Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , after a certain point , education becomes more a form of consumption for the individual than a form of investment for increasing his earnings further . |
| 2 | They can be very useful , especially for those with chronic conditions , and for the elderly where a mix of medicines may result in undesirable side-effects . |
| 3 | It was a slow process , needing the kind of patience he did not have , but at least Huy was spared the tedium of the cutters , whose sole job was to trim the reeds to a regular length , about the same as a man 's forearm . |
| 4 | The price of books of academic criticism indicates that they are not aimed at the educated general reader ( once they cost about the same as a bottle of whisky ; now they cost three to four times as much ) . |
| 5 | They verified both predictions , and calculated the effective mass of a moving soliton. it is about the same as an electron 's mass . |
| 6 | The Germans pretended that an east mark was worth the same as a west mark . |
| 7 | In England , the proposal advanced by a majority of the Criminal Law Revision Committee in its Working Paper would similarly have abolished the exemption but distinguished marital from non-marital rape by requiring the consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions in the case of the former before a prosecution could be brought . |
| 8 | This will allow more room in the main section of the fair where a number of innovations will be in evidence next year : a separate section for galleries exhibiting for the first time ; a section for photography and publishers and a more spacious layout of stands and aisles . |
| 9 | I suppose this is more of a forewarning than a request for permission , as I was going to send them this week anyway . |
| 10 | In the last interview he gave to a French journalist before the war began , Ho , in envisaging the way in which ‘ at all costs war must be averted ’ , seemed to accept independence within the French Union ; although unless this was based on a total misunderstanding of the nature of the French Union , which also seems unlikely , this was probably more of a smoke-screen than a smoke-signal . |
| 11 | More of a revolutionary than a reformer . ’ |
| 12 | Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Schools is more of a lap-dog than a rottweiler . |
| 13 | There is a real risk of mice , especially young animals , drowning or dying from the effects of a soaking if a bottle or nozzle of an automatic system leaks . |
| 14 | It is more of a cabal than a cabinet , more of a permanent diplomatic conference than a senate . |
| 15 | I have already instanced the first chapter of Simenon 's Maigret 's Pickpocket , which consists of no more than a description of Maigret riding to work on a bus , as being as gripping as any chase sequence , from the absolute accuracy of the writing and its complete economy . |
| 16 | Even an estate worth upwards of £100 a year might well consist of no more than a couple of manors plus an assortment of lesser parcels , all located in a single county . |
| 17 | SERPS consists of no more than a promise that future generations will pick up the bill . |
| 18 | Lukic was guilty of no more than a challenge for a 50–50 ball with the speeding Rob Jones around the 18-yard line . |
| 19 | International Relations began — and , many would say , remains — more of an inter-discipline than a discipline . |
| 20 | A Santa Monica health club is so far the only place where Americans can switch E for O. In Hungary , however , such matters are more of an imperative than a luxury ; over 10 per cent of the country 's deaths are pollution-related . |
| 21 | Mm my feet are sweating now , but , she seems to have a bug in there or summat , cos it 's more like a burning than a sweat , it |
| 22 | It was some player indeed who could unleash a power-drive with a ball that was more like a cannon-ball than a football ! |
| 23 | Betty thought he looked more like a gipsy than a minister — ; a good gypsy . |
| 24 | I told him last week that he looked more like a German than a Frenchman and he became very cross . ’ |
| 25 | Rose blooms take a variety of different forms , best summarized as ( a ) single , with a single circlet of five petals , ( b ) double , with anything from 10 to 30 petals , ( c ) semi-double , with up to 15 petals but opening more like a single than a double , and ( d ) the old favourite quartered rose , with its many petals curled into four ‘ quarters ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's always nice to get on the scoresheet , but I really do see myself more as a goal-maker than a goalscorer . |
| 27 | Even so , a sense of vocation is noticeable among most field officers , even many of the older ones : pollution control is still conceived of and practised more as a calling than a job . |
| 28 | I am going to offer , more as a case-study than a prescription , my own thoughts about what education ought to be , and what kind of ‘ schooling ’ would be an appropriate channel for its delivery . |
| 29 | Cromwell had thrown in his lot with the Levellers when it suited him two years before and so was regarded by them as no better than a mutineer himself when he turned against them . |
| 30 | I say this because I am anxious that having decided to reject the modernist notion that there is no Devil — and therefore no Christian dualism — we should not be tempted to fall into the opposite error of conceiving our adversary as no more than a fiend . |