Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore a higher proportion of blacks were acquitted after trial , which again suggests insufficient evidence . |
| 2 | And — well , the music started and there was suddenly a great explosion of sound that no one could possibly have been prepared for . |
| 3 | Suddenly a great cloud of smoke billowed out from the gun . |
| 4 | Suddenly a huge fork of lightning hit the tree . |
| 5 | Broadman held up three thick red fingers and the man 's face was suddenly a sunny display of comprehension . |
| 6 | I could feel that the problem with David was very much a tremendous lack of application . |
| 7 | To summarise this conception : for both Marx and Braverman the developed form of the division of labour within the capitalist enterprise is not so much a technical division of tasks — as in early manufacture — but a socially determined structure , reflecting the exigencies of the production of surplus value . |
| 8 | He was very much a German type of dog , with a very impressive head , a dog who excelled on the move . |
| 9 | They are also as much a potential source of recommendations as the client . |
| 10 | Ideology is apparently a better predictor of attitudes of American voters to the introduction of a national health insurance programme than the personal benefits that individuals can expect to receive . |
| 11 | Only this time they 're armed not just with a new album but new producers , new horizons , a new attitude and apparently a new code of conduct in interviews . |
| 12 | Later in the letter , considering apparently a different sort of poem written by Williams , Hart Crane confesses : |
| 13 | Although incorporating some features of the previous 1963 edition , this was basically a new form of contract and by implication was intended by the JCT to be used on contracts exceeding £250,000 in value . |
| 14 | The SEA is basically a limited set of changes to the Treaty of Rome which allows for majority voting in the Council of Ministers in areas connected to establishing the Internal Market , and also has some rather vague references to EMU , Political Union and other policy areas such as the environment . |
| 15 | It was basically a neighbourly association of kin and workmates , not dissimilar to that which existed in many urban working-class neighbourhoods , but which the outsider could find virtually impenetrable . |
| 16 | Second , only rarely would a coin have been lost at or near the same time when it was made ; we must bear in mind how long a particular type of coin is likely to have stayed in circulation . |
| 17 | They do not know how long a season will last ( in the holidays industry the weather plays an important part ) , how long a permanent member of staff on long-term sick leave will be away , or how long an exceptional surge in demand will last . |
| 18 | The docks were experiencing a boom in trade and all day long a steady stream of customers came and went . |
| 19 | Othello 's vision of Iago gives him total credit : With the vision of Iago , Othello also takes over his language , as critics have long noted , with its bestial images , but also his attitudes , especially a generalized distrust of women . |
| 20 | His intention is to establish continuity between the issues of the Vietnam War and those of the recombinant-DNA controversy , especially a pervasive mood of doubt and suspicion about the social benefits of science and technology that were characteristic of the establishment thinking then . |
| 21 | Perhaps through your letters page you will allow me this opportunity to urge all pencil manufacturers to consider making available their full range of leads ( coloured as well as graphite ) for holder use and saving annually a small forest of cedar wood and other trees used in producing the pleasing but expense and wasteful product . |
| 22 | Such proposals are naturally a major source of controversy between the political parties but some local authorities have undoubtedly been looking at charges with a fresh eye in recent years . |
| 23 | He resisted , however , the notion that the polytechnics were merely a new breed of university . |
| 24 | Chatham described them , in November 1777 , as ‘ the nursery and basis of our naval power ’ , for they had been not merely a dependable source of tar and timber , especially for masts , but of seamen ; the outbreak of hostilities meant that 18,000 American sailors were lost overnight to the British crown . |
| 25 | In 1988–89 Mantes produced no speciality films — it was merely a weak echo of Swindon . |
| 26 | Further notes should be made during reviewing , so that you are not merely a passive recipient of information . |
| 27 | Our truancy is defined by one fixed star , and our drift represents merely a slight change of angle to it : we may seize the moment , toss it around while the moments pass , a short dash here , an exploration there , but we are brought round full circle to face again the single immutable fact — that we , Rosencrantz and Guildenstern , bearing a letter from one king to another , are taking Hamlet to England . |
| 28 | If for any reason , such as fire or overgrazing , the arms of the parabolic dune become unstabilised , the whole form may become merely a shapeless mass of sand migrating downwind through the dune belt . |
| 29 | Jansons masterfully keeps the music 's internal momentum alive without any sense of undue haste , and although the allegro bustles energetically along , Jansons resists the temptation to tear Shostakovich 's occasionally violent texturing to shreds For once the Finale appears as a crowning inevitability , rather than merely a throw-away moto-perpetuo of staccato virtuosity . |
| 30 | The changing pattern of employment therefore — the shift from blue-collar to white-collar occupations and the pre-eminence of professional and technical groups within the latter category — is not merely a general feature of post-industrialism , it is one of central significance . |