Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adj] [subord] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , as they fervently hope , Waqar Younis has recovered sufficiently from the stress fracture in his back to bowl as he did in taking 113 first-class wickets last season at a cost of 14 each — a wicket for every 30 balls he bowled — and Imran 's shoulder injury permits him , after all , to play as more than just a batsman-captain , theirs will be a fast bowling attack as strong , at least on paper , as any the West Indies had during the 16 years of world supremacy which came to an end here last summer . |
| 2 | Still , the Carolingian Renaissance in the mid-ninth century touched far more than just a select clerical few . |
| 3 | ‘ When we came to leave the Lamb that afternoon , Mr Barnett , we were all in similar states of intoxication , but Jack had become as maudlin as only an Irishman in liquor can . |
| 4 | Launer , which carries the Royal Warrant , offers far more than just the style for which the Queen is famous . |
| 5 | No wonder Milton was aware that the ways of God needed more justifying than even the greatest of English epics could contrive to do ; and Paradise Lost , as Empson believed , is a poem more than occasionally conscious of the ultimate injustice of the dogma of atonement , and it thrives poetically on its contradictions . |
| 6 | That behaviour demanded more suffering than just a few uncomfortable hours . |
| 7 | The number of individual schools developing their own non-sexist and anti-sexist initiatives is increasing continuously , and most tackle far more than just the official curriculum , aiming to provide verbal and physical ‘ space ’ for girls , to tackle careers and option choices and to involve parents . |
| 8 | In doing this , they make it easier to understand why some form of local government continues to survive as more than simply a creature of the centre . |