Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [conj] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | These may of course in practice be confused or entangled with each other , as they are in Northern Ireland , or as they are in any state where the elections are largely or wholly a political ritual or a way of mobilizing mass support or approval for a regime in which party and state are indistinguishable , and electoral choice between contestants for office non-existent . |
| 2 | Whilst surely representing the pinnacle of guitar mass-production ( 500,000 per year sometimes ) you 're right that only a small percentage seem to have survived in the UK . |
| 3 | Giving good Press : Fashanu has always been more than just a footballer |
| 4 | But this may have been more than just a sartorial sign of the changing times . |
| 5 | I am more or less a consultant to them . ’ |
| 6 | Even if you are more or less an appropriate weight to begin with , you can benefit from exercise to tone the muscles . |
| 7 | They are also as much a potential source of recommendations as the client . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Magic thus represents a view of causation utterly at variance with the concepts of the Christian scientific West , which are now as much a part of the African 's world as is ancient tradition . ’ |
| 10 | The Smiths had their day , made the '80s safe for ironic excitement and indie pop that was n't crap , and are now as much a part of the nostalgia industry-chart museum as The Rolling Stones . |
| 11 | But they and the families which ran them are now as much a part of local history as pits and shipbuilding . |
| 12 | I fell into one of those drooly , head-lolling dozes that seem to be more and more a feature of my advancing years . |
| 13 | These will increase in efficiency , and with strong belief in hard work and more education , and with the organisation and money provided by Japan , and helped by cheaper labour , will be more and more a threat to all Western economies . |
| 14 | I think that the rest of the situation should be more or less a straight across thing , and I 'm gon na see if we can get Paul |
| 15 | The frequency of maintenance will depend on the harshness of the environment , and in normal circumstances should be once or twice a year . |
| 16 | In 1970 productivity in European manufacturing seems to have been around or perhaps a little over one-half of the US level , while in Japan it was only about 40 per cent of the US level . |
| 17 | Beside me , Jeffrey Bernard was being more than just a little unwell . |
| 18 | Although it was hardly conclusive proof they were the same kegs as those discovered by the vagrant , all the signs pointed to it being more than just a coincidence . |
| 19 | I knew right then you were the one that I was caught up in physical objection but to my satisfaction baby you were more than just a phase . |
| 20 | A ‘ good ’ book is basically and essentially a good story . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | This is designer socialism : the belief that buying tassled loafers rather than winklepickers , is somehow as much a PR of the struggle as being on the picket line at Wapping . |
| 23 | For Gramsci , law reflects economic relations , and it is eternally and generally a weapon of class domination , a classical Marxist position . |
| 24 | The status of general courses is thus as much a matter of context and clientele as content , and seems likely to change only if the latter change . |
| 25 | Which would be slightly down on er the number that we got in last year , erm , the next factor , erm , is not as yet a fact but is almost a certainty , that , er , all , we will not succeed on the present basis in persuading D O E that we should have any increase in t to reflect er er an increase in work , and next year we 're anticipating getting in effect a stand still budget . |
| 26 | To argue that this is always and necessarily a result of ‘ conditioning ’ sounds like a feminist version of ‘ I do n't know what you housewives do all day ’ . |
| 27 | Yet the London we inherited from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is more or less a success . |
| 28 | That means it was for use in climates and countries so benign that the natives require no shelter at all , and where a tent is more or less a decorative affectation . |
| 29 | Unfortunately , as we have already said , casein is more or less a mixture of cheese and lime and under prolonged moist conditions casein behaves very like cheese . |
| 30 | All the models of passive rifting discussed so far assume that rifting is more or less a symmetric process ; that is , we would expect the opposing passive margins formed through continental break-up to have a similar structure and morphology because they have experienced a similar tectonic history . |