Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adj] [subord] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her six or seven grandchildren — none older than about nine or ten — were all there with their parents . |
| 2 | Wonderfully intense , concentrated in feeling , this performance brings one closer than almost any rival to the awesome times which gave birth to this extraordinary work . |
| 3 | I do n't know how Dawn really feels about me , whether love or trust mean anything to her or not , but I do know that there is something special between us , and it feels like something more than just conditioning . |
| 4 | At this stage I felt I had actually discovered something more than just another diet . |
| 5 | The clowns ' convention is , perhaps , Bognor 's way of proclaiming itself as something more than just another commuter dormitory and retirement town on the south coast . |
| 6 | There is undeniably something ‘ over-thetop ’ about Rachmaninov 's piano music , a larger-than-life quality that requires larger-than-life treatment , and that extra dash of daring in Wild 's playing ( not for nothing do his fans call him ‘ Wild Earl ’ ) can be relied upon to produce something more than unusually exciting . |
| 7 | The Evening Standard said : ‘ It is something worse than totally unfunny . |
| 8 | But are our bodies and our selves truly nothing more than highly complex , sophisticated machines ? |
| 9 | Having started with nothing other than very modest share capital more than 20 years ago , it is now a major player on the UK and international scene . |
| 10 | As a leading man in films he was expected to be nothing other than purely masculine . |
| 11 | The ordinary revenue of the Crown fluctuated throughout Elizabeth 's reign : it is impossible to make anything better than highly approximate estimates . |
| 12 | He had not told her initially because he was by no means sure that she would be anything more than just another fling and , in his quest for an easy life , did not want to complicate things by admitting the relationship . |
| 13 | ‘ We had a glass of wine , but she refused to admit they were anything more than very good friends . |
| 14 | These can never be anything more than very rough and ready guidelines . |
| 15 | His interests and habits had been too strictly and personally framed for him to be anything less than completely reliant on them . |
| 16 | If the red sunset was anything to go by , those rocks would really have their work cut out next day to be anything less than either hot or sunny . |
| 17 | Anything less than about 600 x 750mm long ( 24 x 30in ) may look too small . |
| 18 | There is no truth whatsoever to any suggestion that he is anything less than lustily heterosexual ( and spousally loyal to boot ) . |
| 19 | DESPITE HIS assertion that he is not anti-Japanese ( Business column , June ) , it is difficult to see Jeffrey Ferry 's article as anything other than yet another petulant cry at the temerity of these Japanese — for being good at business when they do n't look like us , behave like us or even speak the language properly . |
| 20 | But I 'd never thought of us as really having to worry about money that much ; certainly I was used to getting more or less what I wanted and had come to think of this virtually as a right , the way only children are apt to if their parents are anything other than actively hostile to them . |
| 21 | At Bletchley I had begun to satisfy , however pathetically and inadequately , a desire to see the world about me , but then had neither the time nor the money nor the opportunity for anything other than very restricted local journeys . |
| 22 | Often recommended for cleaning purposes , to avoid the spread of contamination inherent in the use of cloths , it does not have the mechanical properties necessary for anything other than very light soil removal . |
| 23 | There is no suggestion that these honours were ‘ bought ’ , nor that the recipients were anything other than entirely worthy and deserving . |
| 24 | Based as it is on " literary standards " culled from the nineteenth-century realist tradition , it does not envisage the possibility of " reflecting " the complexity of the historical process in anything other than relatively conventional and traditional formal terms . |
| 25 | In case this surprises you , and I 'm sure it does n't surprise those of you who are biologists , we have in Britain two terminal links with such a chain , which we would never regard as anything other than perfectly good species . |