Example sentences of "great a [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was his belief that too great a degree of inequality within a society would prevent a common will or common interest from developing , and that is surely correct . |
| 3 | The effect of the 1979 Act and subsequent case law is that arbitration awards have almost as great a degree of finality as experts ' decisions , and so Megaw LJ 's argument is no longer available . |
| 4 | Thus in a case where the ‘ principles of good forestry ’ dictate that felling should take place , and would result in too great a sacrifice of amenity , the owner can claim compensation for the loss which he suffers . |
| 5 | It is difficult to understand why the judges selected his design for second prize , as the assessors had rejected it by saying that it was ‘ Too expensive and involving too great a sacrifice of property ’ , and were supported by Brunel and Burn . |
| 6 | As a result of these , too great a blame for dioxin contamination was placed on the chemical industry . |
| 7 | A generation later , another , bound for so great a centre of civilisation as Paris , still found it necessary to take with him sixty boxes of household goods and twenty of food , seven or eight dozen chairs and armchairs , a coach , a chaise and twenty horses . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , Chapman remained convinced that Leeds would become ‘ as great a centre of Association Football as any city in England ’ . |
| 9 | In answer to the third question , the utilitarian might suggest that there is at least as great a tendency to convergence on these bases as pertains to any of the social sciences ( which may not be saying much ) . |
| 10 | And she carried on with the arrangement she was making , cheerfully unaware of how great a change in attitude that charitable thought represented . |
| 11 | An excess of meats and spices cause aggression while too great a consumption of dairy foods and those with a high fat content may bring about depressive tendencies and lethargy . |
| 12 | This , then , is the first stage of reacting to loss : denial — shock that something bad has happened — is our psyche 's way of defending us from experiencing too great a sense of harm too quickly . |
| 13 | To stare at an empty vastness would be dispiriting ; perhaps also it would bring about too great a sense of isolation . |
| 14 | But , to repeat the question , how great a level of luck , how much of a miracle , are we allowed to postulate ? |
| 15 | The New Forest will be given a statutory status which will give it as great a level of protection as any National Park . |
| 16 | In England and Wales we are singularly placed to appreciate the relationship of scenery and structure , for few other parts of the earth 's surface show in a similar small area so great a diversity of rock types and of landscape features : " Britain is a world by itself " ; its mountains are not high , nor its rivers long , but within a few hundred miles of travel from east to west one may see more varieties of scenery than are to be found in many bigger countries . |
| 17 | There is a danger in indulging in too great a diversity of material and outlook and , as biogeographers have been few in number , diversity could lead to the continuing omission of the study of the impact of human activity . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The first lay in the effect it might have on teaching and learning and the second in too great a concentration of power in the hands of the government of the day and especially with one person , the Secretary of State . |
| 20 | There must be some way she could make an approach without incurring too great a risk of rejection . |
| 21 | That would constitute too great a loss of face . |
| 22 | At high temperatures , the spaces between the solvent molecules have to be reduced if mixing is to take place and when this eventually results in too great a loss of entropy , phase separation occurs . |
| 23 | And anyway , there will be enough public opinion in line with mine and Mike 's here ’ — he threw a brilliant smile at Mike — ‘ to protect us from too great a loss of circulation . |
| 24 | Since the formation of the UK Group of EEB Members we have been able to play a fuller role in the affairs of the EEB without too great a commitment of time and resources . |
| 25 | And the conviction refers to an ultimately retrogressive form of co-operation : retrogressive because it requires too great a suppression of individuality , too great a forfeiture of a life of one 's own ; and hence , justifiable only by sheer necessity . |
| 26 | From the other flank , Michael Foot thought plans for reform gave too great a power of patronage to the prime minister and mocked the very idea of a representative democracy . |