Example sentences of "be [adv] [det] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are rarely more than a couple of hundred metres high , and they are usually symmetrical , although they may be ‘ breached ’ on one side , where a lava flow has emerged . |
| 2 | Commissions and inquiries are rarely more than a device to allow politicians to put off taking decisions . |
| 3 | If his estimate of time was accurate , it would have been rather more than an hour since it had stopped . |
| 4 | You would do well to remember that you yourself are little more than a child . |
| 5 | ‘ Nonsense , you are little more than a slip of a girl , you would be prey to all sorts of men , fortune hunters and the like . |
| 6 | In fact , the TECs are little more than a device for luring the private sector into tackling unemployment . |
| 7 | The Turkish forces , let's be clear about this , have used napalm against Kurdish villages inside the ‘ safe haven ’ which the rapidstrike force is supposedly on permanent red-alert to protect — yet there has n't been so much as a cheep from any of the elements who cheered the US-led forces into the Gulf War on the basis that regimes which defy international law and slaughter innocent people must be confronted , no matter what the cost . |
| 8 | I am scarcely more than a child . |
| 9 | Even clothes for ‘ the larger woman ’ are usually modelled on women who are scarcely more than a size 12 . |
| 10 | You 're little more than a girl . |
| 11 | To Rumi the tears are far more than a guide in the spiritual quest ; they are the very water of life . |
| 12 | For example in Wales there are now less than a quarter of the district councils which were previously in existence . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm already less than a metre high . |
| 14 | She could n't have been more than ten then and by our standards would be scarcely more than a child now . |
| 15 | Incidentally , though Walker is held to be still more than a touch rusty after so long away from rugby — inclined , for instance , to carry the ball under the wrong arm — the rapidity with which he has come into cap contention ought to be food for thought for our own Jamie Henderson . |
| 16 | The woman of the future would be far more than a nurse or consoler , she would have a positive religion to realize as a high-priestess of health . |
| 17 | The average stay is five to six months , but sometimes it may be as much as a year . |
| 18 | As it floats away , the spider continues to spin until there may be as much as a yard of thread hanging in the air . |
| 19 | We should have gone there this coming Saturday , but may be as much as a week late . |
| 20 | The price of a full season ticket was going to be as much as a term 's school fees , and when I saw my father 's horrified face , I said , ‘ I can cycle . ’ |
| 21 | The greatest cause of redundant data however is the inclusion of the company logo ; this has been known to be as much as an order of magnitude greater than the average model . |
| 22 | But half a century on and the most basic Jeep will , according to UK importers TKM , be as much as an impulse , fashion buy as a Harley-Davidson motorcycle or , though on a slightly less grand scale , a pair of Ray-Ban Aviator sunglasses . |
| 23 | But it may be as little as a century old . |
| 24 | I have been here less than a week and already it feels like home , ’ he said . |
| 25 | The black paint on the body was already peeling from the heat , though the Doctor guessed from the depth of the dust layer that it had n't been there more than a couple of days . |
| 26 | ‘ Coun Richmond has seen a shopping trolley and complained but that trolley wo n't have been there more than a week , yet when his party were running the council there were ducks nesting in trolleys , ’ said Coun Young . |
| 27 | For even then I was falling in love with you , though you were little more than a child at the time . ’ |
| 28 | An attempt to cajole lay opposition was made by the issue of the ‘ Articles of Stamford ’ in July 1309 , but they were little more than a reissue of the Articles on the Charters , Articuli super Cartas , of 1300 . |
| 29 | The words were little more than a whisper . |
| 30 | Calls reedier and much less musical than Swallow or House Martin , twittering song being little more than a repetition of call note . |