Example sentences of "[adj] than [art] brief " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stars shone overhead , remote but always with promise of something better than the brief rush of biological existence . |
| 2 | JANSHER KHAN , who won back the world title here on Saturday , is in danger of losing some or all of his $15,000 ( £9,500 ) prize money this week , for failing to make more than a brief appearance at the official dinner afterwards . |
| 3 | It is impossible to give more than a brief and partial account of it . |
| 4 | Boswell certainly did not consider that it merited more than a brief mention , and was in no way put out by it . |
| 5 | To her it may seem that not only was she robbed of happiness during her marriage , but that she is now also being denied the right to grieve as well , for there will be those who will be expecting her mourning to be nothing more than a brief bow to convention , followed by a fairly speedy rise in spirits and return to normality . |
| 6 | However , the versatile EQ and the additional power of the bass boost make it easy to fill out the sound , and a smooth , mellow tone is little more than a brief twiddle away . |
| 7 | But this sudden quiet is likely to be no more than a brief lull . |
| 8 | In Russia the war aroused no more than a brief flicker of patriotic enthusiasm : years of nationalist propaganda under the last two tsars failed to bear fruit . |
| 9 | For reasons which will become apparent , I will not provide more than a brief overview of this approach . |
| 10 | We built a simple little device which could administer a mild shock to a chick held briefly in my hand — tested on my finger , the shock is no more than a brief tingle , and the chicks seemed scarcely to notice it — ; and I checked out Benowitz' finding . |
| 11 | But here , the B section may be no more than a brief refrain like the ‘ Alleluias ’ which end both parts of Richafort 's ‘ Quem dicunt homines ’ or an extended section of more than forty bars as with the ‘ fera pessima devoravit filium meum Joseph ’ of Clemens 's ‘ Tulerunt autem ’ which is spliced with the ends of the preceding sections in a way that epitomizes the composer 's technical skill : |
| 12 | Some said there would be no more than a brief lull to refurbish and reprovision , and then another attempt ; others maintained that the troops would be paid off — if they were so lucky as to be paid ! — and disbanded from Shrewsbury , for it was too late in the year now to favour an invasion . |
| 13 | He knows the routine , he appreciates the need , if without relishing it , he is too much the practised professional to show more than the briefest irritation . |
| 14 | Without that , no talks will ever amount to more than the briefest of encounters . |
| 15 | The casket was an idea introduced from the United States in the 1870s and does not , therefore , make more than the briefest possible appearance in this history of the English trade . |
| 16 | His final decision is in favour of whichever proves stronger , but the stronger for perhaps no more than the brief spell of fullest awareness in which he decides , afterwards to be panic-stricken at having committed himself to a choice which none the less he still knows in his heart was right . |