Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] an [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus it becomes clearer why the Law Society is anxious to distinguish between professional services and business , to promote so vigorously an altruistic conception of the lawyer/client relationship . |
| 2 | Upon looking up , we discovered the Indians passing along the side of the cliff , where we thought a goat could not pass , much less an entire tribe of Indians , with all their impediments . |
| 3 | For many , their own loyalty to a particular nation is so much an unspoken element of personal identity ( as opposed to the public world of politics ) that it is impossible to discuss ; nationalism is only what foreigners believe in . |
| 4 | not so much an interlocking economy of producing and consuming enterprises but a community of subjects who produce and consume in order to produce … . |
| 5 | From their results they argue that this is not so much an objective assessment of the functioning of their personal networks , but a judgment based on the ‘ intrapsychic needs of the respondent , in terms of ‘ dependency ’ or anxious attachment' ( Henderson , 1982 ) . |
| 6 | Technology is so pervasive , so much an intrinsic part of modern life , that we tend to take it for granted . |
| 7 | This discreteness is due to the need to fit a whole number of half wavelengths along the length of the string , for which there is obviously only an enumerable number of possibilities . |
| 8 | Making a better product is naturally still an important element of marketing today and is forcefully demonstrated by the Japanese consumer goods manufacturers . |
| 9 | The Pistols ' spokesperson told NME : ‘ Glen was only ever an outside contender for bass player in the re-formed line up . ’ |
| 10 | Perhaps always an alarming noise for a man trapped in a small space . |
| 11 | It was perhaps originally an oral message from Cnut , committed to writing by an ecclesiastic for circulation to the shire courts , and then redrafted into its present state by Wulfstan . |
| 12 | While a given social system probably has a finite set of religious requirements under given conditions , these can be satisfied in many and perhaps even an infinite variety of ways . |
| 13 | ‘ More bobbies on the beat gives rise to greater confidence but they are not necessarily an effective use of police time , ’ he said . |
| 14 | It is not necessarily an accurate description of the demands of the job , and the skill label may result more from the strength of the trade union or occupational group in maintaining that its members should continue to hold that position , than from a dispassionate assessment of the skill content of the job . |
| 15 | The size of the dog is not necessarily an accurate reflection of its barking abilities . |
| 16 | Most people never have any trouble so there is no need to be paranoid , but do be aware of the facts : the little word ‘ taxi ’ or ‘ minicab ’ written on a car is not necessarily an official certificate of good character . |
| 17 | The expected rate of inflation is not only an essential determinant of the actual rate of inflation , it is also endogenous to the system , being itself the outcome of past errors in predicting the rate of inflation . |
| 18 | The maintenance of this imperium has become not only an essential pillar of the regime 's internal legitimacy , but as essential a pillar of her external legitimacy as a Superpower . |
| 19 | He was proving himself to be not only an accurate witness to the times , but a respected one , too . |
| 20 | When , in January , 1988 , Prince Edward enlisted in Lloyd Webber 's Really Useful Company , in the humble role of general factotum , with the improbable public assurances that he would be treated " no differently from anybody else " , it seemed not only an oblique confirmation of royal patronage , but that Lloyd Webber himself had ascended to some peculiar level of hierarchy where he was able to employ princes as tea-boys . |
| 21 | It is not only an appropriate response to falling numbers , but also reflects a natural convergence in the business of banks and building societies . |
| 22 | Vernon Kell , Carrington was told , was not only an incompetent head of M15 , but possibly a traitor and almost certainly a homosexual . |
| 23 | Simon 's shift of approach away from Chadwick 's grand sanitary plan was not only an administrative necessity in the face of political opposition , it was also an acknowledgment of this difficulty . |
| 24 | The Shah had repeatedly been to American during the last thirty years. ; he had been welcomed with full honours as not only an important chief of state by also a vital ally by every single president since Harry Truman . |
| 25 | It is a measure of Gray 's single-minded devotion to anatomy and authorship that ‘ Gray 's Anatomy ’ remains even today , not only an important book of reference but as virtually a household phrase . |
| 26 | Johnson , which began in the county court , situations can arise in which there is not only an important point of interpretation to be decided , but also binding decisions of the Court of Appeal to be considered . |
| 27 | Thus the study of children 's explanations is not only an important topic in its own right ; it also bears on more fundamental questions concerning the relationship between cognitive and linguistic development . |
| 28 | His observations made in 1695 are not only an important source of early medicine ( and therefore of world significance ) but are also a vital source of Hebridean social history . |
| 29 | The cultural budget , which stood at FFr3 billion in 1981 , is now FFr13 billion ( £1.3 billion ; $2.3 billion ) thirteen years later , precisely because he could count on the unconditional support of President Mitterrand , who is not only an acknowledged lover of both the arts and literature , but also requires an element of grandeur to be orchestrated and injected into large-scale projects ( see p.12 ) . |
| 30 | However , progress in a similar way towards an understanding of the mechanics of weathering processes ( e.g. Curtis , 1976 ) requires not only an adequate knowledge of chemistry and of exchange reactions , but also of processes at a different scale . |