Example sentences of "[det] [det] [conj] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I smiled some more and took the flak as the lady was forced to wait . |
| 2 | organisational conflict is part of an inevitable struggle , as long as some own and control the means of production , and others do not . |
| 3 | The usual reason these days is that the target company employs an army of people with skills of a kind difficult and too time-consuming to assemble by recruitment , and that trying to build such a team would cost much more than buying the company . |
| 4 | As a restaurant manager you will have total control of a sizeable business , and that means much more than overseeing the day to day running of the restaurant [ which is quite a challenge in itself ] . |
| 5 | However , management of the school 's budget share is about much more than managing the school 's money . |
| 6 | The same principles of design , quality and attention to detail ensure that Miele kitchens offer much more than meets the eye . |
| 7 | Executive dress for both men and women means much more than finding a pair of unscuffed shoes in the morning . |
| 8 | Israel did not have to do much more than open the area to its own produce and place obstacles in the way of anyone trying to develop enterprises or co-operative ventures . |
| 9 | But negotiating a bank loan involves much more than agreeing an interest rate . |
| 10 | If you bought that many bonds then you would effectively be losing around £3.50 a week in interest , not much more than doing the pools . |
| 11 | Well apart from the cleaning and all that and getting a bit of profit . |
| 12 | But Mo do n't snow me that the Company did n't see all that and start a Track Two behind the comeback of Winter Garden ’ |
| 13 | Erm all this and have a life as well . |
| 14 | Making love burns up more calories than playing golf and not that many fewer than throwing a frisbee . |
| 15 | The construction task will not end with this book , which does little more than lay the foundation for an approach that will celebrate geography as focusing on the ‘ question of place ’ within contemporary society . |
| 16 | Nobody who is sensible or sane would say that we should export more arms to a country that is already awash with them , because it would do little more than increase the bloodshed that has already stained that country . |
| 17 | Even a Trinidad deal does little more than bring the amount of interest that Africans owe closer to what they are managing to pay anyway . |
| 18 | Traditionally , architects of educational reform in England and Wales have held the view that , as the 1943 White Paper Educational Reconstruction put it , ‘ Legislation can do little more than prepare the way for reform ’ . |
| 19 | But it seemed even that could do little more than dull the edges of the pain , and , when she woke up one morning with a painful hangover and realised the ache in her heart was just as strong as it had ever been , she swore she 'd never again attempt to deal with her sorrows that way . |
| 20 | The number of levels is arbitrary , but it certainly is apparent that there is a very light , superficial , cliche level of communication that serves little more than to acknowledge the presence of another person . |
| 21 | Even the prescription of a joint approach to issues of sexism and racism ( Brah and Deem , 1986 ) does little more than scratch the surface of a very much deeper problem . |
| 22 | The Act does little more than authorise the Secretary of State to issue rules for the regulation of prisons and the Prison Rules 1964 , though subsequently amended , can be shown to be very out of date . |
| 23 | The sale of part of the assets of BP oil owned by the government in Howe 's first budget did little more than continue the policy of Denis Healey 's Labour budget of 1976 . |
| 24 | A close-up crotch shot will eventually do little more than remind the reader that sex without affection is merely moving your legs up and down for a bit and then stopping . |
| 25 | At its simplest this involvement is little more than preserving the bridge which exists between home and school , giving support to children and their parents at moments of personal crisis ( like a death , or the break up of a family ) . |
| 26 | In such cases you may have to do little more than convince the farmer you can do the job — and do it well . |
| 27 | In other words , an adult man does not automatically assume a political role on the basis of his gender , any more than does a woman . |
| 28 | Our love does n't help us survive , any more than did the Indians ' thieving . |
| 29 | The Fouchet plan 's demise did not appear to cause de Gaulle undue distress , any more than did the Americans ' failure to respond to his memorandum . |
| 30 | Depression , as an illness is not normal any more than having an ulcer |