Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Better a tough general in charge , was their argument , to ensure the stability of the US-Panama relationship , than a weak civilian regime unable to control nationalist hotheads . |
| 2 | And — well , the music started and there was suddenly a great explosion of sound that no one could possibly have been prepared for . |
| 3 | Suddenly a great cloud of smoke billowed out from the gun . |
| 4 | Suddenly a huge fork of lightning hit the tree . |
| 5 | Broadman held up three thick red fingers and the man 's face was suddenly a sunny display of comprehension . |
| 6 | I could feel that the problem with David was very much a tremendous lack of application . |
| 7 | Gas supplies are also very much a political football in view of the high level of USSR supply but here the situation is less unstable because of the length of supply contracts involved . |
| 8 | He was very much a German type of dog , with a very impressive head , a dog who excelled on the move . |
| 9 | Only this time they 're armed not just with a new album but new producers , new horizons , a new attitude and apparently a new code of conduct in interviews . |
| 10 | Later in the letter , considering apparently a different sort of poem written by Williams , Hart Crane confesses : |
| 11 | Although incorporating some features of the previous 1963 edition , this was basically a new form of contract and by implication was intended by the JCT to be used on contracts exceeding £250,000 in value . |
| 12 | Second , only rarely would a coin have been lost at or near the same time when it was made ; we must bear in mind how long a particular type of coin is likely to have stayed in circulation . |
| 13 | His intention is to establish continuity between the issues of the Vietnam War and those of the recombinant-DNA controversy , especially a pervasive mood of doubt and suspicion about the social benefits of science and technology that were characteristic of the establishment thinking then . |
| 14 | Perhaps through your letters page you will allow me this opportunity to urge all pencil manufacturers to consider making available their full range of leads ( coloured as well as graphite ) for holder use and saving annually a small forest of cedar wood and other trees used in producing the pleasing but expense and wasteful product . |
| 15 | At such a time , sumptuary laws may be passed which forbid the use of particular goods to those who are deemed to be below a certain station in life ( e.g. Braudel 1981 : 311 ; Mukerji 1983 : 179–82 ; Sennett 1976 ) , a form of regulation common to a large range of societies ( e.g. Srinivas 1966 : 16 ) , which may be associated with limited spheres of exchange ( e.g. Douglas 1967 , ; Salisbury 1962 ) , and restrictions on mercantile practices . |
| 16 | Such proposals are naturally a major source of controversy between the political parties but some local authorities have undoubtedly been looking at charges with a fresh eye in recent years . |
| 17 | He resisted , however , the notion that the polytechnics were merely a new breed of university . |
| 18 | Chatham described them , in November 1777 , as ‘ the nursery and basis of our naval power ’ , for they had been not merely a dependable source of tar and timber , especially for masts , but of seamen ; the outbreak of hostilities meant that 18,000 American sailors were lost overnight to the British crown . |
| 19 | Further notes should be made during reviewing , so that you are not merely a passive recipient of information . |
| 20 | Our truancy is defined by one fixed star , and our drift represents merely a slight change of angle to it : we may seize the moment , toss it around while the moments pass , a short dash here , an exploration there , but we are brought round full circle to face again the single immutable fact — that we , Rosencrantz and Guildenstern , bearing a letter from one king to another , are taking Hamlet to England . |
| 21 | If for any reason , such as fire or overgrazing , the arms of the parabolic dune become unstabilised , the whole form may become merely a shapeless mass of sand migrating downwind through the dune belt . |
| 22 | Jansons masterfully keeps the music 's internal momentum alive without any sense of undue haste , and although the allegro bustles energetically along , Jansons resists the temptation to tear Shostakovich 's occasionally violent texturing to shreds For once the Finale appears as a crowning inevitability , rather than merely a throw-away moto-perpetuo of staccato virtuosity . |
| 23 | The changing pattern of employment therefore — the shift from blue-collar to white-collar occupations and the pre-eminence of professional and technical groups within the latter category — is not merely a general feature of post-industrialism , it is one of central significance . |
| 24 | Now , ‘ hot ’ is merely a possible trait of butter in , for instance , Arthur put the butter into a dish ; and it is certainly not the case that any lexical unit functioning as the direct object of pour has ‘ hot ’ as a canonical trait — in Arthur poured the milk into a dish , for instance , ‘ hot ’ is , again , merely possible . |
| 25 | No priests , merely a shifting scene of spokespeople and co-chairs , and no franchise held by anyone on the pulpit . |
| 26 | But at what point in the isolation of elements does a person become merely a mad torso with head attached ? |
| 27 | However , is this polarity of values really the case or is it merely a convenient dichotomy for argument 's sake ? |
| 28 | In these , according to Engels , ideas and institutions were merely a direct reflection of economy and technology . |
| 29 | Writing advertisements is quite an art but most jobs do not demand a particularly exceptional approach , merely a high degree of clarity about the kind of person needed . |
| 30 | Lévi-Strauss ' famous objections to Sartre , which appeared in the last chapter of The Savage Mind ( 1962 ) , are sometimes represented as if they were merely a structuralist attack on Marxism . |