Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [det] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A settlement was reached in 1972 , but in the 1980s , as the devolution of power to the south became little more than a façade and the economic situation deteriorated , the separatist movement re-emerged . |
| 2 | Welch is the first to admit that when the Theatre Royal opened in 1982 it was widely regarded as a white elephant , which quickly became little more than a stopping off point for second-rate touring products . |
| 3 | However , it cost little more than the price of the land — a real bargain , ’ she parodied in a bitter little voice . |
| 4 | Secondly the archive base became much more than the database ( or rather its constituent tables ) . |
| 5 | At her worst — which is to say , when her performances , all crust and no bread , seemed little more than a rash of mannerisms — she could strike one as impossibly tic-ridden and implausible . |
| 6 | In a much governed kingdom like England royal administration included control over the sheriff and other local officers ; in some kingdoms it included little more than the issuing of charters and the collecting of somewhat meagre taxes . |
| 7 | They reached mass audiences , whom their ‘ messages ’ frequently interested much more than the news or the programmes that the advertisements indirectly helped pay for . |
| 8 | But the western railway dreams encompassed much more than the settling of immigrants or the taming of native peoples ( throughout the world railways were credited with this ‘ pacificatory ’ role ) . |
| 9 | Fighting continued for three weeks ; British casualties numbered 1000 , the Indonesians lost many more and the city became a desert . |
| 10 | Regalism can best be defined as Erastianism and it represented little more than the modernization and systematization of the traditional claim of the crown to control what it considered the temporal aspects of church government . |
| 11 | Ramsey was unusual in that to him the priest 's ordination meant much more than the deacon 's ordination . |
| 12 | In the chemistry I did you seem to me to be terribly empirical , you had an inorganic substance and you had to learn absolute by heart what it did if you put it in water and you heated it and you did this that and the other . |
| 13 | Before Tiananmen , Britain had ducked the question by professing to believe that most Hong Kong people cared little about politics , and that those who did favoured little or no change . |
| 14 | Dean , an early influence on anyone of Jack 's age , had little more than a year left of his life and was in regular attendance in 1954 , which was also the year Marlon Brando made it very big indeed in another Kazan film , On the Waterfront . |
| 15 | He had little more than a week , as his intention was to return to Jalo by 10 January . |
| 16 | Brezhnev died in November 1982 , his successor , Yuri Andropov lasted little more than a year , and Konstantin Chernenko survived only until March 1985 . |
| 17 | She waited until the car vanished round the bend then waited some more until the whine of the engine was at last lost in the distance , then she slowly made her way into the house . |
| 18 | and then getting all the the chassis numbers and that and welding them on to these stolen cars and Because what , you know , er Siobhan 's dad had a , bought a Montego and I do n't know how it came about but they discovered that erm it had a diff I mean it 's had a Maestro engine in it and it had this that and the other . |
| 19 | Nothing exemplified this more than the campaign for public economy which shook the government in 1921 . |
| 20 | The writings of one of the great visionaries of the period , the Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin , were not allowed to be published and he remained little more than a name , if even that , to all but a few scholars . |
| 21 | The Lyons course was scheduled to last four years , but few pupils stayed much more than a year . |
| 22 | Neither particularly wanted any more but a lifetime 's resistance to waste went deep . |