Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moral indignation sits rather uneasily on the hon. Gentleman 's shoulders , particularly on this matter . |
| 2 | Those who commit these crimes must be pursued most vigorously under the criminal law ; if they are allowed to get away with it others will take encouragement to follow their example . |
| 3 | The promotion of language across the curriculum in the wake of the Bullock Report ( 1975 ) has been followed by proposals for pastoral care across the curriculum ( Marland , 1980 ) , and most importantly in the present context , for a coordinated whole-school approach to study skills ( Irving and Snape , 1979 ) . |
| 4 | Karelius ' mare , after a whole day on her feet , stumbled gamely on across the freezing moorland towards Lake Satschen , and escape to the south . |
| 5 | Right down past the big dole office in town , up that way , and then that way , instead of coming through Green . |
| 6 | In loving detail , right down to the rancid smell of burnt onions from hamburger vans , Reid describes three days spent at the races with his charmingly unsavoury friends A. J. Kincaid , John Moynahan and the Major . |
| 7 | Despite the salutary scepticism of David Hume this scholastic convention has survived right down to the present day and is perhaps best explained by saying that when intellectuals who have the mental habits of university professors are invited to specify the distinguishing criteria of human beings they end up by producing a self-image of themselves . |
| 8 | There were countless small libraries that ran on into the 1930s and even later , right down to the small cornershop lending libraries of the kind George Orwell worked in ( it is strange how , when you get down to the basic phenomena of literacy in England , he keeps cropping up ) . |
| 9 | This is not entirely surprising because Gordon looks just like their lead singer ( whose name escapes me right now ) , right down to the ginger mop and lack of height . |
| 10 | It was a relic from the great days of the docks , and had kept the feel of a sailors ' and a stevedores ' drinking hole , right down to the bare brick walls and flagstones . |
| 11 | Today 's formulas are far more sophisticated , right down to the perfect brush design . |
| 12 | Obviously it 's losing market share price competition impinging right down to the bottom line left right and centre . |
| 13 | The sensation seemed to spread right down to the very pit of her stomach . |
| 14 | By chance ( chance again ! ) she had chosen the one thing that would reach , spinning down through all that froth of excited sentiment , right down to the very core of Sarah 's being : the memory of Tom . |
| 15 | Trees and bushes grew right down to the very edge of it . |
| 16 | The words spoke truth ; shivered up and down inside her , earthing right down to the OK Corral . |
| 17 | This implies that capital charges will go right down to the departmental level in the budgetary control system . |
| 18 | Its colour void led to clean , efficient lines which had an appeal that passed right down to the high street . |
| 19 | A TRIUMPHANT trompe-l'oeil ; fanatically detailed ( right down to the grainy film stock ) reconstruction of events in the Algerian war of independence from the French during 1954 –'57); that looks uncannily like documentary reality . |
| 20 | Dogs have been bred for many different tasks , from the massive guard dogs and fighting dogs right down to the little toy dogs and lap-dogs . |
| 21 | There is good evidence that the infall occurs right down into the central parsec , but at a much smaller rate than the overall mass inflow rate , suggesting that any accretion onto a central black hole is episodic . |
| 22 | I am glad now she did lose her budgie — and find it — because if she had n't she would n't have seen my puppy trapped right down in the hollow tree . |
| 23 | I have I tell you I 've done that before now and then that one ends up right down in the bottom corner |
| 24 | The late sun setting over the mainland lays a bright path over the water , coming right in at the small bay . |
| 25 | It gives me great pleasure to announce that that would mean Cherwell District Council would have to disappear as well , and that would be another blip off the horizon erm but that what would happen you would therefore have a smaller authority , who would then become the Education Authority , and that would be would have to be , I think , somewhere in between the current District Council size in Cherwell or the Vale , of what about a hundred thousand , and the present county , which is rather more than half a million . |
| 26 | From the tarn , I followed my nose down to a cairn that stands on the shoulder above Deepdale Side where the view down Deepdale into Dentdale was so good that I sat and looked at it for a good half-hour until the thought that I needed to be home by late afternoon pushed me on down to the green lane of the old Craven Way . |
| 27 | Manville was dead long before the heavy iron chains fastened around his ankles dragged his body to the bottom of the Potomac River . |
| 28 | Quite a lot of the clean-up work had been going on apace of the actual stripdown of the engine so when the latter was finished , the former was not far behind . |
| 29 | The government began by taking on much of the financial responsibility for education , with the exception of some school building . |
| 30 | There was at the time of reorganization a considerable expansion of advisory services to meet the desire for increased curriculum coherence and the staff appointed were to take on much of the short course organization and guidance to schools for school focused INSET . |