Example sentences of "so [adj] a [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed some observers thought this a major reason why the Conservatives won by so narrow a margin in October . |
| 2 | Much of this picture has been surmised from the pioneering excavation of Old Hangleton by Mr Holden : surprisingly , given the common image of medieval squalor , there was none of the rubbish which is usually so rich a ground for archaeologists . |
| 3 | The fact that Paris was so rich a source of books — from de luxe manuscripts to ‘ soiled tracts and battered codices ’ — in part stemmed from its position and reputation as the greatest northern European centre of learning . |
| 4 | The word pirate was perhaps not so strong a term of condemnation as in later centuries : European rulers were only just beginning to acquire for themselves , on behalf of their states , a monopoly of the use of force . |
| 5 | ‘ You know , you ca n't believe she 's the same child that was so polite a couple of years ago . |
| 6 | And so , despite the undeniably galling aspect of being asked to rejoice in so meagre a victory after decades of hammering on the hallowed portals of power , I believe it would be foolish to look this particular gift-horse in the mouth . |
| 7 | I also had odd ends of three cones of that random yarn that was so popular a number of years ago . |
| 8 | Annunziata , who had so personal a reason for resentment , made no such criticisms . |
| 9 | My step brother , Tommy , do you know the original well Mr was a sales rep for Bokes couriers , and er his wife used to make pickles , homemade , and she us Mr used to give his friends a jar of pickles occasionally and er from that the idea of selling them , cos it ou after they 'd started distributing amongst his friends he got the idea that there was a market for it , so my step-brother Tommy er started to work with Mrs we used to call them Mrs but her name was , Street you know where Street is , well on the left hand side of Street about oh at the back of the first row of houses in Street , there was a , a small open space and Mr had a big shed put there , and er started buying the pickling onions and er all the women who wished to started skinning onions at so much a bag for Mr and er he 'd gradually built himself up but me step- brother Tommy was er working full time helping Mrs to pick the onions and , and that , that 's how Mac 's Pickles started was just from a mere fact of him being a commercial traveller and he 'd di distribute them to his friends and created the , a market for himself really ac actually they , they , they did have a van driver and a van , a van to deliver them as they gradually increased the supply and they used to deliver them all , all around the area . |
| 10 | The public interest would hardly suffer by the curtailment of temptations to give or accept credit which were likely to follow the abolition of so dubious a guarantee of honesty as furnished by the liability to imprisonment . |
| 11 | Because this is so crucial a matter for consideration in RE , I discuss this example in some detail . |
| 12 | But I must resist the temptation to treat so serious a matter with levity . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He stood flexing the body he had preserved to himself by hard exercise and the austere living that wore so deceptive a cloak of luxury . |
| 15 | Over the next ten acres , it seems to have made an immense fall , covering them with so vast a bed of stones , that no human art can ever again restore the soil . ’ |
| 16 | William of Dene , a monk based at Rochester , wrote in 1349 : ‘ To our great grief the plague carried off so vast a multitude of people of both sexes that nobody could be found who would bear the corpses to the grave . |
| 17 | Birkenhead , who had written after the victory of 1924 of ‘ the tragedy that so great an Army should have so uninspiring a Commander in Chief ’ and was usually more sparing with his admiration than with his criticism , allowed some balancing increase of his own regard for Baldwin to occur . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In any case , is it feasible to deliver so large a quantity of hydrocarbons to the required point ? |
| 20 | We pioneered the technique well before it became used on so large a scale by giants like American Express and Reader 's Digest . |
| 21 | Erm , in these days when er , so large a proportion of marriages breaks down |
| 22 | This was so in Bedfordshire , for example : in 1952 the District Council carried a motion deploring ‘ the withdrawal of the services of a full-time officer of the WEA from Bedfordshire when so large a proportion of branches in the area are so recently formed and still in need of assistance and encouragement that only a full-time organiser or tutor-organiser can give ’ . |
| 23 | that nowhere else shall we find so large a mass of inhabitants crowded into courts , alleys , and lames as in Nottingham , and those , too , of the worst possible construction . |
| 24 | It is difficult to account for so large a change in terms of a decrease in effective moment of inertia due to a change in the shape of the crust of the star , because for a rotation rate of 30Hz the equilibrium ellipsoid has a moment of inertia only 10 -4 greater than that of a sphere . |
| 25 | Not having to pick their way carefully now they were able to cover some thirty hilly miles that day , good going for so large a party of horse , even mosstroopers . |
| 26 | A tutor who could command the unhesitating affection and intellectual respect of so miscellaneous a collection of men as Derek Brewer ( later Master of Emmanuel College , Cambridge ) , the drama critic Kenneth Tynan , the publisher Charles Monteith and the poet John Wain was clearly doing his job . |
| 27 | His cautious and methodical ways , once so valuable a buffer to Richard 's impetuosity , now become more and more a cause of annoyance . |
| 28 | Who dare offer anything to her in such an orderly and wellgoverned house as yours , and under a master of so good a character for virtue and honour ? |
| 29 | In one of his letters to Gould in Australia , Prince writes , ‘ I and Joseph are both much pleased to hear so good a report of Gilbert . |
| 30 | I 'm not so sure a lot of people sleeping rough on the streets |