Example sentences of "[vb infin] [indef pn] [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What could eat nothin' more than a couple o' chops … |
| 2 | Evidence of insufficient cover might include someone other than the insured person driving the vehicle ; the vehicle being used for the purpose other than agreed , e.g. for business purposes ; or the present vehicle not being entered on the firm 's records ( this being difficult to detect in these days of not generally showing a registered number on a certificate ) . |
| 3 | ‘ The tae of ye will need somethin' more than a dispensation from the Pope , Ah would think , if ye go on like this . ’ |
| 4 | Any basic change in the executive branch of British government will need something more than the type of structural reform of the civil service proposed by the Fulton Committee . |
| 5 | Nobody dared to claim that Dukakis represented anything in particular or that he could reliably arouse anything more than a snore , but that was not the point . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm sure it 's all right this time , but you should n't carry anything heavier than a handbag — that 's what my old love used to say . |
| 7 | Did the plaintiff give anything other than the performance of his contract ? |
| 8 | They do n't do anything more than the , than necessitation to , |
| 9 | Some people wo n't do anything less than the others . |
| 10 | Nor need she expect anything more than a strictly business afternoon , she warned herself . |
| 11 | One of the criticisms sometimes levelled at the whole group drama approach is that it always seems to involve lots of meetings and discussions , and that this disadvantages those children whose grasp of language is uncertain ; that this " type " of drama can rapidly become nothing more than a heated discussion involving only the teacher and the more articulate members of the class . |
| 12 | He hoped that the driver would remember nothing more than a pair of headlights . |
| 13 | When Wales lost to Bridgend 10 days ago , home supporters , who would now like nothing better than a Test-match miracle at the Arms Park on 4 November , taunted the beaten team with chants of ‘ Easy ’ . |
| 14 | They seem to assume that because my act is a bit obscene , I 'll like nothing better than a bigoted belly-laugh . |
| 15 | The Review of Child Care Law stated an acceptance that the state should not intervene between parent and child simply because it could provide something better than the parents but only if parents were falling so far below an acceptable standard that their children were suffering harm as a result ( DHSS , 1985 ) . |
| 16 | ‘ I ai n't simple , mister , I bet you 'll want something more than no answering back . |
| 17 | The court accepted at least part of that argument , allowing that the sculptures may contain something more than the original work . |
| 18 | It occurs as that in Judges 9.9 and 13 , and here it might indicate nothing more than the all-embracing nature of the struggles which Jacob has engaged in during the course of his life . |
| 19 | He did have something official because the nurses , like , said he had to . |
| 20 | A piece to be presented should have something more than a surface narrative quality in the characterisation . |
| 21 | Maybe it is true that it will take something more than a 44-points thrashing by France to force the IRFU into serious action . |
| 22 | For , as he never tires of repeating , Italians will judge anything less than a semi-final place next summer as a total failure . |
| 23 | For , as he never tires of repeating , Italians will judge anything less than a semi-final place next summer as a total failure . |
| 24 | Even if the ethos does permit them to check out how they are doing , it remains unlikely that it will encourage anything more than a superficial sharing of doubts about what they are doing : about the disparity between their hopes for teaching and the effects , or lack of them , that they and their colleagues seem to be achieving . |
| 25 | Not that the tribesmen would attempt anything more than a quick raid by night , not until the legions were withdrawn . |
| 26 | And er I lost touch with her after that but Joyce was very nice , very , very a down to earth cockney girl from Hockston and she said er she 'd tell her sister she said I do admire my sister she said they 'll never have anything other than a council house , I do n't suppose but she said my brother-in-law mends people 's motorcycles as a side line and the money that he gets from that he gives her most of it and she buys things on hire purchase , this was the days when hire purchase was n't fearsomely expensive |
| 27 | While the administration of the Marshall Plan through OEEC was giving Western Europe a first lesson in economic cooperation , it was clear to the dedicated disciples of a united Europe that neither OEEC nor the Council of Europe could have anything more than a limited application . |
| 28 | However , formulae such as " adjectives precede their nouns " do not take us beyond a very shallow level of linguistic description ; nor is it an improvement to find phrases such as " an attributive adjective " unless the description proceeds in some way to give an account of how a term like attributive may mean something more than a simple statement about formal grouping . |
| 29 | Beryl needed firm handling but losing father and brother inside four days must mean something more than the prospect of a secure income . |
| 30 | The Hancock Half Hours seemed to be finally at an end and both Ken and his public were ready for something in which ‘ Stop messing about ’ would mean something more than an admonition to an actor to concentrate on his script . |