Example sentences of "[prep] the other extreme " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the second Point that balances the first and safeguards it from the other extreme — being too soft on doubt . |
| 2 | COMPARED with Daihatsu , Peugeot goes to the other extreme and puts a 1.8 litre version of the XUD engine range in its diesel 205s . |
| 3 | By the 16th century they had gone to the other extreme and were namby-pamby , play-acting affairs without genuine combat . |
| 4 | But to go to the other extreme and elevate people suffering from such abnormalities into a norm for society not only threatens society but is dangerous to the individuals themselves , since it excludes them from the consideration of help and treatment . |
| 5 | But to move to the other extreme and regard it as some kind of waste product was to endorse bourgeois correctionalism and , worse still , to acknowledge that the forces that were supposed to produce socialist consciousness could also produce something quite different . |
| 6 | The strong flavours of culinary herbs ensure that they should be used in small quantities , but there is no need to go to the other extreme and be timid with them . |
| 7 | to go to the other extreme and over-indulge you must make a concerted effort to curb this . |
| 8 | When my father tired of the pretence involved in this relationship ( for he was n't as weak as they had tacitly agreed ) he had hastened to the other extreme and married a woman who , as my mother was fond of remarking , you could pour into a jug . |
| 9 | ‘ In fact , I think it 's gone to the other extreme in that it 's more and more difficult for companies in that classification to raise any equity whatsoever . |
| 10 | Today we travel to the other extreme and enter the microscopic world of the atom and its nucleus . |
| 11 | Of course some policemen and women , at the other extreme , welcomed the research as an opportunity to talk about issues which are so often taken for granted among colleagues and family that they are not topics of conversation . |
| 12 | At the other extreme , Japan is predicted to be the OECD 's fastest grower in 1991 ( 3.7% ) , followed closely by Turkey ( 3.5% ) , which was last year 's top performer . |
| 13 | We have all heard of examples of the deepest psychological states being cured with a 6c potency and at the other extreme a 50M being needed for a sprained ankle . |
| 14 | At the other extreme , modern , mechanized methods would make economic nonsense on a smallholding . |
| 15 | At the other extreme , a sick or tired horse will display a very low carriage , with his tail drooping and his head and neck very low . |
| 16 | Elsewhere , particularly in sitcoms , older people are crudely portrayed as being either enfeebled , vague and forgetful or , at the other extreme , cantankerous battle axes . |
| 17 | At the other extreme , light can be thought of as the final and complete revelation of spiritual reality . |
| 18 | … the child with a severe visual handicap may be diffident , or at the other extreme , amazingly precocious . |
| 19 | In Haworth Shed restoration projects were dearly making progress , especially 80002 the Standard class 4MT 264 tank while , at the other extreme 43924 the sole surviving Midland Railway 4F 260 was silently waiting her turn for overhaul . |
| 20 | These can vary in intensity : the media may be the cause of something or , at the other extreme , merely a catalyst . |
| 21 | Indeed , several are at the other extreme and are so hardy as to be used for screening and protection in exposed positions . |
| 22 | Power ( 1967 ) , in his research into 20 schools in Tower Hamlets , identified a variance in delinquency rate of 0.9 per cent in one school and , at the other extreme , 19 per cent . |
| 23 | At the other extreme , Andy Cohen , president of Beverley Hills Motoring Accessories , says that firms now make so many hot-rod components that would-be hot-rodders no longer need even the skeleton of a Studebaker to begin work . |
| 24 | At the other extreme , a third have sex only once a fortnight or less often . |
| 25 | At the other extreme , a genuinely conservative but also progressive business like Marks & Spencer , anxious to ease its dependence on its enormous and deserved UK success , paid a huge $750 million for Brooks Brothers . |
| 26 | At the other extreme , language work may consist mostly of the provision of stimuli to ‘ creative writing ’ . |
| 27 | One researcher has suggested that they may be able to detect the very low frequency vibrations that are created in the water by waves and reflected back from the ocean floor , an echo-location system similar in principle to that used , at the other extreme end of the frequency scale , by bats . |
| 28 | At the other extreme , very even updating patterns would mean that most blocks or even every block required to be read and such a pattern would therefore make skip-sequential processing pointless . |
| 29 | At the other extreme , special educational needs — with only a third as many courses as social issues — accounted for slightly more teacher-days , although still only 11 per cent of the total time . |
| 30 | At the other extreme , perhaps , would be certain Papua New Guinea tribes-people , to whom pigs are virtually part of the family . |