Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Better a steady flame than one that flares up and burns itself out . ’ |
| 2 | Better a researched decision than a random one . |
| 3 | If the flavour of his text so far is to be believed , Bozzy was as much a soldiering man as Coleridge , which is saying less than very little . |
| 4 | The slogan ‘ Every Student a Member ’ was as much a financial appeal as an ideological one and in this respect the District was broadly unsuccessful . |
| 5 | He believes in his heart and conscience , as I do , that the Government are doing this thing without the consent of the country , that in pressing it forward without the approval of the country they are as much a revolutionary committee as President Huerta who governs Mexico . |
| 6 | Although many of the activities involved are carried out by individuals , and there is much scope for personal decision-making making and responsibility , the business of maintaining a safe environment is very much a political concern and responsibility — at local , regional , national and international levels . |
| 7 | Adherence to any given theory , or eclecticism , or to no particular theory is as much a political statement as it is a matter of theoretical conviction . |
| 8 | He also used his chronicle for an assault on both the Right and the Left : Wigan Pier was as much a political tract as a travelogue , it was an indictment of the Right and an ultimatum to the Left . |
| 9 | It is very much a live issue and is progressing well . |
| 10 | They are very much a two-career couple and , although the work overlaps from time to time , they have two very distinct careers , which take them in different directions . |
| 11 | They say what they 're seeing from SunSoft Inc right now is a very commercially packaged product that looks to be pretty much a full-blown release but lacks personal computer compatibility or the ability to run Santa Cruz Operation Inc Unix software because of the extensions . |
| 12 | It 's very much a real church while the show 's on , with a vicar and prayers each morning , and it 's part of an entire village that 's taken only four weeks to build . |
| 13 | In this day and age , a few walkers find pleasing footpaths leading through this quiet old village , which was once very much a self-supporting community when access to the world outside the dale was difficult , especially in a hard winter when few travellers braved the snow-blocked lanes between the hills . |
| 14 | From Deleuze and Guattari , Lecercle picks up the idea of the potential violence of the institution of language which , as they point out , is not so much a neutral entity that can best be analysed by looking at " normal " ( i.e. declarative ) sentences as a series of other people 's slogans organised into a system of power-relations . |
| 15 | But it was as much a legal body as a spiritual one , although occasionally this could work for the individual 's unexpected benefit as in the laws relating to sanctuary or ‘ abjuring the realm ’ . |
| 16 | Tangible links are where SBUs have buyers , distribution channels , technology or competitors in common ( Porter has three categories , but it seems that competitor interrelationships are just as much a tangible link as those he specifies under that heading ) . |
| 17 | He was very much a social novelist and to appreciate the moral significance of his novels you have to relate it to the actual society that it reflects and often criticises . |
| 18 | The communications course , in many ways , is as much a social science as an humanities subject , although many of the staff come from English literature backgrounds . |
| 19 | For Don Cherry , the beat principle of continuous , dynamic movement — always searching , reaching for the new — was as much a physical imperative as it was a philosophical one . |
| 20 | Yet Robin Fox , who works from within a socio-biological framework , concedes , rather surprisingly , that ‘ symbol-making is as much a human attribute as sex and food ’ ( 1982 : 13 ) . |
| 21 | His solicitor , Andrew Travers , said : ‘ This was very much a one-off offence and he had no idea of the amount he stood to collect . |
| 22 | The answer to this is as much a theoretical matter as it is a methodological one . |
| 23 | Yet the choice of such a neutral form is as much a linguistic choice as any other , and may have implications which may be fruitfully examined in stylistics : the third-person pronoun , for example , distances the author and the reader from the character it denotes . |
| 24 | I feel as much a severed head as he is . |
| 25 | As Barnekov , Boyle and Rich ( 1989 ) have pointed out , ‘ privatism ’ in urban policy is as much a cultural tradition or ideology as a coherent set of practices . |
| 26 | It might be as much a shimmering dream as ‘ Europe of the Regions ’ but that does not diminish its power . |
| 27 | For over half of the respondents , their review was very much a whole-school effort and for another third it was fairly so . |
| 28 | If your council fails to do small , urgent repairs , for which it is legally responsible ( eg a blocked drain or broken water heater ) , you can have then done by a builder . |
| 29 | ( 18 ) The structure of the takeover ( eg a recommended offer or a Court Scheme ) may require the consent of preference shareholders , lenders or optionholders or holders of convertible securities in or to the target . |
| 30 | The arrival of Francis , apparently a trusted friend and obviously a gentle and intelligent young man , had augmented the therapy . |