Example sentences of "[det] a strong [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There would be confusion , Bruce thought , and out of this a strong ruler would need to emerge . |
| 2 | Although it might be very easy to steal from a friend or colleague and not get caught most people would feel this to be ‘ wrong ’ , yet such feelings may not exert such a strong influence over decisions as to whether to steal from a larger and less personal victim . |
| 3 | ‘ The reason women do n't have such a strong odour is that they do n't depend on scent to attract , ’ says Dave Kelly . |
| 4 | Parents ' evenings/interviews have become such a strong tradition in primary schools that their purpose , content and structure are rarely challenged . |
| 5 | Editor , — Congratulations to the BMJ on taking such a strong stand on such an important issue . |
| 6 | Archway is one of only a handful of schools in the country to have taken such a strong stand against the Government . |
| 7 | What is it about them that speaks to you , that calls forth such a strong response that at the end you feel satisfied , nourished , as though something new had taken place ? |
| 8 | In fact , she had never known anyone who exuded such arrogant , confident masculinity , such a strong conviction of his own superiority and worth . |
| 9 | I had twenty village girls to teach , some of them with such a strong country accent that I could hardly communicate with them . |
| 10 | It was a good job Eva had such a strong physique . |
| 11 | Evil has such a strong hold on Gollum that he does not have control over his own mind any more . |
| 12 | And Hewlett-Packard has shown itself willing to make regular infilling acquisitions as it has grown — the company was heavily castigated for the price it paid for Apollo Computer Inc , but without Apollo , it would not be in anything like such a strong position today . |
| 13 | For a company in such a strong position , a strategic alliance with a software giant or with another major player in the computer world makes good commercial sense . |
| 14 | The Crown was in such a strong position in 1685 because Charles II , in his last years , had taken a stance in defence of the Church of England as by law established , and was able to exploit the anti-Nonconformist prejudices of the Anglicans . |
| 15 | exert such a strong pull on my heart ? |
| 16 | It is also time to worry , for such a strong consensus generally has an over-reaction on its coat-tails , one that could do more damage than the action to which it is a response . |
| 17 | It was interesting to note that given the diversity of political opinions that such a strong consensus could exist around the issue of government economic initiatives for the area . |
| 18 | As a family Queen 's Park Baptist Church means a lot to us , and it is good to be going into this task with such a strong church behind us . |
| 19 | By 1922 it was for some such a strong attitude as almost to obliterate the normal responses of party . |
| 20 | This is precisely what he had been attempting in " The Dry Salvages " , for example , and it is significant that he used much the same phrase in his demand that contemporary poetry should have such a strong relationship to current speech that " the listener or reader can say " that is how I should talk if I could talk poetry " . |
| 21 | It is one of the most ancient of dye plants , its use being recorded 2,500 years ago , and it is such a strong dye that it will produce a deep pink-brown without a mordant — with alum and tin it supplies red and red-brown . |
| 22 | A common tendency , reflecting perhaps a consciousness of the taboo on didacticism which has been such a strong feature of recent primary education , was for some teachers to ask questions rather than make statements or give instructions . |
| 23 | rather I do n't think the advertising industry had such a strong sense of duty but I assume |
| 24 | She had such a strong sense of being in the right , of having behaved in a morally correct manner . |
| 25 | I felt such a strong love for them that I planned to spend the rest of my life among them , and to try to become more like them . |
| 26 | I 'm delighted there was such a strong emphasis on a not suicide verdict . |
| 27 | ‘ We became such a strong unit and the experience was very binding . |
| 28 | This had in part been justified by cost conditions — a larger domestic consumer was cheaper per kWh to supply than a small one — though in the conditions of shortage which prevailed it was arguably foolish to maintain such a strong incentive to increased usage . |
| 29 | But such a shared interest would scarcely be enough to form such a strong friendship . |
| 30 | If physical science has such a strong association with masculinity , then the position of the arts , English in particular , is surely more ambivalent . |