Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beside the school stood the little school house , and beside that a row of small cottages . |
| 2 | ‘ It must seem impossible for you to believe that in a civilized society so abhorrent a practice as the enslaving of one person by another still continues , but I will ask you to try and imagine what it must be like . |
| 3 | In the case of the miller 's wife : ( She had not had so pleasant a time for many a long year ) |
| 4 | Her hands were often plastered , while there was one occasion when she made so fiery a contact with a clubface that she punched one of the knuckles out of position . |
| 5 | As hydrogen bonds are thermally labile a rise in T reduces the number of bonds and causes eventual phase separation . |
| 6 | There is some merit in the Royal Commission 's reasoning , but it does not seem to warrant so total a separation of the two branches of the profession as exists currently . |
| 7 | If this is the case , the argument for so narrow a definition of sexual intercourse would seem hard to sustain . |
| 8 | Indeed some observers thought this a major reason why the Conservatives won by so narrow a margin in October . |
| 9 | This was clear in ‘ Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme ’ , which was so memorable a success at our 1985 Festival . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | China was even worse : ‘ I was sorely grieved that heathendom had so strong a hold over [ this rich country ] , ’ he wrote after a few weeks in Qanjanfu . |
| 13 | He learned to use his charm , and ‘ it became ’ , his biographer says , ‘ so strong a factor in him that it resembled great beauty in a woman ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In the last resort the only satisfactory answer to the question , ‘ Why do you devote yourself to the attempt to understand ? ’ is , ‘ Because I derive so strong a satisfaction from doing so . ’ |
| 16 | She would even be glad — thought Linnet — for her husband 's sake and for his children , a woman 's love containing , after all , so strong an element of self-sacrifice . |
| 17 | ‘ You know , you ca n't believe she 's the same child that was so polite a couple of years ago . |
| 18 | There was a feverish blush to his cheeks , as if he had seldom found so receptive an audience for his speculations . |
| 19 | How dared this man , a virtual stranger , stir up these doubts in so private an area of her life ? |
| 20 | How can a country which is so deeply intolerant of sexual differences in real life offer so raucous a welcome to such creatures ? |
| 21 | But this is a matter for the bishop , so sacrilegious an act as it is . |
| 22 | This is why fiction , including children 's fiction , is so irreplaceable a form of human knowledge . |
| 23 | After all Dr Kugelmann recommended Karlsbad to so untypical a member of the middle class as Karl Marx , who carefully registered himself as a ‘ man of private means ’ to avoid identification , until he discovered that as Dr Marx he could save some of the rather steep Kurtaxe . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | To have continued to be so dependable and at the same time so exciting a batsman for so long , shows him to have been one of the greats of the game . |
| 26 | So I mean there are other advantages , and the answer is that in in in the long term you are getting your name down for one , so clear a space on your desk |
| 27 | Eye surgeons had learned to cut the ligament with complete success , but it was so different a procedure from the rest of the operation and so incompatible with it that they often dreaded it . |
| 28 | I also had odd ends of three cones of that random yarn that was so popular a number of years ago . |
| 29 | It might destroy part of the ozone layer , which would permit the sun 's ultra-violet radiation either to tan us or fry us , depending upon how large a hole had been blasted in the stratosphere : it might equally well cause the onset of a nuclear winter , which is so popular a topic among both scientists and laymen these days . |
| 30 | Perhaps this a characteristic to be expected of a country where it is said that one person in every three is a civil servant and that it requires 72 government permits to open a mild bar . |