Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore a higher proportion of blacks were acquitted after trial , which again suggests insufficient evidence . |
| 2 | Better a tough general in charge , was their argument , to ensure the stability of the US-Panama relationship , than a weak civilian regime unable to control nationalist hotheads . |
| 3 | Better a little fish in a big pond than the other way round ? ’ |
| 4 | But the speaker had raised waste as a defence of private enterprise , as an implicit attack on government economic policy , suggesting that the state could only better a free market by open or hidden subsidies . |
| 5 | ‘ Suddenly a sharp blast of high pressure air rushed downward from the engine , ’ she said . |
| 6 | And suddenly a sharp pain as if stabbed in the gut . |
| 7 | Suddenly a blond boy of about three darted through the door … and the precious hope in Kerry 's heart died . |
| 8 | And — well , the music started and there was suddenly a great explosion of sound that no one could possibly have been prepared for . |
| 9 | It was suddenly a great relief to be able to speak the truth . |
| 10 | Suddenly a great cloud of smoke billowed out from the gun . |
| 11 | Suddenly a huge fork of lightning hit the tree . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Broadman held up three thick red fingers and the man 's face was suddenly a sunny display of comprehension . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She was still sitting and thinking when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran past her . |
| 16 | I had just about reached the stairs , when suddenly a white door to my right burst open and a group of students tumbled out , shrieking with laughter . |
| 17 | Suddenly a long-haired man with a moustache filled the screen , introduced as ‘ Dr Doug Henning — magician and party executive councillor ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I could feel that the problem with David was very much a tremendous lack of application . |
| 20 | But I should stress that this is still very much a personal interpretation by somebody only marginally involved in the market . |
| 21 | For me , it was as much a personal triumph for the coach , Ian McGeechan , as anybody else , because of what he has achieved with this side in such a short space of time . |
| 22 | But , as the editor Andre Fontaine explains : ‘ It is not so much a new layout as a new presentation . |
| 23 | It was not so much a new view as an old view applied to new problems . |
| 24 | Gluing is not so much a skilled job as a responsible one and a large number of mistakes are available to a determined man , all of which can have dangerous results . |
| 25 | One controversial conclusion is that ‘ corporate community charitable involvement remains very much a peripheral activity for most companies , even for those with fairly sophisticated programmes . ’ |
| 26 | Certainly marriage was very much a practical necessity for working class girls , and the chief hope was for a good bargain . |
| 27 | The Council of the Law Society has power to grant waivers in appropriate cases , eg where additional accommodation is not so much a separate office as an annexe to the main place of business , and will as a matter of practice take soundings from the local law society before reaching its decision . |
| 28 | Gas supplies are also very much a political football in view of the high level of USSR supply but here the situation is less unstable because of the length of supply contracts involved . |
| 29 | This is where the spectacular forms of regeneration that characterised the 1980s ( Harvey , 1989 ) were not so much a postmodern discontinuity as a logical extension of the tradition of symbolically rich , effectively marginal , policy palliatives that were offered to the urban crisis from the 1960s onwards . |
| 30 | There are numerous castles , including Chirk Castle which dates back to the 14th century and has some lovely formal gardens , and a little further away , Powis Castle , built in the 15th century but altered through the years and now very much a stately home with a large deer park . |