Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] so [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did not seem possible that so lively a person was dead . |
| 2 | Very few men have led so versatile or so successful a life as Peter Scott . |
| 3 | Sad that so important a subject should be so turgid for most of us . |
| 4 | In spite of this , Mahan wrote ‘ For twenty-two months Nelson 's fleet never went into port , at the end of that time , when the need arose to pursue an enemy for four thousand miles , it was found massed and in all respects perfectly prepared for so sudden and so distant a call . ’ |
| 5 | Though the very fact that it is so traditional and so formal a poem in the pastoral tradition , held in the tightness of all the conventions that it employs , not only allows , but in some strange way makes possible , the intensity of personal feeling that it contains . |
| 6 | Maggie feels no doubt about that : so small a word , so small and so necessary a word is bound to survive , to slip through the net of destruction that she and Fenna — no , that she herself , alone — will loose on the cold sky tonight . |
| 7 | It is a little disappointing that so handsome a book offers so breathless a review of the subject . |
| 8 | Dalgliesh , who had heard him at a police concert , never ceased to be surprised that so narrow a chest and so slight a frame could produce such a powerful organ-toned bass . |