Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] a [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the event , the Biennale 's President , Paolo Portoghesi , was not happy with so narrow a majority and adjourned the meeting until 22 May . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | During this first period ( up to 1750 ) of relatively slow and uneven growth , trusts were set up at a rate of only eight a year and were concentrated largely around London , radiating especially to the north and west and into the Midlands . |
| 4 | a great waste ground of four miles broad and more … and the side thereof that lieth towards England is the common pasture of the uttermost inhabited towns of England , and the side thereof towards Scotland is so wet a moss or marshy ground that it will neither bear corn nor serve for the pasture of any cattle , also their way scarcely any man pass over it . |
| 5 | You have met the little beast for only half an hour and her father has known her all her life ! ’ |
| 6 | Some of the crew puffing after only half an hour or so , which is n't surprising as the only exercise they take in the normal run of things is putting their legs under a table and aiming their snouts at the trough . |
| 7 | Wycliffe felt stolid and dull ; he listened with only half an ear and his thoughts wandered . |
| 8 | And they , the company wrote back and said it 's so much a policy and looks reasonable and I sent them a bloody cheque you see |
| 9 | No Alma 's been erm keeping some money for me and I , she , I give her so much a week and she give it all today . |
| 10 | Chairman 's the person that can sit in with the group of people and is good in terms of receiving information from people and disseminating information and giving it back out again making sure that everybody 's being brought in so he 's a person really not not so much a leader but he will be a person who can keep the group together and can make sure that all the information flows around the group and that everybody 's getting a fair say a fair crack of the whip in terms of what 's going on in terms of orienting towards a task , so everything 's towards a task you need towards a task . |
| 11 | Milan has few fountains for so Mediterranean a city and this one , the oldest , was itself only built in 1782 to a design by Piermarini . |
| 12 | On 2 May 1839 Prince wrote to Gould in Australia warning him of Swainson 's impending visit : ‘ Mr. Yarrell has just called and requested me to tell you that Mr Swainson is going to Australia whether to collect or to settle is not known at present but he considered it of importance that you should know it as quickly as possible not that either he or I think it can in any way affect you as you have so good a start and his wonted and well known irregularity of publication will surely militate against him . ’ |
| 13 | Never before have I had so good a time or taken so little medicine . ’ |
| 14 | She pointed out to him the attraction of publishing so surprising a paper and urged him to do it as quickly as possible . |
| 15 | To your numerous enquiries , I must answer rather briefly , for I have so bad a cold as to be half blind : add to which so bad a cough & sore throat , that if they do nt go I shall be in town much sooner than I expected … my eyes are so sadly worse , that no bird under an Ostrich shall I soon be able to do . |
| 16 | It went ahead later on such a scale and at such a pace that it can now be seen as one of the most important facts of modem history . |
| 17 | If anyone is interested in taking on such a position or helping out , please contact : |
| 18 | If anyone is interested in taking on such a position or helping out , please contact for more details . |
| 19 | Just half a breakfast and a sandwich in the Nellie Dean ages ago . |
| 20 | Britons Harry Taylor , Mal Duff , Mike Smith and American Bill Pelkey were carrying just half a tent and minimal oxygen when they made their final push . |
| 21 | This movement was transmitted to cranks on the rear wheel by connecting rods ; the machine weighed almost exactly half a hundredweight and the physical effort required to ride it must have been very considerable . |
| 22 | That homework should last approximately half an hour or whatever it consists of , erm reading , written work , finishing off drawing research whatever that homework should be handed in the next day , form teachers to remind classes of this and to co-ordinate delivery of the books , papers etcetera to the member of teaching staff and that the non production of homework is to be the concern of the member of of teaching staff and not the form teacher , although regular non producers will be the concern of us all . |
| 23 | Well , look upon your relationship with your friend , your mentor , as just such a relationship and let your mentor guide you throughout your day in everything you do . |
| 24 | Our own first home in London was just such a problem but with a little thought and flair the space can become an outside room in the fullest sense of the word . |
| 25 | At our child and family centre just such a case and strategy led to a ‘ success story ’ . |
| 26 | At first this was interpreted as a separate medusa-like form , but it appears in a number of specimens in just such a position and some now think that it may have been a holdfast . |
| 27 | Celia Hooper-seated opposite him in just such a chair and situation , so that they resembled two bookends without intervening books — was suggesting that she should draw up a basic plan for the annual deanery party , which happened at Loxford Rectory after Easter , a get-together for all the priests of the deanery , eight of them , and their wives . |
| 28 | Yet chemists are working on just such a project and one group in Japan has managed to selectively filter copper , using light to drive it through a filtering membrane . |
| 29 | The Magician from Datapath is just such a card and at £299 it is not frighteningly expensive . |
| 30 | No one , he submitted , can give evidence ‘ in his capacity as an officer or servant of the Crown ’ if he is no longer such an officer or servant . |