Example sentences of "[det] [adj] [conj] a [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were huge wheeled galvanised cylinders , each taller than a man and of the kind that could be chained to a garbage wagon and then hoisted and inverted in one great burst of hydraulic power . |
| 2 | And someone else might catch it and get much more than a spot or two , so you see , you must be public-spirited about this . |
| 3 | ‘ Highlander is much more than a place or an institution . |
| 4 | She particularly hated the small kitchen , which was little more than a passageway and had no worksurfaces or cupboards . |
| 5 | The couple stayed together for little more than a year and their son died before he was 12 months old , an incident that was to haunt Gallacher throughout his precociously successful playing career . |
| 6 | It was on these - " moderate " walks that I came to appreciate the astonishing versatility of' the Dales , how inhospitably barren they can look from the brow of one hill , then how welcomingly like the gentle South Downs from the next ; how one village , little more than a pub and a row of stone cottages , might be as gaunt and forbidding as some remote Highland hamlet , while another will be so prettified and roses-round-the-door picturesque that , but for the backcloth of soaring hills or looming crags , and the uncoursed rubble walls wending like strips of children 's Plasticine up to the horizon , it could be in Mummerset . |
| 7 | In short , life had really left him with little more than a reputation and a network of scars . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Away he goes Lawrence again to the right-handed and that 's short on the back foot plays it down with a dead bat , ball bounces little more than a yard or two . |
| 10 | Wilson knew that some visiting Americans had let it be widely known in Florence that they considered Mrs Browning little more than a ghost and though she had laughed such gossip to scorn she now saw there was perhaps real cause for alarm . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Gradually , she found herself being turned into something between a useful servant and a source of relief ; a person who was little more than a housekeeper and temporary mistress . |
| 13 | She is fifteen years his junior , and little more than a housekeeper and unpaid bedslave . |
| 14 | The matches used to be held little more than a week or so apart but soccer has since switched to the Lent term . |
| 15 | Indeed , a large part of his public life and known history would seem to be little more than an embodiment and re-enactment of the prophecies . |