Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [art] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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1 | Although perhaps the paradigm for the village school was some idyllic haven seen on a summer 's day , the report is still a good review of the position and can be related to other parts of Western Europe . |
2 | More than just a facelift for BMW 's most important model , the new 3-series marks a fundamental change of direction |
3 | Your eurocheque card is much more than just a support for your eurocheques . |
4 | The haircut , however , evolved into far more than just a one-off for a TV series . |
5 | This is the pub as social institution , so much more than just a place for drinking . |
6 | But was it ever more than just a project for a project ? |
7 | This little rebellion annoyed the orthodox Communists , but maybe not the voters : the three rebels , all well known , provide voters with an assurance that the United Left is more than just a front for unreconstructed Communists . |
8 | Launer , which carries the Royal Warrant , offers far more than just the style for which the Queen is famous . |
9 | Even before last week 's double blitz the Compensation Agency for Northern Ireland was facing record pay-outs this year — more than double the total for 1991–92 . |
10 | That would more than double the income for the exchequer next year providing two point three billion pounds . |
11 | The existence of economies of scale in family life ( bulk buying , spreading fixed costs , etc. ) means that , although two can not live as cheaply as one ( it seems to us at least ) , cohabitation means that a given per capita standard can be maintained for two at less than double the expenditure for one . |
12 | The ministers approved a budget of 192,000,000 ECU for the period to 1992 , more than double the award for the expiring two-year phase ; they also agreed to open talks with the EFTA members with a view to extending the scheme . |
13 | Prior to World War I , infant mortality rates in the workhouses were more than double the rate for the entire population . |
14 | Trading profits in the communications division were more than double the figure for the first half year thanks to the cost control programme . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 ) . |
17 | Although neither the correlation for right nor left turns is significant in its own right ( 10 degrees of freedom ) they are both in the direction predicted , moreover , the difference between these two correlations is significant , z=1.85 , p<0.05 . |
18 | Detecting mutations by hybridising products of the reaction with allele specific oligonucleotides is possible , although again the need for two distinct procedures is a drawback . |
19 | More than likely the explanation for such results lay simply in the fact that the elderly , institutionalized patients who formed Cameron 's subjects were so pleased to be noticed and made a fuss of in experiments of this sort that their memories improved as a consequence . |
20 | This is hardly surprising , since ultimately the responsibility for the decision eventually made , and its consequences , will fall to them . |
21 | A Silmarillion on that plan could have ended as merely a pastime for scholars . |
22 | As we shall see in the Russian case , it was a common phenomenon , echoing Marx 's description of Lafargue 's internationalism as merely a mechanism for absorbing all in a model French nation . |
23 | This is not to say that such proposals must be accepted at face-value but they should be subjected to specific criticism rather than rejected in toto as merely a device for getting workers to ‘ participate ’ in their own exploitation . |
24 | If executive-assembly relations are seen as basically a struggle for influence over the policy-making process , what are the weapons available to each side in the struggle ? |
25 | An advertising campaign that went on about the law of averages did n't seem to help when much of the press criticism rounded on the Escort as exactly a car for Mr Average . |
26 | Together with the 1993 budget , unveiled the following day [ see below ] , the proposals within the State of the Union speech were portrayed as both a package for economic growth and an economic election manifesto , although most commentators found little that was new within the package . |
27 | Counting women into psychology has to be read as both an advance for feminism , and a co-option of it . |
28 | An early 20th century guru , a great English artist-craftsman , typographic designer , engraver , sculptor and deeply influential presence in the cultural life of his time , Eric Gill ( 1882–1940 ) was regarded , until Fiona MacCarthy 's revealing and controversial biography ( 1989 ) , as almost a candidate for sainthood . |
29 | Educational technology is therefore offered as almost a synonym for systematic thinking in education . |
30 | ‘ If each partner comes to regard marriage as primarily a quest for his or her self-fulfilment , rather than as an adventure in reciprocal self-giving , through.which parents and children grow into maturity , then the outlook is likely to be bleak ’ ( John Stott , Issues Facing Christians Today , Marshalls , 1984 ) . |