Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [conj] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they too will reply , ‘ Lord , when was it that we saw you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or ill or in prison , and did nothing for you ? ’ |
| 2 | That the advertisement had been in a church magazine was , for my grandfather , sufficient guarantee of respectability , but when the boys arrived in the great city even their inexperience could not hide from them the fact that the respectable lodging was nothing more nor less than a brothel . |
| 3 | It is nothing more nor less than a determined effort by an immensely powerful bureaucracy to silence independent opinion , and to replace it with a censored , frequently biased , and increasingly bland official view of the state of British tennis today . |
| 4 | Their games are , in fact , nothing more or less than a rehearsal prior to the performance of the activities which are the serious business of all the members of the Gikuyu tribe . |
| 5 | Nor did it escape the notice of other critics of the Association that a handbill , lengthily entitled " A Dialogue between Tom and Harry on the Duties of Seamen and the Just and Equitable Rewards for their Services " , was in practice nothing more or less than a statement of union policy on bargaining with shipowners and published in this form only to avoid the appearance that the Standard was more than an innocent friendly society . |
| 6 | That is nothing more or less than a direct payroll tax on jobs . |
| 7 | This is nothing more or less than an abuse of your professional integrity . ’ |
| 8 | In determining whether goods are of a class to which an advertised trade description relates , s5(3) provides that regard shall be had not only to the form and content of the advertisement but also to the time , place , manner and frequency of its publication and all other matters making it likely or unlikely that a person to whom the goods are supplied would think of the goods belonging to the class in question . |