Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [adj] [conj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For him , the " Panopticon principle " ( p 216 ) should be regarded as more than just a particular example of ingenuity in architectural design ; rather : " … it was an event in the " history of the human mind " . |
| 2 | They should devote themselves wholly to the problem of making life in South Africa , regarded as more or less a foreign country , bearable for self-respecting British men and women . |
| 3 | The Micom Communications Corp subsidiary of MB Communications Inc , Lawrence , Pennsylvania has announced a new model in its Marathon range of data and speech network servers which is claimed to more than double the performance of the previous products . |
| 4 | ‘ They are prepared for more than just a social call , ’ Taheb said . |
| 5 | However , as with all fostering schemes , it was seen as more than just a means of putting roofs over heads . |
| 6 | When viewed from this vantage point , designing can be seen as more than just a means of creating and applying technologies : it is also revealed as a means of shaping relations between people . |
| 7 | Built in 1811 and now the Borough Council 's Leathercraft Museum . |
| 8 | The Clegg Commission was abolished in 1980 and eventually the government managed to squeeze down pay in the public sector through its use of cash limits . |
| 9 | This was abolished in 1972 and consequently the prosecution must now convince a more representative sample of the population that a publisher ought to be punished : a sample , moreover , which has a constitutional right to acquit irrespective of the letter of the law . |
| 10 | A breed society was founded in 1908 and today the Salers also has breed societies in Canada and the USA . |
| 11 | Cistercian abbey founded in 1143 and traditionally the burial place of Llywelyn the Last . |
| 12 | The buildings of the monastery were demolished in 1897 and only the porch remains of Dientzenhofer 's work . |
| 13 | The Cabinet accepted the recommendation that a substantial British aircraft industry was required to hold off competition , and should be developed with more than just the Empire in mind ; also the premise that work on new aircraft should proceed under government direction , with the Treasury accepting responsibility for new types . |
| 14 | The restrictions on newspaper advertising had no doubt contributed to this but perhaps the layout and phraseology of many of the Board 's own publications had made them unattractive to readers . |
| 15 | Damage is calculated in more or less the same way as a stone thrower . |
| 16 | Some backward tribes inhabited the remoter mountains and jungles but the main population was of the same race ; today they are known as Vietnamese but then the outside world knew them as Annamites or Annamese . |
| 17 | The growth in occupational pension provision for women was even more marked with more than double the proportion of 60–69 year olds having them ( 32 per cent ) compared with the over-80s ( 15 per cent ) . |
| 18 | The number of tickets issued will be limited to 600 and unfortunately the venue is unsuitable for children . |
| 19 | This pledge was fulfilled in 1971 and thus the Land Commission went the same way as it predecessor , the Central Land Board . |
| 20 | Yes , Nicole and I go back a long way , and yes , you could say that we 're involved on more than just a superficial level . |
| 21 | Commencing with only three Divisions with their own examination structure , the number of Divisions in the RICS increased to seven and periodically the wheel is re-examined to establish whether it should turn full circle to produce a smaller number of specialist groups once again . |
| 22 | Since the Tenants Right to Buy was first introduced in 1980 it 's been constantly opposed by Labour and indeed the S L D who 've taken their fat away . |
| 23 | As long as you can stay reasonably flexible a well-planned interview structure will make comparisons between candidates much easier because all candidates will have been put through more or less the same hoops . |
| 24 | Children were constrained in the kinds of response possible and so appeared to treat less as more ; the younger children probably relied on a non-linguistic strategy of choosing the greater of two amounts , and this would account for responses to both more ( apparently correct ) and less ( apparently wrong ) when combined with partial or even no lexical knowledge ; and lastly , children were not given instructions with both more and less on the same occasion . |
| 25 | For rabbinical Judaism , militant activity was perceived as more than just an embarrassment . |
| 26 | First recorded in 1960 and possibly an offshoot of the Fishbourne colony . |
| 27 | Although they describe harvest feasts in an opposed manner , Leapor and Duck are engaged in more or less the same argument . |
| 28 | Is there any reason why the same debate , or a debate on the same question , should not be conducted at more or less the same time in a great number of different places ? |
| 29 | The Kefauver report is mentioned in passing but neither the Hubert Humphrey follow-up , nor Morton Mintz 's massive By Prescription Only , nor Rick Carlson 's The End of Medicine get so much as a mention . |