Example sentences of "[indef pn] more than a " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The tae of ye will need somethin' more than a dispensation from the Pope , Ah would think , if ye go on like this . ’
2 A piece to be presented should have something more than a surface narrative quality in the characterisation .
3 Now something more than a quelling look appeared on Lord Woodleigh 's fine-bred features .
4 It was clearly not an all-party government , yet , until September 1932 at least , it was something more than a mere Conservative front .
5 The great features of that map , which make it something more than a picture to be imperfectly copied by laborious childish pens , are the great promontories of Caernarvon , of Pembroke , of Gower and of Cornwall , jutting out into the western sea , like the features of a grim large face , such a face as is carved on a ship 's prow … .
6 Most were still bewildered by the way Northampton opened out the game to create openings for surprise attacks , and after a 4–1 win at Swindon , the Railwaymen 's international winger Fleming told Chapman : ‘ You have something more than a team : you have a machine . ’
7 But these days she was stepping way out of line , coming on like she had something on him , like she was something more than a two-bit secretary .
8 She was something more than a housekeeper , more also than a nurse .
9 Photography is 80 per cent casting , and with Kate it was something more than a beautiful face .
10 Maybe it is true that it will take something more than a 44-points thrashing by France to force the IRFU into serious action .
11 Lewis , whose youthful enthusiasm had been for Norse sagas and the verse tales of William Morris , seems to have been converted to Christianity by considering whether the Christian myth might not , after all ‘ be something more than a fiction .
12 Something more than a vote was expected in return for the major posts , but essentially they too were employed to aid the development of a political interest .
13 It warns users interested in open systems to be wary of NT because of Microsoft 's reluctance to implement standards or create something more than a limited proprietary system .
14 It 's something more than a Crucifixion ; it 's almost a piece of slaughter , butchery ; meat and flesh .
15 We can perhaps only guess at what exactly lay behind such incidents , although these kinds of details begin to add up to something more than a fringe resentment of the police by a marginal ‘ criminal element ’ .
16 This is something more than a mere disturbance of the public calm or quiet but it appears that in the context of public order , the element of violence deemed essential in R. v. Howell ( C.A. , 1982 ) , in relation to powers of summary arrest , has not always been required .
17 Romer J. relied on William Whiteley Ltd. v. The King , 101 L.T. 741 and Slater v. Burnley Corporation , 59 L.T. 636 , in reaching his decision , and he also referred [ 1946 ] Ch. 236 , 241 , to the ‘ principle of duress colore officii ’ in a manner which showed that the necessary duress required something more than a simple demand by an official .
18 If you have succeeded in fully engaging the sympathies of your readers you will probably have produced for them a main character who is something more than a stereotype , who has about him or her a good deal of the complexity of real life .
19 [ T ] he state is something more than a mere collection of families , or an agglomeration of occupational organisation , or a referee holding the ring between the conflicting interests of the voluntary associations which it permits to exist .
20 Writers on policy analysis are agreed that a policy is something more than a decision .
21 St George Jackson Mivart 's Genesis of Species of 1871 offered a cornucopia of anti-Darwinian arguments based on the claim that evolution must be something more than a haphazard process of adaptation .
22 The community was something more than a collection of species working together for mutual advantage — it obeyed laws that could only be understood at a level transcending that of the individual organisms .
23 It appeared as if there was something more than a cupboard there .
24 An example from German would be : Because two ( or more ) changes are involved , something more than a simple substitution drill is required for mastering these features .
25 The Greek ideal as founded by Winckelmann implied something more than a purely scholarly pursuit .
26 I should like to be something more than a drill-master for competent philologists — the generation of present-day teachers , the care of the growing younger generation , this is what I have in mind . "
27 But perhaps my real mistake lay in assuming there was something there to know — something more than a cardboard cut-out . ’
28 Consequently , ‘ risk ’ must be something more than a remote possibility but less than a probability .
29 The next chapter examines the governmental context of Charles 's fiscal and monetary methods : his imitation of late-Roman emperors was something more than a charade or a figleaf for impotence .
30 However , formulae such as " adjectives precede their nouns " do not take us beyond a very shallow level of linguistic description ; nor is it an improvement to find phrases such as " an attributive adjective " unless the description proceeds in some way to give an account of how a term like attributive may mean something more than a simple statement about formal grouping .
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