Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] [noun] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Better a researched decision than a random one . |
| 2 | He also used his chronicle for an assault on both the Right and the Left : Wigan Pier was as much a political tract as a travelogue , it was an indictment of the Right and an ultimatum to the Left . |
| 3 | But it was as much a legal body as a spiritual one , although occasionally this could work for the individual 's unexpected benefit as in the laws relating to sanctuary or ‘ abjuring the realm ’ . |
| 4 | ( 18 ) The structure of the takeover ( eg a recommended offer or a Court Scheme ) may require the consent of preference shareholders , lenders or optionholders or holders of convertible securities in or to the target . |
| 5 | Remarkable how long a nasal drone and a cheap synth can sustain a man . |
| 6 | Current evidence indicates that matrix is not merely a simple scaffolding but a dynamic modulator of cell phenotype and behaviour . |
| 7 | Neither my sister nor I can remember exactly what we had for dinner , but we chose not merely a good cheese but a claret of which we hoped he would approve . |
| 8 | To be duz et débonaire , as the Confessor allegedly was , represented not merely a literary convention but a normal part of diplomatic and courtly intercourse . |
| 9 | There is little to please those who want to hear merely a beautiful sound or a neat , well- tailored style , everything to move those who believe that , like her great predecessors , Lehmann and Fischer-Dieskau or her co- eral Schrier , the word should have equal place with the music . |
| 10 | Who proved to be not merely a lively guide but a brilliant physicist and a secret poet . |
| 11 | A rat as big as a cat scurried down a steep slope and a small bush slid down after it in the torrential downpour . |
| 12 | If there 's a rise compared with the same quarter last year , could there be a good reason , perhaps a new baby or a recently retired person spending more time at home ? |
| 13 | Perhaps a squashed chicken and a wooden elephant ? |
| 14 | They were in a village of perhaps a dozen houses and a white log church , out on a plain somewhere under a big , big sky ; each building stood well apart from its neighbours with just open common land between them , and the grass on that common land was deep and uncut . |
| 15 | For example , many old people living alone have been forced to move into residential care when experiencing a temporary crisis ( perhaps a broken hip or a mild stroke ) in the absence of suitable emergency domiciliary care . |
| 16 | Perhaps a quick pull and a dyno clip ? |
| 17 | Johnson grasped hold of some solitude and became for an hour or so a noble savage and a member of the armies of medieval romance , communing with nature on the bank of a stream : ‘ The day was calm , the air soft , and all was rudeness , silence and solitude . |
| 18 | So I said , should I fill in a quick-fix report or a noncompliance report , to say that the quick-fix form , or is it a noncompliance report is wrong . |
| 19 | Gate receipts brought in a further £750,000 and a similar figure was produced through merchandising . |
| 20 | For him , as for Neruda and others , Communism was less a political philosophy than a metaphysical need . |
| 21 | But clean-ups and purges were less a sustained policy than a reaction to popular events and anxieties . |
| 22 | local powers and in this respect the party resembled less a unitary structure than a collection of private franchises . |
| 23 | By 1852 the Court was established in the form which it was to retain until 1870 , and from its inception it became clear that this was not only a new Court but a new type of court . |
| 24 | In some ways this boom is even more extraordinary , because it represents not only a new taste but a subtly different attitude towards works of art . |
| 25 | This lovely Victorian house is quite blissfully situated amongst a cluster of houses , in the village of Alnmouth , right on the banks of the river estuary , with only a small garden and a ‘ no through ’ road between it and the beach — it is brilliant for tumbling out of bed and enjoying a long walk on almost deserted sands . |
| 26 | Depending on where they are standing a person looking from either side will see only a partial image or a totally dark and blank screen . |
| 27 | Depending on where they are standing a person looking from either side will see only a partial image or a totally dark and blank screen . |
| 28 | Not only a great conditioner but a superb skin moisturiser and it 's perfect for shaving ! |
| 29 | He was wearing only a sleeveless vest and a pair of short pants that reached almost to his bony knees . |
| 30 | ‘ An excess in the public expenditure beyond the legitimate wants of the country is not only a pecuniary waste but a great political and above all , a great moral evil . ’ |