Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] a [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of the miller 's wife : ( She had not had so pleasant a time for many a long year ) |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There was a feverish blush to his cheeks , as if he had seldom found so receptive an audience for his speculations . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And why was she getting only half an hour for dinner when he next door could have three quarters of an hour ? |
| 6 | With only half an ear for Grigoriev 's response , Rostov stared across the room . |
| 7 | Annunziata , who had so personal a reason for resentment , made no such criticisms . |
| 8 | My step brother , Tommy , do you know the original well Mr was a sales rep for Bokes couriers , and er his wife used to make pickles , homemade , and she us Mr used to give his friends a jar of pickles occasionally and er from that the idea of selling them , cos it ou after they 'd started distributing amongst his friends he got the idea that there was a market for it , so my step-brother Tommy er started to work with Mrs we used to call them Mrs but her name was , Street you know where Street is , well on the left hand side of Street about oh at the back of the first row of houses in Street , there was a , a small open space and Mr had a big shed put there , and er started buying the pickling onions and er all the women who wished to started skinning onions at so much a bag for Mr and er he 'd gradually built himself up but me step- brother Tommy was er working full time helping Mrs to pick the onions and , and that , that 's how Mac 's Pickles started was just from a mere fact of him being a commercial traveller and he 'd di distribute them to his friends and created the , a market for himself really ac actually they , they , they did have a van driver and a van , a van to deliver them as they gradually increased the supply and they used to deliver them all , all around the area . |
| 9 | Because this is so crucial a matter for consideration in RE , I discuss this example in some detail . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This is so widespread a reason for rejecting religion , present in all strata of society and amongst all types of people , young and old , that any RE which fails to help pupils think clearly about it is seriously deficient . |
| 12 | exceed all the others in Europe for wholesome produce and a variety of Herbs are those at the Neat-Houses near Tuttle-fields , Westminster , which abound in Salads , early Cucumbers , Colliflowers , Melons , Winter Asparagus and almost every Herb fitting the Table ; and I think there is no where so good a school for a Kitchen Gardener as this place : tho' Battersea affords the largest natural Asparagus and the earliest Cabbages . |
| 13 | Who dare offer anything to her in such an orderly and wellgoverned house as yours , and under a master of so good a character for virtue and honour ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Never has there been so great a need for the talented people universities can provide and nurture , ’ he says . |
| 16 | One of the reasons why owl pellet analysis is so useful a tool for ecologists is the good preservation and lack of breakage of most of the bones . |
| 17 | ‘ It should not be so difficult a decision for him in the best interests of an organisation in which he believes and for which I know he has worked so hard . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ It should not be so difficult a decision for him in the best interests of an organisation in which he believes and for which I know he has worked so hard . ’ |
| 19 | As he stepped ashore , three RAF Hampden bombers made a low-level attack , placing their smoke bombs in so close a screen for the landing that phosphorus from a sheet of flame set fire to the Colonel 's tunic . |
| 20 | Because travelling at walking pace is so rare an experience for car drivers , the Woonerf must be well designed to ensure that the need for low speeds is made very clear . |
| 21 | This presents an important challenge to composers and performers , and church musicians dare not disregard or dismiss so potent an influence for evangelism . |
| 22 | VISITING LADY : [ to PAMELA ] Well , as he now urges you in so gentlemanly a manner for tomorrow , I think if I was in your place I would agree to it . |
| 23 | ‘ But if I am to achieve such merit as wins fame , then my life has not been so unworthy an exchange for hers as I always feared ! ’ |
| 24 | So Bedford , Leeds , Norwich , Hastings , Weymouth , are added to the places from which you travel electric to London , perhaps not so bad a score for the decade . |
| 25 | ‘ Now , Charles , if you would calm down a moment and allow me to get a word in , I would be able to inform you that I have already negotiated just such a deal for you . ’ |
| 26 | In i is a long memoried woman , Grace Nichols builds a stunning sequence of poems out of just such a search for an imaginative resting-place . |
| 27 | It is doubtful whether it was ever such an issue for Wilkins . |
| 28 | With time , as it became more lucrative a country for people to come , obviously the country had to be more restrictive about providing the nationality . |
| 29 | As indicated earlier , the project does not seem to have built in as strong a mechanism for evaluation as it might , and it is not easy to determine the degree to which the project philosophy is alive and well in the project schools of three or four years ago . |
| 30 | I 'd have as strong a claim for custody as you ! ’ |