Example sentences of "[adj] [det] [subord] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the second half of the eighteenth century some progress was made , but it was the invention of the bobbin net machine by John Heathcoat ( see Tiverton ) in 1808 that provided the foundation for mechanical lace-making . |
| 2 | She waited until the car vanished round the bend then waited some more until the whine of the engine was at last lost in the distance , then she slowly made her way into the house . |
| 3 | Then you go over the seat and hang off the inside , but you still keep a lot of weight on that outside peg and you put on some more if the tyre starts really sliding . ’ |
| 4 | Nothing exemplified this more than the campaign for public economy which shook the government in 1921 . |
| 5 | Clumping of cones of the same type is apparent , but is this more than the chance aggregation that arises in any random distribution ? |
| 6 | No issue has confirmed this more than the environment , where public as well as legislative pressure has helped produce a surge in environmental programmes across industries , particularly in the US . |
| 7 | Its first two blast furnaces employing 50 men were upgraded within four years to employ 300 more than the population of the whole parish . |
| 8 | It may be true that the story of the English people is best seen in English literature , but English literature contains much more than the story of the English people . |
| 9 | ‘ Much more than the rest of them . |
| 10 | If trains on a branch line are cut then the railways may lose much more than the income from fares on the branch . |
| 11 | 16.2 Reading is much more than the decoding of black marks upon a page : it is a quest for meaning and one which requires the reader to be an active participant . |
| 12 | Before you are carried away by the possibilities of information manipulation for its own sake it is worth taking a step back and examining how much more than the pen , paper and adding machine you really need . |
| 13 | A sensible aid policy — not just for Russia and Eastern Europe , but for the third world in general — calls for careful priorities , realistic goals and , above all , an understanding that the quality of aid matters much more than the quantity . |
| 14 | He had come to doubt the value of all new beginnings and to put his trust in not much more than the art of hanging together . |
| 15 | To enter this competition — just study the three simple questions below and then call our 24 hour hotline — it will cost you not much more than the cost of a first class stamp . |
| 16 | Pricing has n't been finalised , but the firm says it should n't be much more than the cost of the Motif implementations it supplies . |
| 17 | Interest in Longhorn cattle is now based on much more than the breed 's aesthetic appeal . |
| 18 | This unofficial ‘ Mk II ’ V8 is much more than the flagship saloon Audi wanted from the start and a fitting testament to a decade of technological advancement . |
| 19 | Much more than the name has changed . |
| 20 | The idea of filling the engravings with white greatly added to the legibility , but the conventional cylinder ( just over two inches in diameter ) had insufficient space for much more than the title . |
| 21 | Ramsey was unusual in that to him the priest 's ordination meant much more than the deacon 's ordination . |
| 22 | ‘ The mission of this Government is much more than the promotion of economic progress . |
| 23 | Yet Nishikikoi themselves are a product of much more than the profit motive . |
| 24 | Italy 's involvement in the Spanish Civil War , in emulation of Germany , had cost much more than the government had intended , and by 1939 Mussolini must have known that the Army and Air Force were not anything like as strong as he had imagined they were , even if he did not know the extent of their weakness . |
| 25 | The idea behind trying to get together with Imperial was to create a world-size food company with , as it happened , tobacco money to back it up , because the cashflow from tobacco is much more than the tobacco business actually requires to sustain it . |
| 26 | We asked environment groups from all twelve EC member states at the annual meeting of the European Environmental Bureau held in Brussels , to remind EC governments that ‘ subsidiarity ’ means much more than the balance of power between them and the European Commission . |
| 27 | Secondly the archive base became much more than the database ( or rather its constituent tables ) . |
| 28 | He knew she was grateful for much more than the gesture of making some tea and , instinctively , he held out his arms . |
| 29 | It is important to begin by recognizing that assessment is a process which involves much more than the collection of information and data . |
| 30 | In developed countries , the birth rate fluctuates much more than the death rate ( due to social and economic changes ) and is the major cause of difficulty in population projection . |