Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is clear that even a good working knowledge of credit costs helps consumers only if that knowledge affects their shopping decisions . |
| 2 | From March 1918 it was clear that only a crushing military victory by one or other side would bring ‘ peace ’ . |
| 3 | In 1936 he wrote " Nowadays the trouble and expense involved in keeping a stud of hawks is so great that only a fortunate few are able to do so . " |
| 4 | However the supply voltage must also be increased to maintain the phase current at its rated value when the motor is stationary and consequently a large d.c. power supply is needed . |
| 5 | For to say that Jesus was a ‘ rightful king ’ means far more than it might simply in today 's world — far more than just a legitimate inherited position as head , symbolic or otherwise , of a secular state . |
| 6 | Should the term mean more than just a circumscribed spatial area ? |
| 7 | He said : ‘ The Manchester bid is more than just a superb technical achievement . |
| 8 | Still , the Carolingian Renaissance in the mid-ninth century touched far more than just a select clerical few . |
| 9 | Schrader refers to the short , written out cadenza-like flourish just before the final cadences of the Prelude in F minor BWV534 as a precedent , but this does not seem justification enough , particularly as the cadenza he provides in this case is much more than merely a brief manual flourish . |
| 10 | The infant 's eye is elastic and so a raised intra-ocular pressure causes the eyeball to enlarge . |
| 11 | It is true that once a useful co-ordinating convention is established every person has reason to adhere to it , a reason which is independent of the existence of the authority , a reason deriving entirely from the existence of the useful convention . |
| 12 | Those who marched were a coalition of wildly different elements : pacifists and Christians , Trade Unionists and Little Englanders , anarchists and rationalists , Beats and ravers , the barefoot and the long-haired and also a great many quiet and concerned young parents pushing prams or carrying infants on their shoulders . |