Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [det] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This kind of simple redundancy occurs widely in databases and a significant level of compression can thereby be achieved through little more than an exercise of commonsense and ingenuity . |
| 2 | But surely in an economically and culturally disparate country such as Italy , which has existed as a single entity for little more than a century , a north-south break-up would be the best thing to promote accountability , reduce bureaucracy and eliminate waste . |
| 3 | The couple stayed together for little more than a year and their son died before he was 12 months old , an incident that was to haunt Gallacher throughout his precociously successful playing career . |
| 4 | Altogether , these small builders were responsible for little more than a quarter of the houses . |
| 5 | For little more than a decade , the high level qualification available to students seeking a first degree equivalent was the Diploma in Art and Design ( Dip.AD ) . |
| 6 | DNA bending does not seem to be a general feature of eukaryotic transcription factors and has hitherto only been demonstrated for little more than a handful of such proteins ( see e.g. 44,69 and references therein ) . |
| 7 | Fletcher is worried that half of England 's winter tour party will be at home for little more than a week before flying off again for pre-season trips with their counties . |
| 8 | For little more than the price of two rolls of 35mm this source of invaluable information really is worth having . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In fact , Manchester 's east side ( officially referred to as Tameside ) is renowned for little more than the sweat and dirt of industry . |
| 11 | In fact , Manchester 's east side ( officially referred to as Tameside ) is renowned for little more than the sweat and dirt of industry . |
| 12 | 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 ! |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | With that number about little more than a century ago , it might be thought an easy matter to run one to earth . |
| 16 | There were no training you needed for this that and the other , you went down . |
| 17 | He proved himself an effective administrator , but died 22 September 1652 after little more than a year in office . |
| 18 | Behind the industrial revolution were a series of major historical transformations , including the abandonment of popular culture by the European elites after 1500 such that the concept of culture itself became more closely related to hierarchy , but was combined with a growth in literacy and other resources by means of which lower status groups might also gain access to the new high culture ( see Burke 1978 : 270 and Mukerji 1983 for pre-1800 ; Williams 1961 for post-1800 ) . |
| 19 | After all that and the investment of nearly £30 billion in real terms , this nation has nothing to show for 12 years of this Conservative Government . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He knew she was grateful for much more than the gesture of making some tea and , instinctively , he held out his arms . |
| 22 | But in the space of little more than a year he found that Clift had ‘ deteriorated to a shocking degree ’ : |
| 23 | So sex education becomes crucially important , but while the 1986 Education Act and Section 28 remain in place , sex education in Britain will consist of little more than a hymn to family life , largely devoid of any education about sex . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | He come home with lines and write passages out of this that and the other . |
| 26 | Yet Nishikikoi themselves are a product of much more than the profit motive . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Wilkins said that he and the police constable had hold of one another and the officer had fallen to the ground . |
| 29 | In 1743 an attack on Bezrukovo near the Ishim led to the deaths of two people , the imprisonment of twenty-six more and the loss of eighty horses . |
| 30 | That makes the investment look like little more than a punt on First Fidelity 's shares — a profitable punt , perhaps , but a punt nonetheless . |