Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [det] [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For groups in this position the right to take part in politics represents little more than the right to whistle in the wind . |
| 2 | However , it cost little more than the price of the land — a real bargain , ’ she parodied in a bitter little voice . |
| 3 | She said they 've all come to work oh I 've won a prize I 've got a car or I 've won this that and the other . |
| 4 | It may be true that the story of the English people is best seen in English literature , but English literature contains much more than the story of the English people . |
| 5 | A sensible aid policy — not just for Russia and Eastern Europe , but for the third world in general — calls for careful priorities , realistic goals and , above all , an understanding that the quality of aid matters much more than the quantity . |
| 6 | interested in English nobody , sh did n't know any more than the girl next door did she ? |
| 7 | Now I suppose this is just appealing to my sense of power or something , being able to walk in and take charge and in a minute or two they 've settled down and they 're not panicking because you 've arrived and all their burdens are on your shoulders and they do n't have to worry any more because the doctor 's there … this I find profoundly satisfying as long as I can , in fact , cope with what 's happening . |
| 8 | Secondly the archive base became much more than the database ( or rather its constituent tables ) . |
| 9 | It is important to begin by recognizing that assessment is a process which involves much more than the collection of information and data . |
| 10 | Aerial photographs reveal little more than the site 's main features , and plotting scatters of surface finds only gives a reasonable guide to its centre , with little information about its extent or shape . |
| 11 | We were unsure as to what what what we should do , what we should n't do , wi will we contact social work , will we tell our doctor , wha how how do we do this that and the other ? |
| 12 | Th th there is one point on the same vein as that Bob , th the second sheet on the D One , where there 's a suggestion that we tick off additional bits that we 're gon na put into our contract , we are going to arrange possessions , we we 're gon na do this that and the other . |
| 13 | I think there are many purposes that the County Farms should have , and we need to look at what is the best value financially , that we can obtain for the people of Wiltshire , so when everybody talks about they 'd like their country schools maintained , they 'd like this that or the other bought , they 'd like Corsham station purchased , we could buy it easily if we sold a County Farm could n't we ? |
| 14 | Yet where the two do not like one another or the chemistry is wrong , the relationship will remain distant for the entire three years . |
| 15 | She 'd never had any more until the inspector had come to say she must go back to London . |
| 16 | What if the price of whisky is already so high that no-one is prepared to buy any more if the price goes up again ? |
| 17 | There is a range of topics requiring little more than the ability to recognise and identify the prey being attacked . |
| 18 | It was surprising that an industry generating so many millions of pounds was prepared to use little more than the manager 's sexual tastes as its yardstick of talent . |
| 19 | Well you have n't pleaded a term of the contract that there 's a practice to which all solicitors are subject that they have got to do this that and the other . |
| 20 | Genesis is exhilarating and exuberant orthodox big-band music of a kind rarely played with such punch any more and the sharpness of the CD enhances the brash , headlong momentum of it — Tracey 's orchestras always sound as if they are going to work with the elan of Saturday night at the Savoy ballroom . |
| 21 | In a much governed kingdom like England royal administration included control over the sheriff and other local officers ; in some kingdoms it included little more than the issuing of charters and the collecting of somewhat meagre taxes . |
| 22 | And they 're traipsing around the room , getting the bed out , doing this that and the other . |
| 23 | They reached mass audiences , whom their ‘ messages ’ frequently interested much more than the news or the programmes that the advertisements indirectly helped pay for . |
| 24 | But the western railway dreams encompassed much more than the settling of immigrants or the taming of native peoples ( throughout the world railways were credited with this ‘ pacificatory ’ role ) . |
| 25 | Fighting continued for three weeks ; British casualties numbered 1000 , the Indonesians lost many more and the city became a desert . |
| 26 | Stick it out for the fortnight , I could n't take any more and the day I got out , I went and scored . |
| 27 | Regalism can best be defined as Erastianism and it represented little more than the modernization and systematization of the traditional claim of the crown to control what it considered the temporal aspects of church government . |
| 28 | Ramsey was unusual in that to him the priest 's ordination meant much more than the deacon 's ordination . |
| 29 | When the Queen takes her place in the Church of Christ the Cornerstone tomorrow , it will mean much more than the dedication of another place of worship . |
| 30 | Italy 's involvement in the Spanish Civil War , in emulation of Germany , had cost much more than the government had intended , and by 1939 Mussolini must have known that the Army and Air Force were not anything like as strong as he had imagined they were , even if he did not know the extent of their weakness . |