Example sentences of "[det] more [subord] [art] formality " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the formula clearly involved some reduction in wages , this was much more than a formality . |
| 2 | After England 's winter successes , a Test series win in New Zealand and runners-up to Pakistan in the World Cup , the announcement was little more than a formality . |
| 3 | The only item of business , the election of the Khashort space of time that it was clear to everyone that it was little more than a formality . |
| 4 | Eleven months later , the indictment of two Libyans for the mass murder of 270 people at Lockerbie struck most Americans as little more than a formality , giving practical effect to what they — ; and most of the media — already thought they knew . |
| 5 | The whole performance had been little more than a formality , to give an appearance of government by consensus . |