Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [adj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These descriptions were vital to writing about these two artists in whose work colour plays so important a part . |
| 2 | It is a little disappointing that so handsome a book offers so breathless a review of the subject . |
| 3 | According to Godfrey Hodgson : ‘ Never has so powerful a leader been so impotent to do what he wants to do , what he is pledged to do , what he is expected to do , and what he knows he must do ’ . |
| 4 | It looks much better a bit shorter , it 's got much more shape to it . |
| 5 | Sheffield City Polytechnic starts just such a scheme this autumn . |
| 6 | Ludo grins and bobs up and down as if he has just unwrapped a toy train set . |
| 7 | Needless to say , we all know that Barry Douglas has just such a technique ! |
| 8 | One rather unusual feature is the Whin Common , which lies about half a mile to the north of the village . |
| 9 | When discovered , the wreck was thought to be another English naval ship , the Dartmouth , most of which lies about half a mile away . |
| 10 | ‘ But in my book it 's good management and Ron has as good a chance as any to get his hands on that title . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ She has as good a chance as anyone else , ’ observed the swan named Simon . |
| 12 | ‘ I did not relish visiting Gayfield when I was a Celtic player and my team now has as good a chance of beating Rangers as anybody else . |
| 13 | Therefore , I am not sure that the hon. Gentleman has as good a point as he thought . |
| 14 | Well Westray maybe has as distinctive a dialect as any apart from North Ronaldsay of course . |
| 15 | The word ‘ colic ’ in relation to horses has as ominous a sound as the word ‘ cancer ’ does in relation to people . |
| 16 | I like to think that I am laughing at the idea , which has as real a set of consequences as bombs in a Tom and Jerry cartoon . |
| 17 | The rule of thumb is that , whenever you choose a next node , the one you choose has as large a value f(N) as possible . |
| 18 | Playing hard to get is a game which can go on for some considerable time , especially if one has as ardent a suitor as the French . |
| 19 | Measured by the government 's official poverty line — which counts as poor a family of four with an income below $12,675 , in 1989 dollars — the proportion of blacks stuck at the bottom has refused to budge from around a third for the past 20 years , compared with a tenth of all whites . |
| 20 | Ingleborough — the ‘ Monarch of the Dales ’ — is a noble hill , especially when seen from Whernside 's Twistleton Scars across the deep trench of Chapel-le-Dale to the west , with its features etched against a clear , blue sky ; then it looks as fine a peak as any in the country . |
| 21 | Examining so intricate a nest one wonders how such a thing could be possible . |
| 22 | Figure 5.4 illustrates how such a situation might arise . |
| 23 | The Holy Roman Emperor , the shah of Persia and the sultan in Constantinople were honoured with large sheets ( the fact that two of the three were non-European illustrates how large a role Asia still played in Russian foreign policy ) , while the kings of Sweden , Poland , England and Denmark had to be content with smaller ones . |
| 24 | Ca n't see that it matters how good a driver you are , it 's not always how good you are |
| 25 | There are still critics , however , who believe that only the more profitable routes will be retained in this system ; that it places too great a reliance upon operators identifying socially important routes , and seeking and obtaining subsidies to maintain them ; and that a piecemeal system will result . |
| 26 | As my hon. Friend the Member for Battersea ( Mr. Bowis ) has pointed out , my constituency abuts on London , and such a proposal would cause great dismay to my constituents , who already believe that London has too good a deal . |
| 27 | If one believes the prediction of the inflationary cosmology , that the total density of the Universe must be very close to the critical value above which it recollapses , then there must also be unclustered dark matter as even the dark matter in galaxies and clusters has too small a density to account for this . |
| 28 | It seems to me indisputable that , in our culture , adolescence constitutes just such a crisis — perhaps for many people the major one — but because it is one with which we are all familiar , I do not intend to delineate it in detail . |
| 29 | The recent Supreme Court decision involves just such a case . |
| 30 | Valerie Emblen describes how important a knowledge of the children 's mathematical background is when planning the mathematics curriculum for Bangladeshi children in London . |