Example sentences of "[adj] [det] [conj] [verb] [art] " 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 proprietors could not do much more than launch a rather fragile settlement around Charleston , and even this could not be occupied continuously until 1681 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ] . |
| 6 | However , management of the school 's budget share is about much more than managing the school 's money . |
| 7 | The same principles of design , quality and attention to detail ensure that Miele kitchens offer much more than meets the eye . |
| 8 | Executive dress for both men and women means much more than finding a pair of unscuffed shoes in the morning . |
| 9 | Some day the boffins 'll make games with massive levels , innovative features , loads to see and do , much more than blasting a few planes and balloons . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Preparing for this Assembly involves much more than booking a few halls and sending out invitations . |
| 12 | But negotiating a bank loan involves much more than agreeing an interest rate . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Well apart from the cleaning and all that and getting a bit of profit . |
| 15 | 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 ’ |
| 16 | Erm all this and have a life as well . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'll be back soon myself , ’ he told her , ‘ and then we 'll forget all this and have a really good time again . ’ |
| 18 | It 's better this than wasting a load of money that carpets we 're gon na bin anyway |
| 19 | Making love burns up more calories than playing golf and not that many fewer than throwing a frisbee . |
| 20 | In most cases conversion meant little more than adjusting the overhead wires to allow for two conductors instead of one . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Back in November , Mr Bush got a rude shock when his ‘ Energy Strategy ’ ( which amounted to little more than building a few more nuclear reactors and opening up every remaining square inch of Alaska to further oil exploration ) got kicked out by the Senate . |
| 25 | But here , under the thick turf roof and the stone walls which had weathered many a north Atlantic gale , we were secure from the driving rain , and the heaviest gusts of wind did little more than make the oil-lamp flicker in its hanger . |
| 26 | These fairly well made , attractive rugs possess an undoubted primitive charm ; but as they have yet to establish themselves in the Western market , one can do little more than make an educated guess as to their current prices and investment potential . |
| 27 | 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 ’ . |
| 28 | ( Opposite , top ) Self-defence for a rhinoceros may be little more than casting a sleepily arrogant eye on the hungry lions surrounding it ; for an agitated elephant , on the other hand , it may be a vigorous charge . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | This transformation did little more than reflect the changing current of aesthetics in Western Europe at this time . |