Example sentences of "in so [adj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very occasionally in going beyond the immediate subject a few minor errors have crept in , but no one else could have told the main story in so authoritative a fashion . |
| 2 | As he stepped ashore , three RAF Hampden bombers made a low-level attack , placing their smoke bombs in so close a screen for the landing that phosphorus from a sheet of flame set fire to the Colonel 's tunic . |
| 3 | Either its organisation is in so parlous a condition that it has to rely on active service units of such incompetence that they can not place bombs and give effective warnings . |
| 4 | ‘ In the cold light of day it seems incredible that I toppled to my knees in so abject a manner . |
| 5 | They turned back to Major Braithwaite who was talking to Julia with what , in so staid a man , was approaching animation . |
| 6 | However , as we saw in Chapter V , this view is difficult to sustain , and certainly , should not be asserted in so cavalier a fashion . |
| 7 | Peter Holman 's exemplary notes suggest that Jenkins composed these works in his 20s or 30s , but the quality of the music seem to belie that generally accepted claim : it is difficult to imagine such depth of repose in so young a man — though that in turn gives the modern listener a clue as to why Jenkins was such a respected and well-loved figure in his day . |
| 8 | Those places in army units were invariably awarded through political interest , though admittedly rarely in so blatant a manner as that adopted by Sir David Cunynghame , a West Lothian politician , when disposing of the junior medical officer 's place in his regiment in 1760 . |
| 9 | For all this to take place in so remote an area required not only payment of high wages but elaborate logistic arrangements on a massive scale , particularly with the strict conditions laid down by the Shetlands Islands Council to protect both the environment and the local way of life . |
| 10 | Mensheviks in general adhered more strictly to the traditional Marxist assumption that in so backward a country as Russia the impending revolution would bring the bourgeoisie to power . |
| 11 | E. W. Lovegrove in an essay on the churches of Stamford in 1908 says that St. John 's and St. Martin 's were in so ruinous a state that completely new Perpendicular style buildings had to be erected on their site . |
| 12 | He shows us Johnson in a delighted state , thrilled because the ‘ entertainment here was in so elegant a style , and reminded my fellow-traveller so much of England ’ . |
| 13 | Lady Debrace seemed more concerned about Harry 's ability to drive her daughter safely in so powerful a motor car than about Madeleine 's reputation . |
| 14 | There are two possible mechanisms for regulation in so simple a system : either a change in the amount of neurotransmitter released by the sensory neuron , or a change in the sensitivity of the motor neuron to constant doses of neurotransmitter . |
| 15 | He was standing at the edge of the water , looking into the turgid grey-brown eddies that poured down towards Breidden with such force and in so absolute a silence . |
| 16 | It was uncommon in those days , and still is , for publishers to commission artists of such quality to illustrate cookery books , and a little of the success of Boulestin 's early books must be acknowledged to his publishers who , no doubt under the guidance of their author , produced them in so appropriate a form , in large type , on thick paper : chunky , easy little books to handle , attractively bound . |
| 17 | Yet Ashton found ways of so moulding classical dance that the ladies even danced sur les pointes in so Edwardian a setting . |
| 18 | It is not the entirely understandable worries about the choice of South Africa as the tournament venue when that country is in so delicate a political — and hence economically sensitive — state , but rather the veil of secrecy that seems to shroud all commercial aspects of the next World Cup event . |
| 19 | But although they lived as the only intellectual representatives of their own language in so small a place as Rapallo , they were not destined to decrease each other 's mental loneliness . |
| 20 | The difficulty of finding room for his guests in so small a house was farthest from Coleridge 's mind . |
| 21 | The existence of one big city in so small a country as Belgium or Holland was , of course , of far greater significance than , say , the existence of one in Poland . |
| 22 | While many a villager born in so small an island as Britain might pass all his days without seeing the sea , some of his comrades from every European land risked its dangers , courted its excitement — or just found it serviceable for their varied aims . |
| 23 | For this purpose the memory of the arrière-ban was preserved ; but in practice the imperial armies were not usually recruited in so haphazard a fashion . |
| 24 | Why , again , are the planned towns scattered about the country in so haphazard a way , and so different in age and social type — Salisbury 's plan belongs to the thirteenth century ( Fig. 9 , p. 93 ) , Middlesbrough 's to the nineteenth . |
| 25 | So small a boat in so vast a sea . |
| 26 | In so unequal a friendship — unequal not merely in respect of age but in the extent to which the giving was preponderantly on his side — I would repeatedly wonder whether I had presumed too much . |
| 27 | How dared this man , a virtual stranger , stir up these doubts in so private an area of her life ? |
| 28 | He stopped , it was n't his normal behaviour to speak to the staff in so familiar a way , after all he had his dignity . |
| 29 | VISITING LADY : [ to PAMELA ] Well , as he now urges you in so gentlemanly a manner for tomorrow , I think if I was in your place I would agree to it . |
| 30 | It was very advantageous for Edward to have his brother in so central a position , adjacent to the Capetian demesne . |