Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why should this make so great a difference ? |
| 2 | George cried , who did not want so marvellous an evening to end . |
| 3 | Clearly , the vendor will seek as large a consideration as possible , with as few contingent liabilities as possible . |
| 4 | It would not need too keen an eye ( nor a cynical disposition ) to spot a coincidence between one of the editors of the volumes and the present author of this piece and think … |
| 5 | She watched him for a moment , wishing she did n't feel so defensive every time he broached the subject of Arnie . |
| 6 | The Unix festival , UniForum ‘ 93 , did n't feel as successful a show as it was last year : it was spread out over a lot more acreage and split into two widely separated pavilions , and attendance looked sparse and the aisles empty despite show management 's claims of a 10% increase in traffic — like as not , it was talking about the pre-registration which was up , but unofficially we hear attendance was down ; UniForum is still more a Unix celebration than anything else but it remains to be seen whether there will still be things to celebrate or whether erosion has set in . |
| 7 | Nothing is worse than walking in wet trousers for long periods of time , so the overtrousers you select should give as good a service as your jacket . |
| 8 | You see , I must admit you see not I do n't gon na do as good a job as |
| 9 | do n't think she 's gon na do as good a job and that would definitely make it . |
| 10 | if you do n't think that the girl that you 've interviewed is gon na do as good a job as |
| 11 | Concern was expressed both that an initial compliance check would not eliminate the possibility of later default , and that firms with a number of branch offices run largely independently of one another for accounting purposes might present as big a risk of default as sole practices . |
| 12 | As the renewable energy sources develop they will inevitably quickly lose their present quaint , pastoral image and the concepts of noise and horizon pollution will assume as significant a rôle in the public bestiary as do atmospheric and nuclear pollution today . |
| 13 | He should expect as good a season as Russell Claydon . |
| 14 | On the one hand , the Montagne de Reims suggests a much higher , tougher topography than it actually represents ; yet , on the other , to talk of rolling hills would give too tame an impression of the region . |
| 15 | For most people alcohol does not present too great a problem provided it is taken in moderation . |
| 16 | Did n't smell very strong the top 's been off it . |
| 17 | One may argue that ( although one should not expect too sympathetic a hearing in the courts ) : 1 . |
| 18 | To devolve responsibility for the kind of social services we currently enjoy to a mass of informal , ill-organised groups and organisations would constitute so great a dismantling of the personal social services system as to leave its functions solely to hidden providers of informal care . |
| 19 | A part , of course , assumed that certain favours would be forthcoming , especially as her reputation , in the newspapers , was in tatters ; Mr Poole did not use so graphic a word , but his hands continued to make free of Dinah 's body , and soon she rose and shook out her skirts . |
| 20 | My father told me that when Darwin 's Beagle appeared in their island channels , the Tierra del Fuegans did not even notice it because their imaginations could not grasp so vast a ship . |
| 21 | The process of indexing should therefore employ as large a lexicon as possible . |
| 22 | Fifth , the problem of fonts and output matching will become as big a problem for the desktop publishing market as it ever was for the traditional sector and potentially more confusing for the user than ever before . |
| 23 | A simple comparison of total estimated income from the competing products may provide as good a guide to decision making . |
| 24 | A simple comparison of total estimated income from the competing products may provide as good a guide to decision making . |
| 25 | The story of what is going on in the airline industry will perhaps provide as good an example as any of the gap which is growing between what is proposed in the ‘ competition Directives ’ and how matters are likely to work out in practice as a result of the distortions caused by subsidy . |
| 26 | backcombed up into a beehive , kept firmly in place with sugar and water , making her look even taller-like an amazon . |
| 27 | We can not let them get too far ahead as it will become too great a gap to close even if they did happen to fall over their showlaces again . |
| 28 | In particular , the group discussions we held show that at the extremes of poverty and limited awareness , credit can become too heavy a burden for the family budget and even for emotional stability . |
| 29 | The idea that there was a golden age of family obligations in the past was born out of a desire to ensure that increasing numbers of elderly people ( and other dependent groups ) in the population did not become too heavy a burden financially upon the wealthier classes ; hence the anxieties about whether working-class people had an adequate sense of ‘ filial affection ’ , which can be documented from at least the nineteenth century . |
| 30 | That would constitute too great a loss of face . |