Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore a clause in the draft of the bill which would have allowed the use of state school premises after school hours for religious instruction had been dropped after the Supreme Soviet had failed to reach agreement on it after passing the whole bill at first reading on Sept. 26 . |
| 2 | Better a culture in which men have one wife and women need not shroud themselves in black , we 'll say . |
| 3 | To claim money as a major human goal is not to make any specific claim about ‘ human nature ’ ( such as its mercenariness ) since it is not so much a goal in itself but the facilitator of almost all possible human goals — expressive , artistic , acquisitive or whatever . |
| 4 | Elsbeth Lindner , rebuilding Weidenfeld 's fiction list , has bought a first novel set in Civil War England and Puritan America which she hesitates , she says , to bill as ‘ a prequel to The Scarlet Letter ’ because it is ‘ very much a novel in its own right ’ . |
| 5 | Homelessness , repossessions and the misery of unemployment are as much a feature in this constituency as anywhere . |
| 6 | Second mortgage Usually not so much a loan in itself as using the value of a home ( over and above the value of any company loan ) , usually large and now mainly for home improvements , for up to , say , seven years ; with fixed monthly repayments . |
| 7 | DataViews is very much a player in the more stable market sector , but it needs a stronger presence in more dynamic growth areas . |
| 8 | This was not true — he was very much a dilettante in these things — but it shocked people into making the changes we needed . |
| 9 | The CIA commented somewhat tentatively at first on Harold Wilson , the prime minister , describing him as very much a loner in British politics . |
| 10 | The child might never have known his or her grandfather nor seen the small piece of land that made him a landlord , yet the child remained stubbornly a landlord in official eyes decades after land reform . |
| 11 | Along the Fosse , there was apparently a lull in the sequence between the first-century activity of uncertain military or civilian origins already discussed and the earliest civilian horizons of the second . |
| 12 | For Charlie Nicholas his betrothal to his wife Claire and the more cosy prospect of a future as a father was apparently a watershed in his development . |
| 13 | Some months later I got a cheque for six hundred dollars — apparently a programme in America had done a feature on what can happen when you ask a stupid question and that was my fee for being included . |
| 14 | I think at the end it must come down to two things ; one basically a change in attitude — we have to come to recognise that we live in a very , very technological society , that most of us were born before man walked on the moon , but the kids in school were born in an age when man had walked on the moon ten years ago and they live in a world which is very scientific , and we have to recognise that — and the other one is practical sense , I think , where we really have to look seriously to in-service training of teachers , a ) and b ) we have to look carefully at the way we train teachers now . |
| 15 | I think at the end it must come down to two things ; one basically a change in attitude — we have to come to recognise that we live in a very , very technological society , that most of us were born before man walked on the moon , but the kids in school were born in an age when man had walked on the moon ten years ago and they live in a world which is very scientific , and we have to recognise that — and the other one is practical sense , I think , where we really have to look seriously to in-service training of teachers , a ) and b ) we have to look carefully at the way we train teachers now . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm basically a loner in a collaborative field , and I thought everything was possible , ’ says Newley . |
| 17 | Well do you see this vote against opting out as a basically a vote in favour of the tertiary college plans for Banbury ? |
| 18 | Mrs Field demonstrates her technique with the hunting horn during the filming of Too Long a Winter in 1972 ( Courtesy of Yorkshire Television ) |
| 19 | If they make too long a line in one direction , it will be corrected by a shorter line somewhere else , and the result will be some modification of the normal vision , which is a natural error in the vision of the artist , and which constitutes his style . ’ |
| 20 | But the country remained for long a backwater in international relations . |
| 21 | Especially a seat in Parliament . |
| 22 | Holy men were needed everywhere , but there was naturally a shortfall in the supply . |
| 23 | Very often slow communications meant merely a slowing-down in the whole pace of events , an acceptance of the fact that important negotiations were bound to be protracted . |
| 24 | During the few moments in which she paused in her ascent to the church she reflected that now she was looking at the view the other way round ; now she was in one of the overcrowded little alleys visible from San Martino as merely a crack in a vast expanse of roof tiles and crumbling masonry and noticeable from that lofty vantage point because of the fluttering of the washing hung out on poles over the street to dry . |
| 25 | The first attempt to strengthen the House of Lords , prior to 1876 , was the conferment of a life peerage upon Baron Parke , ( ‘ Baron ’ here signifying merely a judgeship in the Court of Exchequer ) who thus became Lord Wensleydale . |
| 26 | To put it in basic terms , Leonora , you 're no longer merely a patient in my eyes . |
| 27 | The initial focus will be upon the notion of structural change that is employed in post-industrial arguments , which , it should be noted , is taken to represent not merely a change in the direction of the economy , but a shift from one type of economic system to another . |
| 28 | Whether there is upregulation of the genes that produce these antigens or merely a change in expression on the cell surface has not been investigated : in situ hybridisation should provide an answer to this question . |
| 29 | One Monday morning I lay in bed looking out of my skylight window at nothing in particular ; there was n't anything to see except sky because the window was merely a hole in the roof which you could open or shut with a long wooden handle . |
| 30 | The alternative vision is the one that I subscribe to , and along with me , most historians in this country and in America , and indeed increasingly erm a young generation of German historians , and this is that things began to go wrong well before nineteen fourteen , and that the Germans in fact deliberately started the First World War as the Treaty of Versailles said they did , that nineteen eighteen was not therefore the beginning of the evil , but merely a hiccup in erm a German attempt to conquer Europe , erm as it were , a play with two acts , the first act being nineteen fourteen to eighteen , and then the second act being nineteen thirty-nine to forty-five , two attempts to dominate the continent of Europe by military force . |