Example sentences of "is [adj] [subord] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A team , according to Adair ( 1986 ) , is more than just a group with a common aim . |
| 32 | Clearly it is more than just a picture of two continent-carrying plates coming together . |
| 33 | There is no place for a quality footballer if he believes he is more than just a page in that machine . |
| 34 | ‘ This is more than just a robbery , it is so frenzied and angry , the work of animals , that it is beyond the comprehension of the human mind . ’ |
| 35 | The Gilbert Collection of Gold Boxes is more than just a catalogue . |
| 36 | Sociology , as a social science , is more than just a collection of empirical findings and is also more than just a set of speculative armchair ‘ theories ’ . |
| 37 | This little rebellion annoyed the orthodox Communists , but maybe not the voters : the three rebels , all well known , provide voters with an assurance that the United Left is more than just a front for unreconstructed Communists . |
| 38 | Vinegar is more than just a table condiment to sprinkle over chips . |
| 39 | There is more than just an element of truth in this conception . |
| 40 | But to the ragga audience Shabba is more than just an MC . |
| 41 | But classifying animals and plants , living and fossil , is more than just an attempt to find a convenient way of slotting them into different categories , like stamps in a stamp album , for neatness and convenience . |
| 42 | But in this book there is more than just the history of the WM & CR . |
| 43 | There is much evidence to suggest that reading is more than just the recognition of individual characters . |
| 44 | It is more than just the onset of literal night ; it is a night of the normal senses , allowing other means of knowing to arise . |
| 45 | Pearson 's agent comments : ‘ Pugwash is more than just the signature tune , and it 's not just the accordion . |
| 46 | However , and perhaps more importantly , it must be remembered that housing is more than simply a place to live in . |
| 47 | Yet the presentation of the book , and Lowry 's text , often speak of a fascination with the Princess that is more than simply the fascination one can derive from the exercise of deconstructing an image . |
| 48 | Ask other lawyers about George , and there is acknowledgement of his gifts , even that he is more than merely a jury man , but rarely much warmth . |
| 49 | Underlying the principle of geographical distribution is more than merely a notion of fairness or equity , for it seems that to exclude any administrative area might be to risk offending the divisional authorities in a way which would be unhelpful to the project as a whole . |
| 50 | This applies for example to the demand side , where the choice of functional forms is more than merely a matter of algebraic convenience ( see Dixit and Stiglitz , 1977 ) . |
| 51 | Also , it is more than likely the case , however , that how a society designs manners for close personal and social relationships can not be totally separated from its understanding of the ‘ proper ’ treatment of its enemies . |
| 52 | The publicity given to the conference is important because both the propaganda department and the People 's Daily , the official voice of the Communist Party , have long preferred stability and ideological orthodoxy to the no-holds-barred economic reforms favoured by Deng . |
| 53 | The NCR 3450 departmental or workgroup server is available as either a uniprocessor or multiprocessor , expandable to four iAPX-86 microprocessors and the NCR 3550 is designed for use as a powerful symmetric multi-processing server for transaction processing and database applications and is expandable up to eight microprocessors . |
| 54 | The NCR 3450 departmental or workgroup server is available as either a uniprocessor or multiprocessor , expandable to four iAPX-86 microprocessors and the NCR 3550 is designed for use as a powerful symmetric multi-processing server for transaction processing and database applications and is expandable up to eight microprocessors . |
| 55 | It is unclear whether all the eligibility criteria listed in points ( i ) to ( iii ) need to be satisfied before a grant will be awarded . |
| 56 | Setting clear boundaries for the child 's behaviour is essential as once the child realizes that the parents are being consistent and firm in their reactions the problem behaviour will disappear . |