Example sentences of "be [adv] [conj] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Giving good Press : Fashanu has always been more than just a footballer |
| 2 | I am more or less a consultant to them . ’ |
| 3 | The way that these arrangements for the responsibility and control of book provision work out are often as much a matter of personalities and university politics as anything else . |
| 4 | Magic thus represents a view of causation utterly at variance with the concepts of the Christian scientific West , which are now as much a part of the African 's world as is ancient tradition . ’ |
| 5 | The Smiths had their day , made the '80s safe for ironic excitement and indie pop that was n't crap , and are now as much a part of the nostalgia industry-chart museum as The Rolling Stones . |
| 6 | But they and the families which ran them are now as much a part of local history as pits and shipbuilding . |
| 7 | These will increase in efficiency , and with strong belief in hard work and more education , and with the organisation and money provided by Japan , and helped by cheaper labour , will be more and more a threat to all Western economies . |
| 8 | I fell into one of those drooly , head-lolling dozes that seem to be more and more a feature of my advancing years . |
| 9 | I think that the rest of the situation should be more or less a straight across thing , and I 'm gon na see if we can get Paul |
| 10 | The frequency of maintenance will depend on the harshness of the environment , and in normal circumstances should be once or twice a year . |
| 11 | Although it was hardly conclusive proof they were the same kegs as those discovered by the vagrant , all the signs pointed to it being more than just a coincidence . |
| 12 | I knew right then you were the one that I was caught up in physical objection but to my satisfaction baby you were more than just a phase . |
| 13 | However , it is obviously as much a waste of funds to give money to privatisation of the coal industry as it was to give money for the poll tax . |
| 14 | This is designer socialism : the belief that buying tassled loafers rather than winklepickers , is somehow as much a PR of the struggle as being on the picket line at Wapping . |
| 15 | For Gramsci , law reflects economic relations , and it is eternally and generally a weapon of class domination , a classical Marxist position . |
| 16 | The status of general courses is thus as much a matter of context and clientele as content , and seems likely to change only if the latter change . |
| 17 | To argue that this is always and necessarily a result of ‘ conditioning ’ sounds like a feminist version of ‘ I do n't know what you housewives do all day ’ . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , as we have already said , casein is more or less a mixture of cheese and lime and under prolonged moist conditions casein behaves very like cheese . |
| 19 | Yet the London we inherited from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is more or less a success . |
| 20 | Erm , it 's once a week , but I think they 're coming in the they 're here twice this week er , and I think , it 's as and when they can , so if it 's more than once a week then they will be here . |
| 21 | There 's no rules in our business , but there 's more or less a convention that we do n't kill each other . |
| 22 | No I do n't , but So it 's more or less a threesome if anything at all . |
| 23 | This is partly because only a proportion of hinds conceive in a given year and individual stags rarely hold harems throughout the whole breeding season , and partly because few stags breed successfully for more than four years . |
| 24 | In all of this — in matters appertaining to ‘ taste ’ , that is — there is a new kind of predatory cruelty in the air , which is now as much a part of the successful survivor ( also known as the yuppie ) as Paul Smith togs , a Betty Jackson outfit and extruded plastic or brushed aluminium accessories . |
| 25 | Many police officers today , even in the higher ranks , can not remember carrying out their police duties without the assistance of the computer , and it is now as much a part of police back-up as the police car and police radio . |
| 26 | ‘ It is purely and simply a hospital , dedicated to healing and the relief of suffering , ’ Mr Brooke said . |
| 27 | Rather , like the rest of the Musgrave Park complex , it is purely and simply a hospital dedicated to healing and the relief of suffering . |
| 28 | Failure to pay moneys owed to the firm This is invariably and obviously a ground for expulsion . |
| 29 | The second view is that since we are always part of the knowledge equation , we can never know if there is a ‘ real ’ world , and hence knowledge is everywhere and always a human and social construction of , or placed upon , reality , whose form will vary ; the organization of knowledge is therefore artificial and relative . |
| 30 | Citizenship was obviously and visually a life , your whole life , with common dangers , common responsibilities , common enjoyments , and common ambitions … |