Example sentences of "than a [noun sg] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First he made a gourd spring up to protect Jonah from the sun ( by ‘ gourd ’ we are to understand something like the castor-oil plant or Palma Christi , with its rapid growth and all-sheltering leaves ) ; then , with no more than a wave of the silk handkerchief , he sent a maggot to destroy the said gourd , leaving Jonah painfully exposed to the heat . |
| 2 | For those bombastic outbursts , Gerard shrewdly blamed ‘ the effect of his infernal military education , commencing when he was a child ’ and here indeed , when one recalls the poses being struck throughout pre-war Europe , the Crown Prince appears as little more than a child of the age . |
| 3 | You are directly discriminated against if treated less favourably than a person of the opposite sex is or would be treated , or if you are treated less favourably on racial grounds . |
| 4 | a person of one sex is treated less favourably , on the ground of sex , than a person of the other sex would be in the same or not materially different circumstances . |
| 5 | He was n't very bright and he was more than a bit of a bore with it . ’ |
| 6 | The fact was that Corbett was more than a bit of an embarrassment . |
| 7 | More than a tint of the tarbrush there , if you ask me . ’ |
| 8 | Complete reimbursement is obviously more attractive than a contribution of a fixed amount . |
| 9 | He scanned it — it was little more than a text of the Act . |
| 10 | In what sense do these mark a crossroads while the others are no more than a widening of the road ? |
| 11 | A signature , rather than a characteristic of a drawing , is more a characteristic of an artist . |
| 12 | In many ways the Council of Europe was little more than a continuation of the traditional format of cooperation , transcribed to a bigger stage , and could not itself move forward to a supranational or federalist future . |
| 13 | The pickups and scratchplate look familiar , of course , but this is little more than a tip of the cap in the direction of Fender . |
| 14 | British Coal , one of the few companies still nationalised , has the unenviable task of proving to its customers that it is more than a dinosaur of the industrial revolution , slouching towards privatisation and a slow demise . |
| 15 | ‘ Nonsense , you are little more than a slip of a girl , you would be prey to all sorts of men , fortune hunters and the like . |
| 16 | These texts attributed to Phocylides and to Hecataeus of Miletus are at least two centuries later — with the difference that " Phocylides " covers a forgery , whereas " Hecataeus of Miletus " is a wrong attribution , little more than a slip of the pen . |
| 17 | But by the time Rachel arrived at the factory gates the October sunshine was doing its best to struggle through with more than a promise of a fine day to come . |
| 18 | Today so few theatregoers travel by bus that it would take more than a strike of the red giants to kill anything on stage . |
| 19 | In many cases the accompaniment may be no more than a doubling of the melody ( at the unison or octave , or even in the bass ) with added chordal harmony . |
| 20 | The decreased sweating function and slow transit constipation seen in our patients could be a consequence of a mild cholinergic dysautonomia , rather than a sign of a more prominent sympathetic failure . |
| 21 | This bullshit becomes particularly irksome when the lyrical twists and turns are neat or clever , as many of them are , or when the LA street law of ‘ Life Goes On ’ display more than a glimmer of a social or political consciousness . |
| 22 | The syllabus , after all , is no more than a sketch of the terrain ; the scheme of work is a strategic plan which identifies objectives and tactics , and which allows for review and reinforcement . |
| 23 | In my view the effect of the Effer v. Kantner decision is that a court other than a court of the defendant 's country of domicile can not accept the jurisdiction on the mere assertion or pleading of the plaintiff . |
| 24 | Here , the subsidiaries would be shown in the group 's accounts ( which means the group shareholders ' accounts ) in terms of the net investment that the group 's shareholders hold ; consequently , the reporting unit would be the group ( from the shareholders ' viewpoint ) rather than a consolidation of the reporting units of the subsidiaries . |
| 25 | The Maastricht Treaty represents more than a consolidation of the process of centralisation in the EEC . |
| 26 | Scotland could n't manage more than a tweak of the giants ' noses , but showed that there 's still such a thing as going down with honour . |
| 27 | White-haired and with make-up applied in the haphazard way that suggests no great interest in the face rather than a weakening of the critical faculties , Louise was still very much in charge of herself — her appearance , thought and manner . |
| 28 | Time was ‘ quicker than a shake of a lamb 's tail ’ . |
| 29 | The flow advances in a manner similar to that of pahoehoe flows on dry land , and the pillows are budded off so quietly that the cameramen were able to swim up to within less than a metre of the swelling pillows . |
| 30 | To force together two protons that are initially far apart , for example those in two separate hydrogen atoms , is like trying to encourage the two north poles of a pair of magnets to join at a distance of less than a billionth of a millimetre . |