Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun sg] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore a clause in the draft of the bill which would have allowed the use of state school premises after school hours for religious instruction had been dropped after the Supreme Soviet had failed to reach agreement on it after passing the whole bill at first reading on Sept. 26 . |
| 2 | She was so much a daughter of the vicarage in accent , manner , and appearance ( her father had been a clergyman ) that without being told I had assumed , seeing evidence in Mrs Browning 's home that someone at some time had lived in a hot country , that her husband had been a missionary . |
| 3 | As usually happens , the ‘ sponsorship role ’ of the Electricity Division led to Murray becoming not so much a controller of the industry as an honest broker between the BEA and the Whitehall machine in general . |
| 4 | Since political bias was so much a characteristic of the press we might expect its influence to be more apparent in terms of attitudes than perceptions , however . |
| 5 | ‘ And remember , ’ Hugh continued forcefully , ‘ Stephen is as much a grandchild of the Conqueror as Matilda . ’ |
| 6 | Glasgow and west of Scotland sons were as much a part of the company of the ‘ Founding Fathers ’ as they were involved with the vested interests of the Tobacco Barons . |
| 7 | Blyth was historically a separate place from Tyneside , although very much a part of the North East Coast . |
| 8 | In 22 the Poet is so much a part of the Friend that he can not age , himself , ‘ So long as youth and thou are of one date ’ . |
| 9 | It is as much a part of the music business as a 12-inch re-mix . |
| 10 | The Smiths had their day , made the '80s safe for ironic excitement and indie pop that was n't crap , and are now as much a part of the nostalgia industry-chart museum as The Rolling Stones . |
| 11 | JCU , or JCF as it was often called , was very much a part of the build-up of the Canberra force at Binbrook . |
| 12 | Enjoy a tour of the Evening Telegraph which brings news to the county and beyond and is very much a part of the way of life in the area . |
| 13 | Outworn devices which are no longer functional in the defamiliarization process are as much a part of the work 's material as ideas or aspects of real life . |
| 14 | ‘ They 're becoming very much a part of the treatment of diabetes these days . |
| 15 | For many years , policy-makers have referred to the need to ‘ overcome the division of Europe ’ , as if the primary wrong were the division and not the domination of the East by Soviet Communism ; as if the Americans were as much a part of the problem as the Russians , rather than its solution . |
| 16 | Yet Modigliani was too much a part of the life of Montparnasse , too involved with the individuals leading the ‘ new art ’ , to remain completely aloof . |
| 17 | What strange quirk of the heart made me feel so much a part of the life of this place ? |
| 18 | They are very much a part of the scene nowadays and they certainly deserve more than a derisory four laps . |
| 19 | As part of the audience you are as much a part of the entertainment as the performance itself , and this is something that dramatists are aware of and have always written for . |
| 20 | Set on a slight , grassy slope in an enclosed corner of the park the sheep look as much a part of the landscape as the leaves on the trees . |
| 21 | Magic thus represents a view of causation utterly at variance with the concepts of the Christian scientific West , which are now as much a part of the African 's world as is ancient tradition . ’ |
| 22 | She is as much a part of the family as Mrs Lewis 's own baby sons … we think she is very fortunate to have found such a wonderfully happy home . ’ |
| 23 | And the word ‘ Glory ’ in verse 21 is so much a part of the language of our worship that it easy to overlook the significance of the phrase that Paul uses there . |
| 24 | That epicanthic fold over the eye , which seemed so much a part of the android 's ‘ difference ’ — its machine-nature — was here , on the natural man , quite attractive . |
| 25 | These ways have become so much a part of the fabric of dance that they are used almost unknowingly by teachers and dancers . |
| 26 | In democratic states , and even in those which see themselves as having a so-called information society ( even we define it as a society which offers increased access to information ) , some forms of censorship will be as much a part of the fabric of society as in a despotic state . |
| 27 | Source F " This defeat in the October 1931 election is still very much a part of the mythology of the Labour movement . |
| 28 | In a way Mark was too close to home , too much a part of the world whose foundations had just been rocked , yet somehow on the outside . |
| 29 | If it chooses to get one from one of its employees , then it seems to me that the preparation of that report by one of its employees is as much a part of the administration of the societies ' business in the field of making advances as is consideration of the report by the assessor required by section 13(1) ( b ) . |
| 30 | As much a part of the scenery as the granite tors are the Dartmoor ponies , and there are usually quite a few around the hut circles . |