Example sentences of "[adj] [det] [subord] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Morgan test would not appear to require much more than a knowledge of the basic facts of life . |
| 7 | But despite the self-importance of the boast , the League no longer existed as much more than a figment of its leaders ' fantasies . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Doubt now is much more than a matter of uncertainty . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But the Church is much more than a place of worship . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He could n't afford much more than a set of plastic rings let alone five gold ones . |
| 16 | At her worst — which is to say , when her performances , all crust and no bread , seemed little more than a rash of mannerisms — she could strike one as impossibly tic-ridden and implausible . |
| 17 | It fears that the ¥200 billion school project will amount to little more than a bail-out of struggling Japanese computer makers — such as NEC , which made its first ever consolidated loss , of ¥44 billion , in the year to March . |
| 18 | So reading becomes little more than a way of replaying Hollywood 's movies in our minds . |
| 19 | It must be said , however , that despite the beautiful detail of Piaget 's behavioural descriptions , his picture of the mental reorganizations underlying behavioural change was painted with a very broad brush ( by present-day standards ) ; and indeed the assimilation-accommodation model is little more than a description of what has to be explained , awaiting , what we now call , a ‘ computational model ’ . |
| 20 | While some contributions amount to little more than a description of manufacturers ' software , others delve into the concepts and methodologies . |
| 21 | Freud 's model of the collective evolution of some parts of humanity from archaic responses , found in religions , to more rational and reality-based responses , found in science and technology , may be little more than a description of what has happened , but it enables him to avoid the position of cultural relativism and its logical extension — nihilism . |
| 22 | But for the most part , later eleventh-century castellans had contrived to convert their homage into little more than a symbol of deference and willingness to perform service ; the implications that their castle and office were enjoyed purely by delegation , that their duty lay in exercising powers and privileges only for the benefit of their lord , were swiftly transmuted into something much less rigid ; exactly what depended on the prince 's powers and proximity . |
| 23 | Overall , the reforms ( particularly the CSFs ) represented a further attempt to move away from the passive form of EC regional aid , whereby EC expenditure was simply added to nationally determined projects , and regional policy was therefore little more than a system of budgetary transfers . |
| 24 | This amounted to little more than a regrading of established Yorkist bureaucrats , and the same can be said of the exchequer , where the office of treasurer , left empty by the death of the earl of Essex , was filled by the earl 's former deputy John Wood . |
| 25 | This amounted to little more than a regrading of established Yorkist bureaucrats , and the same can be said of the exchequer , where the office of treasurer , left empty by the death of the earl of Essex , was filled by the earl 's former deputy John Wood . |
| 26 | Here the Dwarfs of antiquity had built their gate , once a vast and impregnable fortress but now little more than a pile of stone through which the road still led . |
| 27 | He scanned it — it was little more than a text of the Act . |
| 28 | And it occurs so easily — almost passively — requiring little more than a relinquishing of the effort of emulation , the erasure of ‘ to be like ’ and the surrender to what remains : ‘ I desire … you ’ ; thus : ‘ I desire ( to be like ) you ’ . |
| 29 | Of course the apparent benefits to the region are offset by the inevitable losses in jobs and the suspicion that in years , perhaps months , the company will not be able to sustain two major broadcasting centres and that Newcastle will become little more than a satellite of Leeds . |
| 30 | The pickups and scratchplate look familiar , of course , but this is little more than a tip of the cap in the direction of Fender . |