Example sentences of "more than [art] token [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes it was n't more than a token reference . |
| 2 | Montgomery had seen too many such people to feel more than a token sympathy . |
| 3 | If I remember correctly , the woman I held in my arms back in that little make-up room did n't put up more than a token fight . ’ |
| 4 | He was too full to make more than a token protest when Lorton removed the bowl and rolled up the newspaper . |
| 5 | That had been the crux of the problem the whole way through — she had been too passive , allowing Adam to call the shots with no more than a token protest . |
| 6 | So while many City analysts are now predicting that the FT-SE index could rise another 20 p.c. by the end of the year , such forecasts carry caveats : not least the anticipation of more than a token cut in interest rates . |
| 7 | Interest rates will stay high , and while the pound remains in thrall to the mark , there is no scope for more than a token cut . |
| 8 | Ingres Corp will support 4Gb binary large objects ( BLOBS ) as an extension to the kernel of Version 6.5 of its relational database management system , due to go into beta test next year : the move seems aimed at forestalling customers thinking of moving to object databases , or to other RDBMS that already support BLOBs , such as Informix , Interbase and Oracle Version 7 — BLOBS however , are seen as little more than a token gesture towards true object databases . |