Example sentences of "[vb -s] [art] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( iii ) has had an order made against him which is not a bankruptcy order but which has the same or a similar effect under the law in force in any territory outside England and Wales ; |
| 2 | It looks the same as a racist stare , but it means something different . |
| 3 | ‘ When a mathematician proves some proposition you had not known , he accomplishes no more than a man who discloses the contents of a casket … by opening it up . ’ |
| 4 | And , as we shall see , one who has mere possession at the date of the conversion can generally sue , and so can one who has no more than a right to possess . |
| 5 | If a tenant takes only an upper floor of a building and has no more than a right to use the entrance hall for the purposes of approaching the property demised he must stipulate for the right to put a nameplate outside the property ( other than that part demised to him ) if he desires this convenience ( Berry ( Frederick ) Ltd v Royal Bank of Scotland [ 1949 ] 1 KB 619 per Lord Goddard CJ at 621 ) . |
| 6 | He has no more than a 5050 chance . ’ |
| 7 | A person 25 per cent over their normal weight range has a two and a half times greater chance of having a heart attack , hypertension , or a stroke . |
| 8 | He argued that ‘ equality of opportunity ’ has a weak and a strong sense . |
| 9 | The AVHRR sensor carried by the NOAA satellites has a visible and a short-wave infrared band , and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration in Washington , DC produces global vegetation maps on a routine basis using the ratio transform outlined above . |
| 10 | It does not make any appreciable difference whether the solid is glassy or crystalline or even polymeric , nor does it matter whether it has a high or a low Young 's modulus 50 long as it more or less obeys Hooke 's law , virtually up to failure . |
| 11 | my Lord my Lord I do n't understand what 's supposed to be meant by malign or bad , it 's concerned with appreciable and appreciable and er something which has an appreciable or a more audane minimize impact upon the competition if it arise erm here perhaps because it , it is er a question of fairness but not normally |
| 12 | Our first step in illustrating interval harmony using the whole chromatic octave will be to write a succession of consonances in two parts : This succession of six two-part chords uses the total-chromatic and a variety of consonances , though not the 4th and major 6th . |
| 13 | We know of one prolific kite-maker , whose kites are marketed everywhere , who uses no more than a sharp knife of the ‘ snap-off ’ type to cut dozens of panels in a laminated pack around a metal template . |
| 14 | The device which I call a Wurly costs no more than a standard pump to run . |
| 15 | Hewlett Packard has launched the LaserJet 4 , a 600 dots per inch network printer which sets new standards for print quality and ease of use , and yet costs no more than a current LaserJet 3 . |
| 16 | Loverboy tries hard to be hilarious , but raises no more than a few laughs . |
| 17 | that the reference to the accounts could not be viewed accurately without viewing the statutory statement of business which filed only just a month or so back reveals a sixteen and a half billion surplus in the members premium trust fund up from twelve and a half billion at the end of proceeding year . |
| 18 | This reproduction from a thirteenth century chess manual shows a Christian and a Moslem playing a game . |
| 19 | The latter assertion represents no more than a pious belief , since Sukenick 's text repeatedly fragments itself into short phrasal units , disparate narrative strands , and oddly shifting ‘ characters ’ . |
| 20 | Firstly , it represents no more than a proposal for reform of the internal structure of the public company and not an accurate description of how the board at present functions in such a company . |
| 21 | It represents no less than a $250M business sector and is still growing healthily . |
| 22 | In which case I would see that the sensible thing to do , which is what we have done , is to assume that the current vacancy rate stays the same as a percentage and that with a larger dwelling stock , results in some additional vacant dwellings . |
| 23 | As Beswick ( 1977 ) notes , such a development requires no less than a revolution in most people 's perception of a library from that of " storehouse to learning centre " . |
| 24 | Many an interesting find requires no more than a wet hand and a sharp pair of eyes . |
| 25 | " To make a common practical Sailor requires no more than a natural Inclination to the Sea , and a sturdy healthy Constitution . |
| 26 | LIFE IS THE SEARCH for the dish that tantalizes , draws oohs and aahs of appreciation from your dinner guests , and takes no more than a quick yo heave ho to knock together . |
| 27 | erm it employs a million and a half people in full time jobs , or full time equivalents . |
| 28 | It seems no more than a charming anecdote , but when Professor Davie cites Bunting 's tale in Under Briggflatts , his history of British poetry since 1960 , he calls the incident ‘ challenging ’ . |
| 29 | The proposal seems no more than a window dressing exercise . |
| 30 | This finding is open to the criticism that it reflects no more than a difference between the two phenomena in their sensitivity — that the procedure in question disrupts some process common to both phenomena and that the latent inhibition procedure provides a more sensitive measure of this disruption than does the habituation procedure . |