Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adv] [adv] [subord] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Levels one and two are by far the commonest in education but there is a new type of partnership which appears to be developing and which may meet the needs of the future rather more fully than the other two — though those will always continue in existence because they fulfil real short term needs . |
| 2 | And because the upper limit of a microscope 's resolving power depends on the wavelength of the waves illuminating the object under study , Sokolov suggested that an acoustic microscope should in theory be able to resolve images just as well as the standard optical system . |
| 3 | He had been going to convert it into flats but backed out of the deal nearly as fast as the second prospective buyer , who was a surveyor himself . |
| 4 | He also says that the committee had raised their concerns to the council about recruitment practice as far back as the late 1970s . |
| 5 | Deforestation , whether to clear the ground for pasture or to produce timber and fuel , was a worry in these parts of the Pyrenees as long ago as the seventeenth century , when the prescient minister Colbert sent an eminent forester from Paris to report on the local resources in wood ; but it is only quite recently that felling and replanting have been properly controlled . |
| 6 | Armies of monkeys marching through the jungle roof on swinging arms took fright , too , when they saw the little file of humans and they fled chattering through the upper branches almost as speedily as the birds . |
| 7 | Bath had a good long look at the videos and soon saw that little variations of this move could break opposition defences just as easily as the blasting back-row scrum moves with which Australia had devastated England when they so mistakenly toured Australia last year . |
| 8 | That 's despite new evidence that people in their seventies or eighties can recover from operations just as well as the young . |
| 9 | Consistent with this , the homologous Vmw175 DNA binding domain , and also intact Vmw175 , recognize the gene 62 binding sites much less efficiently than the 140k DNA binding domain . |
| 10 | The building looked as impressive in actuality as it did in magazines , though the Hudson somewhat less so than the river I 'd just left . |
| 11 | He had certainly mentioned the possibility of independence as far back as the mid- 1950s . |
| 12 | That brought him within a mile or two of Stoke St Gregory , down the steep incline and on to the Levels , where a family of Titfords had once made their home as long ago as the end of the 16th century . |
| 13 | Excavations at Tepe Gawra much nearer the highland sources of metals show that close contacts had already been established with the city states of Sumer as far back as the middle of the fourth millennium B.C. By the time of the Royal Cemetery of Ur ( c.2600–2500 B.C. ) metallurgy and not least gold- and silversmithing had already reached a stage at which many of the fundamental processes had been mastered . |
| 14 | Awa Thiam from Senegal , a long time campaigner against genital mutilation and the guest speaker at the above mentioned conference , provided a progressive framework for women campaigning on this issue as far back as the 70's in her book La parole aux Negress , Denoel-Gonthier ( ed ) Paris 1978 , English translation Let Our Black Sisters Speak Out , Pluto Press . |
| 15 | The Evangelical movement , despite its minority status , cast its influence far more widely than the actual numbers of its adherents might suggest ; it is of especial interest to students of child rearing attitudes , in that its followers were so prolific in their writings that their beliefs ( or watered-down versions of their beliefs ) dominated both the advisory literature available to parents and the children 's own reading matter for upwards of two centuries . |
| 16 | It is also known that the Indus Valley civilization was far more extensive than formerly realised , embracing areas as far away as the Oxus River , now called Amu Darya , in Central Asia and forming part of the Soviet Afghanistan border on its course . |
| 17 | More important than that ( for medieval village buildings could have been swept away as easily as the Romans had swept away the native British buildings for their planned towns ) — a variety of ownerships and rights had grown up that precluded a unified plan even as early as the twelfth or thirteenth century . |
| 18 | This finding may explain why attempts to liberalise the archaic Sunday-trading laws of England and Wales ( Scottish shops can open as they please ) have split the Conservatives quite as deeply as the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 19 | He made her work twice as hard as the others . |
| 20 | I can put a point rather more crudely than the Lord put it , but I realise that the present Government find it inconceivable , one day they will be in opposition , but I do wonder if they would have shown quite the same enthusiasm for this solution if it had been forthcoming from a Labour Government . |
| 21 | The French government acceded to her request that she be buried at Malmaison , but her son was permitted to accompany the funeral only as far as the frontier between France and Switzerland . |
| 22 | As Dr O'Brien has recently pointed out , in effect British governments between 1714 and 1815 constructed a revenue system from component parts which enabled them to increase tax revenues per head from Europe 's most rapidly growing population much more successfully than the French from the end of the eighteenth century , despite having been less heavily taxed up to then . |
| 23 | The nuclear industry 's current predicament is usually placed in the context of the near melt-down at Three Mile Island in 1979 and the fatal disaster at Chernobyl , the radioactive fall-out from which was still affecting places as far away as the uplands of Wales and Scotland four years later . |
| 24 | I 've been as far a a places as far apart as the presbytery of erm Annandale and Esdale which is to , what to south of Scotland , erm and I ca n't think of any corresponding place erm in the north but there have been places in the north that I 've also gone to , and this is my donor card . |
| 25 | In the first place , even in the early 1980s , the more rural areas were still gaining population far more rapidly than the nation as a whole , and the more general process of deconcentration from the metropolitan counties and from the largest settlements in non-metropolitan counties was still continuing apace . |
| 26 | Here , in the suburbs of the Metropolis , members of the extended family whose ancestors had parted company down in Wiltshire as long ago as the late 16th century found neighbouring resting places . |
| 27 | Maybe the reason for this was that she was vindictively happy not to do anything , and it is the opinion of my sergeant here that she probably hated her husband almost as intensely as the murderer himself did . |
| 28 | Lathes were introduced to China perhaps as early as the Ming dynasty and were still being used in the jade workshops of Peking when Howard Hansford came to study them in 1938–9 . |
| 29 | " Instead of the children of the working class being subjected to rigorous self-denial in preparation for a life-time in mill or mine , " he writes , " they have been offered instead the promise of the easy and immediate gratification which , in the end , can sabotage human development and achievement just as effectively as the poverty and hunger of the past . " |
| 30 | The elderly woman turned her head as far sideways as the basket strap permitted . |