Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] and [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For so solid and unemotional a man he might have been angry , or perhaps only in a hurry . |
| 2 | Envy would not be so strong and indefeasible an instinct , unless it had an important function in the evolution and survival of human society , and therefore of mankind itself . |
| 3 | No one then had time to utter what he dreaded ; but afterwards , though those about the king held their peace doggedly , and spoke only of phenomenally bad weather against which no man could guard , in the ranks men were saying to one another that this was no natural storm , that there had never been known so strange and violent a tempest , that it was sent out of malice against them , either by Owen himself , or by those stiff-necked Franciscans of Llanfaes whose house the king had burned , and who were allies of Owen and the devil to the last man . |
| 4 | So profitable and powerful a monopoly , however efficiently administered , could not last for long . |
| 5 | And if Asylnuratova does not possess the imperturbable technique of a Guillem , the expressiveness of her dancing is matched by so mobile and luminous a face that everyone else on stage looks slightly blank . |
| 6 | For these mistakes have led to the belief that extension , the subject-matter of geometry , is infinitely divisible , a belief ‘ thought to have so inseparable and essential a connection with the principles and demonstrations in geometry , that mathematicians never … make the least question of it ’ . |
| 7 | All their monstrous systems have so visible and necessary a dependence on it , that when this corner-stone is once removed , the whole fabric can not choose but fall to the ground . ’ |
| 8 | For it is a prime fact about classical Macedon , and one that explains why so large and rich a country counted for so little until so late , that she was a frontier province of the Greek world ; beyond lay Illyrians , Dardanians and Thracians , and beyond them the drifting pre-Celtic populations of central Europe , undisciplined fighters but unlimited in manpower . |
| 9 | Theirs had been a terminally ill situation with so few worshippers in so large and expensive a building . |
| 10 | and erm that there is this upsurge and he , he goes on , in a very short time in ce central , southern and northern provinces , I E the whole of China , several hundred million peasants will rise up like a mighty storm , like a hurricane , a force so swift and violent no power however great will be able to hold it back . |
| 11 | The political ambitions of the CLB can be deduced from its interpretation of the Edwardian crisis : ‘ At so critical a period in British history as the present , when there is so great and unfortunate a tendency to slackness , ease , and carelessness as to religion , morals , and work , when there is so great a craving for pleasure 's sake , when so serious a social problem as the great army of the unfit and unemployed has become a national scandal and a public danger ’ , it was necessary to provide men of the future with ‘ that spirit of self-denial , self-control and definiteness of righteous purpose ’ which had put Britain in the lead among nations . |
| 12 | You will say we have every comfort necessary to render so long and tedious a voyage as agreeable [ sic ] as it can be . |
| 13 | The upsurge in public concern over environmental quality issues during the latter half of 1969 led to the enactment of the National Environmental Policy Act , which was passed with limited debate or opposition despite it being so fundamental and innovative a measure . |
| 14 | Yet just because it is so general and common a process , finding its means and occasions and objects in such diverse ways , and again and again interpenetrating with many of the most practical or most ideological activities , it can not reasonably be abstracted to one exclusive set of practices or one exclusive intention or set of intentions . |
| 15 | It was demoralising to think such a beautiful girl could have so mean and greedy a spirit . |
| 16 | ‘ Mr Rochester , so proud and such a gentleman ! |
| 17 | We suggest , however , that the tiredness experienced by young couples in the first months of a baby 's life is not just the result of broken nights , change of role , anxiety as to the well-being of so small and vulnerable a being , and doubts about being a good enough parent , but is also related to the strain of exercising a defence against envy of the baby to whom so much care and comfort is offered . |
| 18 | It was so small and precise a gesture that Howarth could have missed it , except that nothing Lorrimer did escaped him . |
| 19 | It was miraculous that so tender and fragile a creature had emerged from the violence of the preceding day . |
| 20 | Spirit and flesh both quailed before so difficult and rowdy an audience on so difficult and perilous a subject … as I sat in the committee room while the order of the meeting was being arranged , and heard my audience shouting , singing , crowing like cocks … and keeping up a continuous uproar , I thought to myself , ‘ I have got to go into that and control it somehow so as to be heard ’ … |
| 21 | Spirit and flesh both quailed before so difficult and rowdy an audience on so difficult and perilous a subject … as I sat in the committee room while the order of the meeting was being arranged , and heard my audience shouting , singing , crowing like cocks … and keeping up a continuous uproar , I thought to myself , ‘ I have got to go into that and control it somehow so as to be heard ’ … |
| 22 | That he satisfied so impatient and fastidious a monarch for so long says much for his efficiency and sensitivity . |
| 23 | One hand rests between his cheek and the pillow , cupping his head almost maternally ; the other , hairy but oddly sensitive for so big and coarse a man , lies outside the sheet . |
| 24 | It now seemed extraordinary that so remote and irrelevant a place should ever loom so large in national and international affairs . |
| 25 | ‘ A fearful thing for so young and attractive a lady to be trapped for life . |
| 26 | No sane malefactor would want to settle and conduct his predatory business in territory controlled by so active and powerful a magnate as Robert Beaumont , earl of Leicester . |
| 27 | For so intelligent and perceptive a man , that was an oddly silly thing to say . |
| 28 | Andrew and Wendy will miss Pete in Hong Kong , but so intelligent and sensitive a canine is he , they can expect the warmest Yorkshire welcome when they pay a return visit . |
| 29 | This fascinating story is one of many such in Roger Lonsdale 's anthology of Eighteenth-Century Women Poets , not just a marvellous piece of scholarship but as richly entertaining and original a book as I have come across for some time . |
| 30 | Under the Listing Particulars Directive , it is a condition of admission to listing that the issuer publishes listing particulars which contain , in as easily analysable and comprehensive a form as possible , the applicable items listed in the Directive . |