Example sentences of "[det] [adj] [conj] a [noun sg] [conj] " 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 | Indeed the Street Offences Bill was in Parliament not much more than a year after the Report had been published . |
| 3 | For many young adults with severe learning difficulties this was not much more than a decade after they became ‘ entitled ’ to full-time education . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Highlander is much more than a place or an institution . |
| 6 | Efforts were made to persuade Jamaica to follow Barbados , and a twenty-one year grant to cover the island 's own expenses was voted in 1683 , but this grant was not large enough to provide any surplus to spend elsewhere and was not much more than a recognition that the government in England was not going to spend its money covering the costs of local government for Englishmen who had gone overseas . |
| 7 | She particularly hated the small kitchen , which was little more than a passageway and had no worksurfaces or cupboards . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In short , life had really left him with little more than a reputation and a network of scars . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | That may be little more than a technicality because Mr Duggan added that Chelsea have submitted outline proposals to Cabra and their advisers which may resolve the outstanding issues . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | For most of the former , republicanism involved a commitment to fundamentally reforming Spanish society ; for many of the latter , little more than a conviction that a republic , if politically moderate , might prove a sounder guarantor of conservative interests than a discredited monarchy susceptible to outright revolution . |
| 16 | She had been little more than a child when I first saw her , but no-one could forget her beautiful , lively eyes . |
| 17 | ‘ She would be little more than a child if she has lived , ’ he said . |
| 18 | And it would have remained little more than a name but for the immense political danger that threatened it 21 years ago . |
| 19 | At the age of 71 , he 's written the definitive book on Brize Norton which was little more than a field when he joined the RAF 53 years ago . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It was little more than a whimper as she shook her head , refusing to answer . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She is fifteen years his junior , and little more than a housekeeper and unpaid bedslave . |
| 24 | On Thursday 23 May 1974 , little more than a week after Jinky had set out on his transatlantic crossing , the player was the focus of a controversial legal wrangle when a judge at Airdrie Sheriff Court postponed a trial involving the Celtic winger to allow him to prepare for Scotland 's forthcoming World Cup campaign in Germany . |
| 25 | The matches used to be held little more than a week or so apart but soccer has since switched to the Lent term . |
| 26 | It was little more than a whisper as Gina flinched from the anguish on his drawn face , every instinct telling her he was speaking the truth , and that Lotta 's cruel fabrication had been just that — a compilation of lies in order to destroy what she could no longer possess . |
| 27 | It was little more than a whisper as she walked towards him . |
| 28 | Even then , this is likely to be little more than an insistence that they begin to make some regular contribution to the household in the form of dried fish , tobacco , and so on . |
| 29 | It is a reasonable assumption — though little more than an assumption that ads in the categories at the lower end of the scale as it appears on the page will be more closely studied , and more thoroughly and consciously used by purchasers , than those at the upper end of the scale . |
| 30 | 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 . |