Example sentences of "any more than [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | The war was not a concept which claimed Julia 's attention any more than land girls . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Drowning was n't permanent , any more than shooting . |
| 8 | The bomb , he believed , could not be destroyed by counter bombs any more than violence could be countered by violence . |
| 9 | The family setting can not be omitted from considerations of sexuality any more than sexuality can be left out of ideas concerning the complicated web of interaction and relationships which comprise family life . |
| 10 | To accept Nozick 's criticism is not to judge in favour of Nozick 's conception of justice against Rawls , any more than acceptance of Gilligan 's argument involves rejection of Kohlberg 's abstract principles of justice . |