Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [adv] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This is more than just a book with balances . |
| 32 | But this is more than just a taste of the past . |
| 33 | There is no place for a quality footballer if he believes he is more than just a page in that machine . |
| 34 | Clearly it is more than just a picture of two continent-carrying plates coming together . |
| 35 | On his voyage , he has realised that sport is more than just a game to Americans , and that sports stars are the heroes of the nation . |
| 36 | This little rebellion annoyed the orthodox Communists , but maybe not the voters : the three rebels , all well known , provide voters with an assurance that the United Left is more than just a front for unreconstructed Communists . |
| 37 | But was it ever more than just a project for a project ? |
| 38 | It gradually becomes clear to the student that kung fu is more than just a series of physical body movements . |
| 39 | Solly 's years in the wilderness were more than just a dearth of high-profile wins . |
| 40 | But it is more than just a listing of previous research . |
| 41 | It 's results will be published at the end of next year , when scientists and patients will find out if it 's more than just a ray of hope . |
| 42 | Now rail travellers arriving in Darlington will notice more than just a handful of changes compared to six years ago . |
| 43 | Now need you help , because they hope to offer a lot more than just a roof over the heads . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | And , finally , those extra , necessary words — grouped and coloured — somehow more than just a list of words ! |
| 46 | more than just a week in politics |
| 47 | However , as with all fostering schemes , it was seen as more than just a means of putting roofs over heads . |
| 48 | When viewed from this vantage point , designing can be seen as more than just a means of creating and applying technologies : it is also revealed as a means of shaping relations between people . |
| 49 | ‘ But we did n't mind a bit , a job here was so much more than just a means to an end , it was never a case of them and us . |
| 50 | This is the pub as social institution , so much more than just a place for drinking . |
| 51 | A team , according to Adair ( 1986 ) , is more than just a group with a common aim . |
| 52 | A label can be more than just a sequence of characters . |
| 53 | These advantages appear to me to outweigh the disadvantages identified by Mr of there being more outsiders in the family household , possibly homesick and unhappy carers who are not living in their own homes , but at the establishment and the trouble and worry to the of what would be not infrequent , recruitment of new carers for Mrs , I hope perhaps a trifle pessimistically thought that on average carers would not spend more than about a year of course , some longer , some shorter , because such carers necessarily had to be fairly young , fit , strong people and the stresses and strains of the er the whole business she thought would lead to reasonably rapid turnover , not the emergence of long-term carers who might stay for a number of years , er , as I say I 'd rather hoped that she may be unduly pessimistic about that , but , that , I accept what she says about it . |
| 54 | Underlying the principle of geographical distribution is more than merely a notion of fairness or equity , for it seems that to exclude any administrative area might be to risk offending the divisional authorities in a way which would be unhelpful to the project as a whole . |
| 55 | This applies for example to the demand side , where the choice of functional forms is more than merely a matter of algebraic convenience ( see Dixit and Stiglitz , 1977 ) . |
| 56 | This is as much a consequence of data on households being more easily available as necessarily a reflection of real differences between household and non-household kin . |
| 57 | There was certainly no repeat of the violent confrontations which marred the last Springboks ' tour in 1970 as only a group of about 70 chanting protesters stood outside the ground . |
| 58 | Where verbs of perception and know , as we saw above , evoke a characteristic expressive effect in this context , it is more difficult to see any nuance characterizing make here , other than perhaps a suggestion of result . |
| 59 | And then , when I put the phone down again , it resumes its full natural flow , inside my head instead of outside , as perfectly articulate and well-modulated as only a voice inside one 's head has a chance to be . |
| 60 | I think what 's very striking about the report which the students ' union have recently published and are circulating around the university , is the extent to which they have tended to define sexual harassment as being as much or at least as much a problem between students , a problem of behaviour between students and a problem of the sort of atmosphere in the colleges in terms of how that affects how peoples lives feel and and how they are how their behaviour what sort of behaviour is acceptable . |