Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the height of all the media fuss over a comic creation which was basically nothing more than a walking catch-phrase , it seemed as if Enfield 's career was in danger of burning out before it had properly ignited . |
| 2 | Contacts between the revolutionary left and the rest of the underground continued , so who better than a designer who had worked for Oz ? |
| 3 | They knew that the voice that spoke to them with their own voice was not their own but the voice of a being that had its abode in a world of light . |
| 4 | It 's just one bigger than the other . |
| 5 | His Cabinet was not his own but an inheritance front Law . |
| 6 | Is not it reasonable that the House of Commons should be given the same information as is made available to the press in briefings ? |
| 7 | Is not it true that the Government 's attitude towards CTCs is private affluence and , towards the rest of the education system , public squalor ? |
| 8 | Is not it true that the majority of pensioners have extra income from savings , from an occupational pension or from other benefits such as income support ? |
| 9 | Is not it disgraceful that the Government are destroying living standards , yet they claim to believe in human values ? |
| 10 | Is not it clear that a party which , a few years ago , was offering to do a deal with the Soviet leadership that would have involved the sacrifice of 100 per cent . |
| 11 | Is not it clear that the recession caused by the Prime Minister 's policies is continuing because of the Prime Minister 's paralysis ? |
| 12 | It might be imagined by those who are not themselves Anglican that the habit of ‘ going to confession ’ is limited only to markedly ‘ High ’ churches , but this is not necessarily the case . |
| 13 | ‘ I am not myself convinced that the Government will be so foolish as to go so far as to privatise water . |
| 14 | Radio was still something special and the idea of putting out a half-hour programme on the young refugees — to be called Children in Flight - was a great public relations coup for the RCM . |
| 15 | before people twigged if you like , that what had actually happened amounted to hardly anything more than a change of sort of managerial personnel . |
| 16 | The process of the production of capital is clearly nothing other than the process of capitalist production ; in other words , of the production of commodities under conditions of capitalist production , not under conditions of simple commodity production . |
| 17 | To be honest , the evidence for druids having ever performed such grisly ceremonies is very dubious and the whole thing is probably nothing other than a piece of Romano-Christian propaganda aimed at destroying the pagan religion of the Celts . |
| 18 | And it is the management of these fantasies , both his own and the work 's , that permits their partial gratification and gives literary pleasure ’ ( 1975 , p.52 ) . |
| 19 | The dilemma for the firm is that to adopt any other terminology ( eg associate ) may diminish the status of the salaried partner in both his own and the client 's eyes . |
| 20 | It may also he significant that the east-west structures of southern Britain become north-south to form the Pennine backbone of northern England . |
| 21 | He became estranged from his father and in 1867 set up his own as a repairer of farm machinery , thus beginning the firm of R. A. Lister & Company . |
| 22 | No longer would he have to pin all his hopes on the random burglaries that he 'd carried out in that first couple of days , none of which had turned up anything better than a shotgun or a low-calibre target weapon ; those were useless for his purpose , and he 'd left them where he 'd found them . |
| 23 | They are happy rooting around for Fly Agaric toadstools in a farmer 's back garden until he sets the dogs on them , and would be miserable if you dragged them up anything taller than a caravan . |
| 24 | We confidently expect that an investigation of all other cases of sacred prohibition would lead to the same conclusion as in that of the horror of incest : that what is sacred was originally nothing other than the prolongation of the will of the primal father [ my italics ] . |
| 25 | Her companion , ’ the landlord shrugged , ‘ really nothing more than a boy . |
| 26 | Programme analysis and review was really nothing more than a method of asking basic questions about programme resources and outputs , such as what is being done and why ? |
| 27 | As far as evolution is concerned , I , and this is really the essence of our modern view , I am really nothing more than the packaging of my genes , because after all this is what evolution acts on . |
| 28 | Now something more than a quelling look appeared on Lord Woodleigh 's fine-bred features . |
| 29 | Because you can never go back to yesterday , if you came in last year or five years ago , ten years ago or longer , some of you have been in the truth for many , many years and it is nearer now than it ever was when you first came along and joined Jehovah 's people and as it says the night is well along and if any of us have ever worked on the night shift , I think we 're all well aware are n't we that when the night is well along and |
| 30 | ‘ Is n't it odd that the Wheel has been recovered and not the body ? ’ |