Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every year thousands of people , including many young children , with leukaemia and other bone marrow diseases reach a stage where only a bone marrow transplant can save them . |
| 2 | A place is private and this offence can not be committed where only a minority group of the public are admitted . |
| 3 | Have only low-level foliage in the front of the house , where only a garden gnome could hide . |
| 4 | Her end product may be a highly decorative seat where once a junk shop kitchen chair stood , but it is also functional art , and the fact that it is three-dimensional gives it an element of involvement that is often missing from a flat canvas . |
| 5 | What I do not need is to be awoken at 4 a.m. in the depths of winter , forced from my bed and summoned to gawp at an empty space where once a football stand stood . |
| 6 | Where once a Chanel handbag or bull terrier would have done , the fashionable woman now holds a smiling child . |
| 7 | Her view of the driver of the Renault , albeit only a back view , had shown her the thick dark hair of someone obviously quite young . |
| 8 | Being a mother has a certain status after all , it makes you a grown-up person , something you ca n't feel , if , like a girl I met in Barnsley , you leave school , which you hated anyway , and did badly at , become unemployed , and there 's no job except perhaps a government scheme . |
| 9 | My concern Madam Deputy Speaker is whether we 're all being hoodwinked into believing that deregulation bill is opening a new chapter in our legislative history when in fact it 's no more than perhaps a weasel word describing one thing but er er another thing is happening . |
| 10 | Disapproving comments , however , although only a minority view , were expressed with much greater emphasis : |
| 11 | The statement of objectives will normally be far more rounded than merely a price discussion . |
| 12 | Ask other lawyers about George , and there is acknowledgement of his gifts , even that he is more than merely a jury man , but rarely much warmth . |
| 13 | Similarly , we have already encountered the question posed by The Architect 's Journal when Cramlington was first proposed in its modern form : will this place have any industrial , and hence employment , base which will make it more than merely a dormitory suburb ? |
| 14 | Although not a Government publication , this book , first published in 1923 , achieved considerable popularity before the Second World War and has run to twelve editions , all revised by the original writer , the most recent being that of 1954 ; in England it was the main vehicle for the principles of Sir Truby King and his Mothercraft Training Society . |
| 15 | As we have said before , we like to think of ourselves as a preservation society , rather than just a rail interest society , valuable as such societies are . |
| 16 | It was my own experiences with herbal treatments , due to being ill over the past few years , that convinced me that there was more than just a placebo effect at work . |
| 17 | I had to show him I could be an international rather than just a squad player . |
| 18 | Martina is more than just a tennis player however . |
| 19 | Major certainly changed his life as he came back with a lot more than just a sun tan . |
| 20 | They are more than just a money machine . |
| 21 | When people speak of conceptual clustering , they often mean more than just a clustering process . |
| 22 | Suddenly , after battling all season with Manchester City for third place in the First Division , the Wednesday player-manager finds that finishing second is now more than just a pipe dream . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But it was more than just a pub crawl . |
| 25 | But producers insist it 's more than just a tourist video with a gimmick . |
| 26 | The electronic one-way communication system is more than just a lock system . |
| 27 | There is always something to be learned from a knowledgeable local instructor , and a flight is far more valuable than just a site briefing . |
| 28 | Goran 's two tournaments wins so far this year prove that he 's more than just a serving machine . |
| 29 | As most new artists signed by record companies are introduced to A&R departments by established managers , or by music industry lawyers , artists should consider approaching more than just a record company when seeking a recording contract . |
| 30 | Erm , many of you will realize that East Devon have been requested er by the Government to prepare these area wide plans rather than just a town plan so they take in and encompass the whole of the area and there was quite a lengthy and substantial document with the , with all the different policy statements on I believe Councillor ? |