Example sentences of "[verb] [det] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least while the enemy is shooting up your Pump Wagon he 's ignoring the rest of your army as it storms forward , and at 40 points each that 's a small price to pay for keeping your core units intact . |
| 2 | Yes , now I would n't slur those quite so much as I would make that all legato . |
| 3 | I mean each each house is different but er there 's not all of them have them , there 's only two or three had done that . |
| 4 | For groups in this position the right to take part in politics represents little more than the right to whistle in the wind . |
| 5 | Welch is the first to admit that when the Theatre Royal opened in 1982 it was widely regarded as a white elephant , which quickly became little more than a stopping off point for second-rate touring products . |
| 6 | The third National Government followed upon the resignation of the Liberal ministers and of the free trader , Snowden , in September 1932 , after which it became little more than a Conservative government , with the adhesion of a few ex-Labour and Liberal politicians , all owing their seats to an electoral pact with the Conservatives . |
| 7 | A settlement was reached in 1972 , but in the 1980s , as the devolution of power to the south became little more than a façade and the economic situation deteriorated , the separatist movement re-emerged . |
| 8 | That one or two might make enough money to pass as legitimately successful , but that most would go on hoping for and talking about the ‘ up for none touch ’ that was just around the corner if only this and that fell into place until they became little more than saloon-bar bores . |
| 9 | Within the Council there were no surprises or novelties about the Committee of Ministers : with each state having one vote and a veto , it became little more than an intergovernmental conference of foreign ministers meeting twice yearly . |
| 10 | The trade union rates so jealously guarded in the inter-war period by the Association became little more than the minimum wage of the 1950s , producing salaries insufficient to attract the ambitious tour operator and dynamic advertising manager and leading in turn to a failure to compete effectively . |
| 11 | Then the meetings became little more than quarterly distributions of the papers . |
| 12 | In so far as it reached out beyond the rather eccentric sect of the Comtist ‘ Religion of Humanity ’ , positivism became little more than a philosophical justification of the conventional method of the experimental sciences , and similarly for most contemporaries Mill was , again in the words of Taine , the man who had opened up ‘ the good old road of induction and experiment ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ You made that most clear today . ’ |
| 14 | Gospel truth , gospel truth I talked to I er wrote to them yeah , and I told them I do n't want that that 's out that is . |
| 15 | Oh I do n't want that much off ! |
| 16 | That would be nice , you wo n't want that much for the sleeve |
| 17 | I said , " No , I do n't want that either . " |
| 18 | Once Phoebe had started playing chess regularly again she realised she could probably have become considerably better than him quite quickly , but she did not want that enough to work on it . |
| 19 | Projects in this imaginary school change each half term ( Figure 6.1 ) . |
| 20 | He simply stood still saying nothing until the cries died away , and then told them what they were waiting for , and that he expected little more fighting . |
| 21 | The use of telex machines increased 7 per cent in the year 1987-88 and the demand for fax machines will outstrip that this year . |
| 22 | In the absence of a specific object , it was assumed that the IRA may have intended little more than to carry out its threat to keep ‘ the war in the Ireland ’ in the limelight during the election campaign . |
| 23 | There 's a little spin-dryer too , but I have n't got around to using that either . |
| 24 | Colourful , free-flowering bushes , bearing large sprays of continuous small blooms , less well formed that those of HTs . |
| 25 | ‘ Thought you 'd gone backstage to see that little blonde . ’ |
| 26 | And then when she thought she was something , she did n't seem to like that any better . ’ |
| 27 | The DACs give the function OUT1/SCALE to scale each half cycle to the same magnitude , which is said to provide a 20dB increase in loudness , subjectively , with none of the usual speech compression problems . |
| 28 | Umberto Eco complains , ‘ Unfortunately , ‘ postmodern ’ … is applied today to anything the user happens to like ’ ( in Hutcheon 1988 : 42 ) : as he suggests , the term is increasingly used in the media to signify little more than vague approval of what is new and striking in contemporary culture . |
| 29 | The words people use are too often interpreted literally to signify little more than their immediate and most rational translation . |
| 30 | Uninterruptible power supplies , because if the set of master files is sitting on a single server machine you ca n't afford to lose that either . |