Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adv] [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The skua is astonishingly agile for so big a bird , but can not keep up among the throng and gives up . |
| 2 | scheme or something like that for about half the price . |
| 3 | At first the ramp was set up without any flat bottom or platforms and three feet of vert , the ramp remained like this for about half a year . |
| 4 | Although many part-time workers are used , and others migrate into the region to work during the holiday season , many become unemployed for over half the year . |
| 5 | Some of the crew puffing after only half an hour or so , which is n't surprising as the only exercise they take in the normal run of things is putting their legs under a table and aiming their snouts at the trough . |
| 6 | However , tendencies in the economy and in the internal organization of firms were likely to have allowed this without too great an increase in risk to longer term financial viability for the larger operators . |
| 7 | DEC reckons it can come closer to a unified Unix than any other supplier , and recently as last month freely admitted that its whole strategy is dependent on just such a gameplan ( UX No 418 ) . |
| 8 | It is , at the very least , remarkable that the common law should be so schizophrenic concerning so central a concept . |
| 9 | You should never have been so eager to pay so much for so poor a privilege . ’ |
| 10 | I was only smug for about half a minute . |
| 11 | He could not have done so much in so brief a time . |
| 12 | The xenon atoms remain polarised for about half an hour . |
| 13 | Whether this has any significant effect upon the vine 's growth has yet to be determined but it is true that the light in Champagne is exceptional for so northern a latitude . |
| 14 | The truth of the matter is , surely , that with so effortless a technique he is sometimes guilty of speeding , of not allowing himself time to bask in beauty — as in the chorale-like second subject ( with its magical waterfalls ) of the C sharp minor Scherzo . |
| 15 | Because Saudi Arabia had an alternative outlet on the Red Sea at Yanbu ’ , created in the 1970s against just such a contingency , it was estimated that only some 8 million b/d would be removed from the market were Hormuz closed . |
| 16 | While a gravel tidy with too fine a mesh will soon block , one with too large a mesh can see the fry ending up in the gravel bed below and the parents trying to get at them . |
| 17 | Its numbers had increased by 1979 to 3,000 from only 800 a century ago , when it had been expected to disappear : its only use was for bloodless bull-fighting in which ribbons are snatched from the bull 's horns . |
| 18 | Extreme reductionism is usually a sign of restricted outlook and it seems safe to say that sociobiology will not remain long in so puritanical a stage . |
| 19 | At the time of last year 's autumn statement , both the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer were deeply involved in just such an exercise . |
| 20 | Sinkings by U-boats rose steadily , from around 100 merchant vessels in January 1916 to about 800 a month in the spring of 1917 . |
| 21 | Needing to score quickly , West Indies made 176 at nearly five an over , despite some fine bowling from Snow , when Lloyd declared with five wickets down , setting England the task of surviving for five and a quarter hours or scoring 339 to win . |
| 22 | It 's the ultimate in designer resorts , one enormous pleasure garden dedicated to give as much as possible to as many as possible in as small an area as possible . |
| 23 | But China , Taiwan and the ASEAN countries , as well as Japan , are leery about so exclusive a grouping . |
| 24 | The reason : New Forum is sceptical about too hasty a unification of the two German states , and about market economies . |
| 25 | This is responsible for nearly half the ozone depletion . |
| 26 | Part of the improvement stems from an upturn in the last few months of 1992 which was not evident last November , and part from an increase in North Sea oil , which is responsible for almost half the revision . |
| 27 | Was her waist just a shade too stiff for so massive a skirt ? |
| 28 | In the event , the Biennale 's President , Paolo Portoghesi , was not happy with so narrow a majority and adjourned the meeting until 22 May . |
| 29 | He was too much of a nonconformist in his origins , too much of an individualist , at that time too much of an oddity , ever to be really happy in so tight-knit a community as a boarding-school . |
| 30 | Essex have to get through regional qualifiers at Old Loughtonians on March 27–28 , but Chelmsford coach Dick Clarke believes unity is all important at so crucial a time . |