Example sentences of "[adj] [det] [conj] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have taken a new initiative , brand new initiative , we 've set up a whole new scheme doing this that and the other da da da , and in a sort of a tail end , |
| 2 | but , she did say she did this that and the other thing as well you see , but there 's nobody knows anything about the hall in its new state as you do |
| 3 | Course it 's Princess Di and the Queen Mother this that and the next thing . |
| 4 | And people get depressed , like when they 're dealing with bereavement , that 's an event in a person 's life and causes short term dis , short term , very intense distress , but that 's different from the way we 're constructed through the media and all sorts of ways to be super mothers , super wives , super kiddie and a super this that and the next thing which none of use can meet all these demands at one go ! |
| 5 | Suppose I can identify a range of cases in which I am wrong more than the putative authority . |
| 6 | I take this to mean that there is an equality , a reciprocity between the aesthetic and the political such that an aesthetic dimension or response can give the lie to a political claim . |
| 7 | This was recognised as requiring much more than a technical management process . |
| 8 | But not much more than a vague impression of the early impact of the service is provided by these figures , for without an extensive number of regional studies , it is difficult to estimate either the local variations in the success rate or the extent to which different areas established SCC systems alongside the employment bureaux . |
| 9 | If his mother 's ambition for him was not discouraged by any of the family , neither had it occasioned much more than a passing interest . |
| 10 | What many of the six million tourists who visit Hong Kong each year have discovered is that it is much more than a traditional eating-out and shop-till-you-drop paradise . |
| 11 | But most killers are not homicidal maniacs and the victim contributes much more than a mere coincidence of time and place to his own fate . |
| 12 | As the music powered into focus , it suddenly seemed much more than a mere backdrop for Morrissey 's lyrical diatribes . |
| 13 | Changes in content and style — ‘ news ’ was now moved to the front pages , there were briefer stories , news stories grew in importance as ‘ opinion and commentary ’ lost favour , different typographical styles were used to attract readers and make newspapers less severe — reflected much more than a mere process of ‘ modernization ’ . |
| 14 | For Hickey , however , the memoirs were evidently much more than a mere record of past events . |
| 15 | Over and over again , Tchaikovsky makes his pieces something much more than a mere salon diversion by forming his tunes out of small , constantly changing and evolving melodic cells . |
| 16 | In fact the grouping was never much more than a rough guide . |
| 17 | But it was so very much more than a great show . |
| 18 | That quarry , it should be said , is not much more than a small hole in the ground with banking around it . |
| 19 | One Sunday night at the Wood Green Odeon a group of youths and girls were making so much more than a tolerable racket that I eventually asked them to quieten down . |
| 20 | All that emerges from it is the sheer nastiness of a group of homosexual writers for whom the working classes were not much more than a floating brothel . |
| 21 | He was n't much more than a big puppy and an out-and-out mongrel . |
| 22 | Much more than a military commander , Pompey appointed kings and created new Roman provinces . |
| 23 | This is really not much more than a local plan for land use over a larger area , so there is now no strategic mechanism for the City of Tyneside . |
| 24 | Making fools of the fools who make fools of the police is a funny business , but Murder By Misadventure is much more than a hackneyed trawl through the dogma of yesterday 's psycho-dramas . |
| 25 | Forester had delivered the certificate and the other papers by hand to the country police station ; it was n't much more than a converted garage alongside the local man 's house , and it had n't been difficult to pick a time when it had been unattended . |
| 26 | Rulfo 's oral style — which manifests itself in this novel and in the stories of The Burning Plain , in the frequent repetition of words and phrases , in a manner typical of the backtracking of oral narrative — is , of course , much more than a formal device , for its function is to take us inside the world of a rural peasantry whose cultural tradition is non-literate . |
| 27 | Bricks and mortar used to much more than a sound investment — it was the best way to make serious money . |
| 28 | This is the point of view of one novice who discovered that diving offers much more than a free lunch , but should never be taken without tissues . |
| 29 | The handheld multimedia system that eventually emerges , therefore , will be much more than a single delivery platform . |
| 30 | Well , really not much more than a single mew , it 's so small . |