Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [conj] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some left after only a fortnight and , as time went by , it became increasingly hard to maintain the blockade . |
| 2 | Not only is this arrogant but also a sure way to lose power and to convince others that the meeting is not worthwhile . |
| 3 | ‘ Five bodies were found yesterday ( Wednesday ) , today another two and just a few hours ago the last body , ’ said a human rights officer . |
| 4 | it was a great winner … his sixth of the season … and it just about booked Swindon a place in the promotion-play offs … with only four games to go it 's asking too much to make the top two but only a disaster can keep them out of the play-offs … |
| 5 | Certainly not from the club scene , where an average gate is rarely more than a few hundred and even a big club like Hawick has had to launch a special initiative to arrest their declining membership . |
| 6 | However , most of these were very small organizations only arranging a few hundred or perhaps a few thousand holidays a year . |
| 7 | Resource-based learning therefore turns out to involve much more than simply a method of revitalizing and individualizing learning . |
| 8 | That of 1814 , however , became known as the Great Revival and it was much more than simply a recruitment phenomenon . |
| 9 | For David Prentice the desire to paint the landscape encompasses much more than simply an aim to record its appearance |
| 10 | This is the pub as social institution , so much more than just a place for drinking . |
| 11 | One supplier of this type of boarding , Caradon Celuform , now offers much more than just a maintenancefree material . |
| 12 | In the face of such mystery , God was much more than just a protective wing to creep under . |
| 13 | A child 's garden can be so much more than just a sandpit . |
| 14 | This is a worthwhile publication , much more than just a bland follow-up to an exceptional Test series . |
| 15 | Mirth is close to creativity for to see the absurd in something is to twist reality around in a way creative thought is fashioned — a good jest is a delight and should be regarded as much more than just a bit of frivolity . |
| 16 | BUT IT WAS SO MUCH MORE THAN JUST A DIRTY WEEKEND , FATHER — I 'VE NEVER EXPERIENCED ANYTHING LIKE IT ! |
| 17 | Ry Cooder Much more than just a wizard on slide guitar , Ry Cooder is a composer , a multi-instrumentalist , a lifelong student of ethnic music and a thoroughly nice bloke . |
| 18 | You 'll be relieved to see that there 's a comprehensive migraine-specific treatment called Migralift , which is much more than just a painkiller . |
| 19 | Look why not come down to my cottage now , and we 'll have lunch there — I never have much more than just a picnic myself — then we can go across this afternoon , and maybe take tea to have on the island ? |
| 20 | Your eurocheque card is much more than just a support for your eurocheques . |
| 21 | Some literary historians have gone even further and have suggested that courtly love was much more than just a fashionable and pleasant way of passing time . |
| 22 | ‘ But we did n't mind a bit , a job here was so much more than just a means to an end , it was never a case of them and us . |
| 23 | Building students preparing for a career in Europe need much more than just a grounding in languages , says John Watson , student representative for the CIOB 's Northern Counties Region and press officer for the Tyneside Centre . |
| 24 | The ANLT is much more than just a parser , it is a development tool for the production of testing of grammars and morphological processors . |
| 25 | However , Ingleborough has much more than just an impressive outline ; geologically it is a fascinating place . |
| 26 | The examples given have also indicated that local government is much more than just an agent of the centre . |
| 27 | Schrader refers to the short , written out cadenza-like flourish just before the final cadences of the Prelude in F minor BWV534 as a precedent , but this does not seem justification enough , particularly as the cadenza he provides in this case is much more than merely a brief manual flourish . |
| 28 | Robert Bossu had pursued the dispute here to Shrewsbury in search of diversion in a time of frustration and inaction , a pity he must be denied the best of the joke that was so much more than merely a joke . |
| 29 | And then , erm it was at a much later stage , in the nineteen twenties or perhaps a little bit earlier than that they actually first managed to get enough of it to liquify . |
| 30 | Then we , father er with doing the bicycles and with interest in other engineering things like gas engines , which seemed to have a , a period of er great prosperity I would say er in the period between nineteen hundred or maybe a few years before that until early twenties the , the gas engines were ideal things for little factories . |