Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] [det] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet Labour had not fought the election solely on a negative programme of hostility to Protection but on its socialist programme ; and the electors had given even less of a mandate to socialism than to Protection . |
| 2 | Betjeman captured the concern in 1938 in his poem Slough : What had appealed so much to a previous generation was no longer a cause for pride . |
| 3 | Event had become too much of a drain on both his time and the resources of the rest of the Virgin Group . |
| 4 | It was as if , the weeks of turmoil and uncertainty that followed his father 's death having turned into months , the tumultuous turn of events had proved too much for a youth of his years . |
| 5 | The Liberal Democrats complained that too many schools have outside lavatories ; that the Tories were profligate in setting up a chair of maritime history at a local university ; and that they had spent too much on a ceremonial mace . |
| 6 | The local grammar school had put too much of a gawky human edge on his son 's image . |
| 7 | Stephani Cook , writing about her experiences in hospital , describes how when told that she had to have yet another in a series of operations , describes how she cried like a child : |
| 8 | She followed him over towards one of the big sofas , careful as she sat to leave as much of a gap between them as possible . |