Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [det] [subord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can hope for nothing more than speculation when the events we are talking about took place four billion years ago and took place , moreover , in a world that must have been radically different from that which we know today . |
| 2 | People will nevertheless say that the desire is for nothing more than alcohol . |
| 3 | Gurirab had insisted before the talks that Namibia would settle for nothing less than South Africa 's agreement in principle to cede the territories . |
| 4 | Then the Cid assembled together the Christians in the Alcazar , and when they were assembled , he rose upon his feet and said , Friends and kinsmen and vassals , praised be God and holy Mary Mother , all the good which I have in the world I have here in Valencia ; with hard labour I won the city , and hold it for my heritage , and for nothing less than death will I leave it . |
| 5 | The physical stuff of the universe wraps up the earth with knowledge and communication , and the earth shrinks , and those who do not partake of the great secret growth are eliminated and shrivel away under the physical stuff that is knowledge and communication and wraps the earth with love , for nothing less than symbiosis will do . |
| 6 | She criticizes the then Foreign Secretary Frances now Lord Pym for the part he played , he would have agreed to a negotiated settlement , she would have regarded that as nothing less than surrender . |
| 7 | Somebody called John Hawley reviewed the novel for the Times , and he was rather sniffy : ‘ Begley is clearly after something more than entertainment here : he wants to write The Great Gatsby . |
| 8 | Impassioned sequences in which the " poetry " consisted of nothing more than strings of synonyms were merely the extreme example of a tendency that was apparent throughout the work . |
| 9 | Rachel and Nicky love getting up to their elbows in gloop , a slimy mixture of nothing more than cornflour mixed with water and food colouring . |
| 10 | A daily diet consisting of nothing more than bread and sultana water ( a drink made with coffee bean husks ) is commonplace . |
| 11 | Because Nicholas himself had entertained such dreams in passing , Pogodin could be accused at this stage of nothing more than super-patriotism . |
| 12 | But when he had asked her to marry him , she had declined out of nothing more than pique . |
| 13 | My first example would sound like this : ‘ The trade balance is One BILL ION Pounds in the red … ’ — pronounced ‘ bill -yun ’ with a strange rising cadence that reminds me of nothing more than Leslie Crowther : ‘ A bill -yun pounds — come on down ! ! ! ’ |
| 14 | And if I handle all with my own hands , and keep the prince clear of it — though he knows my mind , and it is his mind , too — I do so to preserve him from harassment by those who will hear of nothing less than Owen 's head on London Bridge . |
| 15 | of their own when quarterback Billy Boyd threw the ball to tight end John Addie . |
| 16 | ‘ In the case of a multi-national partnership of which fewer than 75% of the principals are solicitors , any overseas offices of the Practice shall be deemed to form a Separate Practice from its offices in England and Wales . ’ |
| 17 | I then drafted a statement for the management side and sent it by hand to Mellowes who was sufficiently impressed by this initiative to pop his head around the door an hour later with a look of something less than mistrust . |
| 18 | Santerre , however , had problems of his own as Mandeville , assisted by Southgate and a servile Bowyer , had the great hall cleared and turned into a shire court . |
| 19 | there 's one for you same as Nicky I 've got , here are , there 's another one , different one to that , there 's Nicola 's , leave 'em there I have n't got a Diana , the Queen Mother and the Queen left talking about my girl , my girl |
| 20 | I need it like nothing else-more than food , drink , art , everything . |
| 21 | And the title track sounds like nowt less than Prince kicking a passing pauper 's head in . |
| 22 | Cologne 's unusually intense art scene began with what Kacprzak describes as a post-war vie de bohème , made possible by low rents in Cologne and Düsseldorf , and a rather un-German tolerance for something less than order . |
| 23 | He knew I worked with Malcolm because he was one of the few teachers I could have a conversation with about something more than homework or football . |
| 24 | The marking of Part-numbers only comes into its own when text containing a Part-number is passed by Guide to the dispatch system : the dispatch system can readily identify part numbers within the material passed to it , and there is no ambiguity between true part numbers and other strings of characters which might happen to look like part numbers . |
| 25 | Malraux 's Maisons de Culture , which he established up and down the country after becoming de Gaulle 's Minister of Culture in 1959 were actually a Vichyite idea which came into its own when de Gaulle realised that culture could become the faithful servant of Gaullist grandeur . |
| 26 | In case of equality of votes , it was provided by the Act 1707 c8 that the presiding commissioner should have a casting vote , besides his own as commissioner , and that the commissioners from the different burghs should preside , in turn , in the order in which their burghs were called in the roll of the Scottish Parliament . |
| 27 | With so much land to be disposed of , it was hard to make them put up with anything less than freehold tenure , and so it was almost impossible for the proprietors to make very much out of their estates . |
| 28 | Sort of austere and pissed off with anything less than perfection in the world . |
| 29 | The tasks identified for coordinators by the Authority could not be carried out with anything less than enactor status . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , a little humility does not ill become the social scientist , and a contribution to theory , no matter how small , which derives from careful enquiry , is more worthy of the accolade ‘ scholarship ’ than is the sweeping generalization based upon nothing more than armchair speculation . |