Example sentences of "[indef pn] [det] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scientific dating techniques , and none more than radiocarbon , have revolutionised the archaeologist 's understanding of human cultural development . |
| 2 | I need it like nothing else-more than food , drink , art , everything . |
| 3 | Cologne 's unusually intense art scene began with what Kacprzak describes as a post-war vie de bohème , made possible by low rents in Cologne and Düsseldorf , and a rather un-German tolerance for something less than order . |
| 4 | For heads , other teachers and governors partnership needs , as a first step , self-awareness , self-esteem and a capacity to tolerate something less than perfection . |
| 5 | I then drafted a statement for the management side and sent it by hand to Mellowes who was sufficiently impressed by this initiative to pop his head around the door an hour later with a look of something less than mistrust . |
| 6 | So the Devolution Bills proposed something less than federalism . |
| 7 | In any event , something less than adoption , that is custodianship , would be enough ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ All right then , but you mind he does — and I hope he 's got something more than milk to drink up there . |
| 9 | The need for flexibility in plan making was stressed ; something more than land use maps were required and they had to be more responsive to the rapid changes then being experienced in the 1960s in terms of economic and social trends , population forecasts and traffic growth . |
| 10 | Somebody called John Hawley reviewed the novel for the Times , and he was rather sniffy : ‘ Begley is clearly after something more than entertainment here : he wants to write The Great Gatsby . |
| 11 | The most radical Westerners , following a path very close to that of the Petrashevtsy , aspired to something more than liberalism and embraced socialism . |
| 12 | But the slogan , however carelessly drafted , means something more than banality ; it stands for an attitude that is important and open to challenge . |
| 13 | Something more than emergency rations are required in a country where 80% of children under the age of five suffer from malnutrition . |
| 14 | There was something more in his eyes , something more than apology . |
| 15 | But this was something more than intelligence . |
| 16 | I knew it must be something more than flu . |
| 17 | Perhaps there was something more than coherence at stake . |
| 18 | ’ In my view there must certainly be something more than infringement before the assistance of civil proceedings can be invoked and accorded for the protection or promotion of the interests of the inhabitants of the area . |
| 19 | In the passage I have just quoted , Lord Templeman said that there must certainly be something more than infringement before the assistance of civil proceedings can be invoked . |
| 20 | I seem to detect something more than uneasiness . |
| 21 | The only thing that really matters is feeling and living what you believe — so long as it 's something more than belief in your own comfort . |
| 22 | He rose from the ridiculous chair and made his way carefully down the crowded row , responding politely to those who greeted him by name , noting with carefully repressed surprise that two of the women who gave him private little smiles were seated next to each other , friends who had no idea they had something more than friendship in common . |
| 23 | He knew I worked with Malcolm because he was one of the few teachers I could have a conversation with about something more than homework or football . |
| 24 | Today I mean they , I mean when you take , years and years ago when there used to be man handling everything same as timber , I mean we had about three hundred dockers then . |
| 25 | Paviour greeted the visitor with immaculate politeness , but a certain air of acid disapproval which might well have stemmed from nothing more than nervousness . |
| 26 | And you can manufacture bucketfuls of this marvellous stuff from nothing more than kitchen waste . |
| 27 | She had repeatedly told herself her response to his touch was nothing more than a temporary aberration on her part , that familiarity must inevitably breed contempt , that sooner or later she would feel nothing more than irritation . |
| 28 | Using nothing more than precision machining methods , and without any change to dimensions or specifications , small machine tool maker Leland and Faulconer increased engine output by 23 per cent . |
| 29 | There are terrorists who want nothing more than publicity . |
| 30 | Even so , at the end , Irish were a enjoying a romp to hearten supporters who love nothing more than spirit and graft . |