Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later I learned we made it in just under an hour , although I do n't remember a thing . |
| 2 | Certainly , Meriden was much more nearly an authentic industrial co-operative than were the other two ; and , as certainly , realised the potential in morale , in practical commitment to the objectives of the enterprise , which is the special feature of a co-operative . |
| 3 | For they are presented as holding between structures , or between a structure and the class struggle , and it is so far only an article of faith to suppose that they can be refined to a point where one can identify a specific connection such as that between an aspect of the peasant class and a particular form of capitalist state . |
| 4 | And the fact that your wife is erm there was something that could 've possibly been done for your wife and that is something that maybe I would 've mentioned at the end , do you think this would of be any benefit to the wife only as maybe an ending statement or something |
| 5 | If obese Type 2 patients who are not complying with diet are given sulphonylureas which stimulate insulin secretion or insulin itself , the consequences are all too frequently an even more obese patient with glycaemic control still very poor — a very undesirable situation . |
| 6 | All too often an artist would produce the work , put it up , and walk away . |
| 7 | When Wordsworth confessed in a letter of 1794 that " I am of that odious class of men called democrats " , what he was indicating was not so much that he was a supporter of a wider parliamentary franchise as that he was on the side of the people and that he was a social and political egalitarian , though not necessarily also an economic one : " … my heart was all/Given to the people , and my love was theirs " , recalled the poet in The Prelude ( 1805 , Book IX , II . |
| 8 | Although covert , sabotage is not necessarily just an individual response . |
| 9 | Not so much an eye as a template . |
| 10 | Not so much an object as a place where , the means by which , the past can be called up , the future foretold ? |
| 11 | Mark Hudson Out of the strong came forth the sweetness Not so much an installation as a duration piece created with treacle and sugar cubes . |
| 12 | When he has inspired sympathetic coverage , the results tend to be not so much an exposition of Gironella 's achievements but belong to that particular branch of literature which uses works of art as a starting point for literary excursus . |
| 13 | He offers not so much an impersonation as an impression of the man . |
| 14 | This was not so much an escape as a therapy . |
| 15 | There must be special praise , however , for Kathryn Hunter , who is not so much an actress as a human chameleon . |
| 16 | This is not so much an attribute but a requirement since , as we shall see later , it is essential for any of the more complicated techniques to be attempted . |
| 17 | The result is often not so much an individual guitar , but rather an amalgam of bits nicked from here and bobs lifted from there . |
| 18 | It is not so much an argument against his existence per se , but an argument against the way he is so often portrayed . |
| 19 | Things like Doc Martens and Air Jordans are included in the cabinets — unfortunately , this is not so much an attempt to give genuine examples of successful design , more a sign of the current infatuation with popular culture . |
| 20 | By contrast , the only Buid words which might be used to translate our concepts of ‘ courage ’ and ‘ bravery ’ carry strongly negative moral overtones : words like isug denote not so much an indifference to personal danger as a tendency to fierceness or violence . |
| 21 | The new phrases were not so much an indication of the desire to con firm that a revolution in our attitude to young children and their learning had happened , but an attempt to proclaim it . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | Present troubles are not so much an outbreak of anarchy , as a return to normality , with all its faults … |
| 24 | not so much an interlocking economy of producing and consuming enterprises but a community of subjects who produce and consume in order to produce … . |
| 25 | The second contrasting sceptic offers not so much an argument or a question but rather an attitude . |
| 26 | Here was an admission that it was not so much an issue of transforming alien black cultures , but a problem of cultures and practices of white racism leading to unequal opportunities . |
| 27 | Not so much an everyday as a canine chameleon , in fact . |
| 28 | Such comments show not so much an insensitivity to the problems of the locals , but reduces them to cyphers , tourist attractions almost , along with the surrounding scenery . |
| 29 | If interpreted in this light , the argument becomes not so much an onslaught on the idea of identity as an attack on the idea of empirical things as basic particulars . |
| 30 | Thus , formal procedures are not so much an alternative as an adjunct to the informal collaboration which is such an important feature of the best primary schools ; and the part played by the head in securing the most productive mix of formal procedure and informal consultation/collaboration remains central . |