Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adj] [subord] [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have you ever thought it strange that the curse of the working classes is none other than that beloved boardroom nectar that evaporates executive stress and wins over the most capricious of clients ? |
| 2 | Normally , I 'd like nothing better than this little visit to the big time . |
| 3 | Something better than that little house of which they had once spoken . |
| 4 | The League 's leader , Umberto Bossi , announced on Nov. 27 that with his party now occupying 14 seats on the 50-seat city council — one more than any other party — he intended to appoint a mayor and put together a coalition adminstration . |
| 5 | The Founders now told Pilger that the role they had given him was something less than total editorial control . |
| 6 | Largely as a result of Donald Griffin 's book The Question of Animal Awareness ( Rockefeller UP , 2nd ed 1981 ) , ethologists have begun to re-examine the issue of animal intellect and to ask whether the organisms they study are , as we presume ourselves to be , something more than mere mindless circuitry . |
| 7 | Although , she thought , as she glanced at him , in truth she 'd expected something other than this staid automobile . |
| 8 | ‘ In these dim November days I resemble nothing more than that poor Creature of RHA 's Fantasy , immured in her terrible In-Pace , quieted perforce and longing for her Quietus . |
| 9 | What we have there is nothing strikingly original , just a fantastically good club record that enforces nothing more than that irresistible urge to jack your body . |
| 10 | Punishment is just a word after all : nothing more than convenient political rhetoric meriting only lip-service from probation managers and practitioners poised at the ‘ window of opportunity ’ . |
| 11 | His chosen battleground with Mrs Thatcher was nothing less than that sludgy amalgam , the British Constitution . |
| 12 | Too much exclaiming and protesting would have aroused a degree of doubt as to his sincerity , but Herluin clearly felt that here was nothing worse than some confused stupidity among too many helpers in too much panic and haste , and what was lost would be found as soon as everyone calmed down and halted the hunt for a while to take thought . |
| 13 | The ultimate target of this frantic quest on the part of all the quality papers to conjure up the ideal-average readership — ‘ young , upwardly mobile … leisure and DIY- orientated ’ ( The Independent ) ‘ … a readership of the future with a strong sense of the past ’ ( The Guardian ) — is of course nothing other than that favoured figment of the marketing imagination : the yuppie . |
| 14 | It is highly unlikely that he envisaged anything more than joint diplomatic pressure on Russia which would bring Nicholas to the conference table to discuss the problems at issue , which explains why he used as a pretext the totally ridiculous question of the keys to the Holy places in Jerusalem , whose custody was disputed between the Latin Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches . |
| 15 | In particular , what much of it fails to do is to convince all but a handful of academic specialists that its closely delineated studies are anything more than detailed local knowledge , an interesting but benign academic pursuit . |
| 16 | Even the Diet did not immediately call for offensive action against Russia , but it decided to do so when the tsar refused to negotiate on the basis of anything less than abject Polish submission . |
| 17 | Similarly , it is difficult to construe his distinction between primary and secondary deviance as meaning anything other than that secondary deviance is caused by societal reaction and its consequences for the deviant . |
| 18 | If it is intended for anything other than intensive individual study , then , if you 've got a camera , video is easier to " listen " to . |