Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He contrasts the moral ideas of humanity with those of the deity , who is described in terms reminiscent of Voltaire : ‘ Why have we sympathies that make the best of us so afraid of inflicting pain and sorrow , which yet we see dealt about so lavishly by the supreme governor ? ’ |
| 2 | Arsenal , having won the Cup and two Championships in four years , could not go on for much longer with the same team , and in 1933 Chapman 's major concern was to find replacements to keep the club on top . |
| 3 | ‘ He would not have survived for much longer in the Arctic conditions , ’ said a spokesman for Gwent Police . |
| 4 | In fact , they 'll be amazed that nineteenth-century Catholics contrived to believe for so long in the literal truth of those poetic legends . |
| 5 | Old people have been indoctrinated for so long in the necessary frailty and peripheralism of their lot that this is not surprising . |
| 6 | At this time I was at a loss to understand how it managed to hover for so long in the same place . |
| 7 | DEL Harris of Colchester , for so long in the top three of the British squash rankings , has dropped down the list because of injury and a recent loss of form . |
| 8 | Blanche had left a message for the sergeant to join her in the editor 's office of Inside Out on the fourth floor . |
| 9 | His light summer suit and pale striped silk tie are for once exactly like the light summer suits and pale striped silk ties that everybody else is wearing . |
| 10 | These two recent developments will be dealt with more fully in the final chapter . |
| 11 | This is dealt with more fully in the next chapter . |
| 12 | In ulcerative colitis most of the TNF α immunoreactivity was seen in the subepithelial macrophages , with comparatively less in the deep lamina preopria , while in Crohn 's disease immunoreactive cells were distributed evenly throughout the lamina propria . |
| 13 | Some might think Langholm an unlikely location for a PLC head office — about as far from the madding crowd as you could get . |
| 14 | She must just have got off , and she was probably watching me from somewhere high above the distant sea . |
| 15 | The photographer had long since gone , but Kevin Seymour and I pored over the yacht 's considerable folio of charts while we discussed in detail the cruises that have been sketched in so lightly in the previous paragraphs . |
| 16 | It 's a funny old game , Saint , viewed from directly overhead with the cartoonesque players zipping up and down the scrolling pitch . |
| 17 | And , and I mean I , I , I 'm making I 'm mak I 'm deliberately making these points because he is viewed as someone who perhaps would n't have been a Sun type but more of a , a Telegraph type or whatever , but when you 've analyzed his , his words and his speeches and everything else in terms of what we 're talking about the tabloids or broadsheets or whatever , you know he would , his language would have fitted in more neatly to the tabloid style than the the Telegraph style . |
| 18 | But London was for ever a sensitive place in the eyes of the English kings , watched with jealous eyes from the White Tower , built by William I at the south-east comer of its defences — and from further off in the great royal palace of Westminster . |
| 19 | Then the angry dancing glare of fire lit up the darkness from further back along the main corridor . |
| 20 | The economy and marketing had been based on barter from way back in the fourth century , so this was not new . |
| 21 | You need n't feel responsible for me from now on in the slightest . ’ |
| 22 | No other African became a bishop until well on into the twentieth century ! " |
| 23 | Jadeite , highly prized in modern China , did not appear there until well on in the eighteenth century . |
| 24 | So I 'm just , I 'll walk down , how far is it from here down to the main road along the road ? |
| 25 | Yet in the States at this time there was a real explosion of sexual activity , of public sexual activity , the development of gay saunas , the development of sexually explicit magazines ; there was a huge migration , really , to New York , San Francisco , Los Angeles by gay people , a whole burgeoning of a literature and expression of new sexual activities which I do n't think was really echoed to the same extent until quite late in the seventies in this country . |
| 26 | But it was another slender figure , a woman , shimmying up on to the port wing , from there on to the scorching hull , running along the curve in great , light strides and flinging her arm out in front of her , pointing with her index and little fingers at the mob pulling down the man . |
| 27 | But er we used to bring these tubs then down from there on to the main road where the rope , the haulage rope travelled you see ? |
| 28 | It was perfectly possible to see how Billy could have vaulted the fence , got on to the kitchen roof via one of the barrels and from there on to the main roof and all the connecting ones down to Sunil 's house . |
| 29 | Then we went in to Hamish and Tone 's for tea and apologies , and later drove to the castle for what would have been the most excruciating interval of my life if Verity and Lewis had still been there , but they were n't ; they had taken off in the car to visit some friends of Verity 's who lived in Ardnamurchan , and would n't be back until late tomorrow at the earliest . |
| 30 | We just want people to get the money in very quickly after the seventh of November , er but we 'll hopefully know after Sunday evening , er what we reckon to have raised in the area . |