Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Repeat elections were needed where neither a sole candidate nor either of two candidates had secured 50 per cent of the vote in the first or second round . |
| 2 | Religion therefore is more than just a personal affair and its influence in society is more than the sum of its influences on individuals . |
| 3 | An augmented product is more than just a tangible product or service . |
| 4 | An augmented product is more than just a tangible product or service . |
| 5 | ‘ Falling in love ’ , therefore , was more than just a trivial pastime but a serious business . |
| 6 | But there is more meaning in the word slum than simply a foul street or yard : it denotes also a certain quality of housing . |
| 7 | It may nevertheless be better than even a reasonable harmonium or American organ . |
| 8 | At the same time it 's worth remembering that at least one contrast colour , even if only a large plant or a mass of flowers or cushions , will help to emphasize the clever harmony of the background colour scheme . |
| 9 | It was from the vantage point of the Master 's Lodge , a family place , that Thomson , cheerful and generous , made his most distinctive contribution to university affairs , although he had already been active since the 1930s in adult education , as both a part-time tutor and a committee member , and from 1950 to 1958 he had sat on the council of the senate . |
| 10 | In addition Marxist prescriptions ultimately depend on the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism by communism , an increasingly unlikely scenario when Marxism as both a political creed and movement has never been weaker . |
| 11 | It is more useful ( Johnson 1983 ) to adopt a non-partitional scheme ( fig. 10.1 ) that recognizes , for instance , food poisoning as both a personal and consumer hazard , or lead pollution ( e.g. from car exhausts ) as both a meteorological event and technological hazard ( both public and private ) . |
| 12 | This shall include a system of commercial banks operating according to private-sector principles , with competing private , co-operative and public-law banks , as well a free money and a free capital market and non-regulated interest-rate fixing on financial markets . |
| 13 | The Party wanted ‘ root and branch ’ electoral reform , she said as well a Green might and ( among many other things ) more power for parish councils . |
| 14 | There are few predators of bristleworms which can be safely introduced into a reef tank though doubtless a large crab or Triggerfish would devour them happily , but would also probably eat all your expensive corals as an appetiser . |
| 15 | The Jetwave Series 2 combination oven has a 700-watt microwave , a 2,400-watt infra-red grill , and can be used as either a forced air or natural convection oven . |