Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] [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 | In fact , he had no need of anything more than a lock of hair he showed me . ’ |
| 15 | I enjoy living in the countryside and like nothing more than a stroll through the villages . |
| 16 | Inouye : I just wanted the record to be clear , because somehow I felt like something less than a patriot all day long . |
| 17 | Additionally , the development of the huge ‘ pot ’ helm , which enclosed all of the head rather than just the skull , made its wearer virtually invulnerable against anything less than a blow delivered with the full weight of a sword or axe . |
| 18 | The creation of a database in the school library can therefore be seen as something more than the provision of a catalogue of resources . |
| 19 | The introduction of a geographical dimension at this level could be taken up even by those who saw evolution as something more than the selection of random variation . |
| 20 | It supplied him with nothing less than the key to a fresh overall grasp of theology which was able to cope with the most serious challenges proffered in the previous century . |
| 21 | I defy anyone to enter upon altered states of reality with nothing more than a bottle of Trumper 's shampoo and an almost-empty tube of Guerlain 's Habit Rouge face balm . |
| 22 | With nothing more than a saw , pocket knife and file he resolved how to let just the right amount of ink out and air in , and made a fountain pen to his own design . |
| 23 | The Open University freaks have taken so many short cuts that they are rudderless ships on that same deep ocean which you , most probably , crossed with nothing more than a paddle or ragged bit of sail under a stiff breeze and with a lively brain . |
| 24 | Parents see relationships as the most important aspect of primary schooling and marketing has much to do with relationships , it simply starts with nothing more than an insistence on common courtesy — or is it more like uncommon courtesy ? |
| 25 | Robin Knox-Johnson has recently been honoured at the Silk Cut Awards for his seamanship in navigating his yacht Suhali one way across the Atlantic with nothing more than an astrolabe , a cross-staff and a lot of skill , and then back without a mast , engine , radio or compass after a battering in a series of storms . |
| 26 | Fate had thrown them together , but eventually their paths would separate , leaving her with nothing more than the memory of a powerful body pressed close and warm against her own . |
| 27 | But with anything less than a gale the house filled with smoke and the door had to be opened . |
| 28 | Under his direction , the Ulster Constitution Defence Committee maintained its traditional line that O'Neill was not responding to the legitimate demands of a disadvantaged section of the population , but giving in to the demands of rebels who would never be satisfied with anything less than the destruction of Northern Ireland . |
| 29 | Ultimately , Acts offers a more or less reliable historical account of Paul 's dispute with the Nazarean Party , which would culminate in nothing less than the creation of an entirely new religion . |
| 30 | Mrs Guest was born to polite society , but broke with convention as a wayward débutante , taking to the stage and sitting for Diego Rivera in something less than a presentation gown . |