Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [adj] [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lukic was guilty of no more than a challenge for a 50–50 ball with the speeding Rob Jones around the 18-yard line . |
| 2 | She had been giddy in the mornings and tired at night ; her breasts felt different , she had been sleeping badly , dreaming dreams , longing all day for Tristram to come and take her in his arms and love her , when instead she had had to be content with no more than a covert glance from him when he came home from Knollys 's yard in the evenings , or a touch of his ankle under the table at supper time . |
| 3 | Cos you 've effectively got a dead short through an ammeter whereas a a volt meter 's got a a hun , a high er resistance or an open circuit , effectively . |
| 4 | More of a revolutionary than a reformer . ’ |
| 5 | I suppose this is more of a forewarning than a request for permission , as I was going to send them this week anyway . |
| 6 | In the last interview he gave to a French journalist before the war began , Ho , in envisaging the way in which ‘ at all costs war must be averted ’ , seemed to accept independence within the French Union ; although unless this was based on a total misunderstanding of the nature of the French Union , which also seems unlikely , this was probably more of a smoke-screen than a smoke-signal . |
| 7 | It is more of a cabal than a cabinet , more of a permanent diplomatic conference than a senate . |
| 8 | Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Schools is more of a lap-dog than a rottweiler . |
| 9 | Their concept of support was also very broad , and their assessment more of a quantitive than a qualitive one . |
| 10 | The researcher engaged in the social study of baptism may well decide at an early stage of the study that in modern British society baptism is more of a social than a religious ceremony . |
| 11 | International Relations began — and , many would say , remains — more of an inter-discipline than a discipline . |
| 12 | The sight of such an expanse of tiny squares , flowing up and around his massive elevation , produced more of an architectural than a sartorial impression . |
| 13 | A Santa Monica health club is so far the only place where Americans can switch E for O. In Hungary , however , such matters are more of an imperative than a luxury ; over 10 per cent of the country 's deaths are pollution-related . |
| 14 | But he grew rich on no more than a promise . |
| 15 | In a further speech in August 1987 he complained that there had been a tendency both in the USSR and outside it to see the socialist construction of the 1930s as no more than a series of mistakes . |
| 16 | Changes in money supply from this source are likely to be much greater under a fixed than a floating exchange rate . |
| 17 | We should remember that , like so many other British communities outside London , Wirral entered the 1980s with no more than a handful of long-term drug users known to local doctors . |