Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Furthermore a clause in the draft of the bill which would have allowed the use of state school premises after school hours for religious instruction had been dropped after the Supreme Soviet had failed to reach agreement on it after passing the whole bill at first reading on Sept. 26 .
2 Furthermore a number of the alternative words suggested when using the large lexicon , would be unknown to many native speakers ( e.g. betel , bey , littoral , lour , rentiers , ret ) .
3 For several decades , Panama was juridically a protectorate of the United States , and effectively an American colony .
4 The image of the planet receded and Tarvaras was suddenly a component of a larger system .
5 As he scanned the laden shelves to left and right , there was suddenly a sound like a hundred ball-bearings being dropped from a height on to the bare floorboards .
6 Corbett nodded and was going to pursue the matter further when suddenly a commotion at the far end of the table drew all eyes and silenced the clamour in the hall .
7 Harry 's return to the sources at wishwood seems very much a return to the Frazenan wood , when
8 Taking the first function , while it is true that the education ( and hence , also , [ … ] socialization — since the two can not be readily separated ) of children and young adults has increasingly been taken over by agencies outside the home such as schools , play-groups and youth organizations , the basic primary socialization of the child is still very much a responsibility of a nuclear family .
9 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 .
10 As usually happens , the ‘ sponsorship role ’ of the Electricity Division led to Murray becoming not so much a controller of the industry as an honest broker between the BEA and the Whitehall machine in general .
11 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 .
12 ‘ And remember , ’ Hugh continued forcefully , ‘ Stephen is as much a grandchild of the Conqueror as Matilda . ’
13 The University of Edinburgh , although it has a long and distinguished history , is very much a university of the 1990s .
14 In most countries bank deposits transferred by means of cheques are freely accepted in the discharge of debts and as such constitute as much a part of a country 's money supply as its bank notes .
15 A central object of the new Institute was to train these specialists in the ‘ sanction office ’ , keep them up to date with legislation and accounting techniques and make credit managers as much a part of a trading company 's marketing operation as sales managers who already had their association .
16 Paul Merton is very much a part of a well-established lineage of British comedians who succeed in being funny without really cracking gags .
17 They are as much a part of a history of sexuality as the grander organisation of sexual codes .
18 As part of the audience you are as much a part of the entertainment as the performance itself , and this is something that dramatists are aware of and have always written for .
19 These ways have become so much a part of the fabric of dance that they are used almost unknowingly by teachers and dancers .
20 The idea of ‘ theory ’ has now become so pervasive , so much a part of the terms of current debate , and so visibly incorporated into institutions , that I shall not resist using it .
21 There were only four such papers in the 1880s , but eighteen in the 1890s and after 1900 they were ubiquitous — ‘ as much a part of the cultural scene as the gas-lamp and the fish-and-chip shop ’ .
22 Whinges about the black market for centre-court tickets are as much a part of the Wimbledon tennis championships as thunderstorms are — but this year 's new rules mean that any tout reselling tickets at Wimbledon next month could end up in a magistrate 's court .
23 Set on a slight , grassy slope in an enclosed corner of the park the sheep look as much a part of the landscape as the leaves on the trees .
24 Glasgow and west of Scotland sons were as much a part of the company of the ‘ Founding Fathers ’ as they were involved with the vested interests of the Tobacco Barons .
25 The Scots engineer became as much a part of the legends of the land as Bruce ‘ s spider and the story of Sawney Bean .
26 For many years , policy-makers have referred to the need to ‘ overcome the division of Europe ’ , as if the primary wrong were the division and not the domination of the East by Soviet Communism ; as if the Americans were as much a part of the problem as the Russians , rather than its solution .
27 Yet Modigliani was too much a part of the life of Montparnasse , too involved with the individuals leading the ‘ new art ’ , to remain completely aloof .
28 It is as much a part of the music business as a 12-inch re-mix .
29 The human element which is so much a part of the informal approach must be standardized if a team is to operate as a unit .
30 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 . ’
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