Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adj] [subord] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The tae of ye will need somethin' more than a dispensation from the Pope , Ah would think , if ye go on like this . ’ |
| 2 | ( ii ) If the wife becomes entitled to the whole house and requests that the matrimonial home be conveyed or transferred to herself and her " new husband " ( to whom she is not married ) , is the wife making a gift for inheritance tax purposes to the " new husband " ? ( iii ) The Inland Revenue capital gains tax concession mentioned in Chapter 2 may not be available ( on a strict interpretation of its wording ) to the former husband if he conveys or transfers his interest in his former principal private residence to someone other than his spouse or ex-spouse. ( iv ) A conveyance to someone other than a party to the marriage will not attract the stamp duty relief of s83 of the Finance Act 1985 , ( see p22 ) but if it is a voluntary disposition , exemption L of The Stamp Duty ( Exempt Instruments ) Regulations 1987 ( SI No 516 ) ( Chapter 2 ) will apply . |
| 3 | It turns out that the independent property consultancy was none other than a subsidiary of the national ports authority , which is a major shareholder in the Cardiff Bay development corporation . |
| 4 | If there are to be sacrifices and belt-tightening , the Soviet leaders love nothing better than a backdrop of international threat to add pathos and realism to the drama . |
| 5 | Roy Morgan from Gloucester is a life-long darts fan and enjoys nothing better than a game over a glass of rum at his local , the Plough in Tredworth . |
| 6 | It made her howl with bitterness when she was alone in the weeks that followed , and it made her grit her teeth as she strode through the streets looking for revenge , or for her baby , or for Dorothy , not too sure what she was looking for but usually coming home with nothing better than a bag of old tins . |
| 7 | The army was an unsatisfactory occupation for a man who lacked the money to purchase promotion , for he was likely to be in the situation of the Master of Elphinstone , who complained in 1715 that ‘ I have served as Capt[ai-n] this nine years which I have the vanity to believe intitelis me to something better than a company of foot ’ . |
| 8 | And he was young enough to hope for something better than a pat on the head from the Leaderene . |
| 9 | I should like to be something more than a drill-master for competent philologists — the generation of present-day teachers , the care of the growing younger generation , this is what I have in mind . " |
| 10 | The community was something more than a collection of species working together for mutual advantage — it obeyed laws that could only be understood at a level transcending that of the individual organisms . |
| 11 | The great features of that map , which make it something more than a picture to be imperfectly copied by laborious childish pens , are the great promontories of Caernarvon , of Pembroke , of Gower and of Cornwall , jutting out into the western sea , like the features of a grim large face , such a face as is carved on a ship 's prow … . |
| 12 | For years , China has used a combination of strong arm diplomacy and shrill rhetoric to try to deny the Dalai Lama international recognition as a legitimate representative of Tibet 's aspirations as something other than a part of China . |
| 13 | ‘ About 50 per cent of our sales are made to women and they tend to buy their men more adventurous underwear than the men buy themselves , ’ says Nicky Lovell , ‘ but British men are becoming more interested in something other than a pair of white underpants . ’ |
| 14 | However , as transcripts of spontaneous speech like the one above illustrate , the listener who is attempting to understand spoken language is often being confronted with something other than a string of sentences . |
| 15 | It never struck me that every time I cut my finger and the cut heals , something other than a piece of Elastoplast has rushed to the rescue . |
| 16 | Because BS knows all the facts about the brain state , and the experience just is the brain state , then what the experience is like must be something other than a fact about the experience . |
| 17 | ‘ The state is nothing more than a machine for the oppression of one class by another . ’ |
| 18 | ( The Booker , thought Jeffrey , had recently become nothing more than a branch of Overseas Development . ) |
| 19 | One obvious possibility here is to regard the union Parliament as representative of all parties and thus as empowered to vary the terms of union — nothing more than a rationalisation of its sovereignty . |
| 20 | This ‘ outsider ’ stance is , of course , nothing new , and if it bore the bulk of the band 's appeal , would be nothing more than a gimmick in itself . |
| 21 | This is the disastrous way in which they have trivialized the rich complexity of black life by reducing it to nothing more than a response to racism . |
| 22 | It has been said many times that the word ‘ conviction ’ is ambiguous and it has sometimes been construed in a statutory context as referring to nothing more than a finding of guilt . |
| 23 | For example , the ‘ village community ’ can signify nothing more than a type of settlement — a small number of people living together in a rural location usually in a nucleated pattern . |
| 24 | A sense of detachment might produce a sharper view , but he felt unreal , as if the scene he was viewing was nothing more than a backdrop at a theatre which might roll itself up and disappear when the present act was over . |
| 25 | This view has long been linked with those who have argued that the company should not be specially regulated by the state since it owed its existence to nothing more than a contract between individual property owners . |
| 26 | A call of nature interrupted my pleasure and I went out to the necessary house behind the tavern , nothing more than a hole in the ground enclosed by a shabby wooden palisade and a door which bolted from the inside . |
| 27 | The king was furious at being tricked again , and by nothing more than a pair of animals , at that . |
| 28 | He hoped that the driver would remember nothing more than a pair of headlights . |
| 29 | If life is nothing more than a moving from one activity to the next it is not surprising if we become restless , cluttered and superficial . |
| 30 | I enjoy living in the countryside and like nothing more than a stroll through the villages . |