Example sentences of "[indef pn] [det] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The tae of ye will need somethin' more than a dispensation from the Pope , Ah would think , if ye go on like this . ’ |
| 2 | All departments would be under close scrutiny , but none more than the Department of Health and Social Security , which was by far the biggest spender in Whitehall . |
| 3 | All were somewhat fuddled with drink but none more than the Mayor and his party . |
| 4 | A nationalist government commanding the support of 37 of the 75 deputies in the Basque parliament ( i.e. one less than an absolute majority ) was finally formed on Jan. 22 . |
| 5 | The left hand column is 0 and the right hand column is one less than the width of the display . |
| 6 | This reflects the fact that several kinds of considerations may lead to different and incompatible policies all of which are commonly regarded as policies of neutrality , because all of them demonstrate an even-handed treatment of the parties either by not helping one more than the other , or by not helping one more than the other to take special measures to improve his position in the conflict , and so on . |
| 7 | This reflects the fact that several kinds of considerations may lead to different and incompatible policies all of which are commonly regarded as policies of neutrality , because all of them demonstrate an even-handed treatment of the parties either by not helping one more than the other , or by not helping one more than the other to take special measures to improve his position in the conflict , and so on . |
| 8 | A polyurethane coating then seals the pores , usually making the surfaces slick and shiny , one more than the other . |
| 9 | Even when a set of stunt lines have been very carefully matched to each , it is inevitable that line tension will stretch one more than the other . |
| 10 | Clacton won at Coggeshall by five wickets , but the champions then tumbled to a nine wicket reverse at home to Braintree the following day — their fourth loss of the season and one more than the whole of last summer ! |
| 11 | The order of the B-tree is said to be one more than the maximum number of keys per index block . |
| 12 | The high frequency with which oesophageal mucosal disease occurs in asthmatics is consistent with both the vagal reflex theory and the microaspiration theory , and does not support one more than the other . |
| 13 | The ‘ synod ’ or , in Latin , ‘ council ’ ( the modern distinction making a synod something less than a council was unknown in antiquity ) became an indispensable way of keeping a common mind , and helped to keep maverick individuals from centrifugal tendencies . |
| 14 | Inouye : I just wanted the record to be clear , because somehow I felt like something less than a patriot all day long . |
| 15 | Carlos Alberto Reutemann , that cunning , solitary ace from Argentina , worried about his racing twenty-four hours a day ; James seemed to give it scarcely a thought — technically , as a contributor to development he was something less than a devoted genius ( but on the track he had extraordinarily good reflexes and a lot of savvy ) . |
| 16 | Mrs Guest was born to polite society , but broke with convention as a wayward débutante , taking to the stage and sitting for Diego Rivera in something less than a presentation gown . |
| 17 | The letter of Mr. Hassan suggests something less than a fully recognised status . |
| 18 | Something less than a precision guided missile would do the trick . |
| 19 | According to Eden , in 1797 Manchester cotton weavers earned around 16s ( 80p ) , and that from choosing to work something less than a full six-day week . |
| 20 | She reflected upon , perhaps only now fully remembered , her sense , in forgiving Jack , of in some way devaluing him , accepting him and loving him as something less than the perfect being she had married . |
| 21 | This means that the reverberation signal has something less than the full audio bandwidth , but a bandwidth of about 6kHz is sufficient to give a good effect . |
| 22 | But we can now see that the apocalyptic interpretation of history emerged from the confrontation with the Greeks about 165 B.C. If II Maccabees reveals a true aspect of the activities of Antiochus IV by stressing the cooperation of Hellenizing Jews , this is something less than the whole truth . |
| 23 | ‘ Structural causality ’ , on this view , is something less than the rigorous determination of a specific effect ; instead , it is conceived as the production of conditions and constraints within which diverse , but not unlimited , alternative courses of political action and development are possible . |
| 24 | But a head must in the end tolerate something less than the hoped-for whole being achieved . |
| 25 | It will be appreciated that something less than the sanctity which attaches to completion in England exists in France … to resort to the courts to enforce a contract would be a rare and tediously long process and is hardly considered in textbooks as a remedy . |
| 26 | She had grown heavier in her enforced stillness , her body was ripe and full that had been so slender , and moved with something less than the old negligent grace . |
| 27 | A piece to be presented should have something more than a surface narrative quality in the characterisation . |
| 28 | Now something more than a quelling look appeared on Lord Woodleigh 's fine-bred features . |
| 29 | It was clearly not an all-party government , yet , until September 1932 at least , it was something more than a mere Conservative front . |
| 30 | The great features of that map , which make it something more than a picture to be imperfectly copied by laborious childish pens , are the great promontories of Caernarvon , of Pembroke , of Gower and of Cornwall , jutting out into the western sea , like the features of a grim large face , such a face as is carved on a ship 's prow … . |