Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Better a gluey friend than none , |
| 2 | Assuming any records were kept , pollution was as much a state secret as the artillery 's ammunition stocks . |
| 3 | In Orwell 's time , Wigan was as much a cotton town as it was a coal town , and if his excavation of the elements of exploitation was to have been adequate , it could not have omitted the experience of women in the cotton industry . |
| 4 | The White Park , which in the past was as much a colour type as a breed , had several representatives in Wales such as the Chartley herd and the Vaynol or Faenol Park herd at Bangor ( originally from Scotland ) . |
| 5 | Navigation was very much a specialist skill and the maps of the desert were more or less blank . |
| 6 | Alan Pretty , a team leader in personnel services at Lincolnshire SSD , believes it is very much a management move and is not for social workers who want to continue in the caring role . |
| 7 | Daily we are becoming more aware that AIDS is as much a development issue as it is a health issue . |
| 8 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 9 | For most Indian families a marriage is as much a business proposition as a romantic affair of the heart , and perhaps for this reason many of the advertisements sound as if they are marketing objects rather than advertising potential spouses : |
| 10 | When they met in Paris in 1963 , Breton hailed him as a surrealist , but in a recent interview Gironella disclaimed so tidy a classification , saying he is as much a baroque artist as a surrealist . |
| 11 | Apart from occasional projects like the George Michael book , Bare , he 's been pretty much a print writer and won the Magazine Writer Of The year award ( a Tony Award ? ) a couple of years ago . |
| 12 | It has no substantial legislative powers and is as much a debating chamber as anything . |
| 13 | I 'm very much a family man and need to be close to those I love . ’ |
| 14 | Yet Thai business remains as much a family affair as ever . |
| 15 | This was , in a sense a natural extension of a broadening perspective on intellectual ability , enclosing the idea that psychological qualities such as creativity might be as much a personality trait as a cognitive characteristic . |
| 16 | Stubbornly a stage play and resisting all Lindsay Anderson 's attempts at opening out , this study of old age is charming but static . |
| 17 | However , where more than one person ( eg a merchant bank and a stockbroker ) agrees to act as the agent of a party to the takeover and his associates for the purpose of making disclosure , particular care must be taken to ensure that the responsibility for disclosure is agreed between the parties and that it is neither overlooked nor duplicated . |
| 18 | He had what was apparently a heart attack and died there the same day . ’ |
| 19 | IntePlan is basically a diary/database program and although the sample supplied was a self-running demo it certainly seemed attractive . |
| 20 | These attacks included sexually assaulting an elderly woman during a burglary ; heterosexual rape ; rape of women when their husbands , brothers or boyfriends were watching ; homosexual rape ( for which he got five times as long a prison sentence as for heterosexual rape ) ; as well as burglary . |
| 21 | You 'll find whether it be anything with safety , hygiene or security and fraud , there will always be quite rightly a pressure group or an interest group that will push for that rule or regulation . |
| 22 | With this Phil Barlow capitulates and agrees that he has no objection to this appointment provided it is merely a monitoring job where no direct links are made with parents . |
| 23 | The Humperdinck had merely a cast list and titles of excerpts : no libretto , no text , not even a summary of the plot . |
| 24 | Widowers do not obtain this benefit , merely a tax repayment if their wife was working up until her death ) £1590 |
| 25 | One has to acknowledge that homelessness is not merely a housing problem but is also a social problem , which requires not merely money but an approach to discourage and prevent young people from becoming homeless . |
| 26 | Officially , a spokesman for Trainload Freight sector said BR was in negotiation with PowerGen about a new contract , but it is understood that BR sees the contract cancellation as merely a negotiation ploy and feels a new deal could be struck . |
| 27 | In this case , the surface on which , which is here given by , turns out to be merely a coordinate singularity since the curvature tensor is clearly bounded . |
| 28 | He established the concept of the King 's Peace , whereby the king was not merely a war leader but a representative of God on earth , with the duty of ensuring safe conduct and good behaviour throughout his realm . |
| 29 | I believe that it was attached to leather or wood ; perhaps a harness decoration or cabinet . |
| 30 | or perhaps a quiz show that started then , you know . |