Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such men found themselves , however , fighting what became all too clearly a rearguard action . |
| 2 | All too often a Friday buying binge has been followed by a weekend of sober reflection and regrets in the cold light of Monday morning . |
| 3 | The noted Maori boys college was not so much a rugby school as a school of rugby , fielding 13 rugby teams , one football side and one hockey team from its 350 pupils , as well as producing the best school XV in the country . |
| 4 | ‘ Not so much a naan bread , more a toasted duvet , ’ I 'd said . |
| 5 | This is surely not so much a knock-out punch , more of a gentle slap on the wrist . |
| 6 | It 's not so much a style difference as how comfortable you feel , and where you have the handholds . |
| 7 | There is certainly , not so much a race problem between pupils , but there is a great problem here at the moment with the congregation , shall we say , of black pupils . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's not so much a game show , more a study of psychology . ’ |
| 9 | It was not so much a guidance note as a review ; the Committee 's terms of reference had been to consider the design and layout most appropriate to various types of roads in built-up areas , with due regard to safety , the free Mow of road traffic , economy and the requirements of town planning , and to make recommendations . |
| 10 | What we need is not so much a point irregularity such as a foreign atom , because that could only facilitate movement at one point , but rather a line defect which will allow the army of molecules , as it were , to sweep forward on a broad front . |
| 11 | This gave them not so much a production holiday , more like two serials ‘ in the can ’ for season two ( up to and including the rapidly commissioned ‘ The Dalek Invasion of Earth ’ ) that could be recorded during season one 's contractual period . |
| 12 | The mechanical response is usually determined at low frequencies and over as wide a temperature range as possible and examples of each are described in the following section . |
| 13 | And and not really even a living room for the owners cos they were in the bed chamber . |
| 14 | She was not at all good-looking , or graceful , or winning , but a mere maiden ; possibly not even a country girl , but a London servant at the great house of Burdcrop nearby . |
| 15 | ‘ Compounding the problem is that , compared with German manufacturing , we 're still very much a sweatshop sort of industry . |
| 16 | That it is still very much a family business is revealed by the manner in which staff refer to their chairman as Mr Sandy . |
| 17 | Penzance , once a centre of smuggling , is now very much a holiday resort . |
| 18 | There may be one or two when we might just say well perhaps just a little bit more volume but it 's not perhaps just er slacken off on the pace a little bit . |
| 19 | Ah we were supposed to be gon na like have a little gathering for my birthday party , well not normally a birthday party |
| 20 | Later in 1991 came Adams Laboratories ( at $77m ) , with a series of branded prescription drugs , especially for respiratory disorders , but even more importantly a sales force throughout the US . |
| 21 | A minor official — quite remarkably almost a caricature Frenchman — condescended to see us . |
| 22 | Transfers and new appointments were made from the mainland to BBC Northern Ireland so that it became almost as firmly a government instrument as , for instance , the army 's information office in Lisburn . |
| 23 | The election manifestos of the Conservative and Labour parties fundamentally disagree about how well a market economy works . |
| 24 | The return of William Purser to England released me from my obligation not to preach in English , and shortly after his departure I was invited to preach in Rangoon cathedral , then very much a chaplaincy parish church , and only rarely having great services in Burmese . |
| 25 | In the following decades Pavlos created three-dimensional objects from bundles of paper strips : bottles , still lifes , ties and most recently also a cypress grove and a 250 cm-long flower meadow ( until 12 December ) . |