Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In reporting what little was known about these discussions at the time , the Economist warned of ‘ the danger that some as yet unknown army officer , drumming his fingers in some provincial headquarters , will decide that enough is enough ’ ( 1 June 1968 ) . |
| 2 | Another is that commercial property is intrinsically less liquid than even distressed third-world debt . |
| 3 | This splendid though rather whimsical riverside house was built as a granary , conveniently positioned at the very head of the navigable part of the River Cam along which barges laden with corn could travel from King 's Lynn and the fenland farming areas . |
| 4 | Of course , Joanna might get a bit depressed if very little farm work came along , but maybe Robert Sheldrake 's gloomy prediction would prove to be wrong . |
| 5 | The standards are as good as any first class hotel . |
| 6 | Becoming the world 's foremost brewer takes more than just good business sense . |
| 7 | Harry Eyres discovers that the Grands Crus of Alsace are more than just reliable wine bar whites |
| 8 | Whether you come to expand your waist , see the sights or go shopping , you 'll soon realise that Frankfurt is a lot more than just another business city — Frankfurt is fun . |
| 9 | The clowns ' convention is , perhaps , Bognor 's way of proclaiming itself as something more than just another commuter dormitory and retirement town on the south coast . |
| 10 | This survey is elegantly produced and more than just another picture book . |
| 11 | Moreover , because depression , inflation , or other economic distress can bring down a government , and because jobs , prices , production , the standard of living , and the economic security of everyone , all tend to rest on the performance of business , politicians and administrators alike have to regard business as more than just another interest group . |
| 12 | It is of a more than usually splendid birthday party , of jolly music , beer and sausages , goose-stepping , displays of rocket transporters and President Gorbachev saying ( without mentioning his loaded off-the-cuff remarks , or those by his spokesman , Gennady Gerasimov ) all the right things about West German revanchism . |
| 13 | A little to the west of Casa Litta is the church of San Vito al Pasquirolo , a church in a more than usually pretty Baroque style that once stood in meadow land , its position explaining the name — ‘ San Vito in the pasture ’ . |
| 14 | The loss could well be considerably higher , particularly if you are male or heavily overweight ; but over-high expectations can be just as demoralizing as very slow weight loss , so we are taking a restrained attitude . |
| 15 | Associability does not fall to zero after just one exposure trial and is unlikely to be fully restored by a single reinforced conditioning trial . |
| 16 | Often recommended for cleaning purposes , to avoid the spread of contamination inherent in the use of cloths , it does not have the mechanical properties necessary for anything other than very light soil removal . |
| 17 | Having started with nothing other than very modest share capital more than 20 years ago , it is now a major player on the UK and international scene . |
| 18 | In terms of energy , however , H 2 /CO 2 acetogenesis , with a free energy change of -95 kJ per mol , is considerably less efficient than either dissimilatory sulphate reduction or methanogenesis , and in most anaerobic ecosystems , hydrogen metabolism is dominated by one or other of these processes . |