Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] of a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The broad sense in which I shall be using homophobia is loosely descriptive of a manifest phenomenon : the hatred , fear , and persecution of , the raging at , homosexuality and homosexuals . |
| 2 | So little of a reliable nature is known of Cemaleddin Aksarayi 's life , so prominent is the association of him with Aksaray that it is tempting to think that he passed his whole life there : such certainly is the thrust of the Ottoman sources as well as Melikoff 's article . |
| 3 | Ellen and I both assumed that Sweetman 's interest in Wavebreaker had been merely that of a prospective charterer who wanted to reconnoitre the boat 's amenities . |
| 4 | Although he was paid a handsome salary by GE to be a morale booster and public relations spokesman , it should not be assumed that his role was merely that of a glad hander , a retired film star capitalizing on a fading reputation . |
| 5 | But the usefulness which he sought was not only that of a prominent poet , and in a postscript to The Idea of a Christian Society he had already discussed the need for " constructive thinking " during the war . |
| 6 | The loss is not only that of a magnificent animal : the decline of the elephant hurts the wider environment . |
| 7 | Yes , gentleman , the problem is the shorter the period , the less chance you have of getting a measurement which is necessarily representative of a general trend . |
| 8 | Louisa was left feeling that she had been appointed audience to a play of the wife 's devising , one in which the heroine 's suffering was the principal theme and which might , indeed , have been moving had not the sense of theatre been so pronounced , and had the script been less expressive of a plaintive heart than of its tribulations . |
| 9 | Cole ( 1978 ) , in contrast , prefers to see the emergence of permanent employment in terms not so much of a living tradition but of an institutional legacy which organizational innovators were able to draw on . |
| 10 | Unkind loyalists mocked him as ‘ not so much of a stalking horse as a stalking donkey ’ who would get only his own vote . |
| 11 | Because I am a writer caught up willy-nilly in the polluted air of our own times , because I can not avoid entirely the language , assumptions , behaviour and weirdly chiliastic bombast so typical of a corrupted age , I can force myself to imagine by what tormented mental process an educated and rational man of some sensibility moves from the cerebral subtleties of Keynsian economics to the animal crudities of purchasing unsatisfactory and momentary sexual release from a cheap little whore . |
| 12 | This is perhaps symptomatic of a continuing problem with the user/user needs approach to financial reporting theory : we are still not clear that substantial numbers of users exist . |
| 13 | Inside our house there were stone floors , coal fires , oil lamps , but I do n't remember ever feeling any sense of cold or discomfort , except when I got chilblains — a seasonal occurrence ( and one which Dally cites , along with other circulatory disorders , as common among anorexics and perhaps indicative of a certain proneness ) . |
| 14 | There he remained through nearly nine years of sharp ministerial changes , an unprecedented term , perhaps indicative of a unique standing in the civil service but lack of personal political clout . |
| 15 | But he remained so convinced of a static universe that he added an element to his theory to reconcile it with Newton 's theory and balance gravity . |
| 16 | In the case of the present downturn , however , analysts are less confident of a quick return to high growth . |
| 17 | I was only half-aware of a looming presence next to me at the bar , until he joined in our conversation : |
| 18 | Emma Robinson and Lisburn 's Joanne Logan had dead-heated for third place , with another pretty young Lisburn swimmer , Ruth Hill , fifth , only one-hundredth of a second back . |
| 19 | This leads some adherents of psychoanalysis , especially those of a Lacanian disposition , to regard sexual difference — or rather hetero/sexual difference as it should really be called — as both tragic and heroic . |
| 20 | When a patient is admitted to a psychiatric inpatient unit the clinical team should avoid the temptation to commence specific treatments immediately , especially those of a physical nature . |
| 21 | This omission , together with a lack of any technical details on how it actually works combine to make the Light Rifle somewhat less of a genuine alternative to a joystick and more of a gimmick . |
| 22 | It was perhaps more of a confederal scheme than a federal one . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , an increasing number of schools now see withdrawal as only one of a widening range of options , only to be used where the child 's individually assessed needs suggest that this is indeed the most appropriate form of provision . |
| 24 | The significance of computers in art is only one of a fascinating range of issues , technical and philosophical , that Al raises . |
| 25 | It should now be clear that the pronunciation described in this course is only one of a vast number of possible varieties . |
| 26 | The report is only one of a recent clutch showing the generally dreadful state of British housing . |
| 27 | The introduction of Teds , a bear-shaped burger-type product , under the specially created ‘ My Favourite ’ trademark is only one of a new range of products targeted at new customers . |
| 28 | First , it implies that our Universe is only one of a never-ending succession . |
| 29 | The last situation is the system of alternating tripods of support , which is thus seen to be only one of a larger number of possible gaits . |
| 30 | The milestone at Trumpington is only one of a whole group , most of which survive , along what was in the early eighteenth century the main road from Cambridge to London . |