Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Better a gluey friend than none , |
| 2 | I had finally resolved to stage a roof coup , to climb on to one of the forbidden roofs iii the probably vain hope that the prospect of being left behind might change Melinda 's views , when suddenly a metal door opened and arms reached down to pull us up . |
| 3 | Suddenly a soccer backwater had tasted success but , as Mr Stringer readily admits : ‘ We have always had the problem of being sidetracked . ’ |
| 4 | Assuming any records were kept , pollution was as much a state secret as the artillery 's ammunition stocks . |
| 5 | This is an attractive and historic place , and very much a river town , having formed around the point where two dynamic Pyrenean torrents , the Gave d'Aspe from high up on the Col du Somport , and the Gave d'Ossau from even higher up on the ruggedly distinctive Pic du Midi d'Ossau , flow together . |
| 6 | Do you know how much a cat pelt is worth in some parts of Europe ? ’ |
| 7 | He is so much a scum supporter it makes me heave . |
| 8 | The plant is very much a recycling process . |
| 9 | Penzance , once a centre of smuggling , is now very much a holiday resort . |
| 10 | There is certainly , not so much a race problem between pupils , but there is a great problem here at the moment with the congregation , shall we say , of black pupils . |
| 11 | The J/44 is very much a performance yacht , so the deck is laid out mainly for racing although careful thought has been given to cruising requirements . |
| 12 | They called on the unwell clergyman Mr Riddoch , and again finding the conversation wanting — the poor man was unable to tell Johnson how much a university education cost at Aberdeen — the couple resisted all invitations to supper . |
| 13 | It was very much a revenge match for White — Spijkers had beaten him for a bronze in the Seoul Olympics , though then White was injured . |
| 14 | ‘ Not so much a naan bread , more a toasted duvet , ’ I 'd said . |
| 15 | … I think that this being very much a teaching hospital area … the GP becomes a second or third rate citizen . |
| 16 | In Orwell 's time , Wigan was as much a cotton town as it was a coal town , and if his excavation of the elements of exploitation was to have been adequate , it could not have omitted the experience of women in the cotton industry . |
| 17 | East Durham was very much a mining community ; and as my wife found , a prerequisite for employment was a fully paid-up , current Labour Party membership card . |
| 18 | Gumbet is very much a daytime sort of place and a great compliment to Bodrum . |
| 19 | The White Park , which in the past was as much a colour type as a breed , had several representatives in Wales such as the Chartley herd and the Vaynol or Faenol Park herd at Bangor ( originally from Scotland ) . |
| 20 | It 's not so much a style difference as how comfortable you feel , and where you have the handholds . |
| 21 | This is surely not so much a knock-out punch , more of a gentle slap on the wrist . |
| 22 | Navigation was very much a specialist skill and the maps of the desert were more or less blank . |
| 23 | Traditional industrial catering is very much a specialist business focused on the oil and gas sector of the economy which , due to the remote location of its installations , requires full turnkey support services . |
| 24 | A bit of oversell occurred with the hardback at £9.99 , but it turned out alright , and I do think this is very much a paperback title . |
| 25 | From an expressive standpoint this is very much a twentiethcentury performance , but one in which vibrato , portamento and the like are kept under strict supervision . |
| 26 | ‘ Compounding the problem is that , compared with German manufacturing , we 're still very much a sweatshop sort of industry . |
| 27 | Thus the individualist ethos which characterized the social relations at the workplace in the Dukeries was as much a survival mechanism developed by the miners for the competitive milieu underground as it was imposed by the employers . |
| 28 | The business of turning bark into stoppers is very much a cottage industry , apart from a few modern factories . |
| 29 | It was very much a cottage industry : she and her two sons would drive around with books in the car , being their own distributors . |
| 30 | Today whole family groups Produce basketwork at home in what is very much a cottage industry . |