Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main function of nematode haemoglobin is thought to be to transport oxygen , acquired by diffusion through the cuticle or gut , into the tissues ; blood-sucking worms presumably ingest a considerable amount of oxygenated nutrients in their diet . |
| 2 | We were working with the council at ten pence and hour so we thought we were going to improve on that a wee bit . |
| 3 | As Mr Hart himself asked in a letter to The Times : ‘ In the face of so pellucid a Parliamentary intention , how was it that the Revenue not only thought it worth while to try it on , but actually found two courts to agree with it ? ’ |
| 4 | It is necessary to turn back to Ezra 's childhood to find a key to that dire impatience which has led him into so strange a spiritual home as Fascist Italy . |
| 5 | He was excited by the ferocious vitality and darting breadth of reference of the work , and secretly , personally , he was rather pleased that all this had been achieved out of so peaceable , so unruffled a private existence . |
| 6 | Peter Brown in his most recent and profoundly important book Body and Society demonstrates movingly how sexuality had so different a social meaning from what it now carries that the sexual abstinences , the noisy and sometimes virulent demands for chastity and virginity , within the early Church , far from being a symptom of self-hatred and dualism , were a radical political claim to the coming of the Kingdom : a claim which women , sometimes even more than men , could make . |
| 7 | The next involved abseilling down half a huge rock before dropping into a pool with a waterfall close by . |
| 8 | Most Paris-club countries prefer the less generous ‘ enhanced Toronto terms ’ , which cancel only half a poor country 's debts contracted before a certain date . |
| 9 | Naturally such a prolonged absence was a little worrying , especially in view of , well , the circumstances ; and in fact an anxious Ashenden had rung Kidlington a few minutes previously , just in case the police knew anything . |
| 10 | Perhaps such a renowned centre of healing was allowed a quiet death by financial strangulation , though the dumping of domestic rubbish in the holy precinct may indicate desecration . |
| 11 | It 's is not er er so much a lost leader , it was an incentive negotiated into the contract for industry to make progress . |
| 12 | The political ambitions of the CLB can be deduced from its interpretation of the Edwardian crisis : ‘ At so critical a period in British history as the present , when there is so great and unfortunate a tendency to slackness , ease , and carelessness as to religion , morals , and work , when there is so great a craving for pleasure 's sake , when so serious a social problem as the great army of the unfit and unemployed has become a national scandal and a public danger ’ , it was necessary to provide men of the future with ‘ that spirit of self-denial , self-control and definiteness of righteous purpose ’ which had put Britain in the lead among nations . |
| 13 | The energy generated from running upstairs and laughing with Stella in distant Florence flowed over into the impulse to ring , in turn , her own mother : a pointless act , but one that nevertheless in the context seemed pious , necessary , propitiatory , and a gesture at least towards her sister , who bore so much heavier a filial burden , who would ( in theory at least ) be pleased to know that Liz had remembered . |
| 14 | Earthly life is inveterately complex ; of all natural materials , only water could bring together such a rich variety of elements , so conveniently , as this life requires . |
| 15 | This is obviously such a small probability that we have n't the faintest hope of duplicating such a fantastically lucky , miraculous event as the origin of life in our laboratory experiments . |
| 16 | It was she who had begged him to make love to her , she recalled , not the other way round , and , although he had n't been exactly reluctant , what man was going to turn down such a blatant offer ? |
| 17 | Ho , cautiously , turned down such a premature example of left-wing adventurism and instead , and as a bridge between the political and military phases of the revolutionary struggle , the first armed propaganda unit was set up in the mountains of Cao Bang — and was to have primarily political duties . |
| 18 | The debate which we will have will ensure that the facts are established , that a majority of Scots realise the dangers of going down such a dangerous road . ’ |
| 19 | This special status of a visitor springs from the common law recognising the right of the founder to lay down such a special law subject to adjudication only by a special judge , the visitor . |
| 20 | My muddled mind smiled vaguely at the idea of Moses turning down such a long-running client . |
| 21 | They do n't see why you should bring down such a beautiful tree . |
| 22 | Floating down such a treacherous waterway in a barrel is n't my idea of fun , especially when it 's full of watersnakes , ducks , cannon-wielding dragons and all manner of flotsam and jetsam conspiring to sink his fragile craft . |
| 23 | The Wedding Present were long overdue a thorough overhaul when NME 's Steven Wells got his hands on them early in 1987 . |
| 24 | But I found in the city centre , that er I did enjoy working there , but it it can be a bit of a cold and unfriendly place because it 's so such a rapid pace of life . |
| 25 | So obvious a structural fault must be easy to diagnose and put right . |
| 26 | The Christian Dior route is to calmly evolve and constantly fine-tune a modern image . |
| 27 | Business was so good a new home had to be found when the Comedy had to go on to other previously arranged bookings . |
| 28 | Okay so good a capital letter on there yeah . |
| 29 | Never before had there been so savage a fiscal squeeze ; not since the thirties had there been a comparable increase in unemployment , now approaching 3 million . |
| 30 | Of course ; so famous a young lady would make instant bookings . |