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

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1 But Gallagher does not decide this and only a House of Lords judgment on the point can resolve the uncertainty .
2 And then it was the cu , we 'd payed that and then a couple of weeks after it was the phone and then it was the gas !
3 As the Quality Improvement Process becomes more and more a part of C&P 's culture , quality education will naturally become more integrated with the mainstream training programmes at all levels .
4 His cautious and methodical ways , once so valuable a buffer to Richard 's impetuosity , now become more and more a cause of annoyance .
5 How can we possibly retain that self-reliance and confidence if we become more and more a nation of programmed consumers , stuffed with the produce of an automated technology over which we feel we can have little influence ?
6 Although they were playing stereotyped conspirators , innocents , prostitutes , courtiers and lackeys each role had a personality of its own and thus a semblance of reality .
7 erm schools just do n't help girls to have both and so a lot of the talk about underachievement , and I do n't like that word , amongst girls really ignores the fact that girls are n't underachieving when they do n't go all out for occupational success , when they do n't set their goals very high in schools , they are being very rational because if they do achieve they are going to be faced with immense problems .
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