Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On her return she knew that it was he who had plucked the sting but she was afraid that too demonstrative a show of gratitude might be misinterpreted . |
| 2 | Even Pacquement admits that , in recent times , contemporary art has been viewed with too eclectic , uncritical and almost deferential an eye . |
| 3 | It did not seem possible that so lively a person was dead . |
| 4 | MORALE in Britain is so low that nearly half the population would emigrate if they could , according to a survey . |
| 5 | Very few men have led so versatile or so successful a life as Peter Scott . |
| 6 | Ironic that so noble an edifice should house so vile an organisation . |
| 7 | The statutory criteria ( in section 1 ) state that a custodial sentence must not be passed unless either ( a ) the current offence is ‘ so serious that only such a sentence can be justified for the offence ’ or ( b ) , in the case of violent or sexual offences only , only a custodial sentence ‘ would be adequate to protect the public from serious harm ’ . |
| 8 | Sad that so important a subject should be so turgid for most of us . |
| 9 | Hamburger joints and up-market American-style restaurants have been spreading all over Britain in the last few years , and their food has been getting more authentic and better all the time — at least in terms of taste . |
| 10 | It is as simple and as revolutionary a milestone in human culture as the invention of the wheel . |
| 11 | An avenue of limes , dead straight and exactly half a statute mile in length , ran from the gates to the big house at Maran Hill . |
| 12 | The vicious force which was now her essence and to which she gave the name of hatred ( only this was too narrow and too petty a name to describe it ) was directed upon Jack : Jack on whom daily , as he looked at her sometimes so anxiously , so humbly , she smiled the smile of reassurance and of calm . |
| 13 | From 1873 to 1945 , 19 out of 23 Attorneys-General and over half the Solicitors-General later held high judicial office . |
| 14 | A new packaging method means that the nappies are gently compacted immediately before packing , allowing them to fit inside a bag which is extremely solid and roughly half the size of the old packs . |
| 15 | To relieve the unskilled operator problem much of the decision making is now handled by the program rather than the user ; Ventura being a classic example where the stylesheet is created by a professional and then all the user needs to do is to pour text into the file to create a fully formatted document . |
| 16 | It seems fairly obvious that often such a decision will not be possible either because no clear decision procedures are available , or because of certain fundamental difficulties involved in applying such procedures . |
| 17 | That the petitioners beg earnestly to press the consideration of these circumstances upon the Presbytery in the hope that they shall use every effort to obtain services of some servant of Christ who may promote his cause among so neglected and spiritually destitute a community , to which perhaps a parallel will not be found in the Highlands of Scotland . |
| 18 | The efficiency of government could only be increased at the expense of its popularity ; the more corrupt and less efficient the government , the more acceptable it was to creole merchants and landowners . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | As she got closer to them Julia thought that she had never seen a man with such brilliant dark eyes or so saturnine and yet handsome a face . |
| 21 | The relegating acolyte does not realise that after a certain date nearly every book is as good or as bad a case as another . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This score is so inspired and obviously such a pleasure to play that it never seems to receive a really disappointing recording . |
| 24 | So , for accountants and those that can receive plenty of training and can get to grips with the program , it is very powerful and as complete a set of tools as you 'll see . |
| 25 | Honeysuckle likes its feet in the shade and head in the sunshine ; grown in too sunny or too warm a place , it becomes infested with greenfly , blackfly , caterpillars and red spider mite . |
| 26 | A number of gentlemen raised their hands uncertainly and a gasp of surprise went up from the assembly as it became evident that almost all the food had been bought on Rayne 's behalf . |
| 27 | However , not long after , Grisewood resigned and Mrs Whitehouse later said that he was , to her mind , ‘ too sincere and too gentle a Christian to be at ease amongst the demolition men who frequented the BBC at the time ’ . |
| 28 | And contrary to Adorno — the more apparently homogeneous the product , the more important and potentially productive the role of reception , and of the mediations interposed between the two ( DJs , peer-group opinion , subcultural appropriation , use-situation , and so on ) . |
| 29 | Others before Frank Kermode , in his suave and erudite but ultimately acidulous The Classic ( New York , 1975 ) , had protested that as a framework inside which real political decisions and actions could be taken , Eliot 's Virgilian-Dantesque perspective was not just useless but dangerous . |
| 30 | 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 . |