Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | or deftly rabbit-punch a kidney |
| 2 | That she was looking her best , or that Ven appreciated her appearance was made thrillingly clear a minute later , when she entered the sitting-room . |
| 3 | ‘ It must seem impossible for you to believe that in a civilized society so abhorrent a practice as the enslaving of one person by another still continues , but I will ask you to try and imagine what it must be like . |
| 4 | Almost instinctively , people worried that so outstanding a year might tempt Helen to switch at once to the professional circuit . |
| 5 | In the case of the miller 's wife : ( She had not had so pleasant a time for many a long year ) |
| 6 | My father , certainly , did not have so pleasant an odour as my mother . |
| 7 | At so grotesque a blunder . |
| 8 | One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder . |
| 9 | Her hands were often plastered , while there was one occasion when she made so fiery a contact with a clubface that she punched one of the knuckles out of position . |
| 10 | As hydrogen bonds are thermally labile a rise in T reduces the number of bonds and causes eventual phase separation . |
| 11 | There is some merit in the Royal Commission 's reasoning , but it does not seem to warrant so total a separation of the two branches of the profession as exists currently . |
| 12 | This is so broad a definition that it could include almost any building , structure , or site of archaeological interest made or occupied by man at any time . |
| 13 | Dalgliesh , who had heard him at a police concert , never ceased to be surprised that so narrow a chest and so slight a frame could produce such a powerful organ-toned bass . |
| 14 | In the event , the Biennale 's President , Paolo Portoghesi , was not happy with so narrow a majority and adjourned the meeting until 22 May . |
| 15 | If this is the case , the argument for so narrow a definition of sexual intercourse would seem hard to sustain . |
| 16 | There were escapes so narrow a postcard could n't have got through them . |
| 17 | Indeed some observers thought this a major reason why the Conservatives won by so narrow a margin in October . |
| 18 | This was clear in ‘ Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme ’ , which was so memorable a success at our 1985 Festival . |
| 19 | Much of this picture has been surmised from the pioneering excavation of Old Hangleton by Mr Holden : surprisingly , given the common image of medieval squalor , there was none of the rubbish which is usually so rich a ground for archaeologists . |
| 20 | The fact that Paris was so rich a source of books — from de luxe manuscripts to ‘ soiled tracts and battered codices ’ — in part stemmed from its position and reputation as the greatest northern European centre of learning . |
| 21 | Since God is the source of our ability to make and enjoy music , we risk ingratitude if we spurn so rich a blessing . |
| 22 | In the last resort the only satisfactory answer to the question , ‘ Why do you devote yourself to the attempt to understand ? ’ is , ‘ Because I derive so strong a satisfaction from doing so . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ There has been much ’ , he continued , ‘ which has implicitly or otherwise criticized — it is not so strong a word — criticized the foreign policy of my country . ’ |
| 25 | He learned to use his charm , and ‘ it became ’ , his biographer says , ‘ so strong a factor in him that it resembled great beauty in a woman ’ . |
| 26 | The substitution of the word ‘ aware ’ may not be enough to dislodge so strong a preconception , but it should help . |
| 27 | The word pirate was perhaps not so strong a term of condemnation as in later centuries : European rulers were only just beginning to acquire for themselves , on behalf of their states , a monopoly of the use of force . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | China was even worse : ‘ I was sorely grieved that heathendom had so strong a hold over [ this rich country ] , ’ he wrote after a few weeks in Qanjanfu . |
| 30 | ‘ As may be supposed ’ , he wrote , ‘ the sight of a bird of such beauty , which , moreover , was entirely new to me , excited so strong a desire to possess it that scarcely a moment elapsed before it was dead and in my hand . ’ |