Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [det] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a slow process , needing the kind of patience he did not have , but at least Huy was spared the tedium of the cutters , whose sole job was to trim the reeds to a regular length , about the same as a man 's forearm . |
| 2 | The price of books of academic criticism indicates that they are not aimed at the educated general reader ( once they cost about the same as a bottle of whisky ; now they cost three to four times as much ) . |
| 3 | The Germans pretended that an east mark was worth the same as a west mark . |
| 4 | In England , the proposal advanced by a majority of the Criminal Law Revision Committee in its Working Paper would similarly have abolished the exemption but distinguished marital from non-marital rape by requiring the consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions in the case of the former before a prosecution could be brought . |
| 5 | I have already instanced the first chapter of Simenon 's Maigret 's Pickpocket , which consists of no more than a description of Maigret riding to work on a bus , as being as gripping as any chase sequence , from the absolute accuracy of the writing and its complete economy . |
| 6 | Even an estate worth upwards of £100 a year might well consist of no more than a couple of manors plus an assortment of lesser parcels , all located in a single county . |
| 7 | SERPS consists of no more than a promise that future generations will pick up the bill . |
| 8 | Lukic was guilty of no more than a challenge for a 50–50 ball with the speeding Rob Jones around the 18-yard line . |
| 9 | I say this because I am anxious that having decided to reject the modernist notion that there is no Devil — and therefore no Christian dualism — we should not be tempted to fall into the opposite error of conceiving our adversary as no more than a fiend . |
| 10 | Leading politicians in Britain , particularly in the mid-nineteenth century Liberal Party , scorned the imperial enterprise as no more than a way of offering the unemployable aristocracy a means to enrich itself at heavy cost to the innocent . |
| 11 | The established head taking up a keen interest in marketing may well be seen as no more than a leopard cynically changing spots to match the climate of LMS and the introduction of pupil driven funding . |
| 12 | If a senior officer were to be viewed as no more than a member of an amorphous managerial team , said Mr Roach , the public would be led to believe that any complaint against a policemen was merely being investigated by ‘ one of the boys . |
| 13 | But the villagers regarded the new name as no more than a foreigner 's eccentric fancy which they were under no obligation either to use or recognise . |
| 14 | One view sees retirement as no more than a form of compulsory unemployment within an economy which can no longer offer full employment . |
| 15 | The claim that unschooled Wolof children have not developed the ‘ logical functions ’ of language will appear then as no more than a statement that the conventions in which their thinking is expressed are different from those of the researcher herself . |
| 16 | The cult had remained after those who had brought it had embraced the gods of the Black Land , the true gods , the gods of the land in which they now lived , but it remained as no more than a fashion among the rich . |
| 17 | If the OED were left as no more than a monument to the English of the twentieth century it would not remain the twenty-first century 's dictionary for long . |
| 18 | From seeming to be a parable or a satire , it ends up as no more than a glimpse of the stunted mentality of a twosome . |
| 19 | The idea was so daft she would have laughed except for the Captain 's searing glance , which rested for no more than a second on her before returning to burn into Midnight as he breathed : |
| 20 | She resisted for no more than a second , then joined him in the secret dark underneath . |
| 21 | To begin with it is best to keep the adults for no more than a day , then let them free . |
| 22 | The peoples of these republics are overwhelmingly Muslim ( mostly Sunni ) by religion , and their traditional customs and values , with which their religion is inextricably bound up , have been altered relatively little by the experience of Russian and Soviet rule , which has in fact lasted for no more than a century or so ( most of what is now Soviet Central Asia came under Russian control in the second half of the nineteenth century ) . |
| 23 | Though he had been in the district for no more than a week , he felt he knew it well . |
| 24 | Except that there was no way Third World countries could develop that fast : there was room for no more than a handful of South Koreas or Singapores , ready to beat the West at its own game . |
| 25 | But he hesitated for no more than a moment before stepping inside and when the door was closed he took refuge in clowning . |
| 26 | Maria Magdalena and Caribbean Queen cleared Key Canaka thirty metres apart with no more than a bowsprit between them . |
| 27 | Many thousands of stories , large and small , and even feature material are placed with no more than a press release in mail or some short telephone contact , and even PRO 's who work regularly with their own trade publications may , because of the distance between their offices and those of the publication , never have met the editors . |
| 28 | First he made a gourd spring up to protect Jonah from the sun ( by ‘ gourd ’ we are to understand something like the castor-oil plant or Palma Christi , with its rapid growth and all-sheltering leaves ) ; then , with no more than a wave of the silk handkerchief , he sent a maggot to destroy the said gourd , leaving Jonah painfully exposed to the heat . |
| 29 | We should remember that , like so many other British communities outside London , Wirral entered the 1980s with no more than a handful of long-term drug users known to local doctors . |
| 30 | A fragile , breakable , disposable population , with no more than a toe-hold on life when trade was good and employment more plentiful ; flicked off life 's surface , almost without being noticed , when it was not . |