Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [adv] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last wolf was shot in west Germany as far back as 1846 and since then it has been registered as extinct . |
| 2 | Bath had a good long look at the videos and soon saw that little variations of this move could break opposition defences just as easily as the blasting back-row scrum moves with which Australia had devastated England when they so mistakenly toured Australia last year . |
| 3 | Coun Robinson said : ‘ We have had complaints about the noise and disturbance from young people driving wildly around the car park sometimes as late as 3 am . |
| 4 | Those of you who remember Fred will know how he worked to start the British Pensioners and Trade Union Action Association as far back as nineteen seventy two . |
| 5 | It revealed something she would never have associated with the man whose ironic half-smile appeared in tabloid gossip columns almost as often as it did in yachting magazines . |
| 6 | A Toraja boy desires his own fighting cock just as longingly as a youngster might desire his first motorbike in the West . |
| 7 | As clearly as she recalled that spring day so long ago when she had received the small wound . |
| 8 | ‘ It means you could n't have arrived in Seal Haven all that long before I found you . |
| 9 | ‘ Hang on , ’ he growled , and zipped the two sleeping bags together as fast as he could with shaking hands . |
| 10 | The evidence is overwhelming ; we must address crime prevention far more successfully if we are to achieve the reductions referred to by the right hon. and learned Member for Warley , West . |
| 11 | Benjaminian allegory functions perhaps as crucially as supplement as it does as ‘ criticism ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ They say they have gathered in all who would come out from the north side down to Pitnacree , and the south side as far up as Kenmore. , ‘ The Grandtully crowd ? |
| 13 | The Danish monarchs ruled with the consent of the powerful regional earls , and the family of Godwine of Wessex established hegemony over the south coast as far eastwards as Kent . |
| 14 | Also , the drug seems to inhibit the viral DNA polymerase enzyme much more effectively than it does the DNA polymerase used by the cell to copy its own DNA . |
| 15 | Fair Isle first came into prominence as a bird migration station as long ago as 1912 , following publication of a book by William Eagle-Clarke , keeper of the natural history department of the Royal Scottish Museum . |
| 16 | If it does the alternative of a statutory limit on hours of work similar to that proposed by the European Commission would destroy any semblance of manpower control just as surely as Field 's proposals . |
| 17 | Even now , gin with ice cold tonic is the spirit I 'd probably choose to take with me to a desert island just so long as there were plenty of lemon groves to hand on my castaway paradise . |
| 18 | Might not the Ketterings specify girl children only as reasonably as ‘ no pets ’ or ‘ using the premises for business purposes forbidden ’ ? |
| 19 | UNEMPLOYMENT is rising in the South East twice as fast as anywhere else in Britain , figures showed yesterday . |
| 20 | Chair you will not be surprised to hear me coming yet again to s to raise the point about regeneration in West Yorkshire and to say that I agree with Mr and M Mr but I find myself agreeing also with Mr 's written comments in his paragraph three sixteen where he clearly points to the fact that settlement in this south west quadrant would serve West Yorkshire perhaps more so than N than York . |
| 21 | The student sits on the floor and opens his legs in front of him , pushing his body weight forward as far as it will go . |
| 22 | The Kiwi tour continues at Wigan , where after the Oldham upset , the home side need a confidence booster almost as badly as the visitors , whose efforts so far have been disjointed . |
| 23 | The dapper , 52-year-old economist with his trademark owlish glasses had set himself up as a beacon of the reform movement as long ago as April 1991 when he led his party out of government . |
| 24 | Originally developed for use in hospitals , water beds distribute body pressure much more evenly than conventional models . |
| 25 | The table top is tipped up into the picture plane more sharply even than in a painting by Cézanne . |
| 26 | In fact Compact and records of achievement work particularly well together because of the emphasis they both place on celebrating students ' success . |
| 27 | Glaxo has since delayed the launch to await product approvals but it 's a massive project and will take out rigid packaging business forward very quickly when it comes on stream — probably late this year . |
| 28 | He was elected Right Hand Man to the Duns Reiver which involves taking part in Border festivals as far afield as Langholm , and Lanark . |
| 29 | We also go off on walking weekends maybe as far as the Gower . |
| 30 | At one time it was thought that this was because the dunnock was a recent cuckoo host , but Chaucer 's reference in The Parlement of Foules makes it clear that the dunnock was a popular cuckoo host as long ago as the 14th century . |