Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [subord] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Spirit becomes in effect a weak counterpart to the male Logos : I say weak because clearly the Spirit is not differentiated in the sense in which the Logos is associated with a male human being . |
| 2 | make sense of written material we need to know more than simply the ‘ linguistic ’ characteristic of the text : in addition to these characteristics we need to recognise that any writing system is deeply embedded in attitudinal , cultural , economic and technological constraints … reading and writing are therefore also sociolinguistic activities . |
| 3 | The deaf are finding that their hearing aids are amplifying more than just the voices of their friends . |
| 4 | There are many ways of saving for an event like a wedding that will make sure that you can buy more than just the confetti . |
| 5 | If you are pregnant , or breastfeeding , for example , you will need more than double the recommended daily amount of calcium . |
| 6 | This broad classification of EEG activity into ongoing and event-related is purely arbitrary since , as Hillyard and Woods ( 1979 ) point out , even ongoing EEG activity might be considered event-related if only the event concerned could be specified . |
| 7 | When Sally got off the bus he was waiting for her , leaning against the bonnet , smoking a cigarette and looking more than ever the dashing young man-about-town . |
| 8 | You may need to purchase more than just the anemone you require . |
| 9 | But the event attracted more than just the curious and those wanting to buy . |
| 10 | Indeed , the whole is considered to constitute more than just the sum total of its parts . |
| 11 | Yet still the Prussians delayed introducing expropriation to Pomerania until May 1912 lest they provoke an uprising , and while they bought up only four estates totalling over 6,624 hectares of land , they paid more than double the market rate . |
| 12 | The purpose of this chapter is to describe the rest of the machinery through which the political leadership operates outside Whitehall and this includes more than just the system of local government . |
| 13 | The crowds are the biggest the bookshop has seen and the book is selling faster than any the publisher has known . |
| 14 | Country house visiting , which had been common in the eighteenth century and Regency when everyone liked to have their taste admired , became infrequent as even the greatest houses closed their gates to visitors , persuaded that the sanctities of ‘ home ’ were not for exhibition to the public eye . |
| 15 | you get more than just the highlights of the news . |
| 16 | Access requires more than just the existence of possibilities . |
| 17 | The selection can contain more than just the numbers you wish to sum so you could have in your document Apples 20 ; Pears 25 ; Oranges 36 and having marked the passage you would use the command Ctrl-K-M ( Block math ) and see a message : |
| 18 | The ie became more than ever the pre-eminent entity in society . |
| 19 | It 's something I think everyone recognizes at their own , that village school plays more than just the function of educating children , in small village communities . |
| 20 | The Beta version of Ultrafax from WordStar/Zsoft we 've been pre-viewing is the link between your Windows applications and the rest of the world 's fax machines , but offers more than just the facility to print your documents remotely . |
| 21 | Criminal proceedings could be started in Libya , but this had so far proved impossible because neither the USA nor the UK authorities had responded to his requests to hand over copies of the evidence in their possession . |
| 22 | To decide which one is right for you , you have to consider more than just the job you do . |
| 23 | He watched amused as both the Cambridge detectives shook hands gingerly , obviously taken aback . |
| 24 | If the competitor falls ill while abroad the book does not help . |
| 25 | I never use black as only the Spanish could really use it . |
| 26 | I felt more than just the centre of attention , although that feeling is always present . |
| 27 | But the silence deepened , and she felt more than ever the changes in her . |
| 28 | Obviously vocational guidance , registration , and placement of school-leavers involved more than just the organization of the labour-market ; they were seen as essential to the incorporation of working-class adolescents into what influential social theorists were calling ‘ the community ’ . |
| 29 | In the case of local politics , should this mean more than just the local implementation of national policy ? |
| 30 | Particularly with such beefy recording that absence makes them seem heavier than either the Dorati ( Decca ) or Marriner ( Philips ) , both of which use harpsichord continuo to leaven the textures . |