Example sentences of "[det] [adj] [conj] [art] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Nine hundred of the strongest men worked for about three hours to lift me on to the platform , and one thousand five hundred of the King 's largest horses ( each eleven and a half centimetres high ) pulled me to the capital .
2 He then hooked Andrew Caddick for another six and a perfectly timed shot off Richard Snell sailed over the square leg boundary and into a back garden .
3 Up river some two and a half miles from Blackfriars was a convenient creek and there the fertile land had long produced fruit and vegetables for the City .
4 It once had a spire which , along with those at Ottringham and Patrington , helped to guide the mariners sailing on the river Humber some two and a half miles to the south .
5 With Stanley turning out to be , in the best Ben Franklin tradition , an inventor and mechanical genius on the side , things get much more than a little too easy .
6 Indeed it is only , or at least primarily , in the development of material techniques of the fourth and fifth types that what is at first not much more than a relatively open specialization and diversity of attention becomes a formative and even determining set of divisive social relations .
7 In the other two scenes , what is involved is not much more than a relatively conventional dramatic mechanism : in the Sunday Morning scene ( Act Two , scene one ) the music in church provides a kind of running commentary to the developing quarrel between Ellen and Peter ( in the manner of countless 19th-century operas from Faust to Werther ) , while the barn dance of Act Three similarly updates an ironic tradition stretching at least from The Marriage of Figaro to Wozzeck .
8 But Burn was much more than an uncommonly clever house planner .
9 But since the scheme is a good one , and since it is only viable if some people sacrifice a lot , it is a justified scheme , even though one may be called upon , according to fair procedures , to contribute much more than the antecedently expected sacrifice .
10 He is , of course , much more than the most prodigious goalkicker the international game has seen or is likely to see , given the reduction in the number of penalty offences .
11 61% of the sample would be not at all concerned if a mentally handicapped child was allowed to attend the same school as their child
12 They were all excited and a little ashamed .
13 As will be appreciated , this is a very artificial categorization , little more than a rather crude device to enable us to look at a complex matter .
14 Here a right turn took him off the coastal road on to what was little more than a smoothly macadamed track bordered by water-filled ditches and fringed by a golden haze of reeds , their lumbered heads straining in the wind .
15 This on the surface may not seem to be hostile to religion , but it causes severe re-interpretation encouraging many people to regard religion as little more than a culturally derived dressing-up game .
16 The restaurant was little more than an intelligently decorated semi-basement with space enough for a bar and a half dozen tables .
17 This introductory piece was little more than an extremely abbreviated version of the February preface .
18 The news about the lady 's quiverful of kiddies does not seem to have been any more than a very temporary dose of saltpetre , and it 's worn off .
19 Modern finishes tend not to encourage the ‘ nicotine ’ yellowing of binding any more and the chronically nostalgic will no doubt miss it .
20 The roomy silos of the hull flanks gave it a bulbous appearance that defied approval by any aesthetic but the purely functional .
21 A dissection of the relationship between employment , means of production and output does not , of course , explain the boom in any other than a purely statistical sense .
22 Before the Russian revolution of October ( November ) 1917 , very few Marxists were prepared to talk or write , in any other than the most general terms , on what the outline of a future socialist society would be like , or discuss the nature of the transition period to such a society .
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