Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [adj] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jenna tackled him about that later as Marguerite went up to pack . |
| 2 | In fact , the consolidated balance sheet is published for little more than completeness : it gives the net debit balances and net credit balances for the organization to be carried forward to the new financial year . |
| 3 | Enclosure turned small or fragmented holdings and commons suitable for little more than subsistence agriculture into consolidated holdings able to support the new farming and generate capital for improvement . |
| 4 | Many of the most apparently distinguished honours are a reward for little more than longevity or political servitude . |
| 5 | I felt much the same way about Posh Porky as Grandpa did about Mrs Salmon . |
| 6 | Anyone who had this kind of machine behind them must be important , so it had the effect of presenting him to the public as this bigger than life pop star which , if you look at his record sales at the time , he was n't , but he was becoming a media myth , some of this due to his own talent and some of it due to the MainMan hype machine . |
| 7 | There were derisory calls of a similar kind from the crowd long before the eighth round on Thursday as the fighters went to their corners after another three minutes of little more than dancing . |
| 8 | Doctors can convince trusting patients that they will get better even while giving them a course of pills which consist of little more than sugar and water . |
| 9 | Remarkably , a record of little more than mediocrity has already lifted Holyfield within one or two fights of eclipsing every man who 's ever laced on a glove in terms of financial reward . |
| 10 | And increasingly complaints from businesses , complaints about unfair competition , erm the second point is that the , the report has been sent to vote upon now , but also to a number of er business and consumer organisations in the county a range of views is being expressed in response , as you 'd expect , but in general terms most recognised there are particular trading , trend and pattern which needs to be addressed erm but most have all especially with the er display of this same as registration some form of registration must on the national basis would be erm a , a solution to this support . |
| 11 | But rural England today consists of much more than agriculture and English rural society is no longer entirely , nor even predominantly , an agrarian society . |
| 12 | Obviously this is not true cannibalism as in the spadefoots , but it provides an example of how other frogs have found a parallel solution to the problem of rearing young when food is scarce . |
| 13 | I still see fishkeepers purchasing ‘ state of the art ’ power filters such as Eheim , Shark , Fluval etc , and stuffing them full of little other than filter-wool . |
| 14 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that that means that since 1979 there has been a two thirds increase in capital spending compared with a cut of one third when Labour was in power ? |
| 15 | But they are likely to be of greater strategic than employment significance , and there will be losses . |
| 16 | At times , it looks like little more than nepotism : The Prince of Wales ' last private secretary , Edward Adeane had been a page-of-honour to the Queen in his teens ; his father , Lord Adeane , had been the Queen 's private secretary for nearly twenty years , and his great-grandfather , Lord Stamfordham had been private secretary to George V. George VI 's private secretary , Sir Alan Lascelles , was a cousin of the sixth Lord Harewood , husband of Princess Mary . |
| 17 | On each of her periods at Hillmarden he had still clung to the faint hope that she was improving , only to find at the end of a week or a fortnight she had made no progress at all and that when Harry — good baby that he was — occasionally cried , this was enough to make Celia so distraught that Brian was forced to accept that it was better for all concerned if mother and baby remained parted . |
| 18 | About 70 jobs have already been created , with the potential for 80 more once demand recovers and output reaches its full 1,500-bus capacity . |
| 19 | Polybrene ( 1 ) , a polycation , allows transfection of Chinese hamster ovary ( CHO ) cells with either plasmid or genomic DNA at an efficiency about 10-fold greater than calcium phosphate mediated gene transfer ( 2 ) . |
| 20 | The extensified fragmentation of Weimar politics and eventual decline into little more than interest politics in the face of mounting internal crisis , entirely delegitimized the State system itself , wholly discredited pluralist politics , and paved the way for a full acceptance — already by 1932 of around 13 million Germans — of a new basis of unity represented in an entirely novel political form personalized in Hitler 's ‘ charismatic ’ leadership . |
| 21 | While literature in the West concerns itself with little more than sex and other people 's books , there on the farther shore writers matter . |
| 22 | The oceans provide us with much more than pleasure for the diver and beautiful photographs for the photographer ; they also give us invaluable knowledge . |
| 23 | Abrasive cleaners : At their simplest these are the scouring powders formulated from little more than sand or feldspar , the aggregate and a small amount of chlorine release agent . |
| 24 | At first doctors believed he was suffering from little more than sunstroke . |
| 25 | According to Amnesty , human rights violations increased from early 1990 as opposition to Eyadema grew . |
| 26 | Larwood had a good arm , and was a useful lateorder hitter , but he can not go in any higher than No. 9 in this side . |
| 27 | While the primary ethnographic accounts of life and character in such peaceful societies usually present multi-dimensional pictures of complex human beings , these pictures tend to become more and more one-dimensional as the material is employed in secondary and tertiary works , where the original complexity is often reduced to little more than caricature . |
| 28 | This model of socialism has involved some limited changes in economic ownership , but in practice has invariably amounted to little more than state direction of predominantly privately owned economic activity , and the maintenance of some minimum standards of social provision for all . |
| 29 | Indeed , Professor Roskell has gone so far as to suggest that the nobility could not be relied upon to attend parliament in the 1350s and 1360s even when they were present in England , and that these parliaments amounted to little more than tax bargaining sessions between the king and the commons . |
| 30 | So you end up taking a whole pile of clothes , most of which invariably amount to little more than ballast . |