Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] [conj] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , the new regulations continued the pre-war advantages for university-provided liberal adult education which further weakened the relative position of the WEA so much so that the Ashby Committee reported that university income for adult education had exceeded £550,000 in 1951–52 in contrast to the WEA 's income of little more than £130,000 for that year . |
| 2 | As the next chapter shows , the subsequent oil price rises were also to hit Germany and Japan much more heavily than the United States . |
| 3 | But while the French did not feel encouraged to emigrate in large numbers , the 50,000 inhabitants of New France moved inland much more boldly than the Abbé Prevost might have made one expect . |
| 4 | Lathes were introduced to China perhaps as early as the Ming dynasty and were still being used in the jade workshops of Peking when Howard Hansford came to study them in 1938–9 . |
| 5 | Many professionals wish they had been given more detailed and honest feedback far sooner , perhaps as early as the SSI/RHA 's initial monitoring . |
| 6 | Royal Air Force records are fuller and more accurate than those of the S.A.S. From these I have learned only very recently that the Stirling concerned ( LJ 850 ) belonged to 620 Squadron . |
| 7 | By the end of the evening all had come together very nicely and the Direktor knew the performance was ‘ set ’ for the rest of the Season . |
| 8 | And , while I was not in possession of definite proof , my money was on it coming from somewhere a little further away than the Fulham Palace Road . |
| 9 | From Hassan there was to be none of the commitment already expressed — and to be expressed ever more passionately as the Shahs 's journey continued — by Anwar Sadat . |
| 10 | The apparent extension of the effects of the collision of the Indian and Eurasian Plates to much of central and eastern Asia , and possibly as far as the Baikal Rift ( Fig. 3.21 ) , in fact indicates that the consequences of plate interaction need not necessarily be confined to plate margins . |
| 11 | The Department of the Environment ( DoE ) had foreseen difficulties with the Directive , and now asked the Department of Health for advice on nitrate levels , most probably so that the UK could argue for laxer standards . |
| 12 | Triangulum is graced by the presence of the spiral galaxy M33 , a member of the Local Group , at a distance of 2300000 light-years — only slightly further away than the Andromeda Spiral . |
| 13 | There were families and organisations out there which had sworn to kill him far less cleanly than the KGB would , and he had learned to live with that . |
| 14 | This is another CD to offer alternative takes , although far more moderately than the Savoys , and which provides yet more insight into the fascinating process of invention , modification and progression within a jazz recording session . |
| 15 | The cave-dwellers of the Dordogne obtained shells from the Mediterranean and those of Mentone had apparently secured some of theirs from as far afield as the Indian Ocean . |
| 16 | In her effort to record the delight she derives from such details , evidently travelling as far afield as the US and Turkey , her outdoor work recalls both the practice of Marjorie Content 's work of 1928 in picking out the pattern of urban activity and its settings , and Lee Friedlander when focusing on the witty suggestibility of statues and lamp-posts , while her interiors remind me of the work of Margaret Watkins of 1919 . |
| 17 | Guests were from major oil companies and other associated gas turbine users from as far afield as the United States and Indonesia . |
| 18 | Groups of morris dancers from as far afield as the Cotswolds and the Borders took to the streets in their colourful costumes for the festival procession through the town centre . |
| 19 | Taken from 190 miles above , the film shows pollution in rivers and oceans , the extent of rainforest destruction from burning and major silt damage in rivers as far apart as the Mississippi , the Yangtze and the Betsiboka in Madagascar . |
| 20 | Its influence is felt as far away as the London Underground , which is having its new , networked , interactive time-tabling system , Cart , programmed by a Delhi firm , CMC . |
| 21 | Carried by strong winds the rain is capable of travelling hundreds , even thousands of miles , from as far away as the USA to Britain . |
| 22 | More striking still , fragments of the shell of Cassis rufa from the Grotte des Enfants near Mentone came from as far away as the Indian Ocean . |
| 23 | It is also known that the Indus Valley civilization was far more extensive than formerly realised , embracing areas as far away as the Oxus River , now called Amu Darya , in Central Asia and forming part of the Soviet Afghanistan border on its course . |
| 24 | After the first knowledge of the place , and still after the first meeting with Conchis , even as late as the Foulkes incident , I had wanted to talk about it — and to Alison . |
| 25 | They make the 2600 kilometre trip regularly , transporting the GSi Astras from their base near Dungannon to GM Spain 's headquarters in Madrid and on to events throughout the country — even as far as the Canary Islands . |
| 26 | Extensive lead mining was done on Grassington Moor , north-east of this Wharfedale village , from at least as early as the Tudor period , and some remains of the industry are still to be seen , mainly dating from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 27 | A chemical fire in Switzerland caused toxic materials to be transported by the Rhine at least as far as the Netherlands ; |
| 28 | LIKE death and taxes , criticism is one of life 's certainties , at least as far as the RUC is concerned . |
| 29 | In any case , even the GCC itself recognises that such a defence structure will be inadequate — at least as far as the Gulf is concerned . |
| 30 | We also go off on walking weekends maybe as far as the Gower . |