Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A damp warm world inhabited by insects and turtles was suddenly a disguise for horrible terrors with huge teeth . |
| 2 | Suddenly a flock of all-dark shearwaters appeared , only the underwing showing a pale smudge . |
| 3 | ‘ Whispering ’ Ted Lowe was suddenly a celebrity with murmured thoughts about the difficulty of ‘ a long pink against the nap into the top pocket ’ . |
| 4 | In terms of preventing relapse among people with an established schizophrenic illness , a concern for the social environment to which they return needs to become as much a part of standard procedures as is the administration of maintenance medication . |
| 5 | However , Ms Callil says that overall it is not so much a question of bigger profits , as ‘ less loss ’ . |
| 6 | The modern centre of Coventry is as much a reflection of mid-twentieth-century ideals , demands and greed , as the centre of Saffron Walden is of those of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . |
| 7 | The small town cafe which finds Kentucky Fried Chicken or McDonald 's producing crippling competition in its own area , is just as much a victim of these trends as ICI , Shell or Unilever . |
| 8 | The new competition is not so much a contest among the strong and the weak all obeying Queensberry rules ; it is now just as much a contest among competing strategies . |
| 9 | It is not as much a matter of generating meanings out of a text as it is a matter of making connections between a particular verbal text and a larger cultural text , which is the matrix or master code that the literary text both depends upon and modifies . |
| 10 | In total therefore there are seven times as many graduate men among all employees , so getting on to the wage profiles that grow fastest and last longest is very much a matter of educational credentials . |
| 11 | This was not true — he was very much a dilettante in these things — but it shocked people into making the changes we needed . |
| 12 | Eddie Murphy 's Boomerang is n't so much a comeback after recent failures as a career rethink , deliberately designed to show Fast Eddie easing up and losing the street hustle — coming on , in fact , like a black Cary Grant . |
| 13 | This is as much a truth about such episodes as unfocused depression . |
| 14 | Shellfire Memories ( North Kent Books , 44pp , illus , sbk ) complied by David G Collyer , is very much a book of personal reminiscences of East Kent from September 1938–June 1940 . |
| 15 | The child might never have known his or her grandfather nor seen the small piece of land that made him a landlord , yet the child remained stubbornly a landlord in official eyes decades after land reform . |
| 16 | The five lines above the signature , which appear on the facsimile of the whole page ( p. 58 ) , have defied attempts to decipher them , but Unver , beneath the facsimile on p. 50 , adds what is apparently a summary of these lines : that is , " Above is a note of Molla Yegan 's recommending this person [ presumably Molla Gurani ] as Fatih 's Hoca . " |
| 17 | Basically a look at surviving Spitfires , it is an interesting work marred slightly by some incorrect photo captions . |
| 18 | This is the first time I 've ever had a show and if you look at my show they 're basically a lot of single images . |
| 19 | But the country remained for long a backwater in international relations . |
| 20 | Clearly some places , especially a number of fortified towns , were sited to take advantage of easily defended positions . |
| 21 | I used a lot of vintage instruments on this record , especially a lot of old Strats . |
| 22 | The children found that many of the old names had been kept but naturally a number of new ones , such as Frisky , Fay , Titania and Babs , had crept in . |
| 23 | In addition to the physical attributes to look for there are naturally a host of technical features to check . |
| 24 | It was merely a shell with glittering branches at the best addresses in London . |
| 25 | There , when animals are on the move , there is little social structure , merely a mass of advancing animals . |
| 26 | This , of course , is not in itself a prescription of a conflict rule , merely a reference to general conflicts rules . |
| 27 | Many of the proposed measures are merely a continuation of existing developments aimed at fostering worker mobility within the Community , enhancing training provision and establishing common health and safety requirements . |
| 28 | Or is the current wave of hooliganism in British football merely a continuation of old traditions , which we now are less willing to tolerate and more anxious to report ? |
| 29 | The formal decision on industrialisation had already been made at the Fourteenth Party Congress in 1925 ; therefore the Fifteenth Congress could be claimed to be merely a continuation of previous policies . |
| 30 | One approach to debunking the distinctiveness of the Thatcher record is to argue that the post-1979 policies are merely a continuation of earlier trends , for example , of the early economic policies of Mr Heath 's 1970 government or of the acceptance of monetary targets and abandonment of Keynesianism under the Callaghan — Healey regime in 1976 . |