Example sentences of "[be] [adv] great a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instability in those countries , caused by shortages and discontent , could be as great a threat to world peace as the armed communism that has now disappeared . |
| 2 | By the end of the century some might still moan that ‘ it would shock many to suggest that a plain dissenting preacher might be as great a man as an Archbishop ’ but this was simply twaddle . |
| 3 | It is surprising how many people go through life breathing inadequately and , although in many instances this does not prove to be too great a problem , in the case of someone with a stammer it can increase their difficulties enormously . |
| 4 | It would not be too great a distortion of the facts to say that the main thrust of twentieth century sensory physiology has been to move the application of the doctrine of specific energies inwards from the sensory ending towards and into the cortex . |
| 5 | Although Woolf stated that ‘ there is no single cause of riots ’ ( para 9.23 ) it may not be too great a distortion to say that he saw the lack of legitimacy of the prison for its inmates as the key factor in explaining the disorders . |
| 6 | It may be too great a temptation to human frailty , apt to grasp at power , for the same persons who have the power of making laws , to have also in their hands the power to execute them , whereby they may exempt themselves from obedience to the laws they make , and suit the law , both in its making and execution , to their own private advantage . |
| 7 | This would not be too great a bother if morels could be collected in the wild for a reasonable length of time each year , but the fruiting bodies of the morel make only a brief appearance , sometime between March and May . |
| 8 | Pulling it open would be too great a risk and Turner could not trust his own hands to hold the bag steady . |
| 9 | In fact , the effect of many past lives upon the child 's mind may already be too great a burden for him or her to have ever possessed much capacity for direct mental perception . |