Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adv] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A new Fifa president , Joao Havelange , had been elected after campaigning vigorously among the less powerful countries , promising them an expanded tournament to meet their increased ambitions . |
| 2 | Allowing for a level of coding somewhere between the highly specific and detailed CODOT scheme and that of OPCS , in which are sometimes to be found rather heterogeneous categories . |
| 3 | In fact , the NRPB had taken the unusual step in 1987 of moving ahead of the notoriously conservative International Commission on Radiological Protection , which provides the generally accepted international standards , and had recommended dramatically reduced radiation dose limits both for people living near nuclear power stations and those working inside them . |
| 4 | Six paratroopers accused of running amok in the mainly republican town of Coalisland , Co Tyrone , after an IRA bomb badly injured a colleague were yesterday cleared of all charges . |
| 5 | But the seats that Common Wealth began to win were often seats which Labour would have stood little chance of winning even under the most favourable conditions . |
| 6 | In the Russian Federation , for instance , the Tatar Republic adopted a declaration of independence in October 1991 and declared its intention of affiliating independently to the newly established Commonwealth . |
| 7 | He milks every dramatic gesture for all it is worth , extending sections such as the dolce con grazia ( 5'08 ’ ) till they seem to stretch into infinity , before sprinting away in the more volatile or highlycharged pages with an immaculate bravura and articulacy . |
| 8 | This pattern reflects both the tendency for school-leavers to leave the more rural and remote parts of the country and the fact that many people at or near retirement age see advantages in moving away from the more expensive and congested metropolitan regions . |
| 9 | Much of the work in the first two years of school will concentrate on looking backwards at the relatively recent past ( life 50 – 80 years ago ) , using oral history , photographs , objects , and looking at the locality , the family , home and school . |
| 10 | She had taken to growling menacingly at the more impressionable of the remedials to keep herself occupied . |
| 11 | Such economies of attention are achieved by dealing only with the most superficial aspects of an experience . |