Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [adv] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A useful review of the clers of the Old French fabliaux by Phillipe Ménard ( 1983 ) indicates that to be a clerk is a matter of attitude and behaviour rather than simply an occupation . |
| 2 | It 's not clear that new institutions are needed rather than simply an intensification of activities in the republics . ’ |
| 3 | When this process becomes revolutionary upheaval is not always easy to identify and the decision as to whether it was a radical reinterpretation rather than simply an adjustment depends on the observer 's standpoint . |
| 4 | I 'll have to phone Nick tonight to see if the Captain has a phone number now rather than just an address cos if I can phone him it 'll be a lot easier . |
| 5 | Much less flashy and class orientated in a UK sense , they have more of a general consultancy view of the world , with a problem-solving approach rather than just an interest in completing a job . |
| 6 | In the nervous nineties , when the Me generation has grown into the Us generation , we will be looking for Our Shop rather than just an emporium where they stock personal stereos by the thousand . |
| 7 | In 1940 he wrote of an almost sanctified rural life as something vitally different from the separately developing urban culture which so disturbed him and pleaded that agriculture should be regarded as a vocation , rather than merely an industry , though he pointed out that such a view involved the whole orientation and scheme of values of a future society . |
| 8 | By the way , It looks like they 've improved the ticket line a bit , there is now a queueing system which you get held on , so you now get through after about an hour rather than 3 , and then hold on in the queue for the other two hours : - ) |
| 9 | For the one thing that makes rock more than simply an industry , the one thing that transcends the commodity relation , is fidelity , the idea of a relationship . |
| 10 | But the speech was more than just an attack on the Commission , for it was also an astute defence of his good name and reputation . |
| 11 | International commerce was more than just an exchange or European manufactures for primary produce from the rest of the world . |
| 12 | Was it more than just an in-joke to make George 's chauffeur go under the name of Chomsky ? |
| 13 | Erupting more than twice an hour , Mayon sent clouds of red-hot ash up to four miles into the air , to fall like showers on villages 50 miles away . |
| 14 | I mean they are at the moment and if I have a meeting well after about an hour it seems as though you 've |
| 15 | It is worth noting , however , that consent to a political authority entails a promise to obey it ( as well as perhaps an obligation to support it in other ways ) . |
| 16 | Then after about an hour I heard the familiar heavy tread of Dad 's boots on the cobbles . |
| 17 | Labour changes from being at a stage where it has not yet become a thing in itself and is merely an aspect of social life , to a stage when although still an aspect of social life it involves exploitation , i.e. slavery and serfdom , to a third stage when labour has become mysteriously represented as a thing and is used for a different kind of exploitation . |
| 18 | He was ultimately as much an oracle , a high priest , a pope , a spiritual leader , as he was a king . |