Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is very much a case of caveat emptor . |
| 32 | It was n't so much a case of thinking : he looks a lovely chappie . |
| 33 | It is very much a case of selecting your kite for the conditions . |
| 34 | Unfortunately this is very much a case of throwing the baby out with the bath water . |
| 35 | Even the encouragement given to the Ceauşescus ' globe-trotting by Robert Mugabe was pretty much a case of like endorsing like . |
| 36 | With pressed flowers , it is very much a case of quality rather than quantity . |
| 37 | Indeed , it is not so much a case of them accompanying the AIB team members as of them being part of the team . |
| 38 | Your selection of wayward notices ( 27th November ) reminded me of one I saw in my hotel in Frankfurt — not so much a case of bad translation , as a question of logic . |
| 39 | Work groups are very much a case of one in , all in' . |
| 40 | It is , then , not so much a case of ellipsis occurring in informal speech as of writing requiring a degree of elaboration that is not necessary in informal speech . |
| 41 | Yet however we may judge deviation , whether negatively or positively , being a social outsider is very much a case of non-conformity to the norms and regularities of discourse structure . |
| 42 | It is not so much a case of Captain Bob as of Major John and Petty Officer Newton . |
| 43 | It was not so much a case of social science theories being senseless , misguided or absurd , but more to do with their serious lack of evidential support . |
| 44 | ‘ Obviously I would love to get back to where I was before the injury , but it 's very much a case of taking one game at a time . ’ |
| 45 | ‘ It was very much a case of starting from scratch introducing new systems and procedures , ’ said George , 58 , who lives in Billingham and at times had responsibility for 132 different premises and up to 2,500 employees . |
| 46 | However , jailing Shields for three months , Sheriff William Fulton told him : ‘ It is not so much a case of stealing from this house as plundering it , ransacking it and leaving it in an awful mess . |
| 47 | It was not so much a case of Glasgow getting worse as one of the rest of the country improving faster . |
| 48 | Though Masonry was always to be an element in the liberal forces — particularly in later non-socialist brands of Republicanism — it was never again , as it was from 1815 to 1820 , its chief framework ; even then it was not so much a system of belief as the only clandestine organization available for conspiracy . |
| 49 | ‘ It is very much a company worth watching and will continue to surprise , ’ wrote author Clive Rassam . |
| 50 | Harry 's return to the sources at wishwood seems very much a return to the Frazenan wood , when |
| 51 | Taking the first function , while it is true that the education ( and hence , also , [ … ] socialization — since the two can not be readily separated ) of children and young adults has increasingly been taken over by agencies outside the home such as schools , play-groups and youth organizations , the basic primary socialization of the child is still very much a responsibility of a nuclear family . |
| 52 | She was so much a daughter of the vicarage in accent , manner , and appearance ( her father had been a clergyman ) that without being told I had assumed , seeing evidence in Mrs Browning 's home that someone at some time had lived in a hot country , that her husband had been a missionary . |
| 53 | As usually happens , the ‘ sponsorship role ’ of the Electricity Division led to Murray becoming not so much a controller of the industry as an honest broker between the BEA and the Whitehall machine in general . |
| 54 | It is very much a cathedral of one building operation and retains a Medieval impression despite the mechanical quality of its restoration . |
| 55 | It is another pointer to that ambiguity which is so much a characteristic of his life and work , in which the essential orderliness and formal morality of his upbringing clash with his more libertarian — and sometimes libertine — impulses and imagination . |
| 56 | Since political bias was so much a characteristic of the press we might expect its influence to be more apparent in terms of attitudes than perceptions , however . |
| 57 | Moreover , smoother driving is as much a characteristic of Tempo 30 as the lower overall speeds , as Döldissen has shown ( Figure 6.30 ) . |
| 58 | ‘ And remember , ’ Hugh continued forcefully , ‘ Stephen is as much a grandchild of the Conqueror as Matilda . ’ |
| 59 | The University of Edinburgh , although it has a long and distinguished history , is very much a university of the 1990s . |
| 60 | Leos Janacek 's On An Overgrown Path is very much a work of atmosphere and impressions . |