Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] so [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only in per capita wealth did the town have a slight edge , and then perhaps less decisively than might be expected for so important a centre . |
| 2 | One radical MP , William Cobbett , elected in 1833 , wondered : ‘ Why are we squeezed into so small a space that it is absolutely impossible that there should be calm and regular discussion … |
| 3 | Indeed some observers thought this a major reason why the Conservatives won by so narrow a margin in October . |
| 4 | Carried by so small a man , the camera 's lens would often be no higher from the ground than a child 's eye and he could approach them on their own level . |
| 5 | If such stipulations are made for so mundane a practice as motoring , they would seem to be reasonable precautions for protecting our environment for the rest of time from possible damage by man-made creatures . |
| 6 | Having said all this , if your home is centrally-heated , one heater , perhaps not even rated for so large a tank , should suffice , and in practice it will rarely be on , when your home heating is . |
| 7 | Although a regular officer , he was appointed in 1960 to head the Chief Political Directorate , a sensitive time to be moved into so critical a position . |
| 8 | She dared not halt upon so tenuous a promise . |
| 9 | The titles were not ones with which she was familiar : The Book Of Dzyan , The Book of Eibon , The Golden Bough , Ludwig Prinn 's De Vermiis Mysteriis , The Beginner 's Guide to the Necronomicon , and others whose titles were written in so indecipherable a script that she could n't read it . |
| 10 | There existed , however , a distressing class of material known as ‘ improved woods ’ which had very much the properties and fate that one would expect from so hubristic a name . |
| 11 | Columbine is rarely seen in so tragic a role . |
| 12 | Never before , as the Banks put it , had the arguments in favour of limiting the size of the family been presented to so large a public . |
| 13 | Evolutionary theory , especially when applied to so complex a creature as man , has often advanced by what E. O. Wilson in his book Sociobiology : the new synthesis has slightingly termed the ‘ advocacy ’ method . |
| 14 | Not having to pick their way carefully now they were able to cover some thirty hilly miles that day , good going for so large a party of horse , even mosstroopers . |
| 15 | We pioneered the technique well before it became used on so large a scale by giants like American Express and Reader 's Digest . |
| 16 | Inevitably , such paper tigers had no effect on men who had embarked on so desperate a venture , especially when they had never paid more than lip-service to the authority of the Republican politicians . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And compared with so self-evident a need , the matter of where the money was to come from was quite irrelevant . |
| 19 | However , as we saw in Chapter V , this view is difficult to sustain , and certainly , should not be asserted in so cavalier a fashion . |
| 20 | Faced with the crisis of inner city decay , for that was really the problem of mid-19th century Paris , many of today 's governments could wish for so favourable a conjuncture . |
| 21 | The meeting stented £10 for the Directors of the Royal Infirmary of Glasgow , " wishing to Contribute for so laudable a Plan , " and a like sum next year . |
| 22 | Theda had perforce to let go , for she could not contain the hair now it had sprung in so disorderly a way from its moorings . |
| 23 | It is unlikely that Gloucester needed Hastings to prod him into action , although if Mancini is even partially correct it would be significant that the duke 's view of events in London was coming from so biased a source . |
| 24 | It is unlikely that Gloucester needed Hastings to prod him into action , although if Mancini is even partially correct it would be significant that the duke 's view of events in London was coming from so biased a source . |
| 25 | One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It is difficult to account for so large a change in terms of a decrease in effective moment of inertia due to a change in the shape of the crust of the star , because for a rotation rate of 30Hz the equilibrium ellipsoid has a moment of inertia only 10 -4 greater than that of a sphere . |
| 28 | Nobody dreamed of so swift a break . |
| 29 | In some subjects these new methods have led to so radical a change in the content of the syllabus that the effects will necessarily be felt in the sixth form and in all further and higher education . |
| 30 | His tread was firm , his aspect manly ; his voice was clear but rather high pitched for so splendid a body . |