Example sentences of "[noun sg] [art] [det] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Colonel did not stop to reassure his wife , but rose neatly , pushed his chair under his table and with swift , disciplined steps reached the terrace no more than a couple of yards behind Miss Danziger . |
| 2 | Ruskin would surely have been surprised if he had been told that a time would come when railway stations , like lakes and mountains , would become a part of the imaginative life of men , and when the sounding express engine no less than the sounding cataract would rouse in them a noble delight . |
| 3 | They were sweeping over the ancient continent of Africa , the everlasting wastelands of the desert no more than a patch on a great patchwork quilt . |
| 4 | We were under the shadow of flying grit , the sun no more than an aura of gold . |
| 5 | The Normans valued the defensive function no less than the English , but feared it might be turned against them . |
| 6 | In reality , it is to introduce as a solution a concept which itself poses a theoretical problem , for as it is adopted and understood it is an uncriticized concept , a concept which , like all ‘ obvious ’ concepts , threatens to have for theoretical content no more than the function that the existing or dominant ideology defines for it . |
| 7 | It consisted mainly of a large area of more or less flat heathland that was in places marshy and out of which rose the only hill to be found here , the broad , low Knamber Foin that looked from a distance no more than a heap of stones . |
| 8 | A stone rolled free and splashed into the water no more than a yard from Trent 's feet . |
| 9 | Two hours later they pushed their way out from the cover of the trees into a tiny clearing no more than a handful of yards across . |
| 10 | ‘ Is a fiddle the same as a violin ? ’ she whispered . |
| 11 | He also referred to the case of the three railwaymen , dismissed for refusing to join a trade union , who had succeeded before the Court of Human Rights and he reached the conclusion that the relevant article of the Convention was ‘ part of the law of England or at any rate the same as the law of England ’ . |
| 12 | Growing in a neat upright habit no more than a metre or so across and two metres high at maturity , ‘ Yellow Hammer ’ produces a magnificent spring display of butter yellow , narrowly tubular flowers . |
| 13 | He would have been still more surprised if he had been told that the closing of an old railway station would one day move men to sadness no less than the demolition of a Gothic church or the violation of a landscape . |
| 14 | Was the Alpine orogeny no more than an encore for the Hercynian performance ? |
| 15 | Perpendicular without intermission , taking steps of the same length at the same intervals , their arms hanging useless and helpless they were no better than trussed chickens but for their faces which , even in repose , suggested movement no less than a bird 's wings … . |
| 16 | If he is of a poetic turn of mind , will he even see a kind of justice in the eventual return to silicon-based life , with DNA no more than an interlude , albeit one that lasted longer than three aeons ? |
| 17 | To feel the cloud that hung over us lift and disperse — the cloud that dulled the heart and made happiness no more than a memory ! |
| 18 | Sufferers and families need to be able to walk to the main services in their neighbourhood or to catch a bus into a local centre no more than a mile or two away . |
| 19 | Nicola 's husband looked up wearily , his voice no more than the rustle of dead leaves . |
| 20 | Is this information the same as the historian 's main paragraph point ? |
| 21 | It was a close result and as Seb passed the winning-post no more than a neck ahead of his nearest rival , he could hear Carrie 's shrill voice above the noise of the crowd , urging him on . |
| 22 | To the outsider , a priori , it might seem positively unreasonable , or to use a favourite word of the women compositors , unfair , to pay the fat the same as the lean . |
| 23 | Or is the inner city problem no more than an exercise in name-calling ? |
| 24 | each flake no more than a fingersmear |
| 25 | The resulting drab uniformity and melancholy of mood which struck Spanish visitors to the Inca empire no less than the lack of personality of its inhabitants provides an interesting and instructive parallel with socialist societies of today . |
| 26 | And then , with his face no more than a foot from her own , she saw what was wedged in his mouth . |