Example sentences of "[to-vb] so [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where is the scientific evidence to support so wide an onslaught ? |
| 2 | I dare say that is why you were induced to accept so low a wage . ’ |
| 3 | The more products , the higher number of prospects will be interested , although a balance has to be struck so as not to provide so wide a range as to make it confusing . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , on the material before the court , it was not necessary to impose so long a term of imprisonment . |
| 5 | To most , if not all , British trade union leaders it seemed to be suicide to follow Larkin 's " fiery cross " into a confrontation with the state in circumstances in which it was clear that their members would not follow them ; why should they make such a sacrifice for Larkin when they had been unwilling to do so only a year earlier for the London dockers ? |
| 6 | But it is possible to draw so tight a circle around an enlightened few that the picture becomes distorted in the opposite direction . |
| 7 | But , tell me , Captain Owen , what do you expect would be the nature of this information for which you are prepared to pay so high a price ? ’ |
| 8 | Helmut was going to transfer so much a month into a bank account for me and I could draw it out at an office in the Champs-Elysées . |