Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [det] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Despite your obvious fondness for the place , you 're none the less nothing more than a temporary caretaker . |
| 2 | It could also , as readily , be ascribed to hallucination , hysterical or psychotic reaction , or perhaps nothing more than a guilty conscience . |
| 3 | At the height of all the media fuss over a comic creation which was basically nothing more than a walking catch-phrase , it seemed as if Enfield 's career was in danger of burning out before it had properly ignited . |
| 4 | They knew that the voice that spoke to them with their own voice was not their own but the voice of a being that had its abode in a world of light . |
| 5 | His Cabinet was not his own but an inheritance front Law . |
| 6 | Best response of the night — not bad going in the face of St Etienne 's new-found libidinous following — and a fitting end to a night that fed off nothing more than the sheer character of the individual bands . |
| 7 | Ordinary pumice , by contrast , shows a wide range in density , depending upon the degree of vesiculation that has taken place in the magma , but it is still nothing more than a solidified rock froth . |
| 8 | before people twigged if you like , that what had actually happened amounted to hardly anything more than a change of sort of managerial personnel . |
| 9 | They had stumbled in upon what was quite clearly nothing less than a pagan sacrifice . |
| 10 | ‘ Monsieur Gebrec 's death was probably nothing more than a tragic accident , ’ Melissa went on , ‘ but ’ — she hesitated for a moment before saying — ‘ there is some talk of suicide . ’ |
| 11 | Henley hosts conferences to report research outcomes from both its own and the wider academic community . |
| 12 | More careful and critical studies reveal the all too well-known pattern of the failure of British workers to employ new techniques as effectively as their foreign counterparts , to both their own and the general loss [ Dore , 1973 ; Pratten , 1976b ] . |
| 13 | The members ' status as residual claimants suggests that they have in fact the same interest in profit maximisation as we have postulated for society as a whole , and the incentive to enforce profit maximisation in both their own and the social interest . |
| 14 | And it is the management of these fantasies , both his own and the work 's , that permits their partial gratification and gives literary pleasure ’ ( 1975 , p.52 ) . |
| 15 | The dilemma for the firm is that to adopt any other terminology ( eg associate ) may diminish the status of the salaried partner in both his own and the client 's eyes . |
| 16 | He became estranged from his father and in 1867 set up his own as a repairer of farm machinery , thus beginning the firm of R. A. Lister & Company . |
| 17 | Answer : by sending printed forms of questions to the seller 's solicitor and the local council , which yield no useful information and are often nothing more than a time-wasting ritual . |
| 18 | He was now nothing more than the neatly tapered ends of corduroy slacks , and a pair of well-worn Canadian hide moccasins . |
| 19 | Programme analysis and review was really nothing more than a method of asking basic questions about programme resources and outputs , such as what is being done and why ? |
| 20 | Her companion , ’ the landlord shrugged , ‘ really nothing more than a boy . |
| 21 | Now , you may think that er you and I are very different from a T four bacteria but personally , and I on can only speak for myself , I ca n't speak for you of course , but personally I 'm prepared to accept that basically I 'm really nothing more than a very very complicated and much bigger T four bacterial . |
| 22 | So that , erm just as you can construct a house out of bricks and mortar , and really , although the house looks very different from just bricks and mortar , it is just bricks and mortar arranged in a certain way , so the glass , the bottle , erm although it looks a very different thing from a sense experience , is really nothing more than a very complicated pattern of actual and possible sense experiences . |
| 23 | As far as evolution is concerned , I , and this is really the essence of our modern view , I am really nothing more than the packaging of my genes , because after all this is what evolution acts on . |
| 24 | Evolution ultimately selects for the erm reproductive success of individual organisms , and you can see very clearly in the case of the T four bac bacterial that it is really nothing more than the temporary protein packaging of its D N A. |
| 25 | Now something more than a quelling look appeared on Lord Woodleigh 's fine-bred features . |
| 26 | Because you can never go back to yesterday , if you came in last year or five years ago , ten years ago or longer , some of you have been in the truth for many , many years and it is nearer now than it ever was when you first came along and joined Jehovah 's people and as it says the night is well along and if any of us have ever worked on the night shift , I think we 're all well aware are n't we that when the night is well along and |
| 27 | Clearly , if the party input into the development of policy is to be significant then something more than an isolated individual is needed to make the system effective . |
| 28 | Why nothing less than the incredibly savage and dangerous piranha . |
| 29 | In relation to nationalised industries , it is commonplace to vest in a particular Minister of the Crown a power to issue general directives as to the running of the industry in question but this is again nothing more than a matter of organisational preference ; not , of course a preference which is a matter of caprice but which is based on notions of the best procedures to attain the objective in view . |
| 30 | Yet there were certain groups who saw either their own or the nation 's interests as being intimately bound up with an aggressive anti-French foreign policy . |