Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [adv] [adv] [conj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 ? |
| 2 | Clark says that the idea had already gelled in his mind as far back as September 1981 . |
| 3 | For out of the agitation there came the Seamen 's United Protection Society , formed in North Shields , but quickly developing branch associations on the east coast as far afield as Aberdeen and Dundee in one direction and Yarmouth in the other , about twenty in all . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Despite the efforts of Rowlinson and his undoubtedly substantial contribution to the growth of the UK business over the last few years , Korn/Ferry has not yet adapted to the British corporate scene quite as successfully as Egon Zehnder or fellow members of the Big Four . |
| 6 | He supported the French Revolution even more enthusiastically than Coleridge , and in 1793 bitterly opposed the willingness of Pitt 's government to go to war against the recently proclaimed French Republic . |
| 7 | In Uruguay a junta that fought subversion almost as brutally as Argentina 's collapsed under its own disagreements in 1984 . |
| 8 | The Manchester Guardian critic noticed that Minton 's figures were becoming less formalised and that he had ‘ fastened on the banana tree almost as tightly as Sutherland had clasped the more uncomfortable thorn-tree to his bosom ’ . |
| 9 | British Industry and European Law emerged from addresses and discussions of a conference held at Brunel University as long ago as November 1972 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Prior to AD 625 the coins are found mainly in Kent and the upper Thames valley ; afterwards they are found spread over a wider area as far afield as Ireland , Scotland , Derbyshire and Yorkshire , although they remain concentrated in south-east England . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Ireland , which had been ruled by England for nearly seven centuries , had remained largely Roman Catholic — despite considerable immigration from Scotland and England to Ulster , in the seventeenth century — had harboured bitterness as long ago as Queen Elizabeth I 's time and , in 1845 , a great period of famine occurred , resulting in wholesale emigration , mainly to the United States of America , generally in ships with appalling travelling facilities and causing appreciable loss of life to the passengers on the way . |
| 14 | There had been trouble there as early as April , but that had been dealt with for the king by Warwick 's brother John Neville . |
| 15 | There had been trouble there as early as April , but that had been dealt with for the king by Warwick 's brother John Neville . |
| 16 | On 20 October , Christie 's are offering the contents of Stackallan House in the Republic of Ireland , which is feeling the recession even more severely than Britain . |
| 17 | Of course there were plenty of foreign films that peddled sex much more effectively than Hollywood , but it was risky to resort to the Continental X-port market . |
| 18 | The they certainly moved back to radicalization much more quickly than Mao had , had expected |
| 19 | Waters were also rising in the Norfolk Broads and there were reports of some minor flooding as far inland as Norwich , which is 20 miles from the coast . |
| 20 | Speculation that Sir Terence Conran might have been drafted into the job was inaccurate , and he had , in fact , ruled himself out of consideration as long ago as January . |
| 21 | In the light of this amended agreement , the British LTA might have been forgiven for thinking that it had pre-empted any legal action over its former agreement , which it had sent to Brussels for consideration as long ago as September 1990 . |
| 22 | I mean dammit , there are people in the House of Lords who started life far worse off than John Major , I am sure , so , you know , what do you mean by class ? |
| 23 | The counterfeit packages have been found on sale as far afield as Ghana and South Africa . |
| 24 | By the sixth week , Charlie could strip and clean a rifle almost as quickly as Tommy , but it was his friend who turned out to be a crack shot and seemed to be able to hit anything that moved at two hundred yards . |
| 25 | The presence of objects from St Petersburg , Moscow , Novgorod , Kiev and Odessa ensures a wider geographical perspective than was possible at David Wilson 's exhibition at the British Museum in 1984 , tracing the Viking expansion eastward as far as Iraq . |
| 26 | This beautiful fish is Pseudanthias bimaculatus which has been recorded from location as far apart as Mozambique and Indonesia . |
| 27 | When a report on its activities last appeared in ACCOUNTANCY as long ago as December 1983 , the committee formed part of the Institute 's Professional Conduct Department , providing it with a means of reacting to complaints of a technical nature without invoking the full panoply of investigatory and disciplinary procedures . |
| 28 | The trouble for the Tory whips , and for such organisers of backbench opinion as the Chairman of the 1922 Committee , Cranley Onslow , was that far too many Conservative contenders appeared : Peter Brooke , the former Ulster Secretary ; Terence Higgins , a minister as long ago as Ted Heath 's government , and chairman of the Treasury Select Committee ; Sir Giles Shaw , another officer of the '22 ; Paul Channon , another former cabinet minister ; Dame Janet Fookes , some Tories ' hope as the first woman Speaker . |
| 29 | The scheme — the Software Integration Partners Program ( SIPP ) — aims to let computer manufacturers bundle software even more cheaply than Microsoft . |
| 30 | As always , he wrote , painting lags behind literature , which saw the connection as long ago as Poe . |