Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Working on so small a piece of basic material , it was remarkably difficult to be sure we had correctly identified the genes . |
| 2 | He was a linebacker at Williams College yet another member of the so-called ‘ Williams Mafia ’ that now occupies so conspicuously large a percentage of the country 's key museum posts and served on a Navy ammunition boat in Vietnam before pursuing graduate studies in nineteenth-century American and European art at Harvard . |
| 3 | Moreover it is , as so vastly important a body of water perhaps should be , the original ocean of the world , the so-called Panthalassa . |
| 4 | Only about half a minute of the first half remaining and er certainly Whitlow has hardly put a foot wrong at the back for Leicester so far . |
| 5 | The needs of knitwear design software in this respect are fairly small — most need only about half a megabyte of RAM — some other programs that I have used need two megabytes , or four times as much memory . |
| 6 | For parents , it is only too long a period of encumbrance and handicap during which they are saddled with young who demand continual feeding , who reduce their freedom and regularly expose them to danger . |
| 7 | Obviously too strong a flurry of angelic wings , too ready recourse to miracles or to Omnipotence , would instantly diminish the stature of the characters , devalue their decisions and their courage . |
| 8 | There is a danger in indulging in too great a diversity of material and outlook and , as biogeographers have been few in number , diversity could lead to the continuing omission of the study of the impact of human activity . |
| 9 | Moreover , the harmonisation and industrial standardisation with which the German Empire was built is all too familiar a feature of the Commission 's activism . |
| 10 | The word pirate was perhaps not so strong a term of condemnation as in later centuries : European rulers were only just beginning to acquire for themselves , on behalf of their states , a monopoly of the use of force . |
| 11 | I 'm not so sure a lot of people sleeping rough on the streets |
| 12 | They have a very fiercely competitive system , and some people say that you have to start preparing for this at nursery school erm and it 's a question of going to the right schools , going to the right training colleges , though it 's not so much a question of going to university , although you do have to have a university degree in most cases , but they have special training establishments with a tough competition to get into it , and as a result of this the people who come out are very highly selected , and think of themselves as being very professional , very competent , they have a great deal more self confidence , in some ways , than our British civil servants do . |
| 13 | It 's growing but it 's not so big a piece of business that we could n't afford to do an acquisition , if it made sense . ’ |
| 14 | The same writer also states : " The Bishop of Rochester remained at Hailing and Trottescliffe , where he conferred orders in both places and at certain intervals , " he continues , " this mortality swept away so vast a multitude of both sexes that none could be found to carry the corpses to the grave , men and women bore their own offspring to the Church and cast them into a common pit , and from these pits came such a great stench that hardly anyone dared cross the cemeteries . " |
| 15 | He retails , from personal experience , the development of nuclear explosives and nuclear energy over nearly half a century of political moves , counter moves , international intrigue and manipulation against the personal backdrop of world leaders — from Roosevelt , Truman , Churchill , Joliot-Curie and General Groves to Gaddafi , Hussein , Carter , Reagan and Mitterrand . |
| 16 | Exercise is just as important a part of slimming as eating less food . |
| 17 | The disclosure letter is just as important a part of the negotiations as the sale and purchase agreement , and it would be a mistake for extensive work to go into the due diligence exercise and subsequent negotiations of the sale and purchase agreement , only to be undone by an inadequate disclosure letter . |
| 18 | Martin and Koda plan just as ambitious a schedule of costume exhibitions at their new home — three per year — and they say they 've been given a mandate to do that . |
| 19 | As I say the problem with the tucking in on that one is there 's not quite such a lot of length . |
| 20 | If so you soon realise just how important a piece of kit it is . |
| 21 | Evidence was put together to demonstrate just how large a proportion of Nato 's current force was actually provided by the Europeans . |
| 22 | ( d ) Suicide was not too remote a consequence of the breach of duty . |
| 23 | I hope that it is not too perfunctory a way of dealing with this interesting point to say that in my opinion it is comprehensively answered by the judgments in Bishopsgate Investment Management Ltd. v. Maxwell [ 1992 ] 2 W.L.R. 991 which Mr. Rawley , for the defendants , brought to your Lordships ' attention . |
| 24 | William of Dene , a monk based at Rochester , wrote in 1349 : ‘ To our great grief the plague carried off so vast a multitude of people of both sexes that nobody could be found who would bear the corpses to the grave . |
| 25 | When he was arrested in his house he found it impossible to parry any longer such a mass of events , and surrendered to them . |
| 26 | Yet here , in his uncharacteristic hesitancy , the penetrating and infuriating Alvin Toffler is probably as good a reflection of the 1990 's and as else . |
| 27 | She will see those who have committed themselves to the traditional model of education , some as a matter of principle , but others because to question it opens up too big a can of worms . |
| 28 | She 'd lost a few stone since the last time he 'd seen her and put on about half a ton of make-up . |
| 29 | It was less demanding than the similar education given to Elizabeth or Lady Jane Grey , and Mary was undoubtedly of far less intellectual a cast of mind . |
| 30 | But so far as the growing and diversifying domestic market for manufactured goods was concerned , improved road transport was far more important a means of distribution , for here speed and reliability were often sought above cheapness . |