Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [subord] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | the motive was to steal scrap metal from the company the amount of metal would have been less than a couple of hundred pounds so quite a minor incident in itself . |
| 2 | Nevertheless it is my belief that without us , feminism would never have been more than a caucus of the broad left . |
| 3 | By 1953 , the refusal that such dressiness displayed had spread to a hitherto unexpected and unexplained location : the working-class boys and girls who , congregating around various London centres , had assumed what had been up until a couple of years previously a homosexual style , the Edwardian Look . |
| 4 | This could hardly be so if a conception of such connections was no part of neuroscience . |
| 5 | ‘ If it helps you make up your mind , Mrs Diamond , I should tell you that I 'm a friend of Heather 's rather than a friend of her family … if you see what I mean . ’ |
| 6 | Leading the way to her sitting-room , she turned to face him , and saw that any gentleness of expression was long since a thing of the past . |
| 7 | His income was less than a half of what it had been before 1914 , and lie was losing capital too . |
| 8 | Coventry Cathedral Priory declared possessions worth £500 , but its debts left it £52 in the red ; similarly its net income was less than a quarter of the gross . |
| 9 | But this intervention was more than a defence of English interests in north-eastern France . |
| 10 | We have been spinning coins together since I do n't know when , and in all that time ( if it is all that time ) I do n't suppose either of us was more than a couple of gold pieces up or down . |
| 11 | The fact was that Corbett was more than a bit of an embarrassment . |
| 12 | He was n't very bright and he was more than a bit of a bore with it . ’ |
| 13 | There was more than a thread of incredulity in his tone . |
| 14 | To them she was more than a mass of steel and wood ; she had moods and feelings which they understood and to which they fitted their own . |
| 15 | Even The Times for a while in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution suggested that there was more than a grain of truth in the concept of a Jewish world plot . |
| 16 | Perhaps there was more than a grain of truth in the remark of one of his closest colleagues that Keynes ‘ had never spent the twenty minutes necessary to understand the theory of value ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ Sometimes interviews can move in a different direction from the one you anticipate , ’ she said shortly , knowing that there was more than a grain of truth in what he 'd said . |
| 18 | And there was more than a smack of sympathy for terrorism in a call by a leading Fundi for a ‘ broad show of unity ’ with a group which shot dead two policemen during a demonstration at Frankfurt airport . |
| 19 | The public , of course , had only the word of the press to guide them , and although there was more than a germ of truth in what the tabloids reported , this was by no means the first autumn in which the Prince had spent weeks without his wife and children . |
| 20 | Great diversity was important ; a city after all was more than a set of carefully structured spatial patterns , it was a social system where environmental disorder might have a place in reflecting cultural diversity . |
| 21 | But the relations that developed were much more than simply instrumental ; when families did survive it was more than a product of what Stone called , for an earlier period , ‘ psychic numbing ’ . |
| 22 | There was more than a hint of weary resignation in his reply . |
| 23 | There was more than a hint of imminent violence in every word , and thinly veiled intimidation in every syllable . |
| 24 | Admittedly there was more than a hint of urban overcrowding two doors away from William at no. 21 , where a glove cutter , a walnut-veneer repairer and a book finisher were living with their families — but that was exceptional . |
| 25 | It seemed to him that in her gentle gaze there was more than a hint of despair , and it grieved him . |
| 26 | In fact , there was more than a hint of insolence lurking in the grey depths of his eyes when he spoke . |
| 27 | The declaration of policy was more than a statement of priorities and objectives , designed to disavow as misdirected Mr Benn 's essay in Industrial Co-operation and to restore credibility to the idea — and , incidentally , to meet Signor Prandini 's dismissive criticism . |
| 28 | There was more than a touch of class disdain in their attitude , but it also signified a political distance , an understanding that the parliamentary representatives had softer views and a broader idea of their responsibilities than the mere enactment of their supporters ' prejudices . |
| 29 | There was more than a touch of arrogance to the assumption , and clashes with governments , who could at least point to the fact that they had been elected , were inevitable . |
| 30 | already in the expression of her eyes , the beginnings of her small , triumphant smile , there was more than a touch of the martyr . |