Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] [det] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had an enjoyable job of work waiting for him , and asked for no more than that . |
| 2 | Now , with a journey through the EC regarded as the same as an internal domestic trip , drivers are not obliged to carry any special documents . |
| 3 | 170 it was held that the word ‘ convicted ’ in sections 9 and 12 of the Coinage Offences Act 1861 ( 24 & 25 Vict. c. 99 ) referred to no more than a finding of guilt . |
| 4 | At first it moved at no more than a lumbering trot , but by the time it was halfway up the street it was moving arrow-fast … |
| 5 | He opted for the latter and at the end of 1989 he launched his debut album ‘ Brand New Star ’ which sold very well , got a lot of radio play , and , most important of all , it introduced the songs he had been composing and singing at concerts to a wider public . |
| 6 | His long nose came from the latter and more specifically from a genetic type unit near the Dead Sea . |
| 7 | Brilliant and that came to the same as one quarter . |
| 8 | And four twelfths came to the same as ? |
| 9 | The idea was so daft she would have laughed except for the Captain 's searing glance , which rested for no more than a second on her before returning to burn into Midnight as he breathed : |
| 10 | Yet for many centuries , Cheltenham consisted of no more than a single street , lined with a few houses . |
| 11 | The second Duma consisted of the same as before plus a few Social Democrats . |
| 12 | A 17 and 18 year old escaped with no more than bloody noses . |
| 13 | But most of my time I spent in the many and varied mosques , and each day I went back to Hagia Sophia , sometimes remaining for hours . |
| 14 | Currently , the TUC 's regional education programme is shifting steadily in favour of courses even shorter than the ten-day representatives ' courses , not organised coherently as part of a process of recurrent union education but arranged on a more or less ad hoc basis around single issues . |
| 15 | His most active period in the Commons came during the three Exclusion Parliaments : he served on no fewer than fifty-two committees , involving a wide range of issues . |
| 16 | I decided on the latter and was again pleased when I managed to haul myself to safety at the top of the boulder . |
| 17 | Unsure whether I actually wanted to strike the rod and possibly miss another take or just enjoy the sound of the buzzer , I decided on the latter and leapt out of bed and grabbed the rod . |
| 18 | Another superb serve led to no more than a defensive return from Sampras and Forget was so confident that the American would not be able to return his first volley that he only just stopped himself from throwing his racket into the air as he started to dance for joy along with the crowd . |
| 19 | The most systematic study of legacies sub modo , while drawing attention to the Scaevolan cases in which trusts are construed , points out that this amounted to no more than an isolated and sporadic tendency . |
| 20 | Perhaps , in some unimaginably distant region , the cosmos simply melted away into Chaos without sane dimensions — so that all the immensity of physical reality , all the billions of light years of stars and galaxies without number , amounted to no more than a tiny archipelago within a dire and senseless ocean of absurdity . |
| 21 | In Stein 's day the jade searchers of Chinese Turkestan had already taken to a kind of superficial mining , even if this amounted to no more than burrowing through overlying deposits to search the cobble bed down to depths of up to some twenty feet . |
| 22 | This , he said , could not be characterised as having breached the duty of good faith which amounted to no more than a principle of fair and honourable dealing . |
| 23 | But his defeated rival , the nationalist Stasys Lozoraitis , said Mr Brazauskas ' programme would not resolve Lithuania 's economic crisis and amounted to no more than cosmetic changes . |
| 24 | The late 1720s , the most brutal time of all with its bad harvests , high prices , and killer epidemics , saw off no fewer than six Titfords within two years ; the period 1766/7 also claimed its victims in the family , as did the winter and spring of 1771 , as we have seen ; and the near-famine year of 1795 , following hard on a winter which was said to herald something resembling a new ice-age , had brought the death of Charles the Cheesemonger 's wife Elizabeth . |
| 25 | Kahlo 's adoption of Tehuana dress , while being an attractive disguise of what she saw as a less than perfect body , asserted both a feminist and an anti-colonialist position . |
| 26 | Jack was determined to make flying his life , and thought of no more than achieving his wish to fly . |
| 27 | Although some years later he was to describe the kind of people with whom he now associated in a less than enthusiastic manner , it was really only in such company that he could feel any sense of purposefulness . |
| 28 | Consequently , the Hispano-German " summit " resulted in no more than a secret protocol which confirmed the Spanish intention to enter the war on the Axis ' side , but allowed Franco to decide when the right moment had arrived to do so . |
| 29 | They 'd been and looked at a few and there , |
| 30 | But he hesitated for no more than a moment before stepping inside and when the door was closed he took refuge in clowning . |