Example sentences of "[conj] so [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Dorothy Hardisty wrote in her journal , ‘ … such failures exist where so great an upheaval has taken place , and it was not to be expected that the Movement 's records should be free from shadows . ’ |
| 2 | What ‘ noble Remedies , what serviceable Instruments ’ had they produced to equal ‘ so good a Med'cine as Stew 'd Prunes , or so necessary an Instrument as a Flye-Flap ’ ? |
| 3 | Very few men have led so versatile or so successful a life as Peter Scott . |
| 4 | Almost instinctively , people worried that so outstanding a year might tempt Helen to switch at once to the professional circuit . |
| 5 | It was evident , as the trial went on , that Lord Robertson had held for many years a belief amounting to an article of faith that Meehan and Griffiths had committed the Ayr murder , and that so paltry a matter as overwhelming evidence to show that they had n't and that Waddell and McGuinness had , was in no way going to sway him . |
| 6 | Ralph ( Hyacinth had been swiftly urged to drop the ‘ Sir ’ by her genial host ) called for him to be removed , by force if necessary , refusing to believe that so demotic a figure belonged to ‘ our great Party ’ . |
| 7 | He pulled her to her feet , marvelling that so slight a creature could have put up such a fight . |
| 8 | One might hardly suspect that so simple a task for so few seconds of film could prove so practically trying and , on reflection , so symbolic of our whole chain of adventures , attempting to keep aloft and alive a consecutive string of luminous mirrors against rather ridiculous odds . |
| 9 | I should suppose that it is deliberately not so expressed , for I can not think that so simple an expedient as the transfer of assets to a company resident in the United Kingdom and the immediate removal of that company outside it would not occur to the draftsman . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Dalgliesh , who had heard him at a police concert , never ceased to be surprised that so narrow a chest and so slight a frame could produce such a powerful organ-toned bass . |
| 12 | The British in India had from the beginning of the nineteenth century seen clearly that so unnatural a phenomenon as the government of that teeming subcontinent by the parliamentary electorate of the British Isles could not be destined to be permanent . |
| 13 | It might seem that so artificial a superiority was certain to prove as transient as the hegemonies that it had replaced , although those in whose hands power lay were for the most part undaunted by the new challenges to Britain 's position that they sensed … |
| 14 | Sad that so important a subject should be so turgid for most of us . |
| 15 | Ironic that so noble an edifice should house so vile an organisation . |
| 16 | Certainly , one 's own immediate reaction was that so big a ball would be still more at the mercy of wind and spin . |
| 17 | It is a little disappointing that so handsome a book offers so breathless a review of the subject . |
| 18 | I find it hard to believe that so fundamental a process is not governed by principles just as elegant and universal as those uncovered in relation to molecular genetics . |
| 19 | It must have seemed to them that Marian and Allen had perished in the flames and their own immediate concern was to remove themselves from the danger of the roof falling in on their heads and from the certain consequence that so conspicuous a fire in the night would be seen by the outlaws and would sooner or later bring them to the scene . |
| 20 | I am willing , indeed eager , to believe that so severe a bias is typical ; that most aspects of a story usually get told , because of the sheer anarchy of the national press , if for no other reason . |
| 21 | Moreover , the growing dependence of local government on central grants that so concerned the Layfield Committee has been reversed . |
| 22 | Quite apart from the economic implications , the British government feared that so drastic a move , unless effectively challenged , would encourage others in the Middle East — and even further afield — to act against foreign investments and interests . |
| 23 | It did not seem possible that so lively a person was dead . |
| 24 | Dalgliesh , who had heard him at a police concert , never ceased to be surprised that so narrow a chest and so slight a frame could produce such a powerful organ-toned bass . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | By the close of that decade even writers like Thackeray , who are content to believe that all is well in the other nation , are none the less keenly aware of the divide — though he sees no reason to cross it — between a gentleman and his servants , ‘ who live with us all our days and are strangers to us : so strong custom is , and so pitiless the distinction between class and class ’ . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | So important was this and so adept the participants that the farmers-general and the Van Necks were able to persuade both the French and British governments to permit the continued shipment of British tobacco to France during the wars of 1744–8 and 1756–63 . |
| 29 | In the late 1860's , Rohde , a sensitive and highly intelligent person , was Nietzsche 's closest friend and so kindred a spirit that ambitious , albeit abortive , joint plans were regularly mooted : a collaborative book on Greek literature in 1868 or a year studying together in Paris ( scheduled for 1869 and frustrated by Nietzsche 's appointment at Basle ) . |
| 30 | 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 . |