Example sentences of "[adv] an [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is furthermore an atmosphere of harshness and unrest about them that makes one realize how much closer to the spirit of Cézanne Braque 's contemporary work is . |
| 2 | A firefighting course at HMS Phoenix , Fareham was quite a terrifying experience — literally an ordeal by fire . |
| 3 | Better an increase of virtue than ‘ their abounding in human literature ’ . |
| 4 | Better an ounce of prevention than a pound of cure ! |
| 5 | He stopped short as the two women stared up at him , and suddenly an expression of relief washed the tension from his strongly chiselled features . |
| 6 | There was then apparently an offer of pardon to others who submitted willingly to the royal authority without delay . |
| 7 | In the human context hard physical work is not necessarily an indicator of efficiency or performance often it is the reverse . |
| 8 | ‘ The number of Cabinet meetings is not necessarily an index of efficiency ’ , said one who believes her brand of Cabinet government ( ‘ a president within a monarchy ’ ) is a more effective way of shifting business than the traditional collective model . |
| 9 | Such alienation from official institutions is common to many societies with isolated peasant populations ; it was not necessarily an outgrowth of colonialism . |
| 10 | Ignoring her own discomfort at hearing a grown woman use such childish titles , Loretta detected that Veronica 's last statement was not so much an act of defiance as a cry for help . |
| 11 | The signing of the Free Trade Treaty of 1860 with Britain was as much an act of faith as of policy , for it created great opposition among French industrialists , but the faith was justified in that the economy , deprived of its protective barriers , continued to grow and expand . |
| 12 | At the same time , to disbelieve is as much an act of faith , as much an unsubstantiated assumption , as belief . |
| 13 | To say that one does not believe in telepathy , or in ghosts , or in God is as much an act of faith as believing in them . |
| 14 | In fairness it should be added that for the female guests the question of rooms was as much an affair of space as of rank , since many arrived with anything up to 25 pieces of luggage , clear proof that at Compiègne , unlike Fontainebleau , style played a primary role . |
| 15 | As Ory astutely remarks , Sartre 's preface is as much an expression of remorse that he had failed to rehabilitate Nizan successfully in 1947 , as it is a eulogy of the dynamic Nizan-Sartre relationship in the early 1920s . |
| 16 | In the end , Matza 's argument is not so much an attack on correctionalism as an assertion of the not very original point that , whatever your starting assumption , it is best to keep your mind open to all possibilities ( although he was right to draw attention to the fact that correctionalists had often been guilty of not doing so ) . |
| 17 | ‘ There is very much an emphasis on teamwork in the company , and that extends right through to the professional advisers . |
| 18 | Present troubles are not so much an outbreak of anarchy , as a return to normality , with all its faults … |
| 19 | For the orthodox , however , it is not so much an aid to devotion as a way of communicating with God . |
| 20 | This is the process by which the manager sets aside perhaps an hour per year to talk privately to each adviser , to look back over the year and forward to the next and discuss any concerns that the manager and adviser may have . |
| 21 | Perhaps an increase in friction in the system is absorbing too much energy . |
| 22 | There is perhaps an element of do-gooding about certain taxes and even today there are Treasury ministers who smugly claim they are doing the nation 's health a favour by putting up the levy on cigarettes , alcohol and petrol . |
| 23 | Perhaps an attitude of mind may account for his amazing abilities . |
| 24 | However , once the preferred solution has been selected , we have a policy in the form of a statement , perhaps an Act of Parliament or a government circular . |
| 25 | New Scientist , in a rich week , reported the successful attachment of glass fibre beaks to injured pelicans , asked , oddly , who made the Andes islands of ice ( perhaps an outbreak of creationism ) and explained why chimpanzees are not people , concluding that the chimps would probably not want to be , anyway . |
| 26 | There lingered perhaps an echo of grimness , and an echo of something else : an expression she had seen on the faces of men who have just loaded ship for a voyage . |
| 27 | Erm and accepting that would mean er obviously an increase in rent and perhaps changes in that lease er in order that he would be able to er to invest that money . |
| 28 | And obviously an expert in business . |
| 29 | The conventional type of bridge was obviously an impossibility under war condition , owing to the necessity to survey the site , and the time for its provision . |
| 30 | If the less successful variants were not multiplying quickly enough an element of competition would also mean that poor replicators will be less efficient at acquiring the means of survival to keep the new species going . |