Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] a [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was far more behind this than just a deterioration in the weather . |
| 2 | It is false that only a person in authority is an authority . |
| 3 | This disagreement between the different schools of thought is more than just a storm in an academic teacup . |
| 4 | Cairo is too far away to be anything more than just a stake in the ground against IBM/Apple Computer Inc while the hoopla surrounding Windows For Workgroups is meant to distract attention away from an increasingly late NT . |
| 5 | There is no place for a quality footballer if he believes he is more than just a page in that machine . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | more than just a week in politics |
| 8 | But such an identification was probably more than merely an exercise in wish-fulfilment by the ego on behalf of the id . |
| 9 | ‘ When we came to leave the Lamb that afternoon , Mr Barnett , we were all in similar states of intoxication , but Jack had become as maudlin as only an Irishman in liquor can . |
| 10 | According to Ockleton , he had become ‘ as maudlin as only an Irishman in liquor can . ’ |
| 11 | After her success with Kate Moss , Sarah now hopes to work the same magic with Kate 's brother Nick , who is 16 and still a schoolboy in Croydon . |
| 12 | Go up Road , and from there turn down Follyhouse Lane the continuation of it and you 'd come right to the Dales and nothing at all from there to West Bromwich , and you could see , if you go over one stile from one field then onto another and then brook that now runs through the Road there , that used to be a little country brook that run across the golf course and there was a little stile over it , a little bridge and a stile , then you go straight up to Dells common and not a house in sight . |
| 13 | This story , of Mary , in love with a lowly clerk ( tall , dark , handsome and actually an aristocrat in disguise ) owed a great deal to the sagas of class confusion and frustrated passions to be found in contemporary fiction magazines and the ‘ penny dreadful novelette ’ , both in its packaging and plot . |
| 14 | She died childless when still a minor in 1651 and he never remarried . |