Example sentences of "[v-ing] [det] than [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Government 's efforts to ensure that all 10 water authorities are successfully floated on the Stock Exchange in December are becoming more than a little disingenuous . |
| 2 | His elders were becoming more than a little worried because people were saying his teaching was heretical . |
| 3 | The waits were officially disbanded in 1832 but existed as am independent body until the late nineteenth century , by which time their peculiar custom was becoming more than a little irritating to certain residents of the town . |
| 4 | This is Lockheed L.1049G-82-81 Super Constellation serial 4618 , now a dainty 36 years old , but looking more than a little worse for wear . |
| 5 | It is clear that we do not in fact have the capability of sharply recalling more than a very few of our mental events as defined , even immediately afterwards . |
| 6 | Thus party apparatchiks can spend months or years devising an appropriate slogan without anyone paying more than the most perfunctory attention when the thing is published , while some silly so-and-so can go on Newsnight and make an indelicate comment and be all over the newspapers for weeks . |
| 7 | In the year beginning November 1917 National Service Medical Boards conducted nearly 2.5 million medical examinations in Great Britain : of every nine men , only three were perfectly fit and healthy , while two were on a definitely ‘ unfirm plane ’ of health and strength , three were incapable of undergoing more than a very moderate degree of physical exertion and the remaining one was a chronic invalid . |
| 8 | Clearly it was a winning gambit to aver simply that the work had not been written with that ‘ single purpose ’ , and this was the substance of the defence of Henry Scott who had published or who at least intended to sell copies of an anti-papist pamphlet containing more than a little obscene detail . |
| 9 | Erm , I really feel that this consultation is coming more than a too late because we started on the slippery slope when the consortium was er first dreamed of o , you know about a year ago and set up in April and that really this is the sort of the inexorable next move , and this consultation is far far too late ! |
| 10 | For behind the public posturings , there 's no doubt that both of these gentlemen have been having more than a little local difficulty with their respective parties . |
| 11 | But in the Old World , on the whole , the need for a mobile population was met without creating more than a comparatively modest and impermanent floating population , except in the great shipping ports and , as it were , in the traditional centres of the shifting and shiftless population , such as the great cities . |
| 12 | Her mouth tight , her breathing more than a little erratic , she wrenched his thumb away and dragged the abused material of her top back over her breast . |
| 13 | Mr Patten turned lexicographer in an article in the Guardian to define the concept in the following way : ‘ The active citizen is someone making more than a solely economic contribution to his or her community ; nothing more or less . |
| 14 | Emile Littler was a much younger producer of rival pantomimes ; feeling more than a little disloyal , Mr Smith wrote to him in desperation suggesting that he might be interested in his dancers . |
| 15 | Anything less than a Neff could leave you feeling more than a little deflated . |
| 16 | Still feeling more than a little unbalanced , she glanced back over her shoulder . |
| 17 | By early afternoon Leith owned that she was feeling more than a little drained . |
| 18 | He stood alone in the corner of the yard feeling more than a little stupid as he stamped up and down to keep warm . |