Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The image of the planet receded and Tarvaras was suddenly a component of a larger system . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Paul Merton is very much a part of a well-established lineage of British comedians who succeed in being funny without really cracking gags . |
| 7 | They are as much a part of a history of sexuality as the grander organisation of sexual codes . |
| 8 | It is all too easy to assume that formal regulation has an immediate unilinear impact , but in actuality the history of sexuality is as much a history of an avoidance of , or resistance to , the moral code , as of a simple acceptance and internalisation . |
| 9 | There was n't so much a noise as a change in the type of silence . |
| 10 | Helmut was going to transfer so much a month into a bank account for me and I could draw it out at an office in the Champs-Elysées . |
| 11 | He was n't so much a boyfriend as a boy who was one of my friends . ’ |
| 12 | The boys barricaded the gates and mounted the city walls , a move probably as much a result of a popular rebellion against Lundy 's action as a defiant gesture . |
| 13 | The J/44 is very much a racer before a cruiser : to this end the whole of the interior has been kept light , simple and open . |
| 14 | Like the merchant — and , indeed , implicitly , his wife — an early-emphasized detail of his character is that he is " " free " " in the sense of " generous " , but in his case this is very much a means to an end rather than an end or a pleasure in itself : Free was daun John , and manly of dispence , As in that hous , and ful of diligence To doon plesaunce , and also greet costage . |
| 15 | By the end of The Order of Things , however , he revises this somewhat conventional thesis to suggest that what was involved was not so much a move from a static to a historical view of things as the break-up of a common , unified historical time-scheme in which every phenomenon had had its place in the same space and chronology . |
| 16 | The purchase must either benefit the company 's trade ( eg a purchase from a dissentient shareholder ) or be to fund the payment of inheritance tax . |
| 17 | An example would be where the firm is carrying out one exercise , which then prompts the idea of another exercise as an integral part of the first service ( eg a review of a person 's CGT position leads to advice being given on an appropriate pension policy ) . |
| 18 | However , at one stage , one of Tony 's roadies — apparently a bit of an electronics whizzkid — wired the guitar to send the signal from one of the sockets to a transformer and into a mixer , while the other went straight to the amp . |
| 19 | It 's both in the environment , of the environment and apparently a smidgeon of a threat to the precious fucking environment . |
| 20 | Which is basically a square with a middle , and it 's just got C P C P C |
| 21 | The quadriathlon , still in its infancy , is basically a triathlon with a gruelling canoe leg thrown in for good measure , and East Anglia has one of the leading exponents in this new sport . |
| 22 | The box I built was basically a crate with a dividing wall and a piston inside . |
| 23 | ‘ Lots of reasons , the main one being that he was basically a crook with a number of little operations going at the factory . |
| 24 | Like all disc grinders , the body shell is basically a cover for a powerful motor which drives the disc at high speed . |
| 25 | The world-affirming person should not be forced into a world-renouncing spirituality , nor someone who is basically a thinker into an affective spirituality . |
| 26 | Also , ‘ The Red Crow ’ was basically a blinder of a record . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm basically a loner in a collaborative field , and I thought everything was possible , ’ says Newley . |
| 28 | On the ‘ Child 's Play ’ range , the inner circle is marked off into four different coloured sections to show how long a quarter of an hour lasts . |
| 29 | As its rival has acquired new functions , the Home Office , so long a repository for a bewildering assortment of responsibilities , has been losing them . |
| 30 | In 1924 it was decided to publish annually a Yearbook as a prospectus , and this continued until paper rationing caused its abandonment during the Second World War . |