Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | At four-fifteen , there was one hour of light left and still no sign of the Land Rover . |
2 | Some left after only a fortnight and , as time went by , it became increasingly hard to maintain the blockade . |
3 | it was a great winner … his sixth of the season … and it just about booked Swindon a place in the promotion-play offs … with only four games to go it 's asking too much to make the top two but only a disaster can keep them out of the play-offs … |
4 | Resource-based learning therefore turns out to involve much more than simply a method of revitalizing and individualizing learning . |
5 | That of 1814 , however , became known as the Great Revival and it was much more than simply a recruitment phenomenon . |
6 | For David Prentice the desire to paint the landscape encompasses much more than simply an aim to record its appearance |
7 | Mirth is close to creativity for to see the absurd in something is to twist reality around in a way creative thought is fashioned — a good jest is a delight and should be regarded as much more than just a bit of frivolity . |
8 | Ry Cooder Much more than just a wizard on slide guitar , Ry Cooder is a composer , a multi-instrumentalist , a lifelong student of ethnic music and a thoroughly nice bloke . |
9 | Your eurocheque card is much more than just a support for your eurocheques . |
10 | A child 's garden can be so much more than just a sandpit . |
11 | Look why not come down to my cottage now , and we 'll have lunch there — I never have much more than just a picnic myself — then we can go across this afternoon , and maybe take tea to have on the island ? |
12 | You 'll be relieved to see that there 's a comprehensive migraine-specific treatment called Migralift , which is much more than just a painkiller . |
13 | The ANLT is much more than just a parser , it is a development tool for the production of testing of grammars and morphological processors . |
14 | This is the pub as social institution , so much more than just a place for drinking . |
15 | Building students preparing for a career in Europe need much more than just a grounding in languages , says John Watson , student representative for the CIOB 's Northern Counties Region and press officer for the Tyneside Centre . |
16 | The examples given have also indicated that local government is much more than just an agent of the centre . |
17 | First treat your skin from this perspective ( see Chapter 7 ) and the oils will work more efficiently , adding much more than just the polish ! |
18 | He said the order , set up in 1099 as a religious order , was much more than just the ambulance service . |
19 | Robert Bossu had pursued the dispute here to Shrewsbury in search of diversion in a time of frustration and inaction , a pity he must be denied the best of the joke that was so much more than merely a joke . |
20 | The parties can make provision in the agreement for a different measure of damages which , for example , may be appropriate if the acquirer is to invest large amounts of money in the offeree and hence could lose much more than merely the purchase consideration . |
21 | We are proposing , along with Cotte , that let evokes much more than merely the speech act of giving permission : it signifies giving an event access to existence , permitting something by not intervening to obstruct its being accomplished . |
22 | They managed to raise three thousand and now a businessman , who does n't want to be named , has stepped in and paid the rest . |
23 | This slow-down can also be related to the economic hiccoughs of the later 1970s and particularly the period of deep recession in 1979–82 ( Townsend , 1983 ) . |
24 | The mandarin chided his younger son in rapid Annamese and immediately the giggling stopped . |
25 | thank you and you would accept would n't you , that if we have a brochure , let us say printed for next January , January nineteen ninety four alright , and I came along as a retired person in the Spring of nineteen ninety five or indeed the Summer of nineteen ninety five , fifteen , sixteen , seventeen , eighteen months later , those brochure figures will inevitably be out of date in the sense of being inaccurate would n't they ? |
26 | Although the first two rounds of this year 's Davis Cup , one week after the Australian Open and then a week after Lipton , made it possible for him to fit them into his tournament programme for the first three months of the year when his number one ranking was under such threat , he says , ‘ The Davis Cup is certainly one of my priorities now . ’ |
27 | Having won the Australian Open and now the French it means that Seles is on a Grand Slam roll , though she swiftly pointed out that Wimbledon 's grass might be her downfall . |
28 | So you did , right at the top one as I said two thousand four three four and then the closure of Coulson House in it . |
29 | It would , however , be too simple to portray antislavery after the late 1830s as purely a scene of contending sects more concerned with maintaining their own kinds of purity than achieving anything practical . |
30 | At the secondary-school stage it becomes less a partnership between all three and more a matter for the individual student and his or her advisers , whether from inside the school or outside . |