Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | To some extent it is fair to ask who is the play 's author : the writer , the company or the director producing the play , or perhaps most properly a collaboration between these three ? |
| 2 | He said the planned job cuts did not affect RMT members and the pay cuts were effectively only a withdrawal of overtime . |
| 3 | ‘ The easiest thing to do would be to piecemeal together a career of some commentating , corporation outings , being a spokesperson , doing a little bit of the tennis politics , doing some coaching for the USTA . |
| 4 | While most obviously a reaction to the coalescence of the right , it was also a reaction against the establishment in north Korea on 14 February of the Interim People 's Committee under the leadership of Kim Il Sung . |
| 5 | This is demonstrated most clearly in the lengths to which the courts have been excluded from the process , even though they have been only rarely a threat to the Thatcher Government . |
| 6 | The line is thus only arguably a pentad Over the 10-km square , a site count reveals 18 churches , 1 cross and 7 tumuli , mounds and earthworks . |
| 7 | BELOW RIGHT A group of dolphins . |
| 8 | Perhaps only a state of intoxication brought about by suppressants of these centres can really suffice to effect the final dissolution of the superego which , being after all a purely psychological agency , can not literally be soluble in alcohol . |
| 9 | If we are reduced to a handful of Scottish Back Benchers and perhaps only a couple of Opposition Scottish Back Benchers on the Standing Committee , that will be deeply resented . |
| 10 | Soon after , perhaps only a matter of weeks , they are dead , or dwindling rapidly in size as they absorb their own body fats . |
| 11 | Cultural history and theory , it has to be said , have very extensive agenda , and art criticism is perhaps only a sub-paragraph under a secondary heading . |
| 12 | So perhaps a lot of the times but I would have maybe suggested that , that we could have done and presented that as part of the package . |
| 13 | Furthermore , there are literally only a handful of really big-time string manufacturers in the world , and a short burst of brain-power will lead you to the correct conclusion that there are a lot of companies buying strings in bulk from the big makers and putting their names on them . |
| 14 | W w where they w w once when they 'd been installed or was it thought that it a mistake had been made in obviously a lot of cash had been spent on them but erm , was it considered a mis a waste of money or ? |
| 15 | One symbol — perhaps merely a letter of the alphabet — can indicate a complex quantity or idea . |
| 16 | What had been very much less a feature of Scottish society were bonds made for immediate political needs and opportunism , rather than to create lifelong and general obligations . |
| 17 | Anna Coombes realised that the growing of healthy plants is much less a question of eliminating pests and diseases with chemicals than of providing optimum conditions for growth . |
| 18 | Overwhelmingly , she did n't want to believe any of it had happened ; her instinct was to block it out of her mind , to pretend she 'd never seen Adam and Jake , much less a host of silver-helmed spear men … |
| 19 | Presented with so ready a means of escape from a course of action whose wisdom he already doubted , Coleridge 's decision was predictable and eager . |
| 20 | It is worth speculating on whether , from the locals ' point of view , the proliferation of village organizations reflects not so much a flourishing of community life as a symbol of its downfall . |
| 21 | John Clare testifies to the wholesale obliteration of landmarks , and the subsequent consciousness of alienation ; The Female Vagrant is not so much a poem by Wordsworth as a case-history . |
| 22 | It was n't so much a case of thinking : he looks a lovely chappie . |
| 23 | Indeed , it is not so much a case of them accompanying the AIB team members as of them being part of the team . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It is not so much a case of Captain Bob as of Major John and Petty Officer Newton . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It was not so much a case of Glasgow getting worse as one of the rest of the country improving faster . |
| 30 | 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 . |