Example sentences of "[det] [subord] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's better this than wasting a load of money that carpets we 're gon na bin anyway |
| 2 | And there is transparently more to this than knowing the meanings of individual units of expression ; we have to grasp the syntax . |
| 3 | There was far more in this than met the eye . |
| 4 | ‘ There seems to be a lot more to this than meets the eye , ’ said Sergeant Camb indignantly . |
| 5 | ‘ I think , ’ he said , ‘ there might be more tae this than meets the eye . ’ |
| 6 | There is more in this than meets the eye ! thought the housekeeper . |
| 7 | There 's more to this than meets the eye . ’ |
| 8 | Ray Jones , of McDonnell Douglas , said : ‘ There is a lot more to this than meets the eye and I would like to make extensive comment , but I can not . |
| 9 | There may be more to this than meets the eye ( if you 'll excuse the pun ) as just once in a while I have taken zander during the daytime in water that has been so clear that I would have rated my chances as zero . |
| 10 | Well , I wonder if you feel that er , there 's something more to this than meets the eye . |
| 11 | ‘ There 's obviously a great deal more to this than meets the eye . |
| 12 | Sean was reportedly less chuffed about doing this than doing an ‘ ollie shove-it ’ , a very hard skateboarding manoeuvre — however , he did go on to break his leg in two places soon afterwards when he fell off said contraption . |
| 13 | In Sweden , again , there was a series of efforts during the eighteenth century to regulate more rationally the salaries paid to different ranks of diplomat , though there as elsewhere it was easier to do this than to pay the salaries regularly . |
| 14 | The railway engineer , therefore , provides a transition curve to ease the engine from one radius to another while adjusting the superelevation , or cant , to counter the centrifugal force . |
| 15 | Uli Edel has forged a remarkably coherent whole , cross-cutting from one story to another while retaining a precise delineation of character , picking out threads of compassion and love from a bleak tapestry of pain . |
| 16 | ( Oh , yes , I had learnt to play this whilst spending a few months in a rotting gaol due to one of the many misunderstandings which plagued my life . ) |
| 17 | But liberationists like Regan and Clive Hollands ( 1985 ) , as we saw in earlier chapters , scorn this as requiring no more than kindness towards animals ( Hollands , for example , dismissed it as ‘ a Victorian concept ’ ) and demand a great deal more . |
| 18 | Similarly in France in the eighteenth century writers such as Mably and Morelly , who believed passionately in the idea of equality , saw this as involving the transference of private property to the state , which could then use it to satisfy the needs of all . |
| 19 | When I say working , I include just everyday general obedience , for I class this as working every bit as much as training dogs up to very high Schutzhund standard . |
| 20 | J.T. Murphy saw this as marking a definite departure from the limited aims of the League . |
| 21 | The FMLN radio station Venceremos described this as marking the reintegration of the guerrillas into civilian society . |
| 22 | However , Matza is anxious to avoid romanticising deviance ; he sees this as having an equally distorting effect by obscuring ‘ the seamier and more mundane aspects of the world ’ . |
| 23 | We interpret this as giving an upper flux limit of 0.15mCrab for these regions . |
| 24 | Professionals speak of this as observing the value of a dynamical variable . |
| 25 | Defence Minister Col. Rene Emilio Ponce described this as representing a " major escalation " in the war . |
| 26 | However , we are very keen to encourage centres not to interpret this as meaning a separate assessment instrument for every outcome . |
| 27 | Some see this as indicating a constant relegation battle come the winds of March , but I believe it is only from such a lowly position , lulling opponents into a false sense of security , that we can wreak havoc on the rest of the League . |
| 28 | The support of an advisory service should be available to teachers who have visually handicapped pupils in their classes in mainstream schools , but there is a particular need for this when implementing the recommendations for a pupil who has been the subject of a statement . |
| 29 | It is certainly easy to reconcile the likelihood of this when considering the violence which finally felled the abbey and some of its inmates . |
| 30 | The purpose of learning , according to cognition theories , is to construct a number of organised detailed frames of reference held in a sufficiently flexible way to enable us to change from one to another when considering an event or problem so that the best judgment is made and a rational course of action is taken . |