Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [adv] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had seen into paradisiac regions , with their air and sky , and I was no longer wholly or merely a denizen of this vulgar earth . |
| 2 | Most servicing valves have an internal ball with a hole through it , so that just a quarter of a turn is needed to move the valve from fully open to fully closed . |
| 3 | The medium carries the paint evenly , so that just a touch of colour can be introduced to the medium to make a transparent glaze layer . |
| 4 | Motability has arranged special schemes with motor manufacturers , wheelchair manufacturers , insurance brokers , and other so that today a variety of schemes can be offered which not only help disabled people become mobile but also give them a chance to be truly independent . |
| 5 | However , autonomous replication occurs in only 50-70% of the transformants , suggesting a defect in the recognition of the Tetrahymena telomeric template by the putative P. anserina telomerase so that only a fraction of entering DNA is stabilized into linear extrachromosomal molecules . |
| 6 | This leads us on to OBSERVATION : so that quite a lot of time should be given over to looking . |
| 7 | Their husbands objected at first , but soon stopped when the money started coming in and anyway a quarter of the women were on their own , who had been abandoned or divorced . |
| 8 | Ciaran Fitzgerald and the team will be all too aware that they let the fans down and so a repeat of that disaster in the remaining matches is most unlikely . |
| 9 | However , it is obviously as much a waste of funds to give money to privatisation of the coal industry as it was to give money for the poll tax . |
| 10 | America , where there appear to be more grossly obese people than in Britain ( by which I mean those around double their desirable body weight , rather than just a couple of stones overweight ) , is an excellent place to observe this eating-speed phenomenon . |
| 11 | This creates a network of all possible word sequences rather than just a tree of isolated words . |
| 12 | Stanley William Hayter is broadly acknowledged as one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century printmaking , on three counts : his technical innovations , especially in intaglio colour printing ; the encouragement of artists from Miró to Pollock and beyond to treat printmaking as a means of original expression ( rather than just a way of reproducing images ) ; and a remarkable body of prints produced over six decades , which attest to his broad interests in mythology , the workings of the unconscious , and the new mathematics . |
| 13 | It gives due weight to action research as a process rather than just a set of things to do . |
| 14 | It also manages to tie the Alps together as one whole , treating them as a range of mountains rather than just a list of routes . |
| 15 | You may find it more pleasing and effective to range together a selection of complementary shapes , rather than just a hotchpotch of squares , circles , ovals and rectangles . |
| 16 | As a result of Nicaea , Rome became the official centre of Christian orthodoxy , and any deviation from that orthodoxy became a heresy , rather than merely a difference of opinion or interpretation . |
| 17 | For Gramsci , law reflects economic relations , and it is eternally and generally a weapon of class domination , a classical Marxist position . |
| 18 | The status of general courses is thus as much a matter of context and clientele as content , and seems likely to change only if the latter change . |
| 19 | This is designer socialism : the belief that buying tassled loafers rather than winklepickers , is somehow as much a PR of the struggle as being on the picket line at Wapping . |
| 20 | Well , the crisis has arisen because we have both locally and nationally a shortage of teachers , both permanent teachers and supply teachers . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , as we have already said , casein is more or less a mixture of cheese and lime and under prolonged moist conditions casein behaves very like cheese . |
| 22 | This design was , as was the Karrier model , based on and more or less a facsimile of the ‘ Wolverton Coupling ’ . |
| 23 | In examining colloquial English it is often more or less a matter of arbitrary choice how one transcribes such a word . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , it has taken more than just a pinch of the new S-class 's style with its first real attempt at a grille , cut down into the front bumper . |
| 25 | But nervousness and vacillation over direct state intervention was more than just a problem of administration . |
| 26 | Is he more than just a basher of indifferent bowling , of which there is currently plenty ? |
| 27 | In de Gaulle 's mind , the empire was more than just a source of potential recruits . |
| 28 | There was more than just a matter of fifty years separating her life from that of Johnny Latimer . |
| 29 | Everything here was different and therefore better : the stiff-backed brass taps , the cut of the banister , the genuine oil paintings ( we had a genuine oil painting too , but not as genuine as that ) , the library which somehow was more than just a roomful of books , the furniture old enough to have woodworm in it , and the casual acceptance of inherited things . |
| 30 | Having you family portrait done by a professional photographer gives you more than just a reminder of what your children looked like as they grew up , because a professional has all the best equipment necessary for a top-quality portrait . |