Example sentences of "[pron] [art] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I an sorry that a well-respected body such as the Wolfson Foundation should have taken this step ’ says Major General Leslie Busk , director-general of the British Heart Foundation and chairman of the Association of Medical Research Charities . |
| 2 | The reduction of the other to means and of his own ends to survival , itself no more than a means without ends left to serve , would be tolerable , if at all , only because the variety of human ends will open up again for him if he ever gets to shore . |
| 3 | If for example I am pursuing X in the expectation of enjoying it , but when I get it am disappointed , or seem to enjoy it yet afterwards come to recognize that only habit or a false idea of myself or susceptibility to persuasion made me suppose I was enjoying myself , then I was mistaken in doing Y. Every choice of means , however well argued , proves groundless with the discrediting of the end , yet that I did not have the fun I expected is itself no more than a fact . |
| 4 | Anyway such selective enfranchisement was itself no more than a cynical way of heading off despair , what modern political scientists call ‘ repressive tolerance ’ . |
| 5 | In the West , the time of retirement for many people is the end of their usefulness and it means for them no more than a hopeless waiting for them . |
| 6 | Many , indeed , had already been dispossessed , since emigrants from Germany were permitted to take with them no more than a nominal ten Reichsmarks . |
| 7 | Yet this was a man who felt nothing but contempt for her , who thought her no better than a thief . |
| 8 | He liked to live in company with another ; Bo-Bo had only negative virtues but , he had to admit , he would be lonely when she died , and the doctors gave her no more than a year . |
| 9 | She gave him no more than a perfunctory ‘ So glad you could come , ’ before passing him on to her husband . |
| 10 | It took him no more than a few seconds of the exchange to decide which voice was Kemp 's . |
| 11 | This is not the first time , nor is it the last that a player will end up in court following a rough exchange with an opponent . |
| 12 | Was it a sheer or a solid material this fibreglass ? |
| 13 | The way in which they sell their credit tends to make it a prominent and a more or less permanent part of the budget of their customers — that is , of generally poorer people , particularly in the North . |
| 14 | Is it a male or a female speaker ? |
| 15 | So most important thing about functions , is what sort of functions is it a one-one or a many-one ? |
| 16 | And is it a one-one or a many-one . |
| 17 | Is it a longer or a shorter ? |
| 18 | Is it a top-down or a bottom-up approach , or a mixture ? |
| 19 | Have you got a couple of settings on yours is it a high and a low ? |
| 20 | So it just skips past B , giving it no more than a quick glance , and takes up C. |
| 21 | Now that I actually stood in the house of Victor Frankenstein , I felt myself no more than a character in a fantastic film . |
| 22 | It left us no more than a 7-iron into the green . |