Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [det] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It offers nothing less than the prospect of giving substance to the idea of ‘ an academic community ’ , unknown since the medieval foundation of the university . |
| 2 | A TEAM of young archaeologists were disappointed when a dig in Darlington revealed nothing more than a Victorian cellar . |
| 3 | What Sartre needs to demonstrate , therefore , is that if the law of the dialectic works from the individual level , overall it produces nothing less than the intelligibility or the meaning of History as such : |
| 4 | What could eat nothin' more than a couple o' chops … |
| 5 | Taken literally , it involves nothing less than a judgment about the competition for alternative uses of public resources , and involves the individual police officer making a judgment about what the ordinary ‘ life of the community ’ entails . |
| 6 | In the event one finds a range of immediate answers , each one of which is too simple to reveal or even adequate to explain what soon emerges as a complex process : ‘ Reading is a creation of the sound form of the word on the basis of its graphic reproduction ’ ( the Russian educationist , El'konin , 1973 , p.552 ) ; ‘ Reading is a complex process by which a reader reconstructs , to some degree , a message encoded by a writer in graphic language ’ ( Goodman and Niles , 1970 , p.5 ) ; ‘ Reading involves nothing more than the correlation of a sound image with its corresponding visual image ’ ( Bloomfield , quoted in Harris and Hodges , 1981 , p.264 ) . |
| 7 | Harry , meanwhile was raised on a diet of liquidized fish — now he 's old enough to take solids , and loves nothing more than a few pounds of sprats — all in one go . |
| 8 | Of course , I had opened it and found nothing more than a piece of costly silk , blood-red and fringed at each end . |
| 9 | It proposed nothing less than the reclamation for her kingdom of an area 70 miles long and 30 broad , equivalent to a whole new county , the ‘ Great Level ’ of the Fens . |
| 10 | His response was predicated on the idea that he was dealing with an IRA insurrection when he was actually faced with a group of unarmed demonstrators who posed nothing more than a difficult public order problem . |
| 11 | Hughes aims to provide nothing less than a complete account of Shakespeare 's mythological base , the ‘ DNA , as it were , of his poetic organism ’ . |
| 12 | Nowadays the mid-1950s rock craze seems to provoke nothing more than a nostalgic chuckle , and when the original Teds are remembered at all within the contemporary preoccupation with hooliganism it is as something quaint and remarkably innocent . |
| 13 | At first he wants nothing more than a quick lay with a pretty maid , then wants her to be his mistress , then is able to admit to himself that he loves her , but the idea of marriage across the social barrier is impossible for him . |
| 14 | Normally , if you want nothing more than a passage anchorage , Dale , down near the entrance , will serve very well , but we felt Neyland merited a first visit , and thanks to going there we had this early morning enchantment of seeing ships , great and small , going about their work . |
| 15 | It involved nothing less than a new paradigm and a new approach to the relationship of theory and practice in educational management " ( Hughes et al. |
| 16 | ‘ The tae of ye will need somethin' more than a dispensation from the Pope , Ah would think , if ye go on like this . ’ |
| 17 | In the example of the paperclip business it is important to know whether the vendor has its own or an external design team . |
| 18 | Bishop continued , ‘ I would like to take this opportunity to inform you all that the judicial process requested by Miles Engado regarding the death of his daughter has now reached a conclusion . |
| 19 | This means that the reverberation signal has something less than the full audio bandwidth , but a bandwidth of about 6kHz is sufficient to give a good effect . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | This was indeed his year for honours since in January he had been awarded the Order of Merit by George VI ; some have said that this gratified him more than the Nobel , and certainly he seemed to enjoy wearing the medal and ribbon on ceremonial occasions . |
| 22 | But he felt no exhilaration , and he did not participate in the public celebrations after the surrender of the Japanese ; the noise of the fireworks actually disturbed him more than the bombs of the blitz . |
| 23 | I think that galled her more than the ghostly sound-effects . ’ |
| 24 | Next is Aled Williams of Bridgend , whose consistency in domestic matches , which might not be transferred to internationals , should have earned him more than a replacement honour ( out of position ) against Namibia in 1990 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ It is very difficult to see that the public can be educated to accept anything less than the fact that if there is a fraud present in an organisation which prevents the financial statements from showing a true and fair view , then it is up to the auditors to find it . ’ |
| 27 | British primary legislation , on the other hand , seldom contains anything more than a long title by way of a preamble , and does not refer to any preparatory works . |
| 28 | It is not clear that one has to postulate anything more than a reaction like Pavlov 's dog learning to anticipate its dinner whenever it hears the bell . |
| 29 | Under the slogan ‘ Agitate , Educate , Confederate , ’ Cipriani was in effect , giving voice to a nascent nationalist movement in the West Indies , for he was advocating nothing less than the most rapid possible advancement of West Indians towards self- government . |
| 30 | Flying in the face of today 's ubiquitous electronickery , the turbocharger uses nothing more than a simple spring-loaded wastegate to regulate boost , which is never allowed to build too high in deference to the engine 's life expectancy . |