Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | plastic ones which were close to the ceiling , can you , could you give me a bit more of a description of that or perhaps a manufacturer 's name ? |
| 2 | Forty pence out of a pound what would that , roughly is it about half or about a quarter or what ? |
| 3 | There was far more behind this than just a deterioration in the weather . |
| 4 | But Gallagher does not decide this and only a House of Lords judgment on the point can resolve the uncertainty . |
| 5 | Yet , at the same time , there has not , in most cases , been a sharp break between one way of life and another but rather a process involving subtle shifts in emphasis , whereby one set of relationships — kin , friends and neighbours — take on new significances in place of or in addition to older or earlier established relationships . |
| 6 | depending on whether we take the " " mayden " " as a vocative ( i.e. " girl , I love no one more than thee " ) or as the object of the lost verb of line 14 , whereby the -clause becomes a restrictive relative clause ( " I love no maiden more than you … " [ but I might love some just as much or only a bit less ] ) . |
| 7 | Alright then , maybe not that much but quite a lot . |
| 8 | Alternatively there may be no marks as such but simply a set of grades to which the quality of pupils ' work may be assigned directly . |
| 9 | Three young men with loop and stud earrings in one ear ( the lad on the Caledonian Canal fishing boat was not as individual as I had thought ) had three beefburgers and a pie each and then a chocolate KitKat with their tea . |
| 10 | And then it was the cu , we 'd payed that and then a couple of weeks after it was the phone and then it was the gas ! |
| 11 | Often , of course , these were different forms of the same general relations , though the latter can not be reduced to the former , in all or even a majority of cases . |
| 12 | All the other players you hear about from time to time , Charlton , Giles , Hunter et all but never a word about Harvey . |
| 13 | Now that was er er more or less a favour to me . |
| 14 | I was n't in the actual throe er , er I wa I 've always been more or less a loner . |
| 15 | In doing this , they make it easier to understand why some form of local government continues to survive as more than simply a creature of the centre . |
| 16 | However , and perhaps more importantly , it must be remembered that housing is more than simply a place to live in . |
| 17 | As a sociolinguist Stubbs sees reading , for instance , as more than simply a mechanism for decoding written into spoken words : he prefers to concern himself with understanding meaning , pointing out that ‘ we do not normally read meaningless material ’ ( ibid. p. 15 ) . |
| 18 | Resource-based learning therefore turns out to involve much more than simply a method of revitalizing and individualizing learning . |
| 19 | In almost every other respect , certainly , the Celtic Church appears to have been something more than simply a repository for Nazarean thought — as Nestorian Christianity was , for example . |
| 20 | In each case the shout is far more than simply a war cry . |
| 21 | The very fact that philip Augustus made no serious attempt to invade or attack Gascon ) , in the campaigns of 1202–4 may be more than simply a comment upon the military limitations of the French crown . |
| 22 | That of 1814 , however , became known as the Great Revival and it was much more than simply a recruitment phenomenon . |
| 23 | Section 2 to read : The Coordinator as part of his/her responsibility is part Area Secretary for a geographical area with no more than approximately a quarter of a million population . |
| 24 | A Tom Wood is more than just a portrait . |
| 25 | Thank the Goddess Zambia had had the sense to get out before some scuzzie had violated hir by more than just a beating . |
| 26 | At 3pm , he will meet Clinton and the two will be together for the next six hours , an indication that the president regards the Prime Minister 's visit as more than just a courtesy call . |
| 27 | The more easterly of the two valley roads which combine at Pierrefitte takes you first to the charming town of Luz-Saint-Sauveur , which may look like one place but is really two , with more than just a hyphen dividing them . |
| 28 | It seems they must have had more than just a message . |
| 29 | In her enchanting story of The Velveteen Rabbit , Margery Williams ' tells of a cloth rabbit who longs to be more than just a toy . |
| 30 | Your eurocheque card is much more than just a support for your eurocheques . |