Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] [conj] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may need to purchase more than just the anemone you require . |
| 2 | Indeed , the whole is considered to constitute more than just the sum total of its parts . |
| 3 | Shy and lacking confidence she might be , but she was not a woman to challenge outright and gradually the staff accepted her . |
| 4 | If the system has been written in a modular way ( i.e. the individual components of a system are intelligently partitioned , allowing each module to see all and only the input it requires ) then the modification is greatly simplified . |
| 5 | At the university here we have got two or three groups in which we do know how to do that and especially the work that I 'm associated with , again the arts undergraduates , we have developed over a period now of something like six years , ways of giving them confidence , and it 's amazing to see what happens . |
| 6 | Companies will have to be more flexible in their demands , to accommodate more and more the individuals ' different hopes , wishes and ambitions . |
| 7 | They were not , they were not dispensed with , well one could look back in seventy eight and say retrospectively how that process could have been started considerably earlier , er the honourable gentleman knows perfectly well that er as the Maastricht bill was winding its way through here it was n't really practical to run this but indeed the processes were started before the governing legislation was on the statute book and I quite understand why honourable gentlemen opposite wish to make their party points , particularly those particularly those who were not in the house in seventy eight which er does n't I think apply to the honourable gentleman from from Birmingham , when he knows perfectly well that the same kind of machinery is used now was used then and it was used as fairly and as honestly and as completely impartially as the time allowed . |
| 8 | To decide which one is right for you , you have to consider more than just the job you do . |
| 9 | I had to keep more or less the leverage more or less the same because you could n't differ them and er I er had that job to er do for and er it was the H M S Gothic and they was going to South Africa and er when er they was on , in the middle of South Africa on the coast one of the royalty died . |
| 10 | So in practice it 's easier to measure the alkalinity and then back-calculate to get that and hence the P H than to actually try and measure the P H directly from sea water . |
| 11 | When Karen Stephens trained as a hairdresser she had to learn more than just the rudiments of cutting and blow-drying/ She also had to tackle the problems of learning how to lip-read in a mirror , as 20-year-old Karen has been deaf all her life . |
| 12 | If you , ah now can I ask you to sign that and then the banker 's order |
| 13 | So we have to make sure that again the plugs are in good working order . |
| 14 | The meanings of certain types of phrases have come to mean more than simply the combination of words from which they are composed ( sometimes they bear no relation to their constituents ) . |