Example sentences of "[subord] just [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But most important the councils should listen to and take notice of those who have a track record of work on racial harassment , rather than just implementing paper policies . |
| 2 | By political behaviour is meant something more than just voting behaviour , although that is important and will be addressed . |
| 3 | It made our day to know that MKM can help with more than just knitting advice . |
| 4 | But more like photo journalism than just taking pictures . |
| 5 | We can do better than just robbing Mr Sowerberry . |
| 6 | Yet there was more to Hastings than just kicking penalties . |
| 7 | Computer science is much more than just writing programs , and good books which combine systems understanding with language teaching are always welcome ; Brian Mayoh 's Problem Solving with Ada attempts to do this . |
| 8 | The designer must therefore learn the techniques of handling space , rather than just drawing components by two-dimensional representations . |
| 9 | Telecommunications systems for hotels now perform many more tasks than just allowing people to make telephone calls . |
| 10 | Much more than just watching TV ! |
| 11 | There is more at stake here than just bringing boxes of sophisticated equipment to remote areas . |
| 12 | His attitudes are best illustrated by this typical passage from Thucydides ( iv.83 : 424 BC ; the details of the diplomacy are irrelevant ) : Perdikkas ' diplomacy was subtler than just pitting Athens against Sparta and conversely : before the great Peloponnesian War broke out he shrewdly persuaded the Greek cities near Olynthus to coalesce into a federation ; this was an act designed to weaken the greater confederacy of the Delian League , since Athens ' policy ( Thuc. iii . |
| 13 | and I think society should be erm , trying to get to the root cause of like , chemical imbalances and eating problems rather than just putting people on tranquillizers . |
| 14 | There 's more to this than just finding Mike before he gets to Bernard , is n't there ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ There is a psychological battle to be won , ’ said the spokesman , ‘ for many people meetings are more than just talking shop , the business lunch is just as important . |
| 16 | We also feel it 's important that we should be doing just a bit more than just having exchanges , that there is a whole process of that needs to go on . |
| 17 | ‘ Rather than just having e-mail messages , people often want to send files around , spreadsheet files for instance . |
| 18 | Second , when prayer is seen as a conversation with a very dear friend , we begin to understand prayer as far , far more than just asking God for a hand-out . |
| 19 | Steen continued presenting revues , with an increasing reliance on scripted comedy rather than just dancing girls , until the outbreak of war . |
| 20 | So , if you had written a I , vi , IV progression in C , rather than just playing C , Am and F you could play Csus4-C , Asus4-Am and Fadd♯4-F . |
| 21 | Civilization , that is , human societies , goes further than just linking family groups together through a set of work tasks that they have in common . |
| 22 | Part of hir was afraid Jahsaxa was planning on more than just keeping hir as a highclass whore . |
| 23 | An emergency resolution was passed which urged the government to target criminal justice resources into preventative programmes rather than just extending custody for young offenders . |
| 24 | Idiomatic means more than just making sense in English . |
| 25 | And , in view of what you 've told me about the computer and knocking off all those agents , this whole thing is a lot bigger than just guarding Trimmler . |
| 26 | I think they 're trying to set up er nought , their own things rather than just joining petrol stations . |
| 27 | It 's really , I mean next year I was sort of quite co I 'm quite committed to not having a year off so much as just exploring things and that 's what |
| 28 | erm The other parts of the job are that we do erm all of the fundamental and much of the applied research which the nation needs , we provide an increasing range of advanced courses in technology for people in industry , and continuing education generally , the number of mature students at all levels is rising , and there are a number of other service functions we do for the community as well as just teaching undergraduates . |