Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [adj] [subord] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For little more than the price of two rolls of 35mm this source of invaluable information really is worth having . |
| 2 | For little more than the price of ordinary-looking hardcover books you can own these extraordinary editions — books that are admired and collected in 131 countries around the world . |
| 3 | In fact , Manchester 's east side ( officially referred to as Tameside ) is renowned for little more than the sweat and dirt of industry . |
| 4 | In fact , Manchester 's east side ( officially referred to as Tameside ) is renowned for little more than the sweat and dirt of industry . |
| 5 | There may well be a reputable graffiti artist in the area who would take on the challenge for little more than the cost of the materials ! |
| 6 | Wimpey News has teamed up with Kuoni , one of the world 's leading travel companies , to offer readers the chance of visiting one of three exotic holiday destinations for little more than the cost of a European holiday . |
| 7 | Its Military Committee , which the victors of 1945 had once hoped ( for little more than the time it takes to shake hands ) would in future enforce peace at the head of a world army , remained a jobless phantom . |
| 8 | The idea of filling the engravings with white greatly added to the legibility , but the conventional cylinder ( just over two inches in diameter ) had insufficient space for much more than the title . |
| 9 | He knew she was grateful for much more than the gesture of making some tea and , instinctively , he held out his arms . |
| 10 | It was , therefore , unfair to dismiss Winsper after his conviction for dangerous driving because the court had refrained from suspending his driving licence and had imposed a fine of only £20 . |
| 11 | ‘ Rural development has often appeared to consist of little more than the creation of as many plans , programmes , projects , rural centres , and special development agencies as possible . |
| 12 | Val Gardena often gives second-rank skiers a chance of top 15 because the sun pops out from behind the huge massif of Sassolungo and warms and quickens the piste . |
| 13 | Yet Nishikikoi themselves are a product of much more than the profit motive . |
| 14 | The exposure site was in mid Wales at an altitude of 346 m where the climate is habitually wet and windy ( Andrews , in preparation ) . |
| 15 | I only knew something of all this because the girl 's mother kept in touch with me occasionally through innocent looking postcards and just the one phone call put through to our telephone me when her husband died in 1986 . |
| 16 | The parks and main avenue were awash with trees in full blossom , and when she looked back up towards the farm she could see patches of cloudy pink where the apple trees were in bloom . |
| 17 | South African rugby has really come to this : a game for 90 players from the Transvaal , Northern Transvaal , Western Province , Eastern Province , Orange Free State and Natal who get wonderfully reimbursed for the expense of now playing 23 or more first-class fixtures in a season against one another while the rest hardly get a look in . |
| 18 | The sole observation is indirect ; the orbital period of the binary pulsar 1913 + 16 is measured to be slowing down at a rate which agrees well with that expected if the system is emitting gravitational radiation . |
| 19 | At one extreme ( for instance , when grass-letting ) you can get by with little more than the dwelling house : at the other ( on an intensively-run livestock farm ) special buildings are essential . |
| 20 | All these small invertebrates — flying insects trapped in webs by spiders , larvae concealed in bark picked out by woodpeckers , molluscs hidden in mud gathered by wading birds , termites licked up by anteaters — all are harvested with little more than the effort expended by those animals that sip nectar and munch pollen , or gather fruit and chew leaves . |
| 21 | This most popular show , which ran for 12 years and hooked 22 million viewers at its peak , operated under all the usual constraints of economy sit-com — restricted set , small cast , tiresome re-establishment of norm every week — but somehow extracted magic from little more than the relationship between Harry H Corbett and Wilfrid Brambles . |
| 22 | In the second half of the eighteenth century some progress was made , but it was the invention of the bobbin net machine by John Heathcoat ( see Tiverton ) in 1808 that provided the foundation for mechanical lace-making . |
| 23 | Or perhaps authority may come from some prestigious so the domain of the practitioner , as when techniques are recommended on the grounds that they have the warrant of proven theory . |
| 24 | Chairman , back in nineteen eighty when the County Council 's original structure plan submission was examined , the panel who subsequently the Secretary of State rejected the proposal for a policy to control development in the open countryside outside the nationally designated areas , primarily to suggest that on the grounds that the agricultural policy in the plan were equally capable of achieving the objectives sort by the proposed open countryside policy . |
| 25 | Intervention in currency markets by monetary authorities in the Group of Seven ( G-7 ) countries was necessary in late 1989 as the deutschmark gained considerable strength against major currencies with the prospect of German political and monetary unification . |
| 26 | The village cross , in the Market Place , is believed to be the second cross , the current one being erected in 181 1 after the original was destroyed by workers on the Hull drainage scheme . |
| 27 | Unlike the traditional software markets where a number of players grew alongside one another as the market expanded , in desktop publishing we have had many fewer successful products and those have tended to totally dominate the market . |
| 28 | At the same time this differentiation acts as agent of effective phrasing by tellingly setting off the two heterogeneous themes from one another provided the director is aware of Mozart 's signs and interprets them correctly with greater sharpness for the strokes . |
| 29 | Companies take full advantage of the cheaper labour available from such countries and easily attract Asian workers to the Middle East by paying salaries which are in general higher than the worker could hope to earn in his own country but , of course , much lower than would pertain in , say , Western Europe . |
| 30 | Urgent demand for which I totally agree for millions more than the money is available er , as long as all the council says this is our priority of course you can have it . |