Example sentences of "[indef pn] [prep] [adv] [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul evidently knew nothing of so remarkable an event , for he never mentions it . |
| 2 | Overall , the south presents nothing like as bleak a picture for Congress as the north , at this stage of the campaign . |
| 3 | Among experienced readers , including those most passionately concerned with modernism , there are some for whom Joyce occupies nothing like so central a position , some for whom the whole drift of the later work is radically misconceived , even a colossal mistake . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | What she saw under the lights was a boat , a big one in too small a space . |
| 6 | Overall complaints about car boot sales have risen from virtually nil to around ten a week in just two years . |
| 7 | Did the British government offer anything like as good a deal as the Spanish government ? |