Example sentences of "more than an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's never ever mentioned that night to me since , so as far as he 's aware , ’ he rapped cuttingly , ‘ I could think you were nothing more than an easy one-nighter for him ! ’ |
| 2 | It was certainly never more than an individual analysis of my own work practices — a personal time-and-motion study . |
| 3 | Elsewhere , library responsibility could mean no more than an extra " free " period on top of an otherwise full teaching timetable , and this is clearly a serious constraint on project-related developments , even without the effects of industrial action on lunchtime and after-school working . |
| 4 | Even with × 20 it shows up as nothing more than an elliptical blur , more or less devoid of detail , though it is possible to see the smaller companion galaxy M32 close beside it . |
| 5 | Having made what is no more than an interim custody order , the Ontario court , in my judgment , retained what article 5 ( a ) of the Convention calls ‘ the right to determine the child 's place of residence . ’ |
| 6 | McIllvanney had offered to let her stay on board Wavebreaker , so long as the boat 's air conditioners were disconnected , but his offer was not as generous as it seemed for Ellen would have been little more than an unpaid security guard and also subject to Bellybutton 's endlessly tedious suggestions , and she far preferred her small hot room in the busy crowded apartment block that smelt of cooking all day and marijuana all night . |
| 7 | Gandalf 's advice , ‘ But leave your trowels and sharpen your swords ! ’ , has more than an immediate relevance . |
| 8 | Perhaps the snakes too are now familiar with Laverne and he is nothing more than an accepted local nuisance . |
| 9 | At present , however , screening for c-ras mutations on their own is too insensitive to procide any more than an auxiliary technique to colonoscopy , since mutant alleles are found in only 24% of carcinomas , and between 0% and 33% of high grade dysplasia . |
| 10 | It means that a plaintiff with no more than an arguable case for suppressing a story on breach of confidence grounds can obtain , at a secret High Court hearing , an injunction against one defendant ( perhaps a journal whose financial position does not permit a legal contest ) and thereafter enforce it against every media outlet in the country . |
| 11 | Yet these examples , too , are significant , for they underline the unfortunate truth that the production and distribution of books to primary schools are important enough , financially , to attract the very largest species of shark against whom the professional at the ministry or in the centre ( who is usually no more than an average sized fish ) has little redress . |
| 12 | At first , the difficulty he had in opening the door of his room seemed no more than an irritating trifle . |
| 13 | When lie emigrated to Australia at the age of nineteen Robert Burrows was little more than an irreligious rebel . |
| 14 | Could it be that the bloody human history of the past 5,000 years is nothing more than an evolutionary side-road ? |
| 15 | But the world of the transcendent is far more than an ecstatic journey . |
| 16 | The software , called Multimedia Interactive Control ( MIC ) , is rather more than an authoring tool . |
| 17 | Local schools , for example , might be involved in more than an annual carol service . |
| 18 | to u on more than an annual basis from this end . |
| 19 | To parents whose present and future livelihoods depend on their children , those deaths are more than an emotional tragedy . |
| 20 | The distinction between capital and maintenance schemes can sometimes amount to little more than an administrative technicality , and as grants for capital schemes are reduced , there is a possibility that old-style capital works will be slipped by under the banner of maintenance . |
| 21 | Before December 's adjournment , Israel had offered nothing more than an administrative body . |
| 22 | In our forthcoming activities as private dealers we will require no more than an administrative infrastructure . |
| 23 | In the countries of advanced capitalism , on the other hand , sub-central government is rather more than an administrative device . |
| 24 | To walk was to risk breaking it , but there could be no more than an overnight stop before Adrar , the end of the macadam and the last supply point before open desert . |
| 25 | Hatfield 's view was that ‘ the wit is too brittle and the inventiveness too superficial to make more than an ephemeral appeal ’ even though he had been enthusiastic when he first saw it . |
| 26 | Conceptually , what is offered is little more than an automated ‘ sieve mapping ’ that land-use planners have used for many years , but the whole procedure is speeded up by many orders of magnitude using GIS software . |
| 27 | The morphological nature of the neck is highly problematical and the available evidence suggests that something more than an enlarged intersegmental region may be involved . |
| 28 | Can it really have been much more than an up-market doss-house ? |
| 29 | On housing ‘ it is not in general desirable to seek to control the disposal of private houses through planning restrictions ’ ; on industry and commerce ‘ policies and proposals … should promote and not hinder the regeneration of industry and reflect an up to date and realistic view of the scale , pattern and diversity of industry ’ ; on retail development ‘ policies and proposals should neither seek to regulate competition between retailers nor to stifle the evolution of new forms of retail provision ’ ; and on agriculture and forestry ‘ authorities should take account of the need to ensure that no more than an essential minimum of agricultural land is diverted to development ’ . |
| 30 | Despite costing £4250 more than an equivalent used model . |