Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] [det] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I suppose this is just appealing to my sense of power or something , being able to walk in and take charge and in a minute or two they 've settled down and they 're not panicking because you 've arrived and all their burdens are on your shoulders and they do n't have to worry any more because the doctor 's there … this I find profoundly satisfying as long as I can , in fact , cope with what 's happening . |
| 2 | The little round lawn with its grass path was so bitty that I was tempted to remove it altogether , and the two paved areas seemed too small to accommodate much more than a deckchair . |
| 3 | The Morgan test would not appear to require much more than a knowledge of the basic facts of life . |
| 4 | What if the price of whisky is already so high that no-one is prepared to buy any more if the price goes up again ? |
| 5 | It was surprising that an industry generating so many millions of pounds was prepared to use little more than the manager 's sexual tastes as its yardstick of talent . |
| 6 | Well you have n't pleaded a term of the contract that there 's a practice to which all solicitors are subject that they have got to do this that and the other . |
| 7 | Whereas the parachute keeps the cable under tension as it drops , if there is a cross wind it tends to drift much more than a rope with no chute . |
| 8 | He could n't be expected to manage much more than an hour on his feet , after which he 'd be living up to his name , although not — Diane hoped — to his reputation . |
| 9 | But developments in Britain and the United States over the past two years suggest that micros need ultimately to cost little more than a tape recorder or a good transistor radio . |
| 10 | Simultaneously they turned to face one another and a moment later they were locked in an embrace . |
| 11 | So I says to Pete , right , start as we mean to go on , I refuse to pay any more than the cleanup rate . |
| 12 | This adds further interest in the picture , but you should be careful not to have any more than a corner of sky in the final print . |
| 13 | Its first two blast furnaces employing 50 men were upgraded within four years to employ 300 more than the population of the whole parish . |
| 14 | This suggests , too , that the very notion of ‘ permissiveness ’ , and its converse , is a slippery one ; in many cases it would seem to mean little more than an exchange of more overt physical controls for more subtle emotional controls . |
| 15 | The war was unlikely to become much more than a dispute over frontier posts , in which success would depend to a considerable extent on winning the support of the Indians who lived in the wide area between the colonies . |
| 16 | But even now , a woman has to achieve much more than a man in order to gain respect or " promotion " . |