fools of themselves again by arresting Christie for possession of a supposedly stolen car . |
| 22 | The incomprehensible incantations would cast no spell over him , any more than the tattoo of the spider had glued him forever to his gang . |
| 23 | I have a sensation of heat as I approach the fire ; but when I approach the same fire too closely , I have a sensation of pain ; so there is nothing to convince me that something in the fire resembles heat , any more than the pain ; it is just that there must be something in it ( whatever this may turn out to be ) that produces the sensations of heat or pain . |
| 24 | Psychological studies could provide some answers , but it is not obvious that the subprocesses of language , identified by the psychologist , will map on to individual brain areas , any more than the computational processes of a digital computer map on to individual parts of its hardware . |
| 25 | Furthermore , it does not show that these are class interests , any more than the enumeration of cases shows that the government systematically protects the interests of what Poulantzas calls the hegemonic function of capital . |
| 26 | It would be nice if the conference were preceded by an agreement on Cyprus — about which the Turks could usefully be more accommodating than they have been so far — but the conference should not depend on that , any more than the Helsinki one needed a prior agreement on the unification of Germany . |
| 27 | But this does not disqualify them from using the word , any more than the English who displaced the ancient Britons are disqualified from continuing to use the name ‘ Britain ’ ( no doubt to the irritation of their southern neighbours , the Bretons of Bretagne ) . |
| 28 | But although I chose it virtually at random , this does not make it ‘ typical ’ , any more than the horrific Bihar gaol described by Sinha ( 1978 ) in which 143 people had died within three years . |
| 29 | The author seizes on the chance , as he often does , to suggest a sensibility in his hero , the impetuous , extrovert Aubrey , but such moments are never allowed to become sentimental , any more than the frequent musical excursions of captain and doctor are offered as in any way exceptional . |
| 30 | There is no need to hold that all human beings should always and only be approached using the interpretive action scheme , any more than the reverse claim makes sense if adhered to in all circumstances . |