Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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31 It is false that only a person in authority is an authority .
32 The vicar is now so unpopular that only a handful of people still attend St Mary 's Church .
33 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 .
34 First recorded in 1960 and possibly an offshoot of the Fishbourne colony .
35 The pupil is very large and only a portion of the iris is present , so the eye appears dark in colour .
36 RE THE letter from Mrs F. Taylor about Cilla Black being a Tory and therefore a traitor to Liverpool .
37 ‘ The manager must be flexible but consistent , culturally diverse but recognisably an individual with his own identity .
38 Often , of course , these were different forms of the same general relations , though the latter can not be reduced to the former , in all or even a majority of cases .
39 It would be foolish , however , to argue that the problems created by the increasing urban demand for recreation in the countryside are entirely illusory or simply a matter of arbitrary taste : they clearly are not .
40 Then he realised that they were presumably so poor that even a choice of cornflakes or lumpy porridge , along with underdone toast and margarine , had the overwhelming attraction of being free .
41 Two cars are drawing up outside Number 17 and quite a lot of people are going in the front door .
42 Indeed , we suspect that a rule which was never broken would not be a rule in our sense at all but rather an inevitability with the logical status of a law .
43 All the other players you hear about from time to time , Charlton , Giles , Hunter et all but never a word about Harvey .
44 First , the restitutionary remedy is expressed to be available not only against ‘ that person , ’ i.e. the contravener of section 3 or perhaps an associate of the contravener , but also against ‘ any other person … knowingly concerned in the contravention . ’
45 ‘ This friction between her and your mother — was it really important or just a manifestation of teenage rebellion ? ’
46 Now that was er er more or less a favour to me .
47 In doing this , they make it easier to understand why some form of local government continues to survive as more than simply a creature of the centre .
48 As a sociolinguist Stubbs sees reading , for instance , as more than simply a mechanism for decoding written into spoken words : he prefers to concern himself with understanding meaning , pointing out that ‘ we do not normally read meaningless material ’ ( ibid. p. 15 ) .
49 Resource-based learning therefore turns out to involve much more than simply a method of revitalizing and individualizing learning .
50 In almost every other respect , certainly , the Celtic Church appears to have been something more than simply a repository for Nazarean thought — as Nestorian Christianity was , for example .
51 The very fact that philip Augustus made no serious attempt to invade or attack Gascon ) , in the campaigns of 1202–4 may be more than simply a comment upon the military limitations of the French crown .
52 Section 2 to read : The Coordinator as part of his/her responsibility is part Area Secretary for a geographical area with no more than approximately a quarter of a million population .
53 Your eurocheque card is much more than just a support for your eurocheques .
54 Perhaps now , in the same way , Judith Cowan 's new range or work can also be effective in a climate which desperately seeks more than just a checklist of intention .
55 This disagreement between the different schools of thought is more than just a storm in an academic teacup .
56 But it 's more than just a question of who the patients prefer to be treated by .
57 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 .
58 The full story of the WM & CR is more than just a recalling of the day-to-day running of a railway .
59 The crews are mostly ‘ medical assistants , ’ which means possessing more than just a knowledge of first aid .
60 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 .
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