Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adv] [adv] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 1985 ) presented evidence that inhibitory training procedures produce a CS- that is subsequently learned about rather slowly even when the test procedure was one that required further inhibitory learning . |
| 2 | ‘ Until the day after tomorrow as far as the fireworks are concerned . |
| 3 | And this had been the way things were for as far back as the frogs could remember . |
| 4 | Fragments of lacquerware have been excavated dating from as long ago as the Shang Dynasty ( from about 1700 to about 1000 BC ) , but it was during the Han Dynasty ( 206 BC to AD 220 ) that lacquer painting flourished . |
| 5 | For some , this depth is seen as having imposed an institutional bias and rigidity on the economy from as long ago as the late nineteenth century . |
| 6 | The cave-dwellers of the Dordogne obtained shells from the Mediterranean and those of Mentone had apparently secured some of theirs from as far afield as the Indian Ocean . |
| 7 | Guests were from major oil companies and other associated gas turbine users from as far afield as the United States and Indonesia . |
| 8 | ‘ You heard of this place from as far afield as the capital city ? |
| 9 | The flow of people so far visiting the museum is very encouraging , not only local people , but visitors to the town from as far afield as the south coast and Scotland have come . |
| 10 | Groups of morris dancers from as far afield as the Cotswolds and the Borders took to the streets in their colourful costumes for the festival procession through the town centre . |
| 11 | Carried by strong winds the rain is capable of travelling hundreds , even thousands of miles , from as far away as the USA to Britain . |
| 12 | More striking still , fragments of the shell of Cassis rufa from the Grotte des Enfants near Mentone came from as far away as the Indian Ocean . |
| 13 | Wells , in particular , experienced successive occupation probably from as far back as the Neolithic period . |
| 14 | HAVING watched Carrick Rangers through the years from as far back as the B Division days I feel I must comment on the pathetic lack of support given to the manager by the board . |
| 15 | D' you know , they could keep me in here right up until the baby 's born . " |
| 16 | Terms like cunt and slag are bandied about even more often than the cock and the fist , and once again , women do not have a parallel powerful language with which to hit back . |
| 17 | However , when there were pragmatic constraints on which of two people was likely to be the actor and which the acted-upon , there was no difference in response times to active and passive forms , and a sentence like The bather was rescued by the lifeguard was responded to just as quickly as The lifeguard rescued the bather . |
| 18 | But one Tory source said : ‘ We think we could accommodate the Unionists if we needed to far more easily than the Liberal Democrats . ’ |
| 19 | If units of good were constantly being cancelled by units of evil , ultimately mankind could be reverted to any point in time past , even to as far back as the beginning of life . |
| 20 | Or if suddenly you have to halt then the whole lot does n't come forward and squash into the next piece in front into the ne That 's why it 's edge on longways down so that the the wardrobe is that way edgeways on you see so that if you suddenly stop the weight of something there wo n't squash the the wardrobe . |
| 21 | While diesel cars will never be seen as road burners , they will go at least as fast as the ‘ cooking ’ versions of ordinary petrol-powered saloons and hatchbacks . |
| 22 | People whose wealth consists mainly of real property , on the other hand , are likely to find that the value of their wealth rises at least as rapidly as the general price level . |
| 23 | Extensive lead mining was done on Grassington Moor , north-east of this Wharfedale village , from at least as early as the Tudor period , and some remains of the industry are still to be seen , mainly dating from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 24 | Natural fish oil has been used as a traditional folk remedy at least as early as the eighteenth century . |
| 25 | Similar cuts were used by Indian lapidaries , at least as early as the seventeenth century . |
| 26 | Such an idea was beginning to be put forward at least as early as the 1720s . |
| 27 | This was clearly a wild exaggeration , but it showed , at least as far as the large Catholic minority of Belorussia was concerned , that any attempt to base nationalism on Catholic separatism would be doomed to failure . |
| 28 | Therefore it does not look as though the explanation of the action clients ' failure to be supported at home for longer than control samples is due to their more problematic home care potential ( at least as far as the characteristics described above are concerned ) . |
| 29 | A chemical fire in Switzerland caused toxic materials to be transported by the Rhine at least as far as the Netherlands ; |
| 30 | He would go with them at least as far as the bridge . |