Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore a higher proportion of blacks were acquitted after trial , which again suggests insufficient evidence . |
| 2 | ‘ Suddenly a sharp blast of high pressure air rushed downward from the engine , ’ she said . |
| 3 | Suddenly a blond boy of about three darted through the door … and the precious hope in Kerry 's heart died . |
| 4 | And — well , the music started and there was suddenly a great explosion of sound that no one could possibly have been prepared for . |
| 5 | Suddenly a great cloud of smoke billowed out from the gun . |
| 6 | Suddenly a huge fork of lightning hit the tree . |
| 7 | He felt suddenly a brief return of the closeness they had used to enjoy when the children were small and she still felt important to them and minded less his involvement with his work . |
| 8 | Broadman held up three thick red fingers and the man 's face was suddenly a sunny display of comprehension . |
| 9 | The Maggot , pleased to have spoilt someone 's day , pulled back the stick and we liked safely off the runway and there was suddenly a wonderful rush of cool air coming from an overhead vent . |
| 10 | Damien Falkowski and the Britannia Chamber Orchestra make their recording début in what has become very much a standard programme of English music from strings . |
| 11 | I could feel that the problem with David was very much a tremendous lack of application . |
| 12 | Brewer had had only occasional playing time with Otago late last year , but he was still very much a central feature of the Otago championship-winning efforts . |
| 13 | In some variants of reported speech where the speaker is only implicitly identified , the words may be not so much a straight transformation of what was said as a summary or paraphrase of it . |
| 14 | Can one argue that the bees ' dance is as much a causal consequence of this earlier experience as the bruise was of the bump ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He was very much a German type of dog , with a very impressive head , a dog who excelled on the move . |
| 17 | What concerns us is not so much a detailed account of the politics which led to the passing of the acts and to their eventual repeal in the 1880s . |
| 18 | Behaviourists , for example , want only to treat of overt behaviour as the data for psychological research and this is as much a theoretical specification of what , for them , is to count as data as experience and meaning are for non-behaviourists . |
| 19 | ( The litter on the floor is lust as much a faulty part of the design as the unopenability of the badly designed peanut pack . ) |
| 20 | It was very much a Mexican style of interior decoration for public buildings , the preference for mob scenes and battle pieces instead of wall-paper . |
| 21 | They are also as much a potential source of recommendations as the client . |
| 22 | Show some competence in the structures of written Standard English and begin to use some sentence structures different from those which are characteristic of speech , eg a wider range of subordinate clauses , expanded noun phrases etc . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He 'd had cancer — melanoma , skin cancer — apparently a massive dose of it , and now he looked as if he could have taken on Frank Bruno . |
| 26 | Later in the letter , considering apparently a different sort of poem written by Williams , Hart Crane confesses : |
| 27 | Culturally in Italy business advertisements are not placed and legally it is apparently a doubtful method of selling a company . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The second new router , the Model 7250 , is designed as a low-cost high-performance feeder node for the other RX 7000 models , and is basically a three-port version of the Model 7500 : it holds one forwarding processor and up to three interface cards which — as with the rest of the family — can be any mix of Ethernet , Token Ring or wide area interfaces . |