Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [adv] a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But broadcasting costs are more volatile than other costs and also rise at a faster rate so that even a licence fee increase which keeps up with general costs is an actual real decrease in its total value .
2 The concept clearly was meant to establish a College in the broad sense of a learned foundation , whereas what emerged almost inevitably , from the actual circumstances of its establishment and funding , degenerated into what was to remain for a century basically and predominantly a horse infirmary .
3 ( Tramp art is an old American form of folk art in which small pieces of wood are laid together and then a plaster cast taken . )
4 ‘ But while people think of me perhaps as just a guitar producer who does n't go anywhere near sequencers , I actually use them quite a lot .
5 The deputy chairman of the UN Special Commission on Iraq , Robert Galucci , said in Bahrain on Jan. 14 that Iraq had for the first time admitted " pursuing a production-scale centrifuge enrichment programme rather than simply a research programme " , after UN inspectors confronted Iraqi officials with evidence supplied by Germany showing the involvement of German firms in this programme .
6 If so , it is necessary to adopt a therapeutic rather than simply a directive approach , and to pay particular attention to establishing such a relationship with the patient .
7 I had to show him I could be an international rather than just a squad player .
8 As we have said before , we like to think of ourselves as a preservation society , rather than just a rail interest society , valuable as such societies are .
9 Erm , many of you will realize that East Devon have been requested er by the Government to prepare these area wide plans rather than just a town plan so they take in and encompass the whole of the area and there was quite a lengthy and substantial document with the , with all the different policy statements on I believe Councillor ?
10 … Trouble with going back to the old days , the [ agency ] was more or less a family concern .
11 That particular trip was more or less a carbon copy of the previous one .
12 Disclose directors ' interests in the following transactions : loans , quasi-loans , credit transactions and indirect arrangements agreement to enter into such transactions any other transactions or arrangements in which a director had directly or indirectly a material interest .
13 It was my own experiences with herbal treatments , due to being ill over the past few years , that convinced me that there was more than just a placebo effect at work .
14 But it was more than just a pub crawl .
15 Similarly , we have already encountered the question posed by The Architect 's Journal when Cramlington was first proposed in its modern form : will this place have any industrial , and hence employment , base which will make it more than merely a dormitory suburb ?
16 Also as both a rugby player and as a cricketer he played the game with distinction at first-class level .
17 Although there is a slight element of gamble with money purchase schemes , in that no one can forecast with certainty how well or badly a pension fund might do , in practice most trustees act very conservatively .
18 It seems that in any country , the Rottweiler is always recognized as a working dog first and a show dog as an after thought and then as only a show dog .
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