Exercise 7.12. Переведите предложения с использованием выражения «more than» (большее как отрицание предполагаемого тождества):

1. When the English Football Association meets in the next few months to decide the new kit sponsor for the national team, something more than the future design of the English shirt will be at stake.

2. Even as a child of five watching the 1966 World Cup final, I was dimly aware that what was being played out on the Wembley turf was something more than a football match, that the second world war was being figuratively refought.

3. There’s more to camping than roll mats and sleeping bags. At a new luxury campsite in the south of France, you can now “sleep out in style” from the comfort of a cosy four-poster bed in an oak-framed domed tent. Modelled on the yurt- the small portable home used by the nomadic people of Central Asia – the luxury hand-crafted tent is the kind of cosy, opulent pad that Genghis Khan lived in when he was conquering the steppes of Asia.

4. Mr Lafontaine was more than just any old German finance minister. His influence extended beyond Germany.

5. One of Mayor of London’s achievements has been making Trafalgar Square more than just a place tourists go to eat sandwiches while traveling at Nelson’s column.

Exercise 7.13. Переведите предложения с использованием выражения порядка следования элементов в сопоставительных конструкциях – отношения полного или частичного взаимоисключения:

1. Consumers the world over want Italian olive oil because it is supposed to be the finest, redolent of dolce vita. In truth, Italy does not grow enough olives to meet even its own demand, let alone foreigners. Spain, not Italy, actually has the world’s largest olive harvest.

2. NATO and not the EU has been responsible for the relative peace in this continent over the past 50 years.

3. In democracies, communities with varying beliefs about ultimate questions can live together in a spirit of respect, if not always in amity – even when different beliefs imply different individual choices.

4. “Sense and Worth,” as the pamphlet is titled, argues that society no longer expects children to think independently, logically or analytically, and that able children are often isolated rather than encouraged.

5. It seems astonishing that the world is still watching rather than acting two weeks after the Lebanon war began.

6. At the World Cup games in Japan the competition’s overwhelmingly joyous, celebratory atmosphere, rather than the large number of Japanese police seems to explain why England’s often belligerent followers have behaved well.

7. Managing a network these days is more like gambling than business, more like truffle-hunting than agriculture, a matter of luck.

8 The headquarters of Mr. Potanin’s empire, Uneximbank, resembles a fortress as much as a financial institution. Armed guards, metal detectors and electronic gates protect the entrance to the main building.

7. The London Eye may have attracted millions of visitors, and made its creators’ names as near to any household as most architects could ever hope, but lately it has become a millstone as much as a badge of honour.