Example sentences of "[adv] an [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If the response is high enough an application for capital |
| 32 | Excess weight saps confidence and can even depress , so an attack on fat is as much for our spirit as for physical appearance . |
| 33 | So an account of democracy from this point of view will be historical , and descriptive of present Western realities . |
| 34 | As colour fades , so an immensity of scale is revealed where the inhospitable water stretches away to the forbidding height of the hills . |
| 35 | While he was doing a little more manipulation of the bones before the plaster set , she got ready an injection of antibiotic and he took it from her with a nod of approval . |
| 36 | Seven o'clock an evening of entertainment with clairvoyant medium Brian Gibson is on at the Scout 's Headquarters on Lovers Lane at Newark tickets are two fifty there seven until nine . |
| 37 | But such an identification was probably more than merely an exercise in wish-fulfilment by the ego on behalf of the id . |
| 38 | There had been no change of basic thinking , then , merely an adjustment of emphasis . |
| 39 | The ITV policy of bringing a transatlantic style to British Television extended far beyond merely an emulation of programming . |
| 40 | On the other hand we are not positively told that he was insane , and so we must also consider the unlikely hypothesis that the mistake was merely an act of folly . |
| 41 | The judges declined to accept the Tobacco Institute of Australia 's argument that the sentence was not intended as a statement of fact but as merely an expression of opinion or as the platform of an argument in a community wide debate . |
| 42 | There was no debate on the national executive , merely an expression of prejudice and fear of change . |
| 43 | It is very difficult to see how Germany is less centralised and it should be clear that the ‘ subsidiarity ’ principle is merely an allocation of competence , as in the hierarchy of a company , rather than a distribution of power . |
| 44 | I know that the ‘ black baby ’ campaign was merely an attempt at fund-raising , but when one realizes that this implies that black children were ‘ for sale ’ one can see that this term would be deeply offensive to black Catholics and others . |
| 45 | What appeared to be merely an area of shrinkage on the edge of the village has , therefore , turned out to be very important in the history of settlement in the area — a small independent hamlet with its own church which was eventually abandoned . |
| 46 | We would n't expect the County Council to be proceeding to approval of the plan , but merely an approval in principle or an approval of the concept . |
| 47 | If the date on the valuation is after the date of the loss , then this is merely an estimate for replacement and does not prove the item was in existence . |
| 48 | Prior to 1916–17 , prior to the crisis brought about by the demise of his father , the process of schooling was merely an extension of family life , a childhood means of emulating a successful father , the arena in which to live up to the expectations of a demanding father-figure . |
| 49 | If not , then your sum insured should be based on current replacement costs less an allowance for wear and tear — giving a sum insured of perhaps two thirds of the replacement cost depending on the average age of your possessions . |
| 50 | The Policyholder would receive the value of the items at the time of the loss i.e. replacement value less an allowance for wear and tear . |
| 51 | Jurisprudence is no less an exploration of society and human nature because the practice of a solicitor requires acquaintance with statutory codes and court procedures . |
| 52 | Since by definition jewellery reflects and in a sense embodies the social order , it should hardly be surprising , still less an occasion for despair , that social change as profound as that which marked the transition from an aristocratic to a democratic order should have brought about drastic changes in the uses to which precious substances were put . |
| 53 | To frame a programme , a manifesto , or a legislative act , a dim sense of injustice is not enough , still less an attitude of defiance . |
| 54 | It all came back to that greatest of Italian national defects , which is less an attitude of xenophobia than a reflection of its people 's belief that Italy is God 's country and Italians God 's chosen . |
| 55 | This is normally only an issue in purchase advisory work . |
| 56 | ‘ When we came to leave the Lamb that afternoon , Mr Barnett , we were all in similar states of intoxication , but Jack had become as maudlin as only an Irishman in liquor can . |
| 57 | According to Ockleton , he had become ‘ as maudlin as only an Irishman in liquor can . ’ |
| 58 | ‘ Only an invitation to dinner . |
| 59 | For the Profitboss help is not only an attitude of mind , but a way of life . |
| 60 | So much for the notion held among some people on the Left that politics is only an expression of economics . |