Example sentences of "nothing more [subord] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While some might see in all this nothing more than economic fulfilment , the ultimate political goal , with which the other four signatories were more in sympathy , was already implicit in the Rome Treaty 's preamble with its desire ‘ to establish the foundations of an even closer union among the European peoples ’ . |
| 2 | They are the tools through which life manifests and functions on the material plane , but without the animating principle — the life force or vital energy — they are nothing more than complex chemistry . |
| 3 | Pollen grains , which consist largely of precious genetic material , are quite demanding for a plant to produce and many flowers offer , either in addition or as an alternative , a payment that is considerably cheaper for it is nothing more than sweetened water , nectar . |
| 4 | That 's nothing more than circumstantial evidence — even you ca n't brand me guilty on that ! ’ |
| 5 | It was nothing more than ridiculous hysteria and totally unreal , but only a few people saw this and John Keith in Forres was one of them . |
| 6 | Sometimes younger people consider this to be nothing more than morbid indulgence , and refuse to listen , mainly because it is a subject they do not care to think about . |
| 7 | Engagement through the Offices was , they claimed , nothing more than legal crimpage , and the Register Ticket could be bought at many lodging houses . |
| 8 | These products are often caustic cleaners , sometimes nothing more than caustic soda , in granular form , packed in a tin . |
| 9 | National Socialism is nothing more than applied biology . |
| 10 | The problem is that this often encourages nothing more than mere farce . |
| 11 | For Constantine , of course , God the Father would have entailed nothing more than new nomenclature for Sol Invictus , the sun god who already commanded his personal allegiance . |
| 12 | Now , he was having to unveil himself for nothing more than curious inspection . |
| 13 | The desperate conviction of the publishing trade that famous people are somehow obliged to write for it may well lead to nothing more than four-figure fax bills . |
| 14 | But Katherine Lundy did n't believe in omens ; she imagined her untroubled night 's sleep was due to nothing more than complete exhaustion . |
| 15 | These maxims , many of them reflecting nothing more than common sense , and taken from the recorded experience of the past , were to be found mainly in two works : the Facta et dicta memorabilia of Valerius Maximus , written in the first century AD , and the Stratagemata of Frontinus , composed in the same century by a man who had been for a short while Roman governor of Britain . |
| 16 | ‘ Joy riding ’ is in fact nothing more than common theft and anyone who takes and drives away a car without the owner 's permission is simply a criminal . |
| 17 | He embraced the moral grandeur of it with enthusiasm , and to his dying day aspired to nothing more than Indian membership of the British empire as an equal partner , regarding independence in isolation as a perhaps politically expedient but regrettable alternative . |
| 18 | Some social scientists did : most ignored the debate because it was , frankly , naive ( and often consisted of nothing more than special pleading from scientists working for institutions that had much to lose ) . |
| 19 | Perhaps it was nothing more than idle curiosity . |
| 20 | The resulting final accounts are nothing more than summarized cash books . |
| 21 | That Saints managed to cause an upset with nothing more than direct running and honest endeavour , bodes well for Great Britain , though the Kiwis can not be expected to enter the Test arena in such a generous mood . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , record signing Ian Wright declared the new Premier League nothing more than unimpressive hype |
| 23 | ‘ In the past this has mainly been done from London with nothing more than token force based either in Edinburgh or Glasgow . |
| 24 | But it has also been apparent from the very beginning of the tale , where Wilekin " began to love a married woman " that " love " in this text may mean nothing more than carnal desire . |
| 25 | This part of the ceremony was regarded as nothing more than formal ritual . |
| 26 | Is that because the report does not substantiate the proposals in the Education ( Schools ) Bill , which is nothing more than English ideology that the Government are transmitting to Wales ? |
| 27 | Does he recall saying in his Disraeli lecture to a Conservative audience that high levels of borrowing were nothing more than deferred taxation ? |