Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His wife had died suddenly a couple of years back . |
| 2 | All that it takes is a little push , some minor inconvenience , a trifling price to pay for faith , some obligation or embarrassment involved in being a Christian , and suddenly a trail of doubts bubbles to the surface : ‘ Maybe after all … |
| 3 | The parent becomes more dependent , and with only small increases in the time and amount of care involved , there is suddenly a multiplicity of tasks until one has progressed unawares to the point of full-time caring . ’ |
| 4 | Many police officers today , even in the higher ranks , can not remember carrying out their police duties without the assistance of the computer , and it is now as much a part of police back-up as the police car and police radio . |
| 5 | She had said he was too much a man of circumstances , that when the circumstances changed , he changed . |
| 6 | Presents from returning travellers or presents for your hostess are as much a sign of manners to the hareem as they are to us . |
| 7 | Hence , reviewing is felt by some to be very much a test of wills . |
| 8 | For as Hateley himself insists : ‘ It is as much a battle of wits out there . |
| 9 | Data from general practitioners suggest that the dilemma or contradiction mentioned earlier is very much a feature of GPs ' theorising ( McIntosh and Horobin 1977 ) . |
| 10 | Tough Latin America is more urbanised than most other parts of the Third world , the process of urbanisation is very much a feature of LDCs in general . |
| 11 | Before the time of Sigmar the lands west of the Worlds Edge Mountains were as much a realm of Orcs as they were of Men . |
| 12 | Counselling-learning is not so much a collection of ideas as a full and personal commitment on the part of the teacher . |
| 13 | Was n't Rune Christensen as much a player of games as the man he purported to despise ? |
| 14 | The way that these arrangements for the responsibility and control of book provision work out are often as much a matter of personalities and university politics as anything else . |
| 15 | Antoine Bloye is as much a settling of accounts with Nizan 's own pre-communist personality shaped by the destiny of his own father who died in 1929 , as it is a settling of accounts with a closed historical period . |
| 16 | However , it is obviously as much a waste of funds to give money to privatisation of the coal industry as it was to give money for the poll tax . |
| 17 | Amenartas , escaping from Ayesha 's wrath , had borne a child whose line persisted through the centuries to end with Leo Vincey , who is as much a descendant of Kallikrates as he is a reincarnation of him . |
| 18 | Sometimes a freehold title may be registered as " qualified " or possessory ( eg a record of squatters rights only ) . |
| 19 | A list of names , places , goods in a special order , eg a catalogue of books , a sales catalogue . |
| 20 | Apparently a couple of somersaults ensured a complete write-off . |
| 21 | It was apparently a group of labourers seeking stone for a new engine house , whose opening of a barrow was witnessed , in his youth , by Mr. J. Harris of Liskeard . |
| 22 | Apparently a lot of callers who are innovative in the pants are unable to spell LEVIS ( as in 1–800–24-LEVIS ) . |
| 23 | While the Act was being debated there was apparently a thinning of numbers , and subsequently some employers may have offered only limited-period or part-time employment to prevent employees from achieving the crucial ‘ qualifying worker ’ status . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , I 'm basically a trader of futures , ’ Laura told her . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's basically a question of budgets ’ , said director Robert T. Buck . |
| 26 | A group is basically a collection of individuals , contributing to some common aim under the direction of a leader , and who share a sense of common identity . |
| 27 | Because the subject of gauged sets is so confusing , most manufacturers offer a gauge kit , which is basically a box of strings covering all the popular gauges . |
| 28 | Windows for Pens is basically a set of extensions to Windows 3.1 which does two things . |
| 29 | We can actually er use various actual computer equipment er open systems er recently new development as well which basically a lot of companies have been inputting their share resources to develop this area . |
| 30 | A circle is basically a group of parents who share out babysitting duties between them , on a rota basis . |