Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further upstream a cache of rubbish had been washed against the bank . |
| 2 | His wife had died suddenly a couple of years back . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 … |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As she felt her way forward , suddenly a knight on horseback galloped past her . |
| 8 | Gosh , suddenly a lot of traffic . |
| 9 | Suddenly a hail of earth , stones , metal fragments , pieces of exhaust pipe and car door came down on us in a dust-covered mass . |
| 10 | It does n't say that solitude much a state of freedom as of imprisonment . |
| 11 | It is very much a case of caveat emptor . |
| 12 | It is not so much a case of Captain Bob as of Major John and Petty Officer Newton . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It was n't so much a case of thinking : he looks a lovely chappie . |
| 16 | With pressed flowers , it is very much a case of quality rather than quantity . |
| 17 | It was not so much a case of Glasgow getting worse as one of the rest of the country improving faster . |
| 18 | Though Masonry was always to be an element in the liberal forces — particularly in later non-socialist brands of Republicanism — it was never again , as it was from 1815 to 1820 , its chief framework ; even then it was not so much a system of belief as the only clandestine organization available for conspiracy . |
| 19 | Moreover , smoother driving is as much a characteristic of Tempo 30 as the lower overall speeds , as Döldissen has shown ( Figure 6.30 ) . |
| 20 | Leos Janacek 's On An Overgrown Path is very much a work of atmosphere and impressions . |
| 21 | We have felt very much a part of Queen 's Park during our 3 years in Glasgow , a lot of which is owed to our friends in the 2 fellowship groups which we have been involved with . |
| 22 | Flowers and plants are very much a part of Tricia 's work as a designer of beautiful fabrics and wallcoverings and over the years her job and her hobby have become complementary to one another . |
| 23 | AS EVERY student knows , affairs with lecturers are as much a part of university life as examination nerves , drunken parties and late night deliberations on the Romantic poets . |
| 24 | Knocker was now , in nineteen forty seven , as much a part of Purton as the breakwater . |
| 25 | The camps are historic , as much a part of history as Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili who was to take the name of Stalin . |
| 26 | This new chap , Dunbar , seemed to have become very much a part of Madeleine 's life ; Lady Debrace approved of him and obviously Aubrey liked him . |
| 27 | This island seems overrun with small black pigs ( animals so much a part of Tongan life that when Captain Cook presented a pair of hitherto unknown Guernsey cows to the King they were classified as ‘ Cook 's pigs ’ , and the name has stuck for cows ever since ) , and with Australian cruising ‘ yachties ’ who use the Niuas ( as Schouten and LeMaire once did ) as the formal port of entry to the kingdom . |
| 28 | As much a part of Middlesbrough as the Transporter Bridge . |
| 29 | Many police officers today , even in the higher ranks , can not remember carrying out their police duties without the assistance of the computer , and it is now as much a part of police back-up as the police car and police radio . |
| 30 | They are as much a part of Milan as La Scala or the Galleria Vittore Emmanuele . |