Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [det] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ Strathclyde and the people it serves deserve nothing less than a commission . |
| 3 | Such futile efforts can only bring something close to contempt and suspicion among the millions of human beings who crave nothing more than a simple faith based on a credible ‘ god ’ . |
| 4 | Even dissertations that manage to reach the library shelves usually face nothing more than the gnawing criticism of mice . ’ |
| 5 | erm , let's have a look , give me that and the pen |
| 6 | It warns users interested in open systems to be wary of NT because of Microsoft 's reluctance to implement standards or create something more than a limited proprietary system . |
| 7 | But a head must in the end tolerate something less than the hoped-for whole being achieved . |
| 8 | He talks enthusiastically about ‘ getting back to some real police work ’ in ‘ the real world ’ , even though his responsibilities as Divisional Commander will be mainly administrative and give him little or no contact with the ‘ dangerous classes ’ . |
| 9 | Shareholders get nothing more than a bald one-year profit forecast . |
| 10 | Few children remember anything more than the adverts . |
| 11 | The three characters are portrayed with vivid detail and lively humour : two sailors who flirt with a girl but find her more than a match for either of them . |
| 12 | Well , if you want my advice , I 'd say make him more than a friend , if you get my meaning . |
| 13 | By contrast , we see Tradescant lying on his newly sheeted bed , washed and with beard neatly trimmed , wearing a superfine linen shroud of the highest quality , the top-knot having now become nothing more than a small tassel attached to the linen itself . |
| 14 | ( The Booker , thought Jeffrey , had recently become nothing more than a branch of Overseas Development . ) |
| 15 | Children love nothing more than a good story . |
| 16 | Scorpios love nothing more than a chance to break a social taboo . |
| 17 | It struck him as odd that the death of this unknown mongrel should , for a moment , anger him more than the killing of Lorrimer . |
| 18 | There is a fuel advisory service , I wonder if they call themselves that or the British fuel advisory service or something ghastly . |
| 19 | Heaven help them all when the dailies came out the next day . |
| 20 | It is important in using this method to exclude all transfer payments as these represent nothing more than a redistribution of income from taxpayers to the transfer recipients ; including them , therefore , would involve double-counting . |
| 21 | ‘ You have nothing more than a dislike of Mr Connon and a very nasty twist in your mind which is going to get you into very serious trouble indeed . |
| 22 | Most were still bewildered by the way Northampton opened out the game to create openings for surprise attacks , and after a 4–1 win at Swindon , the Railwaymen 's international winger Fleming told Chapman : ‘ You have something more than a team : you have a machine . ’ |