Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adj] [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 | Some constructors may , on affable evenings and in the afterglow of victory , admit that drivers are human beings ; most of them consider them as nothing better than servants . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | For someone deaf since childhood , poetry was a kind of hearing , fellow poets a life line . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I can think of nothing worse than Kinnock coming into power . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A daily diet consisting of nothing more than bread and sultana water ( a drink made with coffee bean husks ) is commonplace . |
| 14 | Because Nicholas himself had entertained such dreams in passing , Pogodin could be accused at this stage of nothing more than super-patriotism . |
| 15 | But when he had asked her to marry him , she had declined out of nothing more than pique . |
| 16 | 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 ! ! ! ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | There are numerous by-products from these plants , most of them useful as chemicals and the rest as fuel . |
| 19 | , John , second Baron Revelstoke ( 1863–1929 ) , merchant banker , was born 7 September 1863 in Kingston upon Thames , the eldest in the family of five sons and three daughters ( another two sons , one of them older than John , died in infancy ) of Edward Charles Baring , later first Baron Revelstoke , of London and Membland , Devon , and his wife , Louisa Emily Charlotte , daughter of John Crocker Bulteel of Lyneham , Devon . |
| 20 | of their own when quarterback Billy Boyd threw the ball to tight end John Addie . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 22 | This explained why LGS was not used by mothers to treat many of the cases of loose stool presented by children , since the mothers ' diagnosis was of one other than daeria . |
| 23 | But by the time I had turned off the road from Bellingham at Kielder village and driven up the bumpy Forest Drive to East Kielder Farm , I was longing for the sight of something other than water and trees . |
| 24 | Between half and two-thirds of smokers die of something other than smoking . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | as if he were made of something finer than flesh and bone ; finer than yellow earth . |
| 27 | Fox had completed his examination of the vandalized room and his report was conclusive : no prints , fresh or otherwise , of anyone other than Alfred himself . |
| 28 | Kate was given no opportunity to observe the reaction of anyone other than Lady Ursula to Paul Berowne 's death . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I repeat what I have said many times : I do not know of any person who pays taxes out of anything other than income . |