Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | When solutions are sufficiently dilute a plot of against c is linear and the third virial coefficients ( B 3 , A 3 , Γ 3 ) can be neglected . |
| 2 | On arriving he missed that female intimacy which had been so important a part of his life for many years . |
| 3 | The Mamores are just such a group of mountains , containing 11 Munros placed magnificently between Loch Leven and Glen Nevis , and since there is easy access from both north and south you have all manner of decisions to take about where to start and finish , how many to do and in what order . |
| 4 | The er issue of stock lending if you heard the Maxwell pensions earlier on comment on stock lending , whether you think pension funds should do that er in the case of Maxwell as you 're probably aware a lot of the stock lending was off market rather than on the market and perhaps you could also comment on the use of independent custodians in terms of the custody of investment . |
| 5 | Amongst the highlights were the Candelabra primula — P. bulleyana , P. beesiana and P. pulverulenta — which , with their numerous hybrids , are now such a feature of gardens like Rowallane in Northern Ireland and Bodnant . |
| 6 | Many old people are as good a set of consumers as anyone else , but the very old and frail are at risk . |
| 7 | 4.3.3 The other Non-academic Parties agree to provide to the Lead Organization , or direct to the Secretary of State , as may be most convenient a copy of their respective latest audited accounts , unless previously provided , together with such other financial and technical information as the Secretary of State may from time to time properly require in relation to the procedures governing claims for payment . |
| 8 | But the Royal Fort as a house , or to be more precise a suite of reception rooms added to an older complex , has something of much greater imaginative reach than a mere froth of writhing plaster feather-work and gilding such as London 's lost Chesterfield House once displayed . |
| 9 | To lodge a copy of the court order with the title deeds may be sufficient , but to be strictly formal a deed of assignment should be made . |
| 10 | ‘ There must be about half a pound of sugar in that pot . ’ |
| 11 | Obviously getting work is an extremely important goal for any child at school , and it is a goal for society that there should be as low a level of unemployment as is compatible with the advancement of technology and the efficiency of industry and agriculture . |
| 12 | These measures alone may be as effective a means of recognising house officers as an important part of the service provided as restricting them to one hospital site for their preregistration year . |
| 13 | Why this ceremony has to take place so early in the morning has never been explained to me , but it appears to be as essential a part of the nuptials as the Hindi movie music the night before . |
| 14 | This may be as crude a model of the public official as the models of ‘ protector of the public interest ’ , ‘ profligate incompetent ’ , insensitive automaton or neutral instrument of political will that it seeks to replace . |
| 15 | Indeed , withdrawal was undoubtedly the main method by which the decline in working class fertility was achieved , and it continued to be as common a method of birth control as the sheath in post-World War II Britain . |
| 16 | It would not be too great a distortion of the facts to say that the main thrust of twentieth century sensory physiology has been to move the application of the doctrine of specific energies inwards from the sensory ending towards and into the cortex . |
| 17 | Some commentators see the last group mainly in terms of the process of the diffusion of technology , but this would seem to be too narrow a use of the concept since spread or diffusion is an essential , and probably the most important , element in all forms of technological change . |
| 18 | But she was starting to feel that making music underground might not be too unacceptable a way of living , it might be preferable to certain compromises , when an unpleasant thing happened . |
| 19 | Critics complain that Daimler will have excessive power in aerospace and military hardware and be too big a recipient of government contracts and money . |
| 20 | Although bottom-up approaches work for simple cases , there usually proves to be too large a number of attributes to analyse in more realistic situations . |
| 21 | Feminist responses to hygienism were rarely unambiguous , partly because physiological medicine and evolutionary biology were so powerful a mainstay of anti-feminist campaigns . |
| 22 | Paradoxically , the more the middle class increased and flourished , diverting resources towards its own housing , offices , the department stores which were so characteristic a development of the era , and its prestige buildings , the less went relatively to the working-class quarters , except in the most general form of social expenditure streets , sanitation , lighting and public utilities . |
| 23 | Goodwill , training , time , skill and pupil support are all likely to be in shorter supply than would be the case if there were not such a plethora of assessment innovations taking place at the same time . |
| 24 | Clara could have forgiven the things their ugliness , if that very ugliness were not such a source of pride . |
| 25 | Neither the seamen nor their leaders , Shinwell admitted , had heard of the Queensberry rules ; " they had one common characteristic , a belief that toughness and a bellicose attitude were as good a rule of life as any and while many seamen were of a friendly disposition and hated trouble , some would attack from the rear and use a razor or a broken bottle " . |
| 26 | She could not associate him with any loss of dignity , or credit , or grace , not because he felt these too nearly and jealously , but because he wore and used them with as little thought as the breath he drew , and they were as natural a part of him , and like breath , when they left him they would leave him dead . |
| 27 | with alcohol I mean alcohol is so much a part of the establishment of Oxford . |
| 28 | Even the surreal speech that is so distinctive a feature of Orton 's comedies was based in part on the systematic collection of real-life instances ( Lahr 1980 ) . |
| 29 | This is why fiction , including children 's fiction , is so irreplaceable a form of human knowledge . |
| 30 | Suffering is so prominent a part of the Gospel that it has been described as a Passion story with an introduction . |