Example sentences of "[det] [det] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I simply wan na say two things and that is this that within a month if this scheme is to work I believe that the council or the social services committee must draw up a long list of homes which it proposes to close and that long list will be in teams and that must be done not behind closed doors so that people know what is being proposed , we level with people who live in those institutions and they are fully acquainted with our , with our intentions and secondly I think it 's necessary to understand from this programme that it is not just refurbishment programme , it is a refurbishment and closure programme the simple equation being that the money that comes from closures from capital receipts and some revenue savings , actually goes into the rest to refurbish them . |
| 2 | Dealing with the threat of logical security breaches poses much more of a problem because it demands a thorough understanding of the computer systems and the workings of the business they support . |
| 3 | Tom had been much more of a snob than she was . |
| 4 | And we 're not just talking about all the matches in the venerable County Championship being four-day events — so much more of an event than a three-day match . |
| 5 | And we 're not just talking about all the matches in the venerable County Championship being four-day events — so much more of an event than a three-day match . |
| 6 | In the middle of this strange house 's celebrations she felt much more of an outsider than she had done sitting on her own in her room . |
| 7 | It has long been known that skilled smallholders , owning their own plots of land , can produce very much more from an acre than large-scale farmers with labourers who can not possibly have the same dedication . |
| 8 | While Hogarth is much less of a presence than his aqueous predecessor , his arrival has caused Marillion to bind closer together as a unit . |
| 9 | External hacking poses much less of a threat than malicious acts by staff or ex-staff . |
| 10 | If we did that , there would be much less of a problem and we would not be in such deep water with the European Commission . |
| 11 | Obviously a transfer of allegiance in the feudal way was much less of a strain than the submergence of a national spirit , and there was a great difference between the national spirit of Englishmen and the allegiance to the King of France or to the Great Moghul felt by the inhabitants of New France and of Bengal ; if the inhabitants of Bengal had felt that they were citizens of the nation of Bengal it would hardly have been possible for them to change to feeling they were Englishmen , but for them to feel that they used to owe allegiance to the Nawab of Bengal and now owed it to the British businessmen who had conquered the Nawab was not such a difficult transition . |
| 12 | Re-decorating one bedroom should be fun and is much less of a task than taking on a whole house . |
| 13 | ridiculous for her to come and bring all that on a train when . |
| 14 | ‘ Even the recent drop begs the question if they can do all this in a month or two , why could n't they have done it before . ’ |
| 15 | She smiled and winked at Marco — all this in an instant after the flare exploded and before she threw herself down , arms and legs spread wide , at the shrieking Perks below . |
| 16 | A few moments later he had regained control , but it was clear that he was still dreadfully upset when he revealed , ‘ Yesterday — everything seemed to bubble up inside me and , and I thought — I thought I could n't cope any more with a relationship that was n't a … with loving someone who I knew loved me but who was , because of her upbringing , her beliefs , her parents , convention — fear of scandal — propriety — you name it , I went through the lot yesterday . ’ |
| 17 | However , this does not mean we are any less efficient or offer any less of a service than before . |