Example sentences of "[indef pn] [det] [subord] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The order of the B-tree is said to be one more than the maximum number of keys per index block . |
2 | She reflected upon , perhaps only now fully remembered , her sense , in forgiving Jack , of in some way devaluing him , accepting him and loving him as something less than the perfect being she had married . |
3 | But we can now see that the apocalyptic interpretation of history emerged from the confrontation with the Greeks about 165 B.C. If II Maccabees reveals a true aspect of the activities of Antiochus IV by stressing the cooperation of Hellenizing Jews , this is something less than the whole truth . |
4 | ‘ Structural causality ’ , on this view , is something less than the rigorous determination of a specific effect ; instead , it is conceived as the production of conditions and constraints within which diverse , but not unlimited , alternative courses of political action and development are possible . |
5 | But a head must in the end tolerate something less than the hoped-for whole being achieved . |
6 | NOT CONTENT with Physics or Maths homework 25 years ago , a group of young men wanted something more than the usual pastime so they built a railway . |
7 | The golden circle and the golden cap which form the basis of Stephen 's Crown became for Hungary something more than the mere symbol of royalty . |
8 | And we also know of his early life something more than the official biography , since , thirty years ago , his sister defected to here . |
9 | if the return to Conservatism is to be something more than the transient apparition of a spectre from the past , and its voice in national affairs not merely to be a sepulchral warning against the dangers of rash courses , the Conservative leaders must bestir themselves to some purpose … [ the Conservative Party ] must be ready to meet the programme of the Labour Party not simply with a non-possumus but with an alternative which will in some measure satisfy certain of the needs which Labour is concerned to satisfy , and at the same time avoid the perils with which it insists Labour policy is beset . |
10 | But the states of western Europe were now being driven by harsh experience if by nothing higher to aim at something more than the chaotic free-for-all which had marked the Italian wars and the Habsburg–Valois struggles of the first half of the sixteenth century . |
11 | The navy , greatly expanded under Henry VIII , required something more than the single clerk who had managed its affairs under the distant and often negligible supervision of the Lord Admiral . |
12 | The court accepted at least part of that argument , allowing that the sculptures may contain something more than the original work . |
13 | Yet , something more than the previous success , and consequent authority , of the Consumers ' Movement is needed to explain the apparently complacent appraisal of the Co-operative scene as Cole portrays it , the unregretting acceptance of the failure of Co-operative principle implicit in the virtual abandonment of the promotion of authentic Producer Co-operation , the strategic mistake of continuing , after Consumers ' Co-operation had so firmly established itself , to commit its resources solely to its own further development , and the failure to realise that where its attractions were not exclusively its own , industrial democracy attached uniquely to Producer Co-operation and so was an inalienable advantage . |
14 | Robert felt something more than the natural peevishness of a betrayed parent or guardian . |
15 | For if we are to follow through the themes outlined in Chapter 3 , then the process which is identified as ‘ depoliticization ’ is nothing more than the gradual erosion of the supremacy of explicit political content in the press and it is not germane to any specific period . |
16 | He had n't even used force , holding her with nothing more than the subtle movement of his mouth on hers . |
17 | He would make occasional forays into the United States or films , but Lynn 's only real home was in Aldwych farces as part of the Travers team which ran triumphantly into the 1930s , and he stayed with them , creating and recreating the role of the silly ass forever working his way out of impossible situations , often armed with nothing more than the famous monocle , a daft grin , and an apparently inexhaustible ability to triumph over adversity by the sheer idiocy of his own imagination . |
18 | See D. N. MacCormick Essays in Social Democracy , Oxford , 1982 , ch. 10 ; and P. Atyiah , Promises , Morals and Law , Oxford , 1983 , for two of several analyses of promising which attempt to reduce it to what is in effect nothing more than the general principle of personal responsibility for one 's actions . |
19 | Evolution ultimately selects for the erm reproductive success of individual organisms , and you can see very clearly in the case of the T four bac bacterial that it is really nothing more than the temporary protein packaging of its D N A. |
20 | Best response of the night — not bad going in the face of St Etienne 's new-found libidinous following — and a fitting end to a night that fed off nothing more than the sheer character of the individual bands . |
21 | Is this nothing more than the perennial appearance of uneven development , one of the principal diagnostic phenomena of capitalism , only this time at the intra-urban rather than a regional or national scale ? |
22 | At least , things happened there ; it was obvious to Schaffer that his presence in Langstone was nothing more than the merest nod towards protocol , but Stoneley had refused to let him return and make the police withdrawal complete . |
23 | Thus during the period of restrictions the contras grew , and occasionally even thrived , apparently on air : or on nothing more than the scattered largesse of rich Americans . |
24 | The fundamental strength of the Libertarian Ideal consists of nothing more than the proud assertion that freedom is an end-product that people value . |
25 | It occurs as that in Judges 9.9 and 13 , and here it might indicate nothing more than the all-embracing nature of the struggles which Jacob has engaged in during the course of his life . |
26 | The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships , the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas . |
27 | Sure , the rumours continued , but while Nirvana were n't actually doing anything it was n't hard to dismiss this as nothing more than the idle tittle-tattle that was the inevitable lot of a multi-million selling rock band . |
28 | Even dissertations that manage to reach the library shelves usually face nothing more than the gnawing criticism of mice . ’ |
29 | Maybe it was nothing more than the statistical impossibility of everyone staying home all of the time . |
30 | Miss Marple is , in fact ( quiet-mannered village pussy though she was ) , an example of nothing less than the Great Detective . |