Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said the planned job cuts did not affect RMT members and the pay cuts were effectively only a withdrawal of overtime . |
| 2 | ‘ The easiest thing to do would be to piecemeal together a career of some commentating , corporation outings , being a spokesperson , doing a little bit of the tennis politics , doing some coaching for the USTA . |
| 3 | BELOW RIGHT A group of dolphins . |
| 4 | Perhaps only a state of intoxication brought about by suppressants of these centres can really suffice to effect the final dissolution of the superego which , being after all a purely psychological agency , can not literally be soluble in alcohol . |
| 5 | If we are reduced to a handful of Scottish Back Benchers and perhaps only a couple of Opposition Scottish Back Benchers on the Standing Committee , that will be deeply resented . |
| 6 | Soon after , perhaps only a matter of weeks , they are dead , or dwindling rapidly in size as they absorb their own body fats . |
| 7 | So perhaps a lot of the times but I would have maybe suggested that , that we could have done and presented that as part of the package . |
| 8 | Furthermore , there are literally only a handful of really big-time string manufacturers in the world , and a short burst of brain-power will lead you to the correct conclusion that there are a lot of companies buying strings in bulk from the big makers and putting their names on them . |
| 9 | One symbol — perhaps merely a letter of the alphabet — can indicate a complex quantity or idea . |
| 10 | What had been very much less a feature of Scottish society were bonds made for immediate political needs and opportunism , rather than to create lifelong and general obligations . |
| 11 | Anna Coombes realised that the growing of healthy plants is much less a question of eliminating pests and diseases with chemicals than of providing optimum conditions for growth . |
| 12 | Overwhelmingly , she did n't want to believe any of it had happened ; her instinct was to block it out of her mind , to pretend she 'd never seen Adam and Jake , much less a host of silver-helmed spear men … |
| 13 | It is worth speculating on whether , from the locals ' point of view , the proliferation of village organizations reflects not so much a flourishing of community life as a symbol of its downfall . |
| 14 | It was n't so much a case of thinking : he looks a lovely chappie . |
| 15 | Indeed , it is not so much a case of them accompanying the AIB team members as of them being part of the team . |
| 16 | Your selection of wayward notices ( 27th November ) reminded me of one I saw in my hotel in Frankfurt — not so much a case of bad translation , as a question of logic . |
| 17 | It is , then , not so much a case of ellipsis occurring in informal speech as of writing requiring a degree of elaboration that is not necessary in informal speech . |
| 18 | It is not so much a case of Captain Bob as of Major John and Petty Officer Newton . |
| 19 | It was not so much a case of social science theories being senseless , misguided or absurd , but more to do with their serious lack of evidential support . |
| 20 | However , jailing Shields for three months , Sheriff William Fulton told him : ‘ It is not so much a case of stealing from this house as plundering it , ransacking it and leaving it in an awful mess . |
| 21 | It was not so much a case of Glasgow getting worse as one of the rest of the country improving faster . |
| 22 | Though Masonry was always to be an element in the liberal forces — particularly in later non-socialist brands of Republicanism — it was never again , as it was from 1815 to 1820 , its chief framework ; even then it was not so much a system of belief as the only clandestine organization available for conspiracy . |
| 23 | His treatment of the " Alliterative Revival " is in some ways reminiscent of earlier treatments which argue that later alliterative writing in English reflects not so much a continuation of OE principles ( which language-change would in any case have made unlikely ) , but a re-invention from a tradition of alliterative prose-writing which began with AElfric . |
| 24 | And what was tending to happen here , as the Scottish Typographical Circular regularly reported , was not so much a division of labour between women on straight setting and men on other processes , but rather the diversion of certain kinds of typesetting from the linesmen ( male piece-workers ) to the women , who were not only paid much less but who were also considered by some employers to be actually better at it . |
| 25 | It 's not so much a lack of generosity — a real miserliness . |
| 26 | She was so much a daughter of the vicarage in accent , manner , and appearance ( her father had been a clergyman ) that without being told I had assumed , seeing evidence in Mrs Browning 's home that someone at some time had lived in a hot country , that her husband had been a missionary . |
| 27 | Punch is certainly one of the great British institutions , and has become so much a way of life as to make it impossible to imagine a world without it . |
| 28 | Perhaps not so much a way of life , but what Wittgenstein called a ‘ form of life ’ : small and privatised world-views binding on the group and consisting of accepted social practices , group norms and common languages ( by the latter I do not mean natural languages like French or English , but a nomenclature or group argot ) . |
| 29 | It is another pointer to that ambiguity which is so much a characteristic of his life and work , in which the essential orderliness and formal morality of his upbringing clash with his more libertarian — and sometimes libertine — impulses and imagination . |
| 30 | Since political bias was so much a characteristic of the press we might expect its influence to be more apparent in terms of attitudes than perceptions , however . |