Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb -s] [adj] [subord] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Such arguments serve to remind us that scientific management has right-wing as well as left-wing critics .
2 This continuity has practical as well as expressive value , because it facilitates the organic style of change I mentioned a moment ago as a practical advantage .
3 But to win this game takes more than just knowing the right moves , donning the groovy gear and asking Mr Barber for ‘ a dishy pop-star cut , please ’ .
4 The problem for Foucault is that this argument involves more than just madness as such , for it really amounts to a questioning of the very possibility of critique .
5 According to a new report by Euromonitor , the Great British Beauty spends less than almost anyone else on looking after her skin .
6 TURNING A HUMBLE PC INTO A NETWORKED BEASTIE INVOLVES MORE THAN JUST BUNGING IN AN ETHERNET CARD .
7 The conclusion we reach , which we share with Wood , is that ‘ the quest for general trends , such as progressive deskilling of the work force , or general conclusions about the impact of new technologies are likely to be both theoretically and practically in vain ’ and that ‘ to incorporate worker resistance , labour and product markets and extra-economic factors involves more than simply extending one 's analysis ; it amounts to a theoretical reconsideration ’ ( Wood 1982 , 18 , 22 ) .
8 It gets worse every year , but this year seems worse than ever .
9 Becoming the world 's foremost brewer takes more than just good business sense .
10 Keeping the fabric of history : Taking care of old clothes requires more than just mothballs , writes Jo Levin
11 This view affects more than just clever scholars ; I believe that for the same reason many Christians who hold to some belief in the Devil do not believe in evil spirits either .
12 ‘ A real book needs more than just a good writer .
13 This remarkable piece has historic as well as artistic interest , for the intricately worked base is the only contemporaneous illustration of the town 's fortifications as they were after their re-building in 1675–88 .
14 All education has informal as well as formal content , and elite routes generate cultural capital through the ‘ social and cultural unity among those who possess superior life chances ’ ( Scott , 1982 , p. 162 ) .
15 The interventionist state has political as well as economic ill-effects by inducing unrealistic expectations on the part of voters and electoral trade-offs between parties bargaining for votes .
16 The wondrous creature marries younger than ever , bears more babies and looks and acts far more feminine than the ‘ emancipated ’ girl of the Twenties or Thirties .
17 The later play 's music-hall element seems strongest when closest to the more daring Sweeney Agonistes , bringing to this distinctly urban form some of the ironic bite which Brecht and Weill had brought to Berlin stages in 1929 .
18 General exploration means more than just looking for what we want .
19 But the former lead singer for the soul group The Three Degrees ( remember ‘ When Will I See You Again' ? ) stood firm in her conviction that the development of black American cookery from plantation scraps to mainstream classics merits more than just lists of ingredients .
20 Achieving that goal means more than just exposing and preventing abuses ; adequate protection of human rights depends of people knowing what their rights are .
21 Our current and future workload in the Middle East does more than just spell good news for the company .
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