Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A binary opposition , penis versus no penis , rather obviously fails to capture the reality of sexual difference . |
| 2 | Auer was suspended in a hanging basket , his dead legs dangling beneath him , reaching out with a surreally long scoop to dredge the chips into a central sinkhole . |
| 3 | They had long since stopped expecting the world to deal kindly with them : they had used up their good fortune by remaining alive when the Plague came . |
| 4 | The fingers on the clock of St Joseph 's church pointed to eight , though it had long since ceased to chime the hours . |
| 5 | For we have long since ceased to regard the raising of houses in such an offhand fashion , even when they are to the glory only of the home-owning democracy . |
| 6 | As regards restoration , just as we would not dream of stripping out the original interior of the Blackfriar , by the same token we would not seek to preserve a Thirties estate pub which had long since ceased to address the needs of the community it was built to serve . |
| 7 | The customs establishment was one of the more extensive branches of the eighteenth-century bureaucracy , and the fact that its officers were necessarily widely dispersed enhanced the attraction of the service for freeholders , burgh councillors and their friends , for an appointment in their home district was not an unreasonable objective . |
| 8 | There was a professional choir as well as the children , and the sound of hymns being so brilliantly performed made the Foundling Hospital chapel the most popular place of worship in London . |
| 9 | We are literally only trying to get the appointments so that we can |
| 10 | Some field men have been in the job long enough to have seen the protection of the environment become a matter of considerable public concern . |
| 11 | Accommodation and compromise have not characterized the attitudes and actions of the young university-educated activists of the DUP of recent years because they grew up in the zero-sum game , and even if they forgot its rules long enough to consider shifting the DUP 's aims , there is no reason to suppose that the voters would support them in their deviation . |
| 12 | The result is that they will be using their back muscles , instead of their huge thigh muscles which are much better equipped to do the job . |
| 13 | The foregoing review has been necessary to demonstrate what now seems almost unbelievable ; that physical geography for so long contrived to ignore the significance of human activity and thence the potential which associated studies afford . |
| 14 | Thus we have witnessed recently the end of an era here , with the closure of the studio complex in Windmill Lane , which for so long had set the trends . |
| 15 | But I do not regard these factors as justifying sweeping away the law which for so long has regulated the conduct of charitable corporations . |
| 16 | She hesitated , sadly , desperately anxious to accept , absurdly delighted that he had asked her , that he had so coolly bothered to cross the room to ask her , and yet at the same time horrified by the thought of displaying herself , by the thought of dragging her hideous dress from its hole-in-the-corner obscurity , by the thought of dancing at all , for she did not know how to dance . |
| 17 | There is a pleasant little cafe bar a hundred yards down the road and a disco a little further on and far enough away to avoid disturbing the neighbourhood . |
| 18 | The investors will obviously not wish to provide the managers with a veto over any potential syndication partner . |
| 19 | Even President-elect Bill Clinton could not contain his dismay last week after IBM Corp announced that business in Europe was so bad that the company would at best break even in the current quarter — and prescribed only more of the same medicine that has so signally failed to save the situation up to now . |
| 20 | But someone like Vera Brittain was only just beginning to explore the problem of ‘ how a married woman without being inordinately rich , can have children and yet maintain her intellectual and spiritual independence ’ in the years following World War I. The small number of married women who pursued an active public life between the wars continued to assume that home and family were part of their natural responsibilities and solved the problem — as women with as diverse political views as Brittain and Violet Markham recognised — through the employment of domestic servants . |
| 21 | However , to say this to a country which is only just beginning to enjoy the benefits of industrialisation is not easy . |
| 22 | But , in Britain , it was election year , and , in America , President Johnson was only just beginning to grasp the reins of power after Kennedy 's assassination , and so little political progress was made . |
| 23 | Even Xerox 's Ventura , which is the closest thing yet to TechDoc in a desktop publishing package , is only just beginning to tackle the problem of networking . |
| 24 | ‘ We 're only just beginning to open the door ’ Matthews said . |
| 25 | We did find time for some work at Orkney which even produced a few seizures , but we were a little early for the oil traffic which was only just beginning to affect the island . |
| 26 | This aspect of evaluation is only just beginning to receive the attention it deserves . |
| 27 | He grew his first ones as a young child in 1936 and modestly claims he 's only just beginning to get the hang of it now . |
| 28 | This target looks realistic because Corning is only just starting to reap the rewards of patiently pursuing earlier long-term investments . |
| 29 | After three days in the Grand Canyon I was only just starting to appreciate the size and scale of the place . |
| 30 | At school , aged fourteen , I was only just starting to trim the fur off my jaw while some of the Spanish or Arab boys would be tucking in with razor and foam . |