Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [det] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | However , despite Laud 's personal antipathy towards the papacy , the 1630s did see a growth in the influence of Catholicism over the English government and an improvement in relations between Charles 's court and the papal curia , and for the large numbers of English Protestants who were unable to distinguish between Arminianism and popery and who regarded Laud as little more than an agent of Rome , there could be no doubt that the archbishop was to blame . |
| 32 | Those who regard the media as little more than an arm of the capitalist state ( Miliband , 1969 ) will be content with a structural or conspiratorial explanation , emphasising the institutional dependence and ideological role of the media . |
| 33 | This presented a sizeable engineering problem : although INOC managed to find a solution , it was really little more than a stopgap and the long-term answer proved to be the negotiation of an arrangement with Saudi Arabia . |
| 34 | The volume is really little more than a set of expanded notes ; but what it lacks in inspiration on that score , it more than makes up by its sheer usefulness , not least as an examination primer . |
| 35 | This acceptance of ‘ for better or for worse ’ was rather easier before medical science made hope glow eternally , even if the flame is often little more than a flicker . |
| 36 | In many cases the foundries and forges were widely separated , even where commonly owned ; the sites were often little more than a combination of untidy wooden huts with the occasional brick emplacement . |
| 37 | RUGBY is about much more than the game on the pitch . |
| 38 | It 's really much more than a cleaning service because it has helped me emotionally , ’ she says . |
| 39 | Transactivation of the CACGTG-CYC1 promoter is sequence-specific , as much less or no transactivation by Myc+Max ( Fig. 2 a , lanes a ) , VP16-Myc N+Max or Max103-VP16 ( Fig. 2 b ) is observed from a control reporter lacking the CACGTG binding site ( see also Fig. 2 a legend ) . |
| 40 | There have been umpteen books on the subject before , but Ferris brings such sly humour , such a floodgate of poignant details , and such a tone of innocent surprise to the proceedings , that it all reads as much more than a round-up of the usual phenomena . |
| 41 | But despite the self-importance of the boast , the League no longer existed as much more than a figment of its leaders ' fantasies . |
| 42 | And the creature is surely little more than a child . |
| 43 | In this he was to be sadly mistaken , and the collapse of his position in the face of what was initially little more than a putsch organized by the queen shows how shallowly based his authority was , resting on fear and coercion rather than genuine loyalty . |
| 44 | That 's around 40 more than the prison can comfortably accommodate . |
| 45 | Very little more than a bio-day later they had established that our exit molecules corresponded with our entry molecules , save for those of the cylinder that we 'd acquired and that was accounted for in their scanning . |
| 46 | In a very fast and expert manner the bottle would then be brought to an upright position , thus preventing very little more than the sediment from escaping . |
| 47 | Overall , the reforms ( particularly the CSFs ) represented a further attempt to move away from the passive form of EC regional aid , whereby EC expenditure was simply added to nationally determined projects , and regional policy was therefore little more than a system of budgetary transfers . |
| 48 | The Inspectorate 's observation is therefore little more than a truism , and is merely typical of the kind of thing inspectors have to say , and always have said , in their reports . |
| 49 | There are high concentrations in the top fifteen inches , but when we get below the next layer , the concentrations become very much less and the ratio of the two concentrations does n't change very much . |
| 50 | It has already been stressed that the NACAB information system is very much more than a reference work . |
| 51 | The language used throughout these public self-descriptions reflected general visions of altruism and service : ‘ public protection ’ , ‘ willing to serve the public ’ , ‘ public confidence ’ , ‘ trust ’ , ‘ special skill ’ , ‘ the supply of professional services is very much more than a business transaction ’ . |
| 52 | But it is clear that Schüssler Fiorenza aims to be very much more than a historian . |
| 53 | Today , helped along by Fitch Benoy 's latest radical interventions , the accretion is happily much more than the sum of its parts . |