Example sentences of "[adv] an [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition the tenant may have to pay compensation to occupying subtenants for non-renewal of tenancies under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 and may himself have to pay damages for breach of obligation ( eg an unreasonable refusal of consent to assign ) . |
| 2 | ( g ) Demergers The break-up of a firm after a failed merger is not unknown ; sometimes it is not so much the result of any defect in the merger arrangements themselves as a change of circumstances ( eg an unexpected collapse in the volume of a particular type of work ) . |
| 3 | Some writers have described formal groups as official groups , to avoid the confusion that can arise when describing groups operating in an informally structured organization ( eg an organic type of organization ) . |
| 4 | I was not unhappy to be sitting opposite an attractive lady from Coll and there was only one person I knew of who lived on Coll . |
| 5 | Furthermore an exhaustive lexicon of words may include words outside a normal user 's vocabulary . |
| 6 | Better an early climb-down in some sheltered private meeting , he argued , than a humiliation on the floor of the House . |
| 7 | There was suddenly an intense chill in the air . |
| 8 | Wardens had a general responsibility for keeping the king 's peace within his bailiwick , and in times of rebellion or disturbance he was naturally an important buttress of royal authority . |
| 9 | If ( 7 ) is premultiplied by A , we have A(AX) = ( AX ) unc and AX is apparently an alternative solution for X. But since AX = X{gd} it is X postmultiplied by a diagonal matrix , as before , except that here the diagonal matrix is not arbitrary . |
| 10 | They do not know how long a season will last ( in the holidays industry the weather plays an important part ) , how long a permanent member of staff on long-term sick leave will be away , or how long an exceptional surge in demand will last . |
| 11 | This is juridically an unsatisfactory explanation for those States where treaties do not form part of domestic law unless incorporated by legislation . |
| 12 | Most people never have any trouble so there is no need to be paranoid , but do be aware of the facts : the little word ‘ taxi ’ or ‘ minicab ’ written on a car is not necessarily an official certificate of good character . |
| 13 | ‘ More bobbies on the beat gives rise to greater confidence but they are not necessarily an effective use of police time , ’ he said . |
| 14 | It is not necessarily an accurate description of the demands of the job , and the skill label may result more from the strength of the trade union or occupational group in maintaining that its members should continue to hold that position , than from a dispassionate assessment of the skill content of the job . |
| 15 | The size of the dog is not necessarily an accurate reflection of its barking abilities . |
| 16 | Note the gradual slope of the Top Carboniferous from its outcrop in the south down below an increasing cover with Cretaceous sediments towards the north within the Münsterland . |
| 17 | The links between each step of the searching process are just as much an integral part of the search as the individual steps . |
| 18 | not so much an interlocking economy of producing and consuming enterprises but a community of subjects who produce and consume in order to produce … . |
| 19 | For many , their own loyalty to a particular nation is so much an unspoken element of personal identity ( as opposed to the public world of politics ) that it is impossible to discuss ; nationalism is only what foreigners believe in . |
| 20 | Since this is , in effect , as much an oblique comment on the present as a literal interpretation of the past , what such accounts tell us about the quality of village life in the past must be handled with considerable scepticism . |
| 21 | As an enemy , he was still very much an unknown quantity to them . |
| 22 | Mind you , travel was very much an academic thing for me until the television programme and even now I can scarcely say I am a travelled person . |
| 23 | The learner is by no means a passive " empty bucket " into which a body of objective facts may be poured , but is very much an active agent in the process of knowing . |
| 24 | In this , the pupil was seen as being very much an active participant in the learning process rather than as a passive recipient of someone else 's mathematical knowledge . |
| 25 | Technology is so pervasive , so much an intrinsic part of modern life , that we tend to take it for granted . |
| 26 | From their results they argue that this is not so much an objective assessment of the functioning of their personal networks , but a judgment based on the ‘ intrapsychic needs of the respondent , in terms of ‘ dependency ’ or anxious attachment' ( Henderson , 1982 ) . |
| 27 | Too expedient and un-systematic to be called a philosophy , they comprise even so a kind of official doctrine , rather as though a series of government inquiries on the press had set down an official theory of ‘ the Fourth Estate ’ . |
| 28 | Lamont may attempt to lay down an encouraging market for the industry . |
| 29 | But erm we could cut down an awful lot of these accidents and erm it does n't matter at the end of the day what level it is . |
| 30 | Two miners had been instructed to bring down an unsafe part of the roof which presented a danger to the miners . |