Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [adv] [adj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is the Fiction too slight a foundation to build on for some understanding of these intermediate years ? |
| 2 | Make colour 1 any shade you like , but remember that this will be the colour of the design screen you will be working on , so try not to make the colour too violent a shade , as this can be tiring to the eyes . |
| 3 | Once at the first theatre , Dinah dismissed it , and gave the man too small a tip , for the first time in her life ; he scowled and spat as he drove off , and this disconcerted her ; never again , she swore , would she be short of money . |
| 4 | It is felt that it leaves the police too great a discretion as to what type of conduct is unacceptable . |
| 5 | I marvel at the way so great a power is falling so gentle on the earth . |
| 6 | Since Robert Graves wrote The White Goddess — an example Hughes acknowledges — nobody has offered the goddess so intricate a tribute . |
| 7 | ‘ That might be a bit too heavy a load for Buzz , ’ Adam suggested . |
| 8 | There 's a fellow called Sammy Meredith who 's every bit as good a sailor as I am . ’ |
| 9 | Ideally , the Imperium ought to seek to supplant the blasphemous Quintan language with Imperial Gothic ; though this was no doubt too major a task . |
| 10 | As she grew older , however , her face grew as well as her hips and bosom , but her way of looking as though she were about to burst out of her clothes became an asset rather thin a disadvantage . |