Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [det] of a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I explained to them that when you begin to acquire so much of a nation 's wealth , then you can not escape attention . |
| 2 | The sport is becoming ever more of a circus . |
| 3 | But he has n't much of a choice . |
| 4 | When occasionally they asked her what was the marketing strategy or the business plan and she said , openly , that there never had been one , her patent naturalness and honesty made the whole thing appear even more of a fairy story . |
| 5 | The more I see of her , the more I realise how much of a stranger she is to me . |
| 6 | I do n't want to appear too much of a glutton . ’ |
| 7 | Alison was already becoming too much of a fixture in his life . |
| 8 | What really matters at the moment is that the rugby pot keeps itself on the boil , so that it wo n't need too much of a boost from the fickle flames of European International rugby , when it returns in the New Year , to reactivate the interest of the casual followers uncovered by the World Cup . |
| 9 | oh he 's , he seems to be grown up all of a sudden |
| 10 | A subsidiary raid would be carried out on Bagoush airfield to create as much of a diversion as possible . |
| 11 | It is perhaps understandable why these men , who earn their livelihood in the very embrace of the Goddess of the South Seas , should take her so seriously , but it came as more of a surprise that the Sultan of Surakarta should do the same . |
| 12 | Then put as much of a stretch on them as you can and move them apart and backwards , as if you were swimming . ’ |
| 13 | That depends how much of a determinist you are |
| 14 | Top LTA coach Ian Barclay has seen how much of a kick it has given the promising youngsters under his charge at Bisham Abbey , youngsters like Alex Osterrieth ( who reached the last 16 along with fellow Brit Andrew Hill in America ) , Steven Clark , James Cotman and Barry McColl . |
| 15 | Now some of you , if you 've only been with the company a few months or whatever it was , may not have noticed too much of a change , er , but I 've noticed a bit of a ch , I 've noticed a tremendous change in two and half months , two and a half years , and there 's some people in the room who must have noticed tremendous changes . |
| 16 | There is still room to get half or three-quarter sized cards in however , so this does not present too much of a problem . |
| 17 | So that does n't present too much of a problem . |
| 18 | ‘ It just seemed too much of a gamble , ’ he explained , and in fact the 22-year-old left-hander turned them down once before temptation overcame him . |
| 19 | Sinclair and Coulthard ( 1975 ) show that much of a child 's experience of language in the classroom , in terms of teacher-pupil exchanges , is marked by a pattern of Initiation — Response — Feedback . |
| 20 | The ‘ evening ’ , if such it could be called , had not been exactly successful , though one obviously should n't expect too much of a chance meeting . |
| 21 | but it 's got so much of a slip factor on it . |
| 22 | One of the problems of deciding how much of a person 's temperament is inherited is due to the fact that babies are usually brought up in an environment of both parents , or at least more than on individual , and that they take a while to grow and show many personality characteristics . |
| 23 | So anyway , he erm had his say quite a long story and er the Chairman turned round all of a sudden and he s he could n't say the Chairman er said call him cos that 's what we call him and he said er he said erm would you like to come back to the rostrum again and he said erm you were explaining to me about an accident you had in the quarry in quarry , erm some years back and he said , I 'd like you to explain to these people . |
| 24 | ‘ But more young people leave home around Christmas as the pressure of not having money to spend can become too much of a strain . |
| 25 | With a television series there 's just not the time for that , and it can often become very much of a routine . |
| 26 | A little misleading in two respects , on is I think the average person does n't realize that it 's very hard to perceive very much of a difference when there 's only a twenty to thirty percent reduction . |
| 27 | But even when it does occur it does not provide too much of a problem , for the sea slugs are capable of quickly regenerating them ready for the next naïve fish to attack . |
| 28 | Emotions create too much of a mess in our neat , tidy , rational world — and so we learn to squash them . |
| 29 | Sadly , Charlie 's arsenal has been dampened and diminished in his post-Parkhead years , and finding the back of the net now has become rather less of a habit . |
| 30 | ‘ Parents control so much of a 14-year-old 's life , the computer gives the child the opportunity to take control for himself . ’ |