Example sentences of "be [adv] strong a [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It is difficult to resist the implication that our penal system is morally unjustifiable — morally bankrupt might not be too strong a phrase . |
| 2 | If , in addition , I were accompanied by his fifteen soldiers I believed we should be too strong a party to invite attack , while not so strong as to alarm and provoke the tribes . |
| 3 | Then , when he returned — which he always did , as quickly as possible , for Smugglers ' Cove ( and its occupant ) were so strong a magnet that he often drove home through the night — then she was unfailingly reassured . |
| 4 | Perhaps conspiracy is too strong a word . |
| 5 | ‘ I think raid is too strong a word , ’ he said . |
| 6 | FIGURE 1 I nearly always start drawing the ‘ bones ’ of the picture with a small brush dipped in a light cerulean or cobalt blue — ultramarine is too strong a colour , and I roughly mark out windows , table , plant etc |
| 7 | If pastrami is too strong a flavour for your taste , then use roast beef or ham instead . |
| 8 | He was so strong a character — and he meant so much to me — that although it 's many many years since I worked with him , he was in a way always there — it has been a strength in reserve — that there was Basil if you needed him . |
| 9 | NoS had not been hijacked — that was too strong a word . |