Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further upstream a cache of rubbish had been washed against the bank . |
| 2 | When I was asking them which was their favourite area , not unsurprisingly a couple of them mentioned the Lake District — anytime except in the summer holidays . |
| 3 | Furthermore a number of the alternative words suggested when using the large lexicon , would be unknown to many native speakers ( e.g. betel , bey , littoral , lour , rentiers , ret ) . |
| 4 | For several decades , Panama was juridically a protectorate of the United States , and effectively an American colony . |
| 5 | Try to understand what 's in people 's minds ; because when you understand that much better , you 'll have that much better a chance of making profit . |
| 6 | We did get them better a lot of them at any rate . |
| 7 | His wife had died suddenly a couple of years back . |
| 8 | Suddenly a wave of total panic swept across her like nausea and she had to resist the urge to dash from the car and hide herself among the trees . |
| 9 | Suddenly a wave of fear washed over her mind and she became tinglingly aware , as if she had n't realized it before , what danger they were in . |
| 10 | I make no claim to supernatural powers , nor do I believe in guardian angels et cetera , but suddenly a vision of what is about to occur flashes vivid and uninvited , inside my forehead : the screams , the blood-covered sheets , Pa scurrying round the lawn snatching up the pink and white scraps , calling to his God then staring at the bloody morsels of his daughter as though they 're a jigsaw with missing bits . |
| 11 | All that it takes is a little push , some minor inconvenience , a trifling price to pay for faith , some obligation or embarrassment involved in being a Christian , and suddenly a trail of doubts bubbles to the surface : ‘ Maybe after all … |
| 12 | The parent becomes more dependent , and with only small increases in the time and amount of care involved , there is suddenly a multiplicity of tasks until one has progressed unawares to the point of full-time caring . ’ |
| 13 | Suddenly a posse of television men with lights , handheld cameras and furry sound-amplifiers like caterpillars on sticks arrived in front of Morris with Amaranth Wilikins in tow . |
| 14 | The image of the planet receded and Tarvaras was suddenly a component of a larger system . |
| 15 | Suddenly a part of you you 've taken for granted all your life gives out , or plays you up . |
| 16 | Suddenly a flock of all-dark shearwaters appeared , only the underwing showing a pale smudge . |
| 17 | Gosh , suddenly a lot of traffic . |
| 18 | Suddenly a hail of earth , stones , metal fragments , pieces of exhaust pipe and car door came down on us in a dust-covered mass . |
| 19 | It does n't say that solitude much a state of freedom as of imprisonment . |
| 20 | It is very much a case of caveat emptor . |
| 21 | It was n't so much a case of thinking : he looks a lovely chappie . |
| 22 | It is very much a case of selecting your kite for the conditions . |
| 23 | Unfortunately this is very much a case of throwing the baby out with the bath water . |
| 24 | Even the encouragement given to the Ceauşescus ' globe-trotting by Robert Mugabe was pretty much a case of like endorsing like . |
| 25 | With pressed flowers , it is very much a case of quality rather than quantity . |
| 26 | Indeed , it is not so much a case of them accompanying the AIB team members as of them being part of the team . |
| 27 | Your selection of wayward notices ( 27th November ) reminded me of one I saw in my hotel in Frankfurt — not so much a case of bad translation , as a question of logic . |
| 28 | Work groups are very much a case of one in , all in' . |
| 29 | It is , then , not so much a case of ellipsis occurring in informal speech as of writing requiring a degree of elaboration that is not necessary in informal speech . |
| 30 | Yet however we may judge deviation , whether negatively or positively , being a social outsider is very much a case of non-conformity to the norms and regularities of discourse structure . |