Example sentences of "more than a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 What I am speculating — and it can be no more than a retrospective speculation based on reports from sportsmen themselves — is that black parents were too preoccupied with maintaining a material existence to attend to sport : they were too busy making ends meet .
2 Both show potential , but Farthing 's effort winds up little more than a diagrammatic doodle and Thompson 's feels like a hip TV sketch .
3 HERE ARE two compilations whose existence obviously means more than a desperate milking of the public udders .
4 A TEAM of young archaeologists were disappointed when a dig in Darlington revealed nothing more than a Victorian cellar .
5 In fact the grouping was never much more than a rough guide .
6 The table is nothing more than a rough guide , not an order of merit .
7 It was a farm track , little more than a rough pathway across the fields .
8 Within his own country , he is not so much a Leviathan as a Gulliver figure hemmed in and tied down by a complex network of restraints that must be thrown off if he is to be more than a helpless giant in the White House .
9 Whether these entry positions can , in turn , be levered into positions of more than a new dependency on the technological leaders is an open question and one that can not be answered in the general case .
10 It is a sad and generally unrealised truth that the client who had been investing for upwards of nine months , probably knew considerably more than a new dealer .
11 I gather that the match was played at the new centre — little more than a new clay court being put down in an old car park and towering scaffolding stands then being erected around it , rising almost vertically so that it gave the impression of the fans literally hovering over the court .
12 Multimedia education is nothing more than a new version of a teaching machine , albeit with real-time video , and teaching machines do n't work .
13 Out across the water , the end of the lake had not yet emerged from the mist , and the mountains above it were no more than a delicate shadow of grey against a deep grey sky .
14 The symbolic value of law involves more than a volitional commitment to legal institutions and legal process , or the rhetorical effectiveness of international law arguments .
15 ‘ It was nothing more than a mental aberration on my part . ’
16 No qualified surgeon can be expected to do an occasional experiment in molecular biology in the laboratory any more than a molecular biologist can be expected to perform an occasional operation .
17 She wished she had been born into a different age , an age when women had been allowed to be more than a decorative possession .
18 Still she lifted her chin slightly and tried to ignore the media attention , knowing that it was all really centred on Ace and that she was nothing more than a decorative addition to his charismatic presence .
19 He said that in some countries the president was no more than a decorative figure .
20 We know that Matisse is more than a decorative painter and we agree that Picasso is not always an aggressive painter , but the whole discourse about these painters has depended upon certain prejudicial polarities : colour or form ; wholeness or disintegration ; tradition or avant-garde ; French or international .
21 Despite the suspicions the adventurers will surely have , this is nothing more than a standard mirror with no magical properties whatsoever — unless you decide to add some , of course .
22 The device which I call a Wurly costs no more than a standard pump to run .
23 Many researchers considered MT to be an extension of the code breaking techniques developed during World War 2 , whereby foreign languages were little more than a complex coding of words and translation required merely the use of a bi-lingual dictionary .
24 Evidently he thinks of the distinction as being no more than a useful device for developing and explaining his claim , that all ideas derive from experience .
25 On the other hand , for Tiny Rowland of the conglomerate Lonrho , and for the Atlantic Richfield Oil Company of California , his pre-decessor as owners of The Observer , the control of a national paper might be no more than a useful form of corporate public relations and personal prestige .
26 The deadly dyke , from the air , was no more than a dark line , rather like rough grass or the aftermath of drainage work .
27 Sometimes Japan is more than a Western mind can take .
28 Under the Audit Act 1983 this is more than a traditional audit .
29 What many of the six million tourists who visit Hong Kong each year have discovered is that it is much more than a traditional eating-out and shop-till-you-drop paradise .
30 These petty morals , partly overlapping , form a cascade of precepts none of which amounts to anything more than a trite platitude .
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