Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Moreover it is , as so vastly important a body of water perhaps should be , the original ocean of the world , the so-called Panthalassa . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Moreover , the harmonisation and industrial standardisation with which the German Empire was built is all too familiar a feature of the Commission 's activism . |
| 8 | 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 . " |
| 9 | Exercise is just as important a part of slimming as eating less food . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If so you soon realise just how important a piece of kit it is . |
| 13 | Evidence was put together to demonstrate just how large a proportion of Nato 's current force was actually provided by the Europeans . |
| 14 | When he was arrested in his house he found it impossible to parry any longer such a mass of events , and surrendered to them . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But the discussion here has shown that this is far too limited a conception of the productive process , and a more persuasive picture is of a variety of modes , cross-cutting individuals , classes , other groups and mass market requirements . |
| 19 | In the process , as OPEC saw it , the oil companies , together with the governments of consuming countries , realized far too large a share of the available economic rent , the margin between the cost of producing the oil and the price it fetches from the end-consumer . |
| 20 | With the passing of time , he began to think that he 'd taken far too glum a view of the situation . |
| 21 | ( It may be objected that I am taking far too earnest a view of a wonderfully comic fictional character . |
| 22 | The notion that senators would dare criticize even so minor a branch of the media as the NFB guaranteed the outcome . |
| 23 | Had they been on deposit in US domestic banks , then naturally such a course of action would be open to them . |
| 24 | I , I only want to mention about the swimming pool and swimming for pensioners and there ever such a lot of people go swimming . |
| 25 | The effect of the 1979 Act and subsequent case law is that arbitration awards have almost as great a degree of finality as experts ' decisions , and so Megaw LJ 's argument is no longer available . |
| 26 | The distinctive dome-cars were almost as potent a symbol of Canada as the moose and the Mounties . |
| 27 | This disappointment was all the more galling for the fact that the prime minister and eight other cabinet ministers had been his colleagues in the UDC ; and , unmollified by nomination for the Nobel peace prize , Morel became almost as bitter a critic of the Ramsay MacDonald government as of its predecessors . |
| 28 | Yet too rigorous a pursuit of that objective might result not only in failure but also in net losses to the United States . |
| 29 | Sukey raised eyebrows when he ordered rather too good a bottle of claret in restaurants . |
| 30 | Most naturalists thought that there was some sort of underlying pattern in Nature , even if they found the circles a little too artificial a representation of the pattern . |