Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beside the school stood the little school house , and beside that a row of small cottages . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If this is the case , the argument for so narrow a definition of sexual intercourse would seem hard to sustain . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ You know , you ca n't believe she 's the same child that was so polite a couple of years ago . |
| 7 | This is why fiction , including children 's fiction , is so irreplaceable a form of human knowledge . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I also had odd ends of three cones of that random yarn that was so popular a number of years ago . |
| 10 | His voice was n't its usual fulsome boom , and probably only carried down half a mile of corridor . |
| 11 | It does n't give you a hangover if you remember to get down half a pint of water before you go to sleep . |
| 12 | Only half a spoon of sugar per cup . |
| 13 | For instance , 100 kilos of lavender yields almost 3 litres of essential oil , whereas 100 kilos of rose petals can yield only half a litre of oil . |
| 14 | Had they been on deposit in US domestic banks , then naturally such a course of action would be open to them . |
| 15 | Perhaps such a range of activities seemed to endanger his chances of getting a degree but those who thought so had underestimated the strength of his neurotic energy . |
| 16 | with alcohol I mean alcohol is so much a part of the establishment of Oxford . |
| 17 | They have a very fiercely competitive system , and some people say that you have to start preparing for this at nursery school erm and it 's a question of going to the right schools , going to the right training colleges , though it 's not so much a question of going to university , although you do have to have a university degree in most cases , but they have special training establishments with a tough competition to get into it , and as a result of this the people who come out are very highly selected , and think of themselves as being very professional , very competent , they have a great deal more self confidence , in some ways , than our British civil servants do . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Unhappily , the great questions of moral truth , goodness , and beauty no longer enjoy , even in principle , so accessible a means of validation . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The same writer also states : " The Bishop of Rochester remained at Hailing and Trottescliffe , where he conferred orders in both places and at certain intervals , " he continues , " this mortality swept away so vast a multitude of both sexes that none could be found to carry the corpses to the grave , men and women bore their own offspring to the Church and cast them into a common pit , and from these pits came such a great stench that hardly anyone dared cross the cemeteries . " |
| 26 | Suffering is so prominent a part of the Gospel that it has been described as a Passion story with an introduction . |
| 27 | All these reasons serve to explain why this study concentrates mainly upon the attitudes to death that prevailed in the middle-class , whose irresistible rise was so prominent a feature of the nineteenth century . |
| 28 | But in performing their tasks all both reflected and further promoted the territorialization of power which was so prominent a feature of the eleventh century political scene . |
| 29 | Mr Sands stressed that he would have taken the same view of any party who laid down such a set of pre-conditions . |
| 30 | And yet , as Raymond Williams has put it , " It is difficult to feel that we are really governing ourselves if in so central a part of our living as our work most of us have no share in decisions that immediately affect us . " |