Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [adv] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although police remove the illegally-parked cars almost as fast as they are abandoned , the local body responsible for administering parking is insisting that someone pay the hefty excess charges incurred by the prolonged presence of other cars in legal spaces . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This copy by Thomas Hamilton of the Temple of Theseus in Athens , which is one of the finest classical buildings in Edinburgh , was designated as the home of a Scottish assembly as far back as the late Seventies . |
| 4 | Extend the top leg forwards as far as is comfortable and hold in this position . |
| 5 | Extend the top leg forwards as far as possible and then stretch it forwards and back 30 times , moving it about 3ins ( 7.6cm ) each time . |
| 6 | Extend the top leg forwards as far as possible and then stretch it forwards and back 30 times , moving it about 3 ins ( 7.6cm ) each time . |
| 7 | Extend the top leg forwards as far as possible and then stretch it forwards and back 35 times , moving it about 3ins ( 7.6cm ) each time . |
| 8 | Extend the top leg forwards as far as possible and then stretch it forwards and back 35 times , moving it 3ins ( 7.6cm ) each time . |
| 9 | Extend the top leg forwards as far as possible and then stretch it forwards and back 35 times , each time moving it 3ins ( 7.6cm ) . |
| 10 | Extend the top leg forwards as far as possible and then stretch it forwards and back 35 times , moving it 3 ins ( 7.6 cm ) each time . |
| 11 | Extend the top leg forwards as far as possible and then stretch it forwards and back 35 times , each time moving it 3ins ( 7.6cm ) . |
| 12 | Extend the top leg forwards as far as possible and then stretch it forwards and back 40 times , each time moving it 3ins ( 7.6cm ) . |
| 13 | ALL THE opinion polls were seriously wide of the mark , Gallup for The Daily Telegraph fractionally less so than the others . |
| 14 | For example , the regional distribution of residential and foster care services in the United Kingdom is known to be uneven with some local authorities using EBD schools and residential care far more frequently than others ( Fuller and Stevenson , 1983 ) . |
| 15 | There were brown bears here as recently as the 10th century , and the last wolf was hunted down and killed in the 18th century . |
| 16 | Leith is mentioned in historical records as far back as 1128 , but its authentic history as a port dates from 1329 when King Robert the Bruce granted a charter of ‘ The Harbour and Mills of Leith ’ to the City of Edinburgh . |
| 17 | London was linked to all parts of the provinces by weekly services as far back as the reign of Charles I and probably earlier . |
| 18 | found that when right handers were asked to look to the left while hearing such sets of words , decisions were made on non-semantic grounds significantly more often than when subjects looked to the right . |
| 19 | Liquidity returned to the British market far more recently than it did to the American one . |
| 20 | The British government gave him protection , but backed the principle of free speech only as vigorously as was diplomatically comfortable . |
| 21 | More important than that ( for medieval village buildings could have been swept away as easily as the Romans had swept away the native British buildings for their planned towns ) — a variety of ownerships and rights had grown up that precluded a unified plan even as early as the twelfth or thirteenth century . |
| 22 | The main contractor has to plan for subcontracted work just as seriously as for his or her own work . |
| 23 | We visited a number of unsuitable lettings as far afield as Dumfriesshire and Loch Rannoch , and eventually settled on a charming Georgian manse in the hamlet of Makerstoun , half-way between Kelso and St Boswells in the Border country , half a mile from the Tweed with , at the bottom of an orchard of Victoria plums , a village school suitable for Alastair and Fiona . |
| 24 | This consisted of an index ( with a score of 75 or below ) which combined relative per capita income and relative unemployment levels , and was an attempt to redefine the assisted areas more narrowly so as to direct funds to those areas most in need . |
| 25 | Fluid balance is an extremely delicate indicator of health and as such , can warn of serious problems much more quickly than pulse and respiratory rates . |
| 26 | Such ‘ elastic ’ connection lines make drawing box charts such as flow diagrams , hierarchy charts , PERT diagrams etc. much easier than using a normal drawing package . |
| 27 | And if Davie 's principles make him what some might call ‘ elitist ’ or ‘ undemocratic ’ , as in his stinging verdicts on ‘ catchpenny enterprises … like the Arvon Poetry Competitions ’ , it is not without his having pondered the arguments about the place and function of elites and of high art in a democratic nation far more deeply than the bulk of his fellow countrymen . |
| 28 | The unavailability of legal aid for libel has been defended on the basis that it would bring " over the fence " disputes to court ( the poor being assumed to quarrel in crowded tenements rather more often than the rich accuse one another of cheating at cards ) but the inequity is so glaring that the argument for extending legal aid to defamation actions is difficult to resist . |
| 29 | Media companies may operate tacit or explicit collusion just as easily as politicians . |
| 30 | Nummulites are a giant kind of foraminiferan , an important group of rock-forming organisms as far back as the Carboniferous ( and with ancestors in Cambrian rocks ) , and which still form deep sea oozes today . |