Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Punchbag Better a has-Beam than a never-was |
| 2 | This proved true above all at the time of which I write , or up to that time , because adolescence is as much a mental as a biological experience , and the arts meant much at that epoch , the last before the advent of Pop Culture , which has since taken over the adolescent mind rendering present that ‘ future ’ which Eliot dreaded . |
| 3 | Not so much a new as an old product note ! |
| 4 | This visit is as much a political as a practical gesture . |
| 5 | This is as much a logical as a psychological principle . |
| 6 | The result was not merely a blurring but a confusion , of normal factional loyalties . |
| 7 | At the same time it needs to be increasingly alert and responsive to changing circumstances in not merely a local but a global context . |
| 8 | Alexandra put down a black and a yellow bishop side by side on matching squares . |
| 9 | A quarter so a sixth and a twelfth makes a quarter |
| 10 | All right I 'll bring in a sixty minute tape ask him tonight , okay and I 'll bring in a sixty and a ninety minute , okay . |
| 11 | The masquerade of camp becomes less a self-concealment than a kind of attack , and untruth a virtue : many a young man , says Wilde , ‘ starts with the natural gift of exaggeration which , if encouraged could flourish . |
| 12 | I was to have not only a tape-recorder but a minder as well to guide me through the intricacies and , I imagine , the possible legal hazards of broadcasting such an item ; he and his lady assistant would arrive and spend a day with me the following week . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , if we say not ‘ dog ’ but ‘ My — dog-Rover-with — the — white — spots- and — the-stumpy-tail ’ , there can be no doubt that we intend not only a specific but a unique reference . |
| 14 | But whatever happens to particular processes , it remains a general condition of modern cultural technology that it both requires social forms of production and yet , within this , under specific economic conditions , imposes not only a professional but a class division of labour . |
| 15 | Cos there 's only a red or a blue in there , so if I |
| 16 | Naturally , my master bowed and I had to follow suit , reminding myself with a secret smile that Wolsey was only a commoner and no better than me . |
| 17 | I bit her nose — only a little and the tiniest bit of blood . |
| 18 | In fact steel is exceptional in sometimes reaching strengths as high as a tenth of its calculated strength ; the great majority of common solids can show only a hundredth or a thousandth of what theory indicates . |
| 19 | Sir William Petty , writing at the end of the seventeenth century , argued that excessive morbidity and mortality rates were not only a human but an economic tragedy . |
| 20 | Eventually he paused to lead her along a side-track where the hanging vines reached out to cling about them . |
| 21 | Not that that 's necessarily a good or a bad thing . |
| 22 | Turner in his studies of Ndembu symbols and ritual ( 1957 and 1967 ) tried explicitly to bring together a sociological and a psychological explanatory framework for the understanding of ritual . |
| 23 | Right so if we added together a sixth and a twelfth what will it make ? |
| 24 | But in the ensuing duet for Balstrode and Grimes , this motif gets so entangled with Grimes 's personal strife and obstinate nature that by the time the " Storm " interlude itself begins ( with a variant of the fugue subject ) we may genuinely wonder whether the hurricane is not as much an inward as an outward affair . |
| 25 | Not so much an everyday as a canine chameleon , in fact . |
| 26 | So international agreement and co-operation is in this field not merely an ideal but a practical necessity for effective justice . |
| 27 | Second , Mr Deng was less an idealist than a sensible moderniser and nationalist . |
| 28 | He sees too that the other should from the first have known better , as he himself should ( he has come to understand that in retrospect ) , and therefore judges that they both made not only an unlucky but a bad choice . |
| 29 | In other words , what is needed is not only an equal but an equitable geographical distribution of educational resources . |
| 30 | De Lattre , it seems , had himself in mind as a Supreme Allied Commander for Southeast Asia and his proposals for a joint intelligence operation together with a strategic reserve of six or eight divisions would , if it had come to anything , have meant not only an American but a British commitment to French fortunes in Indo-China . |