Example sentences of "something more than [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew he had something more than Liza and me because we 'd seen him when he had his bath and when he lay in bed in his short shirt . |
| 2 | ‘ All right then , but you mind he does — and I hope he 's got something more than milk to drink up there . |
| 3 | The need for flexibility in plan making was stressed ; something more than land use maps were required and they had to be more responsive to the rapid changes then being experienced in the 1960s in terms of economic and social trends , population forecasts and traffic growth . |
| 4 | Somebody called John Hawley reviewed the novel for the Times , and he was rather sniffy : ‘ Begley is clearly after something more than entertainment here : he wants to write The Great Gatsby . |
| 5 | The most radical Westerners , following a path very close to that of the Petrashevtsy , aspired to something more than liberalism and embraced socialism . |
| 6 | But the slogan , however carelessly drafted , means something more than banality ; it stands for an attitude that is important and open to challenge . |
| 7 | Something more than emergency rations are required in a country where 80% of children under the age of five suffer from malnutrition . |
| 8 | There was something more in his eyes , something more than apology . |
| 9 | But this was something more than intelligence . |
| 10 | I knew it must be something more than flu . |
| 11 | Perhaps there was something more than coherence at stake . |
| 12 | Midshipman Callender 's friends no doubt were aware that efficiency united to interest was the strongest claim to promotion in the navy , and Lord Keith 's correspondence abounds in references to interest being a motive in bringing a man forward in the service : ‘ I have made McKenzie a lieutenant into the Rattlesnake ; he was a friend of Mr. Dunsmuress and recommended by Lord Elphinstone to me , so I am glad to have served him ’ , a comment which suggests that the admiral was influenced by something more than Mr. McKenzie 's personal abilities . |
| 13 | Peacekeeping forces do not have to be strong enough to overwhelm an army ; but they must be something more than score-keepers or targets . |
| 14 | As the Indian Divisions ' official history records the fact , the men of the 4th had , at Alamein , ‘ been something more than spectators and something less than participants in the main battle . |
| 15 | ’ In my view there must certainly be something more than infringement before the assistance of civil proceedings can be invoked and accorded for the protection or promotion of the interests of the inhabitants of the area . |
| 16 | In the passage I have just quoted , Lord Templeman said that there must certainly be something more than infringement before the assistance of civil proceedings can be invoked . |
| 17 | I seem to detect something more than uneasiness . |
| 18 | The only thing that really matters is feeling and living what you believe — so long as it 's something more than belief in your own comfort . |
| 19 | He rose from the ridiculous chair and made his way carefully down the crowded row , responding politely to those who greeted him by name , noting with carefully repressed surprise that two of the women who gave him private little smiles were seated next to each other , friends who had no idea they had something more than friendship in common . |
| 20 | And she owed Christine something more than ashes . |
| 21 | He knew I worked with Malcolm because he was one of the few teachers I could have a conversation with about something more than homework or football . |