Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] [pron] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The middle of the passage was , however , rather different since it concerned a motorcyclist 's deliberations about the nature of empiricism , and it was considerably more difficult to understand . |
| 2 | It took three minutes to erect the inner tent on its first outing but because it was raining constantly , the inner was a little wet before I had a chance to put the flysheet over . |
| 3 | It was so strong that she put a hand to her head and swayed . |
| 4 | Maybe hatred could grow so strong that it became a force of its own , he thought — a real physical force . |
| 5 | Poseidon was so grateful that he created a constellation in the dolphins ' honour called Delphinus , just west of Pegasus . |
| 6 | In some cases that might be true ; modern international show jumping course are so big and so technical that they demand a horse with the size , scope and power to make the heights and spreads . |
| 7 | Britain 's problems were now so acute that they posed a threat to American interests and the free world 's financial system . |
| 8 | However , William Matteuzzi 's Almaviva is so weak that it requires a considerable stretch of the imagination to picture her preferring the young Count to the lecherous old Dr Bartolo ; and although the late Giuseppe Patane conducts the score with obvious affection , he has little flare for dramatic pacing . |
| 9 | It used the allocation , came back and said that its original estimate was entirely wrong and it required an extra £48 million — the original estimate was £48 million out . |
| 10 | It was so funny when you stubbed a fag out on his arse . |
| 11 | An instance is provided by the civil war between Pompey and Caesar in the first century BC , when hoarding was so prevalent that it caused a crisis of liquidity . |
| 12 | ‘ She had been so brave and she had a right to know , to set her life in order just like anyone facing death . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Hothousing is entirely different because it involves a pushy parent force-feeding their child to be bright — the natural spark is n't necessarily there , ’ says Mr Short . |
| 14 | Getting going again after a hard race is not easy , but it is much easier if you have a plan to follow . |
| 15 | ‘ What saddened me about the reviews , ’ said Crawford , ‘ was n't so much that they had a go at the play , but they did n't recognise all the work done for me by the rest of the team . |
| 16 | During the First World War , a mongrel called Prince missed his soldier owner so much that he hitched a lift across the channel and searched until he found his master in the trenches — a journey of several hundred miles . |
| 17 | It has lots of similar properties to a larger computer , in so much that it has a similar , what is referred to as a central processing unit , and in some instances similar peripheral devices , but if one can imagine that for certain applications where these have been collectively gathered together in erm the ultimate setting on a single integrated circuit , then one has a microcomputer , comprised of a microprocessor , some memory and some appropriate interfacing devices to the outside world . |
| 18 | Because they restricted the area so much if you got a big plane that like , to by pass now . |
| 19 | In general , technical description is only appropriate if it illustrates a point in your argument , as can be seen from problems in the following excerpt : The sonnet structure is appropriate to the subject . |
| 20 | This apparently was so serious that I had a sudden joyous hallucination . |
| 21 | There was some recognition by planners that schools would provide particularly vulnerable targets , especially dangerous because they contained a high concentration of glass . |
| 22 | And it was so appalling that it had a genuine effect on public opinion . |
| 23 | But it is not so easy if you have a condition which is not susceptible to diagnosis and has no clear-cut signs or symptoms . |
| 24 | On the night , the young soprano was so nervous that he made a fatal mistake : he forgot to put on any underwear . |
| 25 | This was only natural as she had a reputation for secrecy . |
| 26 | Insurance is only valuable if it serves a purpose . |
| 27 | ‘ You train for so long and so hard that you need a break afterwards . |
| 28 | He laughed so hard that he had a fit of coughing which , in turn , caused big tears to roll down his face . |
| 29 | On these points we are left in no doubt : he found mainly ruins , and what was not ruined , was in his eyes so corrupt that it needed a completely new start . |
| 30 | He is also in charge of an economy so large that it makes a real difference to world trade and to British economic fortunes in particular . |