Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought I might go upstream a bit and wash off some of this dirt , ’ she said evenly , fingering her hair distastefully . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Very much a hack and secretarial job . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This is therefore very much a sea and sand holiday , with one of the safest beaches in Devon . |
| 6 | The Enlightenment period is very much a Prayer and Liturgy centred time . |
| 7 | Raine Spencer is not so much a person but a phenomenon . |
| 8 | Television is very much a reflection and reinforcement of its society , and the history of gay representation on television is closely linked to events outside . |
| 9 | October to March was very much a care and maintenance period , keeping the animals fed . |
| 10 | Our breath is moist and our sweat evaporates ; one person ‘ produces ’ a quarter of a litre of water during eight hours of sleep , and as much a litre and a half during an active day . |
| 11 | The issue may be for cash or in exchange for some other asset ( eg a company or business ) . |
| 12 | The ability to display hybridisation data from either the whole dataset or any subset ( eg a contig or group of contigs ) using show was very useful , particularly in conjunction with reorder . |
| 13 | A purchase on the market by way of a " put through " from a Class 4 party ( eg a director or substantial shareholder — see para 17.2.6.1 below ) must be treated as a Class 4 transaction . |
| 14 | The metopes presumably came from an earlier monument of the same city , not apparently a treasury but an open colonnade , perhaps a baldacchino to shelter but not conceal some large offering . |
| 15 | He says we play basically a bump and grind game . |
| 16 | Now we 've got a good long a session and hour and a quarter and tea afterwards . |
| 17 | Too long a winter or no , the Hauxwells must be about it . |
| 18 | Olive 's spirit and capacity to command never diminished Apparently , she hugely enjoyed her part in the filming of Too Long a Winter and liked the programme . |
| 19 | Prussian muskets pricked fame from the wood 's edge , but the shooting was at too long a range and only one French horse tumbled into the wheat . |
| 20 | Some specific proposals could be made here , for example ( 1 ) a link between the St Leonard 's cycleway ( see Opportunity No.9 ) and the east end of the Meadows cycle route — eg via a suitably traffic-calmed Montague St. ; ( 2 ) a link from the West end of the Meadows northward to Princes St. A north-south route through the new developments to the west of Lothian Road is not suitable ( for this purpose ) because it would involve too long a deviation and the crossing of major roads . |
| 21 | The original lessee was not merely a guarantor or surety . |
| 22 | For their part , ministers are accountable to Parliament , so ministers are the vital link in the chain between the civil service and Parliament and , indeed , they have been in the past not merely a link but a barrier . |
| 23 | Recent tendencies in vesting powers in government departments , however , ‘ makes the executive not merely a deputy but a plenipotentiary ’ . |
| 24 | The occasional aberration in judgment aside , the curbing regulation has been not merely a success but possibly the finest piece of administration in modern times . |
| 25 | This new kind of educational institute was to be not merely a school but also a shelter from a harsh world . |
| 26 | My Mam was ‘ the boss ’ at home but outside that house she was merely a wife and mother , never a person in her own right . |
| 27 | The acceptance of this principle would do much to dispel the ‘ us ’ and ‘ them ’ attitude sometimes found where there are choirs , and it would counter the idea that an offering by skilled singers and players is merely a performance and an exercise in self-advertisement , unless by their attitude musicians invite such criticism . |
| 28 | The Brahmins who , thanks to the British , had been not merely a caste but a class , declined in economic status , and a new bourgeoisie appeared consisting of better-off farming families . |
| 29 | Since the DFR was not a document of title , but merely a receipt and notice of shipment it did little to assure the consignee or bona fide purchaser of the goods that the shipper would not resell or reroute the goods in transit . |
| 30 | But ‘ Shakespeare 's Sister ’ ( which took its title from a Virginia Woolf essay on what would have happened if the bard had been female , a different way of looking at women although one has to search hard to find any reference to this in the actual song ) was hardly the band 's most shining masterwork , merely a jumble or rock and rockabilly plummeting through 129 seconds which fail to motivate the memory cells . |