Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [adv] a [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was far more behind this than just a deterioration in the weather . |
| 2 | This disagreement between the different schools of thought is more than just a storm in an academic teacup . |
| 3 | Cairo is too far away to be anything more than just a stake in the ground against IBM/Apple Computer Inc while the hoopla surrounding Windows For Workgroups is meant to distract attention away from an increasingly late NT . |
| 4 | There is no place for a quality footballer if he believes he is more than just a page in that machine . |
| 5 | Building students preparing for a career in Europe need much more than just a grounding in languages , says John Watson , student representative for the CIOB 's Northern Counties Region and press officer for the Tyneside Centre . |
| 6 | more than just a week in politics |
| 7 | But such an identification was probably more than merely an exercise in wish-fulfilment by the ego on behalf of the id . |
| 8 | ‘ When we came to leave the Lamb that afternoon , Mr Barnett , we were all in similar states of intoxication , but Jack had become as maudlin as only an Irishman in liquor can . |
| 9 | According to Ockleton , he had become ‘ as maudlin as only an Irishman in liquor can . ’ |
| 10 | She died childless when still a minor in 1651 and he never remarried . |