Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [det] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Demand for advice is strongest amongst actual victims of computer misuse , where it is effectively little more than a damage limitation exercise .
2 For the first time the Labour Party — hitherto little more than a pressure group promoting immediate working-class interests in Parliament — was announcing a coherent and independent intervention in the debate on foreign policy .
3 And Edwards ' ten-try haul is only one less than the Rugby League record set by George West for Hull KR against Brookland in 1905 .
4 Despite its recent problems , the LDP won 46 per cent of the vote and took 275 of the 512 seats , only 20 fewer than the party had controlled in the outgoing Diet .
5 Ingolstadt was for some centuries the principal seat of the Bavarian dukes when Munich was not much more than a village .
6 ‘ And not much more than a child herself — only five years older than Tommy . ’
7 I was not much more than a child after all .
8 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 .
9 Addamax , now not much more than a shell , will be left to wage the suit and complete the government 's Orange Book evaluation of the Compartmented Mode Workstation .
10 Addamax , now not much more than a shell , will be left with waging the suit and completing the government 's Orange Book evaluation of the CMW .
11 Not much more than a century later the king 's successor made his submission to the British after the punitive raid on Benin City .
12 For many young adults with severe learning difficulties this was not much more than a decade after they became ‘ entitled ’ to full-time education .
13 Who is to say what it was like living out on the plains for months on end , at first in a tent and then in a small house , not much more than a hut , built of saplings , mud , and cow dung , which she equipped with Somali fabrics and safari furniture ?
14 In Britain CCM is not much more than a cottage industry , largely because of lack of radio exposure .
15 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 .
16 Joan was recalling the day , not much more than a year ago , when she had found herself alone in a locked room with the innkeeper .
17 Indeed the Street Offences Bill was in Parliament not much more than a year after the Report had been published .
18 Within not much more than a year , the Boy Scouts had already outstripped the older Boys ' Brigade and Church Lads ' Brigade movements , claiming more than 100,000 members by 1910 .
19 While at the Royal Academy of Music she had lived there but that , though not much more than a year ago , now seemed infinitely distant .
20 not much more than a year , but they 've .
21 Led by this hint they opened the ground not far from the wall ; and not much more than a foot away from the surface they found a leaden envelope which they opened in two places , on the face and breast , and found it contained a human body wrapped in cerecloth : Upon removing what covered the face , they discovered the features , and particularly the eyes , in perfect preservation .
22 It is time that technical education remained not much more than a debating topic , although the Education Act 1918 , did make 14 the universal minimum leaving age and , far more controversial , it began to introduce compulsory part-time day continuation classes .
23 Because its period is not much more than a month shorter than a year , there are times when maxima occur with Mira too close to the Sun to be seen .
24 The newsroom was minuscule , not much more than a cubbyhole , next door to Monty 's cluttered little office .
25 They 're justification for the ‘ he-man ’ tag , with heavy everything at low speeds and not much more than a token lightening up as you press on harder , but not so heavy as to wipe out the sports car 's essential touch of delicacy .
26 It is not much more than a landing strip hacked out of the Canadian wilderness in eastern Ontario , about 200 miles north east of Winnipeg .
27 and Joan came over she came over about a week or so after , not , not much more than a week , and she sat there and she said oh well yeah I 'll have one of your , he asked if we 'd like a sweet , she said yeah I 'll have one dad .
28 Efforts were made to persuade Jamaica to follow Barbados , and a twenty-one year grant to cover the island 's own expenses was voted in 1683 , but this grant was not large enough to provide any surplus to spend elsewhere and was not much more than a recognition that the government in England was not going to spend its money covering the costs of local government for Englishmen who had gone overseas .
29 On the opposite bank , not much more than a stream at this point , the hillside was thick with scrub hazel and thorn .
30 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 .
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