Example sentences of "[det] than an [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was certainly never more than an individual analysis of my own work practices — a personal time-and-motion study . |
| 2 | On housing ‘ it is not in general desirable to seek to control the disposal of private houses through planning restrictions ’ ; on industry and commerce ‘ policies and proposals … should promote and not hinder the regeneration of industry and reflect an up to date and realistic view of the scale , pattern and diversity of industry ’ ; on retail development ‘ policies and proposals should neither seek to regulate competition between retailers nor to stifle the evolution of new forms of retail provision ’ ; and on agriculture and forestry ‘ authorities should take account of the need to ensure that no more than an essential minimum of agricultural land is diverted to development ’ . |
| 3 | Within the Council there were no surprises or novelties about the Committee of Ministers : with each state having one vote and a veto , it became little more than an intergovernmental conference of foreign ministers meeting twice yearly . |
| 4 | So , you see , we owed her far more than an occasional box of chocolates could repay . |
| 5 | He reflected that in his twenty year association with the Institution the lifeboat fleet had been adapted to cope with an increasing variety of casualties , from being tailored to serve merchant and fishing vessels it was now dealing with more than an equal number of calls from the holiday maker and the pleasure sailor . |
| 6 | In the words of Professor Williams , ‘ it is no more than an authentic example of male chauvinism . ’ |
| 7 | So while school or college-leavers can benefit from a relatively standardised approach , there are others whose training programme needs to be structured closely around their specific backgrounds and individual requirements , otherwise a large element of everyone 's input is going to be little more than an wasteful duplication of effort . |
| 8 | It was the notion of literariness that made Russian Formalism scientific and systematic , and more than an eclectic set of insights into the workings of literature . |
| 9 | The following remark , for example , made in the realization that physics was both something less and something more than an objective body of knowledge , was very similar to remarks made by the arts students about English : |
| 10 | This has been little more than an annotated table of contents of a programme that should extend to 1995 and culminate in WACC 's second World Congress . |
| 11 | Thus , a group is more than an aimless crowd of people waiting in an airport lounge or at a bus-stop . |
| 12 | This should not be suspected of being a new , strange phenomenon ; it is no more than an adjectival version of a syntactic process that is actually very common in more extended phrases , such as : ( 4 ) oddly familiar faces sadly indifferent spectators slightly old-fashioned courtesy Here , one property-word is qualified by another , which therefore does not apply directly to the noun ( or the entity behind it ) ; the faces are in fact definitely not odd , nor are the spectators sad , and there is no reason to suppose that the courtesy in the third case is slight . |
| 13 | ‘ And I 'm quite certain that the series of injuries was no more than an unfortunate set of coincidences . ’ |
| 14 | Volvo 's two-litre B200 engine had always been smoother than the bigger-bore 2.3 , but it made no more than an adequate job of hauling the corpulent 940 . |
| 15 | Rent 's supposed allies appear little more than an improbable amalgam of all those who might be opposed to the regime of Mortimer and Isabella , and it is hard to believe that the conspiracy had such wide-ranging support . |
| 16 | If holist forms of explanation are to merit serious consideration , they must clearly be based on more than an uncritical acceptance of a crude version of historical materialism , and the claim that they are not threatened by counterfactuals such as those discussed at the start of the chapter must be given a less doctrinaire justification . |
| 17 | In our own time the Armstrongs ' Hollows Tower has been romantically restored ; but Mangerton , home of the most powerful of the Liddesdale branch of the family , is no more than an overgrown knot of stones on a knoll beside an equally melancholy , abandoned railway line . |
| 18 | Most theories were little more or less than an integrated set of concepts or too impossibly abstract to have much direct relevance for social research . |
| 19 | We hounded him to such effect that he responded in the classic 1970s way and set up no less than an official committee of inquiry to consider the whole position . |
| 20 | As a general guideline it would not be worthwhile for people with less than an absolute minimum of £5,000 to invest per stock . |
| 21 | But this does n't mean that I am anything less than an enthusiastic supporter of Scottish rugby . |