Example sentences of "[be] [det] [conj] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harry Eyres discovers that the Grands Crus of Alsace are more than just reliable wine bar whites |
| 2 | Hewlett-Packard Co says that in the UK , growth in orders was a storming 39% , and that orders for Unix systems are more than double this time last year : exports from the UK are up 16% , 80% of everything sold is now new business , and all new business is on the Unix side — as price-performance improves two-fold every year , it is selling four times as many Unix boxes each year . |
| 3 | HP says that in the UK , growth in orders was a 39% , and that orders for Unix systems are more than double this time last year . |
| 4 | All these may be particularly vexed in the residential home or school for the disabled , where sexual needs can be such that only physical assistance in one way or another can meet them . |
| 5 | Whatever the final verdict may be , EP has shown itself , yet again , to be more than just another area of applied computer science . |
| 6 | Something else I 've left hanging rather dangerously in the air is another and rather different hint , and because of the close correspondence of their careers , the milestones along their way , Stephen Daedalus is merely another name for James Joyce , so that the portrait itself would be a blow by blow account of its author 's story so far , with the relevant identities politely concealed under pseudonyms . |
| 7 | How far judges consciously or unconsciously subserve the wider interests of governments is another and more important question . |
| 8 | But there is another and more fundamental way in which fathers contribute towards the development of their children . |
| 9 | ‘ That is another and quite separate development , whose importance and urgency I need hardly stress . |
| 10 | There is more but just this sample suggests the deep and unintelligible waters it is easy to fall into when trying to be explicit about multimedia . |
| 11 | The nature of a region is interpreted individually , therefore , but as an historically-created entity it is more than just one person 's interpretation . |
| 12 | This is more than just instrumental self-aggrandizement , because this ‘ market forces ’ approach is an important ideological device in ‘ recommodification ’ , but the form of involvement is highly instrumental for many participants . |
| 13 | Somerset is more than just pretty scenery |
| 14 | It 's more than just beautiful wrapping , more than lovely façades . ’ |
| 15 | There was another and more immediate danger than slow starvation : supplies of ball and powder running out . |
| 16 | By the time it met , however , the momentum for greater political co-operation within the EC , not least in response to East European developments , was such that more radical reform was put in motion . |
| 17 | Although he put the poem to one side it still continued to worry him , and in October he explained to Mary Hutchinson that the contemporary situation was such that only good work was appropriate ; bad writing , after all , would seem even more trivial or superfluous . |