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

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1 And that schedule … later became a printed schedule and he had a very finely developed scenario where eventually a certain amount of equipment , particularly TOW missiles , would be sent to Iran , ( and ) hostages would be released …
2 This may particularly apply where only a small number of items are involved , e.g. jewellery/carpets .
3 These are all roads where the pedagogical tradition has pointed signposts in the wrong direction , making us search for English ( the nature of English conversation , at least ) where it is not — and where only a careful analysis of natural conversational data can get us on the right road again .
4 Although only a recent feature of modern financial systems , options have existed at various times in the past .
5 The reports have attracted considerable publicity although only a tiny proportion of the reports have been debated in the House .
6 Candida is a yeast — the same sort of organism that we use to brew beer and make bread , although only a distant relative of these domesticated microbes .
7 Although only a small minority of Europeans live in disadvantaged rural areas the land which they occupy constitutes as much as half of the total surface area of western Europe .
8 Although only a small minority of elderly households lack basic amenities or live in unfit dwellings , it is also important to question the suitability of the housing stock for older people 's needs .
9 The starting point for the three readings that follow is the increased numbers of children under 5 whose parents both work , and who are cared for outside the family ( whether in a day nursery or with a child minder ) for a major part of the day ( 25 per cent of children under 5 in the United Kingdom had working mothers in 1976 , although only a small proportion of these were working full-time ) .
10 However , Marine Harvest , the former Unilever subsidiary which was bought over by the US MariFarms Inc Group last year , has remained in the US market although only a small proportion of its 10,000 tonnes production from Scotland is sent there .
11 Although only a small number of pupils in Wales completed the tests in Welsh , no problems were found specifically relating to the Welsh language in translated tests .
12 Although only a small number of weapons had been eliminated , scientists had calculated that just 5 per cent of the weapons that existed were sufficient to destroy the world .
13 It is believed that the Yukagir people had many languages and dialects at the time of the Russian conquest , although only a small remnant of this nationality survives today .
14 Their plausibility requires that the disinclination to be cruel to animals is a mark of true humanity ; part of its content , rather than merely a possible cause of it .
15 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 .
16 [ The alternative ] means more than merely a different way of ‘ doing social science ’ .
17 Although not a high form of participation , employees were likely to be informed of the reasons for change , how and when it will be implemented , what the new system will mean to them and its benefits .
18 Paracetamol , although not a common cause of death by suicide , is used increasingly for deliberate self poisoning .
19 Hence the oppression of women , although not a functional prerequisite of capitalism , has acquired a material basis in the relations of production and reproduction of capitalism today .
20 The modern surveyor involved in administering building contracts needs more than just a working knowledge of its terms — he needs a detailed legal appreciation .
21 The concept of a cognitive map , in O'Keefe and Nadel 's hands , is more than just a topographic representation of the space in which the animal is located ; it also describes the distribution of cell systems concerned with the analysis and integration of spatial cues within a framework of behavioural meaning for the animal .
22 This is more than just a subtle interweaving of his own and Proust 's problematics .
23 There were lots more , there were even one or two who , like Albert ‘ Bertie ’ Gomes , had more than just a tentative grasp of the deadly art of Trinidadian politics and finally there was Uriah Butler , who in 1946 — ten years after he had instigated the oil field demonstrations — led the most successful campaign in the first elections under universal suffrage .
24 But this may have been more than just a sartorial sign of the changing times .
25 A group is more than just a random collection of individuals .
26 For him , the " Panopticon principle " ( p 216 ) should be regarded as more than just a particular example of ingenuity in architectural design ; rather : " … it was an event in the " history of the human mind " .
27 Be this as it may , the constitutional authorities who support the introduction of a Bill of Rights to limit Parliament , government , and the state , nevertheless recognise that it calls for a fundamental constitutional change if it is to be more than just a pious declaration of good intent .
28 Waller believes it is more complex than just a huge shift of opinion on the day .
29 I think they were more than just a marauding band of outlaws . ’
30 Cumulativeness , for example , the way in which scientists explicitly build , via references and reviews , on the work of their predecessors and competitors , although clearly a central feature of science , can nonetheless be found in somewhat different form in literary traditions .
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