Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [det] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack Lewis was a brilliant attacking wing-half whom Palace obtained for nothing more than a signing-on fee from West Bromwich Albion in the summer of 1938 . |
| 2 | You have paid , Monsieur , for nothing more than a pack of lies . ’ |
| 3 | As with the BROWNIES , gruagachs will happily serve their masters for nothing more than a cup of milk . |
| 4 | RAI protests that this amounts to a colossal waste of money since it previously acquired Eurovision rights for nothing more than the duty of reciprocal access to material from Italy . |
| 5 | Then like a fool he had spoken of Maud , and Sarah had seen him as nothing more than a philanderer . |
| 6 | They had a son called Michael and a daughter called Matilda , and the parents looked upon Matilda in particular as nothing more than a scab . |
| 7 | But it would be foolish to dismiss it as nothing more than a gimmick . |
| 8 | It is amazing , with hindsight , to see the awakening of the theory of evolution dismissed by Gould as nothing more than a number of ‘ pleasing chats ’ ; but Gould was not a revolutionary and never claimed to be ; his en tire life and all of his works were designed to get him accepted by society and by science , not rejected by them . |
| 9 | Now this emphasis on focusing and honing everything right down to its simplest form can sound a bit like naked capitalism , treating rock ‘ n ’ roll as nothing more than a game . |
| 10 | It was natural to see these moving pictures as nothing more than a novelty , perhaps merely a passing gimmick ; they were , after all , only shown as an additional turn on the music-hall programme . |
| 11 | The explosives , which were described as nothing more than an experiment , were detonated just above a dam built in January and breached last week . |
| 12 | In fact , this emphasis has misled many students of price theory to understand the notion of the entrepreneur as nothing more than the locus of profit-maximizing decision-making within the firm . |
| 13 | It was left to Karl Marx to strip away the veil of capitalist ideology and reveal the wage system and the ‘ free labour market ’ as nothing more than the domination of one class over another . |
| 14 | She went down to the lobby to settle the bill so far for both their rooms , and then changed her mind and paid only for her own and the booze . |
| 15 | Parents , however , should remember that if they give their child an investment that produces over £5 annual income , it will usually be taxed as their own unless the child is over 18 or married . |
| 16 | Parents , however , should remember that if they give their child an investment that produces over £5 annual income , it will usually be taxed as their own unless the child is over 18 or married . |
| 17 | Parents , however , should remember that if they give their child an investment that produces over £5 annual income , it will usually be taxed as their own unless the child is over 18 or married . |
| 18 | Unlike the true rambler types with only one flush of bloom , the climbers group contains varieties that flower more or less continuously , and others that make two or more bursts or displays with periods between , during which little or no bloom is carried . |
| 19 | The commissioners recommended in a report last July that Elly Jansen , its founder , resign as a trustee after concerns that she had failed to distinguish between her own and the charity 's finances . |
| 20 | The holder may supply liquor to persons taking table meals on the premises , to residents or private friends of residents being bona fide entertained by them , to the private friends for their own or the resident 's consumption , and to a resident for his own or a private friend 's consumption with a meal supplied at the premises but to be consumed off them . |
| 21 | That particular reason for refusal was : ‘ the local planning authority is not satisfied that certain nuisances from smell and dust ( for which little or no remedy exists ) would not result if the proposed development took place , to the detriment of residential properties within a wide radius of the site ’ . |
| 22 | Developed through having had this magazine of my own since the age of six , and listening to the Top 30 every Tuesday only to run off instantly to the typewriter in order to compile my own personal Top 30 which totally conflicted with how the world really was . |
| 23 | Even more documentation arrives with SuperCalc 5.5 , mainly because the data manipulation features are given a book of their own and a name — Silverado . |
| 24 | an organisation whose structure lends itself most readily to ensuring that employees work effectively for the achievement of their own and the organisation 's goals . |
| 25 | However , events take a path of their own and the picture finally brings him the happiness it seemed to promise all along . |
| 26 | The bureaucracy , according to this line of analysis , exercises neither class power of its own nor the power of classes to which it is affiliated . |
| 27 | DSRM are in the Auckland District League , 100 years old this year and planning a bunfight of its own before the summer 's out . |
| 28 | The trolley also had a mind of its own and a tendency to advance crablike , sideways . |
| 29 | This Report has argued that music can have a life of its own and an ability to communicate without the support of words . |
| 30 | In an extreme case such as the Yorkshire estate village of Thrybergh the squire 's hall was in a class of its own and the parsonage was far superior to the rest . |