Example sentences of "[det] [adj] [subord] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Violent incidents involving local inhabitants and US troops were reported outside the US Albrook Air Force Station in the days leading up to the Bush visit , and on June 10 one US soldier was shot dead and another wounded while driving an army vehicle near the Caribbean coastal city of Colón . |
| 2 | Is there anything I can do to improve this other than fitting an overdrive ? |
| 3 | The usual reason these days is that the target company employs an army of people with skills of a kind difficult and too time-consuming to assemble by recruitment , and that trying to build such a team would cost much more than buying the company . |
| 4 | As a restaurant manager you will have total control of a sizeable business , and that means much more than overseeing the day to day running of the restaurant [ which is quite a challenge in itself ] . |
| 5 | However , management of the school 's budget share is about much more than managing the school 's money . |
| 6 | The same principles of design , quality and attention to detail ensure that Miele kitchens offer much more than meets the eye . |
| 7 | Israel did not have to do much more than open the area to its own produce and place obstacles in the way of anyone trying to develop enterprises or co-operative ventures . |
| 8 | But negotiating a bank loan involves much more than agreeing an interest rate . |
| 9 | Well , is that better than carrying a bag , you never know do you ? |
| 10 | Making love burns up more calories than playing golf and not that many fewer than throwing a frisbee . |
| 11 | A joint investigation of this procedure by of Distillers MG Limited , the UK 's leading supplier of carbon dioxide , and general manager in quality assurance for Forte Airport Services , one of the world 's leading in-flight caterers , demonstrated that the dry ice slice technique could not meet the requirements of the new legislation , and in many cases hardly had any effect at all other than freezing the meal at the top of the trolley . |
| 12 | The construction task will not end with this book , which does little more than lay the foundation for an approach that will celebrate geography as focusing on the ‘ question of place ’ within contemporary society . |
| 13 | Nobody who is sensible or sane would say that we should export more arms to a country that is already awash with them , because it would do little more than increase the bloodshed that has already stained that country . |
| 14 | Even a Trinidad deal does little more than bring the amount of interest that Africans owe closer to what they are managing to pay anyway . |
| 15 | Traditionally , architects of educational reform in England and Wales have held the view that , as the 1943 White Paper Educational Reconstruction put it , ‘ Legislation can do little more than prepare the way for reform ’ . |
| 16 | The number of levels is arbitrary , but it certainly is apparent that there is a very light , superficial , cliche level of communication that serves little more than to acknowledge the presence of another person . |
| 17 | Even the prescription of a joint approach to issues of sexism and racism ( Brah and Deem , 1986 ) does little more than scratch the surface of a very much deeper problem . |
| 18 | The Act does little more than authorise the Secretary of State to issue rules for the regulation of prisons and the Prison Rules 1964 , though subsequently amended , can be shown to be very out of date . |
| 19 | The sale of part of the assets of BP oil owned by the government in Howe 's first budget did little more than continue the policy of Denis Healey 's Labour budget of 1976 . |
| 20 | A close-up crotch shot will eventually do little more than remind the reader that sex without affection is merely moving your legs up and down for a bit and then stopping . |
| 21 | At its simplest this involvement is little more than preserving the bridge which exists between home and school , giving support to children and their parents at moments of personal crisis ( like a death , or the break up of a family ) . |
| 22 | In such cases you may have to do little more than convince the farmer you can do the job — and do it well . |
| 23 | Discussing this later at one of the Observations planning meetings , the idea of sharing ‘ inspirational works ’ appealed to all those present as complementing a tendency in review columns to focus on new titles and ‘ how to do it ’ guides . |
| 24 | In other words , an adult man does not automatically assume a political role on the basis of his gender , any more than does a woman . |
| 25 | Depression , as an illness is not normal any more than having an ulcer |
| 26 | There is ample room within the synaptic interactions of even 20,000 neurons for their properties to be those of the system rather than of its individual cells , and claims which were once popular that within insect and crustacean nervous systems one could find key ‘ command ’ neurons have gone the same way as , in eastern Europe , parallel enthusiasm for ‘ command economies ’ — that is , they turn out to be not a good way to organize individual behaviour any more than to run a country . |