Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thirdly , there is a group of institutions where only a minority of students are on advanced courses . |
| 2 | Infection of the fallopian tubes must remain the most important cause of infertility today , although only a minority of cases will be due to gonorrhoea . |
| 3 | Although only a minority of parties were favourable to the Left , it was that minority which was most active at Party conferences and in political propaganda in the country . |
| 4 | America , where there appear to be more grossly obese people than in Britain ( by which I mean those around double their desirable body weight , rather than just a couple of stones overweight ) , is an excellent place to observe this eating-speed phenomenon . |
| 5 | Everything here was different and therefore better : the stiff-backed brass taps , the cut of the banister , the genuine oil paintings ( we had a genuine oil painting too , but not as genuine as that ) , the library which somehow was more than just a roomful of books , the furniture old enough to have woodworm in it , and the casual acceptance of inherited things . |
| 6 | This is more than just a book with balances . |
| 7 | It gives due weight to action research as a process rather than just a set of things to do . |
| 8 | Building students preparing for a career in Europe need much more than just a grounding in languages , says John Watson , student representative for the CIOB 's Northern Counties Region and press officer for the Tyneside Centre . |
| 9 | On his voyage , he has realised that sport is more than just a game to Americans , and that sports stars are the heroes of the nation . |
| 10 | A label can be more than just a sequence of characters . |
| 11 | It also manages to tie the Alps together as one whole , treating them as a range of mountains rather than just a list of routes . |
| 12 | And , finally , those extra , necessary words — grouped and coloured — somehow more than just a list of words ! |
| 13 | You may find it more pleasing and effective to range together a selection of complementary shapes , rather than just a hotchpotch of squares , circles , ovals and rectangles . |
| 14 | Now rail travellers arriving in Darlington will notice more than just a handful of changes compared to six years ago . |
| 15 | A system which has the intelligence to acknowledge that people are more than just a bag of bones dressed up in a birthday suit and that ill-health is not only caused by biological factors , but social , political , economic and environmental ones as well . |
| 16 | Guy 's Hospital in London has been rumoured to be heading down the opting out path , although recently a group of consultants at the hospital expressed their opposition to the idea . |
| 17 | This is partly because only a proportion of hinds conceive in a given year and individual stags rarely hold harems throughout the whole breeding season , and partly because few stags breed successfully for more than four years . |
| 18 | This is because chemists ' experiments last for years not thousands of millions of years , and because only a handful of chemists , not thousands of millions of chemists , are engaged in doing these experiments . |
| 19 | Theorists are very stimulated by sort of quite interesting and new ideas of concept because ultimately a lot of theorists like sort of to be intellectually challenged they like things that they need to really sort of stretch their minds . |
| 20 | She certainly is , after only a couple of circuits her confidence is growing . |
| 21 | Two watch-worthy Frenchmen , Jean-Noel Pariente , 30 , and Lionel Fainfray , 29 , whose Arthur brand of men 's underpants sells 800,000 pairs in France after only a couple of years in existence , are preparing a charge into the UK market . |
| 22 | This is already starting to ‘ gloss up ’ with use , giving both these guitars a friendly , used feel after only a couple of days ' playing . |
| 23 | After only a couple of days , comprising mainly insults and bickering , she had n't felt as if they were strangers . |
| 24 | ‘ But then the team suffered a run of injuries and after only a handful of matches I was back on the field . ’ |
| 25 | Having a factory bike can put a lot of pressure on you but when after just a couple of races you discover you can compete at the highest level , everything gets easier . |
| 26 | A Silmarillion on that plan could have ended as merely a pastime for scholars . |
| 27 | I think what 's very striking about the report which the students ' union have recently published and are circulating around the university , is the extent to which they have tended to define sexual harassment as being as much or at least as much a problem between students , a problem of behaviour between students and a problem of the sort of atmosphere in the colleges in terms of how that affects how peoples lives feel and and how they are how their behaviour what sort of behaviour is acceptable . |
| 28 | Many police officers today , even in the higher ranks , can not remember carrying out their police duties without the assistance of the computer , and it is now as much a part of police back-up as the police car and police radio . |
| 29 | However , it is obviously as much a waste of funds to give money to privatisation of the coal industry as it was to give money for the poll tax . |
| 30 | The way that these arrangements for the responsibility and control of book provision work out are often as much a matter of personalities and university politics as anything else . |