Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [adj] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want as precise a time of death as I can get . |
| 2 | Both proponents and protesters are right to present their views and it is incumbent on politicians to ensure that adequate regulatory controls provide as large a degree of environmental protection as is possible when dealing with the relatively unknown . |
| 3 | Erm perhaps also say how urgent a lot of people but perhaps there ought to be sort of changes in planning law er changes indeed which erm this Council has sent messages to government about erm er previously . |
| 4 | Good friends from the start , as well as matchless needlers of each other and trigger-happy competitors , they put together such a record of collisions and accidents and general ‘ brouhaha that by the time I reached the FI scene , both were considered as ‘ wild men ’ who needed some settling down . |
| 5 | Over the last few years I can admit to having heard enough of the individual experiences of examination candidates to make me totally cynical about a system which confers , supposedly , passes and grades of equal status on students in public examinations that cover so wide-ranging a diversity of structure and subject content . |
| 6 | Within the military classes , we can sometimes reconstruct family trees which reveal how wide a range of status was held by men within a single family group . |
| 7 | For the first thousand feet there was nothing ; then a couple of private duels ; then a sprawling mêlée of about twenty aircraft spread over half a mile of sky . |
| 8 | The six steam locomotives helping to run the train services between Swanage and Harman 's Cross during the special weekend cover over half a century of British steam locomotive development — from Victorian times during the time of Gladstone and Disraeli through to the ‘ new dawn ’ of the 1960s and the era of the present Queen and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan . |
| 9 | So had they put too high a sort of level for subsistence ? |
| 10 | The value of such catalogs is that they prevent too parochial a view of the scientific effort . |
| 11 | Add approximately half a teaspoon of white granulated sugar to each bottle before capping it . |
| 12 | In the centre put the crushed clove of garlic , the bay leaf and twig of thyme ; mill a little black pepper over the meat and add about half a pint of cold water . |
| 13 | The evidence is that you stand as good a chance of getting the choice of currency right as the experts if the return from the managed funds is anything to go by . |
| 14 | The latter no longer present so serious a cause of complaint compared with the mandatory sentences because of the provisions of section 34 of the Criminal Justice Act 1991 . |
| 15 | I teach just such a group of boys , only they come under the title ‘ Emotionally and Behaviourally Disturbed ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ You get ever such a lot of meals out here , do n't you ? ’ |
| 17 | Yeah , but you know how peculiar a lot of people are ! |
| 18 | What is important from a pedagogic point of view is that we should , as early as possible , alert students to different discourse types , so that they may classify the interaction they are involved in , and make as productive a use of that classification as we do ourselves . |
| 19 | Allow about half a bottle of wine per person or the equivalent in other drinks . |
| 20 | Pour about half a litre of near-boiling water into a bowl and add two to four drops of essential oil . |
| 21 | Instead , the unions looked towards wider structures which would advance the interests of all workers in an entire industry , or a territorial subdivision of it , and promote as large a degree of solidarity as possible ( ILO , 1974 ) . |
| 22 | Radio has made such rapid progress and become so fundamental a part of daily life throughout much of Africa that it is easy to forget just how recently it arrived and how fast it has grown . |
| 23 | Such analysts point out such a refusal of the ‘ great narratives ’ and the ‘ foundationalisms ’ took place , not in the past decade or two , but were integral to the very rise of modernism itself . |
| 24 | Also use as pure a source of water as possible for drinking and cooking . |
| 25 | Oh I have to erm see if you can go actually , erm that 's a weekend I 'm not sure when it 's open for anybody , cos they do ever such a lot of classes , they do scuba diving there as well |
| 26 | The ‘ headlands ’ , where the horses or tractors turn at either end of the ridges , constitute too large a proportion of a smallholder 's roots field to be allowed to lie fallow , but they can not be cultivated and sown until the inter-row hoeing is completed . |
| 27 | As a breed we take up such a lot of room . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Investors often take too short-term a view of unit trusts ’ |
| 29 | He says : ‘ Investors often take too short-term a view of unit trusts , so if exit charges encourage longer term holdings it would be in the consumer 's interest . ’ |
| 30 | Bollinger own just such a patch of phylloxera-free vines in Aÿ ; whereas its high walls might well repel a small army , it remains a mystery why the little bug has not simply walked in under the gate . |