Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] a [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | An appeal for more donations , towards a £720 tender to alter the clubhouse , had so poor a response the project was abandoned despite costs already incurred in taking out quantities . |
| 2 | One would think that the more rigid a doctrine the more brittle it should be . |
| 3 | The more supple a line the more natural a bait will behave in the water . |
| 4 | In many cases the more successful a town the less likely is the chance of seeing its early development . |
| 5 | The several hundred Ma delay in the basin impacts after the main phase of accretion can also be explained , because it can be shown that the more massive a body the longer it is likely to survive before being collected by the Moon ( or by the Earth ) . |
| 6 | For nearly half a century the camp has survived the storms . |
| 7 | After about half a minute the Commander broke the silence . |
| 8 | If the market wants to back such a scheme the market will back it . |
| 9 | Which just goes to show how strong a hold The Birthday Party still has on the public imagination . |
| 10 | For almost half a century the housing question had been dominated by the problems of insanitary , unfit dwellings and the association with overcrowding and ill health . |
| 11 | In the 1590s the Polish king , Sigismund III , invited Marenzio to Warsaw and for at least half a century the directors of the royal chapel were Italians . |
| 12 | But what also shone through was how good a play The Hooded Owl was . |
| 13 | And only after he had paid back every penny of his debt on the new barrow and been left with hardly any spare cash to talk of did he begin to realise just how good a costermonger the old fellow must have been . |
| 14 | It is too early to say why I lost and I do not know how big a part the race issue played , ’ he said . |
| 15 | ‘ It tells us just how big a mess the Government has got us into : a £50 billion deficit and very little sign of the promised post-election recovery . ’ |
| 16 | It is important to know just how difficult a task the higher levels are facing . |
| 17 | Much now depends on how active a role the US is prepared to play to chivvy Israel along to respond to the Egyptian proposals . |
| 18 | In that type of case erm perhaps the Court will not pay too much regard to the defendant 's personal circumstances because they 're not going to make that much difference , but if it 's not that serious a case the other main consideration that comes into play is the defendant 's own personal circumstance . |
| 19 | It might be that if a bird tried to defend too large a territory the amount of energy it would gain from its territorial habit would actually decrease , as it spent more energy on extra defence than it gained from extra food supplies . |