Example sentences of "by [indef pn] more than " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Muslim cemetery of Um Al-Farajh was a field of rubble and undergrowth , distinguished over most of its area by nothing more than small mounds of earth and scattered , broken stones . |
| 2 | If it is the case that we are motivated by nothing more than the need to reproduce , then it makes sense that women are programmed to be broody and men to satisfy that broodiness . |
| 3 | If officialdom plays the game , the great benefit should be an end to those long delays in customs which appear often to be caused by nothing more than the whimsy of officials . |
| 4 | The king was furious at being tricked again , and by nothing more than a pair of animals , at that . |
| 5 | I think of the eclectic women on baby blankets , bare beside picnic baskets and one another , pleased to be sated by nothing more than a book and a cigarette , a glass of cider and a chat or a piece of quiche , meatless , of course . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | For example , the ways in which a child , boy or girl , relates to the parent of the same sex seems to be produced by something more than what is given in the actual family situation . |
| 8 | These could not be entirely distinct centres of evolution , but the existence of provinces implied that migrations were controlled by something more than accidental factors . |
| 9 | Sometimes , of course , bags are searched , but the removal of company property from the premises of licensed dealers is rarely punished by anything more than instant dismissal , acceptable enough at the time to the culprits , as it coincides with their own plans . |