Example sentences of "[adv] great a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who was he , this dark and secret lover who had inflamed her with so great a passion ? |
| 2 | Why should this make so great a difference ? |
| 3 | Yet it was so great a task that only Zeus , chief of the gods , could master it . |
| 4 | Great was the smiting and slaying in short time ; but by reason that the Moors were so great a number , they bore hard upon the Christians , and were in the hour of overcoming them . |
| 5 | ‘ In no instance have I personally suffered so great a disappointment , ’ Chapman confessed . |
| 6 | there would be a practical advantage in uniting some official knowledge of their wants as well as your artistic skill , on the one hand , with my own claims , whatever they may be considered to be , on the other ; and were they to honour us by proposing a joint appointment , I can only say that I should feel much satisfaction in undertaking this great work in conjunction with a brother Architect for whom I have so great a respect as yourself … |
| 7 | I marvel at the way so great a power is falling so gentle on the earth . |
| 8 | The political ambitions of the CLB can be deduced from its interpretation of the Edwardian crisis : ‘ At so critical a period in British history as the present , when there is so great and unfortunate a tendency to slackness , ease , and carelessness as to religion , morals , and work , when there is so great a craving for pleasure 's sake , when so serious a social problem as the great army of the unfit and unemployed has become a national scandal and a public danger ’ , it was necessary to provide men of the future with ‘ that spirit of self-denial , self-control and definiteness of righteous purpose ’ which had put Britain in the lead among nations . |
| 9 | Wooed from being European marketing director of Coca-Cola , Hogan was then , and remains now , the architect of FI 'S promotional side , if only because Marlboro controls so great a proportion of the FI budget : through direct sponsorship of its teams , through individual contracts with drivers , through sponsorship of races , through general advertising , through supporting the press , through the general glamorizing of the sport . |
| 10 | Hunt is a big man and a strong one , and while at his peak , he stayed in remarkable physical condition for someone who put so great a strain on himself . |
| 11 | He would swing from a despairing belief that he was so great a sinner that it was too late to hope to go to Heaven , to elation as he overcame his great vice of swearing and started to read the Bible . |
| 12 | The changes identified by the Tomlinson report are of such a magnitude and involve so great a culture change that the planning and decision making will need to be made with a great deal of care and integration . |
| 13 | Yet there were also incentives for Louis IX to come to terms : Joinville reports that Louis replied to his critics , who asked why he should give away ‘ so great a part of your land , that you and your ancestors have conquered , and which has been forfeited ’ , that he had given Henry , Aquitaine , Gascony and the three dioceses ‘ to create affection between my children and his , who are cousins-germain' . |
| 14 | ‘ Never has there been so great a need for the talented people universities can provide and nurture , ’ he says . |
| 15 | During the hundred fifty years in question , there was so great a diversity of views about nature that , on closer inspection , it becomes difficult to achieve a succinct characterization . |
| 16 | With the proliferation of puritan sects during the 1640s and 1650s , there was so great a range of extreme demands , from the nationalization of land to the emancipation of women , that it would be surprising if the natural philosophers had not begun to appear as moderates . |
| 17 | Such an outcome would have been so great a blow to Edward II 's prestige that he decided to throw all his resources into reaching the garrison and destroying the besiegers . |
| 18 | So great a change does not enter upon the national economic scene unnoticed , like Owen 's ‘ thief in the night ’ nor even conspicuously to the trumpetings of statutory provisions and the flourish of bureaucratic apparatus . |
| 19 | To devolve responsibility for the kind of social services we currently enjoy to a mass of informal , ill-organised groups and organisations would constitute so great a dismantling of the personal social services system as to leave its functions solely to hidden providers of informal care . |
| 20 | Male tail length could now evolve to so great a size that it decreased the male 's viability , for now that a preference has been established among the females , it can balance a disadvantage in the preferred character . |
| 21 | So great a flood … has been estimated to have run for 2 weeks . |
| 22 | Edwin , ’ she added , without moving her gaze , ‘ Louisa has been so great a comfort to me I can hardly bear this parting . ’ |
| 23 | There was little scope left for the condottiere , no possibility of the rise of a new crop of Wallensteins or Mansfelds , the warlords and military entrepreneurs who had played so great a part in the struggles of the 1620s and 1630s . |
| 24 | I think he enjoyed the bank , not merely because it was a change from teaching , but because the City exerted so great a fascination over him . |
| 25 | The Inquisitors concluded : ‘ Blessed be the Most High who has so far preserved the Male sex from so great a crime2 . ’ |
| 26 | Who can fail to be amazed that so few men ( and virtually unknown men too ) , could carry such a huge quantity of jewels unharmed over so great a distance ? |
| 27 | Certainly he refused to implicate himself in the development of a theory in which he had played so great a part . |
| 28 | In England and Wales we are singularly placed to appreciate the relationship of scenery and structure , for few other parts of the earth 's surface show in a similar small area so great a diversity of rock types and of landscape features : " Britain is a world by itself " ; its mountains are not high , nor its rivers long , but within a few hundred miles of travel from east to west one may see more varieties of scenery than are to be found in many bigger countries . |
| 29 | A generation later , another , bound for so great a centre of civilisation as Paris , still found it necessary to take with him sixty boxes of household goods and twenty of food , seven or eight dozen chairs and armchairs , a coach , a chaise and twenty horses . |
| 30 | But clearly there is a point beyond which restrictions can not reasonably be imposed on the grounds of good neighbourliness without payment of compensation — and ‘ general considerations of regional or national policy require so great a restriction on the landowner 's use of his land as to amount to a taking away from him of a proprietary interest in the land ’ . |