Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adj] [conj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | For someone deaf since childhood , poetry was a kind of hearing , fellow poets a life line . |
| 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 | In organizations with successful succession strategies , the role of feedback is recognized formally ; mentors ( off-line managers in advisory roles ) are encouraged to provide non-evaluative , helpful feedback to their advisees about their interpersonal and communication skills . ) |
| 9 | She heard the stonework about her creaking and shifting . |
| 10 | It is the duty of the community to provide through its social and welfare services the advice and support which such parents and children need … such help should always be directed towards building up the responsibility of the parents whenever this is at all possible ( Home Office , 1960 ) . |
| 11 | Here , in Mixed Life , he relates that individual experience of Christ in every man to the Christ who transcends individual limitations and is expressed by the whole body of those in whom he is born in time through their knowing and doing : It is precisely because of these " sundri wirchynges " in the lives of individuals dictated by their particular talents and circumstances that discussion of active and contemplative life tends to polarise life-styles which are then also subject to evaluation in which contemplation is more highly esteemed simply because it relates to a greater state of spiritual awareness . |
| 12 | Every type of fiction depends for its defining and acceptance on certain conventions which are , in effect , agreements between author and reader . |
| 13 | Paper Tiger is spending some £10,000 on a promotion for its graphic and fantasy art list in April . |
| 14 | Then he looked up and said , ‘ Celia , you do n't want to remain at Brentwoods for ever , do you , to have our child turn to some third party for its emotional and creature comforts , to get the odd pat on the head from a parent at six o'clock of an evening ? |
| 15 | Lawson Software Inc , Minneapolis , which despite dipping its toe into the Unix market has hitherto concentrated on the AS/400 as the platform for its financial and distribution software , is to launch its new ‘ Open Enterprise ’ range of software during the first week of February . |
| 16 | Aromatic oils have been used for centuries for their therapeutic and beauty benefits . |
| 17 | Stoddard have also introduced a policy of using recycled paper whenever possible for their administrative and stationery requirements . |
| 18 | Furthermore , the Angolan people are well known for their friendliness to foreigners and for their placid and kind nature . |
| 19 | In the later Republic and early Empire Greek artists were brought to Rome to design buildings appropriate for the display of booty , to repair old sculptures and make new ones for these and other structures , and to restore decaying old temples , once venerated for their wooden and terracotta statues , but now seen to be in need of renovation . |
| 20 | As before , the problems of interpreting outcomes outweigh the difficulties of assessment and some of the criteria used in research have been criticized for their cultural and class bias . |
| 21 | Firth and his colleagues argue that the main reason for this gender difference relationships through which they can gain support for their domestic and child care responsibilities , whereas men 's lives are more dominated by work and careers in which siblings usually can not help . |
| 22 | As their price falls , however , a larger differential between their current and redemption price emerges . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | A daily diet consisting of nothing more than bread and sultana water ( a drink made with coffee bean husks ) is commonplace . |
| 25 | Because Nicholas himself had entertained such dreams in passing , Pogodin could be accused at this stage of nothing more than super-patriotism . |
| 26 | But when he had asked her to marry him , she had declined out of nothing more than pique . |
| 27 | For him there was ‘ nothing in the world universal but names ; for the things named are every one of them individual and singular ’ . |
| 28 | Erm one of them Black and Decker Workmates for Fred |
| 29 | Three managers get to play , any of them human or computer-controlled . |
| 30 | They wrote for a small range of specialist titles , some of them bright and poppy , others resoundingly self-important , and all of them perfectly arcane to anyone outside a specific , like-minded clientele . |