Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [subord] [adv] a " in BNC.
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1 | They are more than just a money machine . |
2 | A system which has the intelligence to acknowledge that people are more than just a bag of bones dressed up in a birthday suit and that ill-health is not only caused by biological factors , but social , political , economic and environmental ones as well . |
3 | Herbs are more than just a culinary delight — they are among the most colourful plants you can choose for the garden . |
4 | It may nevertheless be better than even a reasonable harmonium or American organ . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | May we try by our own example to show that a world of peace and compassion can be more than just a hopeful dream . |
7 | You may be making a parafoil , or an inflatable animal shape , in which case the paper pattern will be more than just a flat plan . |
8 | In her enchanting story of The Velveteen Rabbit , Margery Williams ' tells of a cloth rabbit who longs to be more than just a toy . |
9 | WITH the sun at the heart of your horoscope until the 21st and Venus bringing her sweetness to bear on relationships from the 8th , December could be the most crucial month of the year for love and partnership matters — the 19th could be more than just a magical moment . |
10 | Experience at the Birmingham Money Advice Centre ( see Appendix III ) shows that — at least for the generally poor people who go to the Centre with money problems — mail order , check traders and other weekly callers such as tallymen are woven so closely into the fabric of daily ( or rather weekly ) life as to be more than just a possible buying choice . |
11 | It was getting to be more than just a bad habit ; it was beginning to become an established part of his personality . |
12 | With the obligatory ‘ W ’ across its malformed chest , the tousle-headed little aberration appears in the latest set of increasingly hep ‘ Be more than just a number ’ ads , |
13 | But it would be more than just a production job . |
14 | From the outset , it has been clear that COSE , the Common Open Software Environment , would have to be more than just a unified desktop interface , and this week , two more pieces of the COSE puzzle appear to be dropping into place ( CI No 2,142 ) . |
15 | Peter Hewitt explains how a new managers ' toolkit proved to be more than just a game |
16 | From the outset we 've known COSE , the Common Open Software Environment , to be more than just a unified desktop interface , and this week , two more pieces of the COSE puzzle appear to be dropping into place . |
17 | For masturbation , it would have to be more than just a passing person . ’ |
18 | A label can be more than just a sequence of characters . |
19 | Be this as it may , the constitutional authorities who support the introduction of a Bill of Rights to limit Parliament , government , and the state , nevertheless recognise that it calls for a fundamental constitutional change if it is to be more than just a pious declaration of good intent . |
20 | ‘ There could be more than just a career , ’ she said softly . |
21 | From the very start , one must realise that WordStar for Windows 1.5 is meant to be more than just a word-processor , but is perhaps more aptly billed as a document processor . |
22 | It is hoped that courses tailored to particular IT topics will be available as both a control and a development provision . |
23 | Since Alford was described on the ballot paper merely as ‘ The Labour Candidate ’ , it would not be surprising if quite a few voters were confused , and voted for him by mistake . |
24 | 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 ) . |
25 | They were afraid because elsewhere a group of armed cossacks had besieged the ship , threatening to kill anyone who disembarked . |
26 | Solly 's years in the wilderness were more than just a dearth of high-profile wins . |
27 | I think they were more than just a marauding band of outlaws . ’ |
28 | Given the history of socialist economies , it is doubtful whether even a far more radical and complete transformation of the relations of production would , of itself , have removed this basis for class differentiation , and for this reason Morris remains a problematic model for contemporary socialism . |
29 | The second method is appropriate when only a small number of arithmetic operations are to be performed on each of a large number of initial items of data . |
30 | 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 . |