Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A good woman , someone had explained to him on the road from Brighouse , the widow of Radical Jack Thackray , something of a local hero , who had been cut down by a sabre at St Peter 's Fields in Manchester , asking for rather less in the way of electoral reform than Daniel himself was demanding now . |
| 2 | It 's fair to say , however , that he put himself about rather more in the red and white of Sunderland than he did on Tuesday in the orange of the Liberal Democrats . |
| 3 | There are n't many flowers about so early in the year . |
| 4 | Cut a thin v-shaped wedge along the centre of the cake widthways , about halfway down into the sponge . |
| 5 | Chapters Four to Seven , which present the research findings , examine : whether the project made any difference to those who received it , compared with those who did not , in terms of institutionalisation , mental or emotional well-being , self-care capacity or receipt of other community services ( Chapter Four ) ; the effects of the project upon the principal informal carers of the dementia sufferers ( Chapter Five ) ; the major costs of community care for those receiving or not receiving support from the project ( Chapter Six ) ; and the limits to care , that is , the characteristics or circumstances of those who could not be supported at home for long even with the Home Support Project ( Chapter Seven ) . |
| 6 | Even dressed as he now was , in a blue cotton jacket and trousers , he could never have been taken for an Italian , and since he was n't able to walk — he could only hop on one leg — or speak the language , he was hardly likely to remain free for long out in the open . |
| 7 | Whether this policy can be continued for much longer in the face of the decline in scruples shown by the large drug syndicates who are raking in huge profits from sales of cannabis , heroin and cocaine , remains to be seen . |
| 8 | The peso , strong for so long under the IMF 's high real interest rates , has begun to slip , from 25 to the dollar throughout 1992 to 27 now . |
| 9 | Is the right hon. and learned Gentleman aware that many people in this country find it almost inconceivable to understand how such a crook as Maxwell could have got away with what he did for so long without the Crown prosecution service being in any way involved ? |
| 10 | We 've all been trucking along for so long on the back of the post-war consensus ( more growth , more production , more consumption , more jobs , more energy , more roads , more hospitals , more rubbish , etc ) , that most people are understandably reluctant to get off the treadmill — even though they can see it 's falling to pieces . |
| 11 | Nevertheless his characters are heathens , strictly speaking , and Tolkien , having pondered for so long on the Beowulf -poet 's careful balances , was as aware of this fact as he was aware of the opposing images of open Christianity poised at many moments to take over his story . |
| 12 | Neither Andy Forshaw nor Martin Langston stood out in the HDM event , so Clark , for so long on the fringe of national selection , could get his chance for England in the Buttermen Indoor tournament at Crystal Palace on December 29-30 . |
| 13 | What is remarkable is that Republican resistance continued for so long after the loss of the north in mid-1937 — a tribute to improved military organization and human courage . |
| 14 | Sometimes , of course , all that had arisen was a lump of anxiety in her throat at being interrupted for so long in the middle of work which required a high degree of concentration and often had to be done to a deadline . |
| 15 | With the precious metal that has been undetected for so long in the folds of these hills , disseminated through the rock in an average ratio of half an ounce to a ton of stone , the sheer volume of likely debris is worrying . |
| 16 | Robertson was carrying a can of Tartan Ale from which he frequently refreshed himself , and in turn denied any knowledge of the great part Sir Ralph Grunte had played for so long in the counsels of the Tory Party . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's one of the fastest times I can remember for so early in the season , ’ said Christie . |
| 18 | ‘ I played pretty well for so early in the tournament , ’ said Seles after handing the French girl her third successive first round defeat here . |
| 19 | The feel of the sun on our skins again was wonderful and even with our eyes covered the brightness of the sunlight was dazzling after so long in the gloom . |
| 20 | ‘ Strange Free World ’ is a neon-lit switchback rider after too long in the grime of squatterdom . |
| 21 | ‘ We can see in the American financial world where you end up when risks are underestimated , or not taken account of quickly enough in the results . ’ |
| 22 | The problem at the moment is , we 've been on Word Processor up to now , but the designer is designing a programme at the moment , so I do n't have a programme to show you because it 's with the designer , erm all we 've got is the diary , that we 're kind of like again on the word processor , that we 're producing tonight . |
| 23 | a miniature amount of it on audio description , so from that point of view there they , was sort of fairly well down the line with the money anyway they , they had |
| 24 | I can assure them of even more in the future . |
| 25 | Now that 's what he originally would have done , you see he would have taken it out of here straight into the hall . |
| 26 | The area of my life for which you believed yourself a candidate is being taken care of quite adequately at the moment . |
| 27 | Well , I think Savac and Sarouac are bad areas at present , there 's a lot of peninsular-Malaysia all through this period , and has now got quite tough erm and is probably the nearest to sustainable management of almost anywhere in the tropics now . |
| 28 | erm possibly the wool shop , erm square one and Abbey National , I think I ca n't think of anywhere else at the moment |
| 29 | Views expressed by local people at yesterday 's public meeting included comments that Cwm Rheidol would be ruined for ever just for the sake of a short-term quarry , while another resident claimed that the village deserved a break after putting up with such a quarry for about 20 years . |
| 30 | There were signs of human habitation , scraps of litter , faint smells , broken pottery , strange markings on the walls of the caves which seemed to stretch for ever down into the blackness beneath the cliffs . |