Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [adj] a " 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 | For instance , 100 kilos of lavender yields almost 3 litres of essential oil , whereas 100 kilos of rose petals can yield only half a litre of oil . |
| 4 | Clearly , the vendor will seek as large a consideration as possible , with as few contingent liabilities as possible . |
| 5 | We can by no means consider here such a wide range of factors , and it is essential that students supplement this reading with other books of a historical and analytical nature to complete the picture . |
| 6 | 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 … |
| 7 | Earthly life is inveterately complex ; of all natural materials , only water could bring together such a rich variety of elements , so conveniently , as this life requires . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I watch I 'll probably watch about half an hour tonight , an hour tomorrow night . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | You see , I must admit you see not I do n't gon na do as good a job as |
| 12 | do n't think she 's gon na do as good a job and that would definitely make it . |
| 13 | if you do n't think that the girl that you 've interviewed is gon na do as good a job as |
| 14 | SAVE 's immediate task was to show that a conservation scheme could generate as healthy a financial return as a cleared site . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He should expect as good a season as Russell Claydon . |
| 18 | No really , and er , so I , I do n't feel quite such a fool as I did when I started to speak . |
| 19 | I believed that he might bring forward such an amendment , but he has not done so . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | For most people alcohol does not present too great a problem provided it is taken in moderation . |
| 22 | One may argue that ( although one should not expect too sympathetic a hearing in the courts ) : 1 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The chemist can use just such a matrix to trap a species whose normal lifetime is just fractions of a second , and subject it to a longer , closer scrutiny than would otherwise be possible . |
| 27 | The new Bibliothèque de France might provide just such a model . |
| 28 | If I look back on the people who have led me very well in the past , it was those who were able to create and sustain just such a sense of challenge . |
| 29 | The process of indexing should therefore employ as large a lexicon as possible . |
| 30 | 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 . |