Example sentences of "of a [noun] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leon Kennedy held up his hand , more of a proclamation than a greeting . |
| 2 | This was a court society : not in the sense sometimes imputed to the ancien régime of a parade-ground where a despot brought his nobility to heel , but an elite world where within shared conventions political conflict was contained and consensus was continually re-formed and re-enacted . |
| 3 | The issue is further complicated by work such as Newby 's study of farmworkers in East Anglia ( Newby 1977 ) , which employs all the methods used by Gans and by Stacey , and yet is more of a survey than a community study . |
| 4 | Middle-class professional man ; solicitor perhaps ; denizen of pine-and-heather country ; pepper-and-salt tweeds ; a moustache hinting — perhaps fraudulently — at a military past ; a sensible wife ; perhaps a little boating at weekends ; more of a gin than a whisky man ; and so on ? |
| 5 | Is it best to do sort of a say if a question , Which accent do you not like ? |
| 6 | In Britain we 've always made more fuss of a ballad than a blueprint … |
| 7 | If in some of these instances the writer appears to be trying to get more out of a rendering than a rendering will reasonably yield , the reason may be that in Horace 's line there is a fortuitous convergence , a hovering ambivalence , of two possible constructions : , " the celestial losses of the moon " , i.e. the moon 's waning , and , " swift — i.e. quickly returning — moons " . |
| 8 | The best finance people are more of a help than a hindrance . |
| 9 | The offer is , apparently , to refund 20% of a fare if a train is more than an hour late . |
| 10 | The following are diagrams of a machine where a letter is put in and operated on by each box in turn as the letter goes along the conveyor belt . |
| 11 | I thought the dead whiteness of the dress made me more of a corpse than a bride but had n't enough energy to infuriate my mother by telling her so . |
| 12 | More of a wallet than a purse , it still lay where the man had dropped it . |
| 13 | The combination of acute pain with sudden hostility produces a harsher version of the usual cry of pain — more of a screech than a scream . |
| 14 | And there 's certainly no end of a palaver when a patient ‘ takes matters into his own hands ’ , with the electrified fence , for example . |
| 15 | The fact that we are commanded to love even our enemies tells us that love is more of a decision than a feeling . |
| 16 | We should however be prepared to provide detailed drafting assistance on financial or similar aspects of a contract where a client requires expert' financial or accounting knowledge . |
| 17 | We should however be prepared to provide detailed drafting assistance on financial or similar aspects of a contract where a client requires ‘ expert ’ financial or accounting knowledge . |
| 18 | We should however be prepared to provide detailed drafting assistance on financial or similar aspects of a contract where a client requires ‘ expert ’ financial or accounting knowledge . |
| 19 | BUT the Fab Four 's first record was more of a MISS than a hit . |
| 20 | Orton and his staff did n't think of a ghost until a reporter from Utah joked about the possibility . |
| 21 | Her first appearance on the operatic stage was more of a stumble than a début . |
| 22 | One such male priest conducted a ritual of purification of a church after a woman priest had celebrated Mass there . |
| 23 | ‘ We wo n't stand much of a chance if a shell lands near or on this trench , ’ I remarked apprehensively . |
| 24 | AIESEC Debate : ‘ This house believes that a University degree is more of a hindrance than a help to a career in British industry . ’ |
| 25 | However , he could also be a tiresome prankster and thus often more of a hindrance than a help about the house — Briggs tells of practical jokes such as ‘ blowing ashes over shelled oats spread out to dry ’ ( from The Fairies in Tradition and Literature ) . |
| 26 | Later that month the Union 's largest society , AIESEC , the international organisation for students of all subjects who are interested in business and management , organised a debate on the motion that ‘ This House believes that a university degree is more of a hindrance than a help to a career in British industry ’ . |
| 27 | But I thought that 'd be more of a hindrance than a help |
| 28 | One of the authors summarized the position in the words : ‘ Since 1922 we have come to recognise more and more that chemotherapy in the sense in which Ehrlich introduced the term , is more of a dream than a reality ’ . |
| 29 | Political neutrality , without which a militarily improved army was liable to prove more of a threat than a support to Spanish democracy , was quite another matter . |
| 30 | Shredding and slicing life , in Woolf 's view , menacing it with monotony and madness , in Lawrence 's , clocks provide for modernist fiction more of a threat than a sense of order and regularity . |