Example sentences of "more [conj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover the novel takes up the remark to Katkov that the criminal ‘ himself morally demands ’ his punishment ( which on its own might mean no more than that Dostoevsky had been reading Hegel or popularized Hegel ) , and builds some marvellous effects upon it . |
| 2 | The Chancellor is now prepared to claim no more than that the deficit is ‘ more or less flattening out ’ . |
| 3 | Rizzo maintains no more than that it is possible that he wrote the poem . |
| 4 | This means no more than that the authoritative requirement is an additional factor . |
| 5 | This obviously stresses a desire to reach a specific cultural community , but more than that Saab 's position also indicates the political aspects of cultural work . |
| 6 | In the 21st chapter of the book of Revelation the Apostle John describes the future eternal state — the ‘ new Jerusalem ’ ( v. 2 ) and we learn that this ‘ new Jerusalem ’ is in fact ‘ a bride adorned for her husband ’ ( v. 2 ) and more than that it is ‘ the Lamb 's wife ’ ( v. 9 ) . |
| 7 | Gaius claims no more than that these four expressions are typical ; his list is not exhaustive . |
| 8 | When Sir Oliver suggests asking eight or ten per cent on the loan , Mr Moses says if he asks him no more than that his impersonation will be discovered . |
| 9 | This means no more than that a statement to that effect will be included in the order paper . |
| 10 | More than that I believe that what is right needs to be said . |
| 11 | Any more than that I wasted five minutes reading his articles ? |
| 12 | But she was , of course , unable or unwilling to tell me much more than that my son was dead , and that there were certain wounds . |
| 13 | More than that you ca n't ask of a techno record . |
| 14 | But more than that most want the satisfaction of feeling they are doing a worthwhile job well — and here the unions do n't seem to offer much help . |
| 15 | Dr Robert South emphasized this point when he declared shortly after the Restoration that the Anglican church ‘ glories in nothing more than that she is the truest friend to kings and to kingly government of any Church in the world ’ . |
| 16 | To describe behaviour as skilled is to say no more than that it has been influenced by training and experience . |
| 17 | It is however not at all obvious that the results yield the conclusion that Griffin draws , nor is it clear that even if they did we would have evidence for saying more than that the creatures recognise their own bodies . |
| 18 | But this comes down to saying no more than that the dog eats the meat not the eggplant . |
| 19 | To say , in the abstract , that birds have a right to fly seems to me rather foolish if it be taken as saying more than that most birds fly naturally . |
| 20 | It means little more than that you can compute the direction and velocity of movement of an object independently of its colour or its depth . |
| 21 | This is to say no more than that the patient 's agenda , derived from his own theories of illness and his own biographical relevances , may conflict with the doctor 's agenda . |
| 22 | Figures for illegal drugs are harder to come by , but around 2m Americans are thought to take cocaine , and many more than that have smoked marijuana . |
| 23 | The statement that the actions we ought to do are those which promote the general happiness would be useless if it meant nothing more than that they do promote it , and that something more can only be given by an intuition . |
| 24 | Even Reagan 's critics concede that welfare reform was a significant achievement , but more than that it was an important turning point in the education of a chief executive . |
| 25 | I am sure that , despite his letter in your May issue ( Arm 's length or arm 's twist ) John Mallet really understands as well as the next man that , when I wrote in my letter of 10 March in The Times that ‘ we do not apply the arm 's length principle to the national museums and galleries ’ , I was saying no more than that there is no funding body between the Office of Arts and Libraries ( now the Department for the National Heritage ) and the national museums and galleries as there is between the Government and the subsidised theatres and performing arts bodies . |
| 26 | But more than that they imply a specific theory about the genesis of social violence . |
| 27 | More than that I will not say . |
| 28 | Surely no more than that the Ketterings were splitting up , like so many of their acquaintances , as even the Pargeters might have done , had it not been for the late , unexpected , unplanned arrival of Jacqueline . |
| 29 | But if there is no more than that the creditor , in an attempt to satisfy itself that the surety properly understands the proposed transaction and that the transaction will not subsequently be impeachable , offers an explanation of the transaction and of the security document , I do not think that the creditor should be taken to have assumed a tortious duty of care . |
| 30 | Mr. Barnes ' affidavit showed no more than that the Bank might exercise their own supervisory function once they had the result of the Federal Reserve Board inquiry in their hands , so that supervision was no more than a secondary purpose which did not qualify . |