Example sentences of "[noun] [art] [det] [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as a case for a ‘ radical extension ’ of industrial democracy by means requiring the assumption by unreformed trade unions of rights which had hitherto attached only to ownership , it merits at this point no more than a suspended judgment at best . |
| 2 | Blanche said little , her head no more than a deep blue profile against the window . |
| 3 | The swab moved across her forehead , its touch no more than a gentle brush , and suddenly she realised there was no prick attached to it . |
| 4 | While the lizard scuttles away to safety , the predator is left to discover , little by little , that its apparently succulent meal is in reality no more than a scaly scrag-end . |
| 5 | Nether Stowey — usually known in Coleridge 's day , and since , simply as Stowey — had called itself a town for as long as anyone could remember , but by the late eighteenth century it was in reality no more than a large , straggling village whose inhabitants numbered fewer than six hundred . |
| 6 | Since there appear to be no consequences in judicial practice if the label constitutional is applied to a particular law , it is in the end no more than a convenient way for textbook writers to organise their material , just as they produce books on industrial law or commercial law . |
| 7 | But once they had stepped out into the cool air , paradoxically , the noise seemed muted , the sea no more than a distant roar . |
| 8 | And we do not charge the earth — in fact no more than a good quality single or double ‘ standard ’ bed . |
| 9 | A shapeless bundle of dirty rags was in front of her , the face no more than a grey shadow . |