Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] of a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most interesting of a myriad of other partnerships and endorsements comes from HaL Computer Systems Inc , which is working with USL to make the future versions of SVR4.2 into the 64-bit world . |
| 2 | Instead , the glory went to Gerhard Berger and the Camel-Benetton-Ford duo of Michael Schumacher — who finished only seven-tenths of a second behind the victorious Berger — and Martin Brundle . |
| 3 | If one man would pay generously to become Nawab , then so would another , and the attraction of gifts paid out upon a change of ruler led to the deposition of three Nawabs in rapid succession , which reduced the position to one which was obviously that of a puppet of the Company . |
| 4 | Yet one suspects that his real significance is less that of a prophet of European disintegration than of a poet of the American Puritan temperament . |
| 5 | In addition to the factors already discussed , the main stimulus to employers ' organisation in a number of countries appears to have been less that of a counter to growing union power , or an attempt to achieve market or labour force regulation , and more a response to what was perceived as a threat to common employer interests arising from increasing state intervention . |
| 6 | The markets were not so much of a problem for the many part-time farmers who had a good non-farm income . |
| 7 | ‘ You are n't a great meat-eater , are you , dear , ’ said Bertha , ‘ so the approach of Lent wo n't be so much of a hardship for you . ’ |
| 8 | Then it would n't be so much of a shock to you , either ! |
| 9 | It seems odd that a man with so much of a reputation for sexual encounters should cringe from public contact , but it was all part of his reserve . |
| 10 | ‘ It was not so much of a stretch for me to do that role as people might think , ’ Dustin explained . |
| 11 | Further transfers from Rainey ( Un ) and Agnew ( UPNI ) in Stages VIII and IX ensured the election of two candidates from VUPP , a party which had only .7 of a quota of first preference votes at Stage I. |
| 12 | DUP thus secured a seat after having only .7 of a quota of first preference votes . |
| 13 | He presented the music box , which was received with every expression of pleasure by Isobel , and the monkey to Dorothy , who could not help laughing when she saw it , because it was so typical of a craze for stuffed animals amongst the girls she had met in Tollemarche . |
| 14 | Sir Anthony Meyer 's self-destructive challenge to the leadership of Margaret Thatcher cost him the support of his constituency party early in 1990 , but , like Sir Ian Gilmour , he was merely symptomatic of a cast of mind common to many of the baronetcy . |
| 15 | With an eye on recent developments in neighbouring Romania , trade union leaders appealed to strikers not to stage demonstrations , apparently fearful of a spread of unrest . |
| 16 | What is incontestable is that Mr Stewart 's conduct during the whole affair was entirely unbecoming of a representative of a national sports , and his claim that the TVNZ cameraman was obstructing the removal of David Lawrence from the field of play was proved by television evidence to be false . |
| 17 | And then I realized it might not have been so all of a sudden at that . |
| 18 | ‘ I feel in more of a muddle about politics every moment . ’ |
| 19 | Gazing straight ahead , only half-aware of a world outside the claustrophobic comfort of the car , of Massingham 's hands stroking the wheel , the almost soundless changing of the gears , the pattern of traffic lights , he deliberately let his mind slip free of the present and of all the conjecture about what lay ahead , and remembered , by an exercise of mental recall , as if something important depended on his getting it right , every moment of that last meeting with the dead man . |
| 20 | But Christie found the pace too hot as Marsh scorched home in 19.73sec , only one-hundredth of a second outside the world record . |
| 21 | ‘ The world is so full of a number of things |
| 22 | The world is so full of a number of things that it would be hopeless to try to study every kind of animal or plant . |
| 23 | The difficulty is that the world is so full of a number of things that there are many difficult names to be learnt ; chemistry seems necessarily to involve a rebarbative vocabulary . |
| 24 | Make sex discussions much less of a trial with the Family Planning Association 's new Growing Up series of leaflets : Answering Your Child 's Questions , for parents ; How Your Body Changes , for teenagers . |
| 25 | In the event , the sterling balances were much less of a problem from London 's point of view than was commonly anticipated when the scale of their wartime accumulation was first discussed in the mid-1940s . |
| 26 | Like as not he would n't even recognize her , and he 'd made it clear she was merely one of a number of girls who accommodated him . |
| 27 | Implicit in these views was the fact that child abuse was considered to be only one of a range of problems that many families who come under the system 's microscope were experiencing , and that there was a need to respond to all the problems including child abuse , rather than of necessity giving it priority . |
| 28 | Unemployment was only one of a range of social problems for which the Poor Law 's capacity to provide was , at best , controversial . |
| 29 | Mr Major is only one of a majority of politicians who like it hot at the Kundan . |
| 30 | But this was only one of a variety of vessels , some of them much larger , it seems , used by the Vikings , and it is the accident that they still used them for burials which has enabled a small number to survive — the conversion to Christianity may be said to have deprived us for ever of the best evidence we might have had of medieval navigation as it developed in the eleventh and twelfth centuries . |