Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [art] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said the planned job cuts did not affect RMT members and the pay cuts were effectively only a withdrawal of overtime . |
| 2 | We regard a number of the acts taking place within the occupied territories as illegal — most obviously the policy of settlement , which we believe stands in the way of the peace process . |
| 3 | Perhaps only a state of intoxication brought about by suppressants of these centres can really suffice to effect the final dissolution of the superego which , being after all a purely psychological agency , can not literally be soluble in alcohol . |
| 4 | If we are reduced to a handful of Scottish Back Benchers and perhaps only a couple of Opposition Scottish Back Benchers on the Standing Committee , that will be deeply resented . |
| 5 | So perhaps the sort of thing that might happen is what we found wholly by chance , in the personal interviews which we conducted with people who had been the subject of judgement summonses ( Appendix II , section 5 ) . |
| 6 | W w where they w w once when they 'd been installed or was it thought that it a mistake had been made in obviously a lot of cash had been spent on them but erm , was it considered a mis a waste of money or ? |
| 7 | Presented with so ready a means of escape from a course of action whose wisdom he already doubted , Coleridge 's decision was predictable and eager . |
| 8 | No sound came from the engine , no promising little cough , and naturally enough no roar of action . |
| 9 | It is worth speculating on whether , from the locals ' point of view , the proliferation of village organizations reflects not so much a flourishing of community life as a symbol of its downfall . |
| 10 | It was n't so much a case of thinking : he looks a lovely chappie . |
| 11 | It is , then , not so much a case of ellipsis occurring in informal speech as of writing requiring a degree of elaboration that is not necessary in informal speech . |
| 12 | Though Masonry was always to be an element in the liberal forces — particularly in later non-socialist brands of Republicanism — it was never again , as it was from 1815 to 1820 , its chief framework ; even then it was not so much a system of belief as the only clandestine organization available for conspiracy . |
| 13 | And what was tending to happen here , as the Scottish Typographical Circular regularly reported , was not so much a division of labour between women on straight setting and men on other processes , but rather the diversion of certain kinds of typesetting from the linesmen ( male piece-workers ) to the women , who were not only paid much less but who were also considered by some employers to be actually better at it . |
| 14 | It 's not so much a lack of generosity — a real miserliness . |
| 15 | Punch is certainly one of the great British institutions , and has become so much a way of life as to make it impossible to imagine a world without it . |
| 16 | Perhaps not so much a way of life , but what Wittgenstein called a ‘ form of life ’ : small and privatised world-views binding on the group and consisting of accepted social practices , group norms and common languages ( by the latter I do not mean natural languages like French or English , but a nomenclature or group argot ) . |
| 17 | ‘ When you travel round the world , and being brought up in a family like mine , you learn that what happens on the field is actually very important to people elsewhere , and you feel , perhaps not so much a sense of responsibility , as a sense of focus in which people identify nationally for the best kind of reasons , and are made aware of who they are and what they came from . |
| 18 | When the economic crisis became severe , community mobilization became not so much a question of participation in decision-making as practical support to keep schools and education projects going . |
| 19 | This has been not so much a question of exegesis but of hermeneutics , searching for the underlying meaning and background to the understanding and belief in the demonic world ( see Carr 1981 ) . |
| 20 | Clara could not explain to the school that it was not so much a question of finance , as of her mother 's instinctive opposition to any pleasurable project — and anyone could see that a visit to Paris could not possibly fail to entail more pleasure than instruction . |
| 21 | It is not so much a problem of hardware development outpacing software , or vice versa . |
| 22 | Any would be magnificent and there is time to knit several of them for ‘ specials ’ but I have n't said anything yet about small ‘ fun ’ presents and decorations which are so much a part of Christmas . |
| 23 | However , as the belief in metaphysical realism declined in the nineteenth century in favour of more nominalist , relativist or generally hesitant views of knowledge , the concept of a liberal education seemed to lose its firm epistemological foundation and become not so much a theory of knowledge as a theory of ignorance . |
| 24 | It 's not so much a reconstruction of image as proof that Shocked 's confidence is growing . |
| 25 | It is not so much a network of gift-giving as a network of indebtedness . |
| 26 | The point should not be overemphasized , since on occasion this sense of duty was not so much a cause of action but a post hoc justification of it . |
| 27 | This is not so much a matter of transaction costs as of the unpredictability of offer and counter-offer : it moves economics into the realm of game theory , where efficient outcomes can not be taken for granted ( see box ) . |
| 28 | It had become so much a matter of routine that when she answered he came close to putting the phone down before he realized that all he 'd heard was , ‘ Hello . ’ |
| 29 | Personally , I am not in favour of mammoth jail sentences except for the deserving few — and that 's not so much a matter of punishment as a means of keeping society free from their future depredations . |
| 30 | I used to use a similar item — called a Plonker Box at the time — years ago , on the sides of two or three of my computers , and never lost so much a byte of information . |