Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or is he speaking about that nation of complacent and indifferent shopkeepers who long for nothing other than a return to the days of imperial hegemony ? |
| 2 | Another woman , Virgo , marries Tycho , an astronomer , who has time for nothing lower than the stars and the planets . |
| 3 | Were they really ruling huge areas of land when my family 's ambitions were for nothing grander than the next meal and the work to pay for it ? |
| 4 | The archbishop of 1101 , with a clear command which required his obedience , was a different man from the Anselm of 1097 who asked for nothing better than an opportunity for escape . |
| 5 | Jack Lewis was a brilliant attacking wing-half whom Palace obtained for nothing more than a signing-on fee from West Bromwich Albion in the summer of 1938 . |
| 6 | As with the BROWNIES , gruagachs will happily serve their masters for nothing more than a cup of milk . |
| 7 | You have paid , Monsieur , for nothing more than a pack of lies . ’ |
| 8 | RAI protests that this amounts to a colossal waste of money since it previously acquired Eurovision rights for nothing more than the duty of reciprocal access to material from Italy . |
| 9 | We all need windows in our lives , and at the moment we can ask for nothing more than the scenes flicking past the carriage until , at last , we reach open country and the long dark hours ahead we plough on towards the East and the border . |
| 10 | ‘ He will also call for nothing less than a parallel system with equal legal status under which those who can not accept women priests will be able to continue with bishops of like mind . ’ |
| 11 | Now this emphasis on focusing and honing everything right down to its simplest form can sound a bit like naked capitalism , treating rock ‘ n ’ roll as nothing more than a game . |
| 12 | It was natural to see these moving pictures as nothing more than a novelty , perhaps merely a passing gimmick ; they were , after all , only shown as an additional turn on the music-hall programme . |
| 13 | Then like a fool he had spoken of Maud , and Sarah had seen him as nothing more than a philanderer . |
| 14 | But it would be foolish to dismiss it as nothing more than a gimmick . |
| 15 | They had a son called Michael and a daughter called Matilda , and the parents looked upon Matilda in particular as nothing more than a scab . |
| 16 | The professorship in question was seen by the politicians as nothing more than a means of keeping the Laird of Cringletie happy ; it was , as Gorthie put it , ‘ a very good way to answer the Laird 's own expectations till once a good occasion offer ’ . |
| 17 | In an anonymous introduction , the editor of De revolutionibus , Andreas Osiander , had implied that the earth 's motion was to be construed as nothing more than a convenient hypothesis . |
| 18 | He thought he would come to no harm both because people needed his services as a medical man and because he thought they would regard him as nothing more than a political eccentric . |
| 19 | It would be easy to dismiss her as nothing more than a minor accessory to ben Issachar 's crime against me : these women stay in the background , mind their own business over the cookpots and the infant 's cot , keep themselves out of public view . |
| 20 | It is amazing , with hindsight , to see the awakening of the theory of evolution dismissed by Gould as nothing more than a number of ‘ pleasing chats ’ ; but Gould was not a revolutionary and never claimed to be ; his en tire life and all of his works were designed to get him accepted by society and by science , not rejected by them . |
| 21 | The explosives , which were described as nothing more than an experiment , were detonated just above a dam built in January and breached last week . |
| 22 | Charlotte : Charlotte is a wealthy woman in her early forties who views aromatherapy as nothing more than an upmarket beauty treatment . |
| 23 | In fact , this emphasis has misled many students of price theory to understand the notion of the entrepreneur as nothing more than the locus of profit-maximizing decision-making within the firm . |
| 24 | It was left to Karl Marx to strip away the veil of capitalist ideology and reveal the wage system and the ‘ free labour market ’ as nothing more than the domination of one class over another . |
| 25 | They are now hailed as nothing less than the first Europeans . |
| 26 | He is after nothing less than a full-blown and not always approving commentary on Irish attitudes . |
| 27 | She felt the shudder within him , felt a pride and an elation that she had caused it , then could think of nothing other than the exquisite sensations shooting through her body , radiating to every part of it and suffusing her with an unstoppable arousal . |
| 28 | He was aware of nothing other than the necessity to breathe . |
| 29 | It is true , these same trivial errors did cause me some anxiety at first , but once I had had time to diagnose them correctly as symptoms of nothing more than a straightforward staff shortage , I have refrained from giving them much thought . |
| 30 | The fundamental strength of the Libertarian Ideal consists of nothing more than the proud assertion that freedom is an end-product that people value . |