Example sentences of "[adj] [det] [subord] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | She waited until the car vanished round the bend then waited some more until the whine of the engine was at last lost in the distance , then she slowly made her way into the house . |
| 2 | ‘ Dreadful , ’ he replied , and warmed her heart some more when a hint of a smile touched his mouth , and he voiced , ‘ Allow me to tell you , Miss Kingsdale , that your interviewing technique is appalling . ’ |
| 3 | Do not repeat this more than a couple of times in rapid succession however , because otherwise the dog may start to interpret this as a game . |
| 4 | Its first two blast furnaces employing 50 men were upgraded within four years to employ 300 more than the population of the whole parish . |
| 5 | The error was to project the growth trends of the world economy from 1870 to 1914 and see the political order as not much more than a reflex of these trends . |
| 6 | Though the thermal establishment itself is quite stately , in the normal style of these amenities , the village is tightly shut in by the mountains on either side and is not much more than a ribbon of dark houses strung out along the main road . |
| 7 | There have been umpteen books on the subject before , but Ferris brings such sly humour , such a floodgate of poignant details , and such a tone of innocent surprise to the proceedings , that it all reads as much more than a round-up of the usual phenomena . |
| 8 | The Morgan test would not appear to require much more than a knowledge of the basic facts of life . |
| 9 | But despite the self-importance of the boast , the League no longer existed as much more than a figment of its leaders ' fantasies . |
| 10 | Meeting special educational needs in ordinary schools is much more than a process of opening school doors to admit children previously placed in special schools . |
| 11 | All in all , a pitiful collection , but he was n't so self-deceiving as to believe their relationship had been much more than a sum of those parts . |
| 12 | In the absence of any corporate direction , BR 's excursion trains then were not much more than a mishmash of bright and not so bright ideas by divisional and area managers , which lost as much money as they made . |
| 13 | Doubt now is much more than a matter of uncertainty . |
| 14 | At present , therefore , it is impossible to say with any confidence whether the influence of Milan was much more than a matter of banal repetition of a few characteristic physiognomic types . |
| 15 | But the Church is much more than a place of worship . |
| 16 | Erm presidents of the nineteenth century very often took the view that the president was not much more than a sort of constitutional monarch , er a dignified part of the constitution to use er Bagehot 's phrase . |
| 17 | He could n't afford much more than a set of plastic rings let alone five gold ones . |
| 18 | It may be true that the story of the English people is best seen in English literature , but English literature contains much more than the story of the English people . |
| 19 | ‘ Much more than the rest of them . |
| 20 | 16.2 Reading is much more than the decoding of black marks upon a page : it is a quest for meaning and one which requires the reader to be an active participant . |
| 21 | He had come to doubt the value of all new beginnings and to put his trust in not much more than the art of hanging together . |
| 22 | To enter this competition — just study the three simple questions below and then call our 24 hour hotline — it will cost you not much more than the cost of a first class stamp . |
| 23 | Pricing has n't been finalised , but the firm says it should n't be much more than the cost of the Motif implementations it supplies . |
| 24 | ‘ The mission of this Government is much more than the promotion of economic progress . |
| 25 | We asked environment groups from all twelve EC member states at the annual meeting of the European Environmental Bureau held in Brussels , to remind EC governments that ‘ subsidiarity ’ means much more than the balance of power between them and the European Commission . |
| 26 | He knew she was grateful for much more than the gesture of making some tea and , instinctively , he held out his arms . |
| 27 | It is important to begin by recognizing that assessment is a process which involves much more than the collection of information and data . |
| 28 | Of course , faith is much more than the absence of doubt , but to understand doubt is to have a key to a quiet heart and a quiet mind . |
| 29 | But the western railway dreams encompassed much more than the settling of immigrants or the taming of native peoples ( throughout the world railways were credited with this ‘ pacificatory ’ role ) . |
| 30 | Today , helped along by Fitch Benoy 's latest radical interventions , the accretion is happily much more than the sum of its parts . |