Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So she said in as offhand a voice as she could manage , ‘ I met him — briefly . |
| 2 | While Solomon is posing as a German soldier , for example , he makes a botched attempt to surrender to the Russians that results in his inadvertently capturing their position — but the irony is passed over in so offhand a fashion that one barely notices it . |
| 3 | ‘ I thought I might go upstream a bit and wash off some of this dirt , ’ she said evenly , fingering her hair distastefully . |
| 4 | Due to the Transfer Regulations , the purchaser is in much the same and in no better a position than if he had bought the shares of the vendor company . |
| 5 | A : Better a government that pays lip service to democracy than one which does n't even do that . |
| 6 | Well up in Scotland of course we do n't need to save our rain water we get plenty of it coming from the unclear , but er one thing I would say would be that erm if we have a warm spell and the sun is beating on a bitumen roof and then of course suddenly a shower and that er goes into the water bucket or water barrel then it does give you maybe you know a few problems . |
| 7 | I would like to ask , why , when there co-operation at the , the Strathclyde bus company they have buses that are running choc-a-block constantly full , but then again suddenly a bus that does n't pay its full way is taken off and people that are dependant on that bus are left without any transport , why ca n't the busy bus subsidise the bus that is n't ? , because after it its public transport , so is it a complete and utter profit that the buses are running for or is it for the convenience of the public ? because it is |
| 8 | Very much a hack and secretarial job . |
| 9 | None of this mess was of her making , yet she was just as much a prisoner as if she had been in gaol like Clive . |
| 10 | They went up another narrow passageway , not so much a passage as a mere slit between houses , and came out suddenly into open space . |
| 11 | In the sense of their access to political power it was not so much a case that women were ‘ returned ’ to the family since they had never really left it to go out to get power — rather they had traditionally exercised power , if at all , by virtue of their familial positions and as the public and private spheres were separated , women were left behind . |
| 12 | Yes , I feel that it 's very much a case that they have things done to them all the time and our pupils , a lot of them , are quite sort of apathetic in decision-making and are quite happy to accept , or appear to be happy to accept , whatever anybody decides should be done for them , to them . |
| 13 | ‘ I have never seen an England bowler swing so much a ball that is 60 overs old . |
| 14 | To refuse or to omit to leave is as much a trespass as to originally enter without any right . |
| 15 | He had not worked out tactics to deal with what was not so much a surrender as a bid to form an immediate alliance . |
| 16 | Now those clothes are as much a trademark as were Andy Warhol 's ill-fitting silver wigs . |
| 17 | To them , the Kenneth Williams voices and the Kenneth Williams faces , the flared nostrils and that snide look that had become as much a trademark as the ‘ stop messing about ’ sounds on radio were instantly recognizable . |
| 18 | For her , the trade of compositor was more an intellectual calling , not so much a craft and she found her work fascinating , reading as she went . |
| 19 | That is not so much a sign that molecular biology is a young person 's game , but rather a proof of how great a magnet for young people 's enthusiasm the structure of DNA has proved to be . |
| 20 | This is therefore very much a sea and sand holiday , with one of the safest beaches in Devon . |
| 21 | Equally regrettably , they suggest that she who ( presumably ) approved them is not so much a Pharisee as a Philistine : one , moreover , who has been impressed by too many drives down The Bishop 's Avenue , where Hampstead 's temples to new money are built , en route to the Finchley constituency . |
| 22 | Sir : You refer to the Prime Minister ( 4 October ) as ‘ not so much a Pharisee as a Philistine ’ , owing presumably to her supposedly vulgar tastes . |
| 23 | The Enlightenment period is very much a Prayer and Liturgy centred time . |
| 24 | Today Brighton & Hove is very much a resort where past and present meet , merge and coexist perfectly . |
| 25 | The third ‘ qualification ’ to the simple arms-race is not so much a qualification as an interesting point in its own right . |
| 26 | The italicised utterance is not so much a paraphrase as a summary . |
| 27 | Being the wife of Herbert von Karajan is probably as much a hindrance as a help where some other painters and critics are concerned . |
| 28 | Never before , in all the years of his work upon the project , has Christo been championed by the Bundestag 's president , but , paradoxically , Dr Suessmuth 's position of authority may be as much a hindrance as an advantage to his cause . |
| 29 | ‘ She is not so much a stargazer as someone who is interested in power — other people 's power , which is possibly the only reason she was attracted to David Mellor . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , if they 're trying to imply it was one of us , you 're just as much a suspect as I am ! ’ |