Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The strongest impetus , he said , comes from museums ' reassessment of their role in society which the profession sees as far broader than even a decade ago . |
| 2 | There was far more behind this than just a deterioration in the weather . |
| 3 | They were afraid because elsewhere a group of armed cossacks had besieged the ship , threatening to kill anyone who disembarked . |
| 4 | It is concerned with English as both a subject and a means of instruction , with the ideas about language , teaching , and learning , which inform different methodologies , and with the verbal interaction that occurs spontaneously in classroom settings . |
| 5 | It would , however , be too simple to portray antislavery after the late 1830s as purely a scene of contending sects more concerned with maintaining their own kinds of purity than achieving anything practical . |
| 6 | The identification and correction of coding errors may be virtually impossible unless either a cost centre is obviously incorrect or a fairly detailed manual backup , such as is outlined in ( b ) above , is utilised . |
| 7 | Such a stern demand is appropriate because once a man becomes a Christian he finds himself enlisted on God 's side in a lifelong battle . |
| 8 | There is always something to be learned from a knowledgeable local instructor , and a flight is far more valuable than just a site briefing . |
| 9 | For instance the regional treasurer , who was given the Friem and Claybury brief while still a deputy , had ‘ a personal commitment , having visited the hospitals and realised the urgency of getting people out of these awful places ’ . |
| 10 | Some left after only a fortnight and , as time went by , it became increasingly hard to maintain the blockade . |
| 11 | It is unlikely that any of the missing diamonds had been picked up by persons involved in the rescue or who visited the site later as only an expert would have been able to identify them as precious stones . |
| 12 | Aluminium had recently been prepared in bulk by the eminent Parisian Professor Henri Ste-Claire Deville , who became famous as both a teacher and researcher . |
| 13 | I shared a compartment with a tanned young man , blond as only a Swede can be , in wire-rimmed glasses and a pony-tail , who was returning to Göteborg from Algeciras , where he had been visiting a girlfriend , as he put it . |
| 14 | He was , I think , even more solipsistic than I was : self-centred as only a man constrained within his own view of what constituted his masculinity could be . |
| 15 | Benefits were low because only a minute proportion of copulations result in a reared cub in the next generation ( Journal of Zoology , vol 177 , p 463 ) . |
| 16 | From this point moral indignation became more than simply a grassroots phenomenon . |
| 17 | In doing this , they make it easier to understand why some form of local government continues to survive as more than simply a creature of the centre . |
| 18 | However , and perhaps more importantly , it must be remembered that housing is more than simply a place to live in . |
| 19 | As a sociolinguist Stubbs sees reading , for instance , as more than simply a mechanism for decoding written into spoken words : he prefers to concern himself with understanding meaning , pointing out that ‘ we do not normally read meaningless material ’ ( ibid. p. 15 ) . |
| 20 | Resource-based learning therefore turns out to involve much more than simply a method of revitalizing and individualizing learning . |
| 21 | In almost every other respect , certainly , the Celtic Church appears to have been something more than simply a repository for Nazarean thought — as Nestorian Christianity was , for example . |
| 22 | In each case the shout is far more than simply a war cry . |
| 23 | The very fact that philip Augustus made no serious attempt to invade or attack Gascon ) , in the campaigns of 1202–4 may be more than simply a comment upon the military limitations of the French crown . |
| 24 | That of 1814 , however , became known as the Great Revival and it was much more than simply a recruitment phenomenon . |
| 25 | For David Prentice the desire to paint the landscape encompasses much more than simply an aim to record its appearance |
| 26 | Section 2 to read : The Coordinator as part of his/her responsibility is part Area Secretary for a geographical area with no more than approximately a quarter of a million population . |
| 27 | A Tom Wood is more than just a portrait . |
| 28 | Thank the Goddess Zambia had had the sense to get out before some scuzzie had violated hir by more than just a beating . |
| 29 | At 3pm , he will meet Clinton and the two will be together for the next six hours , an indication that the president regards the Prime Minister 's visit as more than just a courtesy call . |
| 30 | The more easterly of the two valley roads which combine at Pierrefitte takes you first to the charming town of Luz-Saint-Sauveur , which may look like one place but is really two , with more than just a hyphen dividing them . |