Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was entirely grassless and a little soft underfoot , and it sloped rather badly down towards the sea by the midwicket boundary . |
| 2 | It maybe still the same now , erm because right up to the time I erm retired we , we had on occasions to pay for the residual value of a tyre , perhaps a bus had been in accident and the tyre had suffered damage which it was n't possible to repair it or retread it , perhaps a hole had been pierced through the wall , they scrapped that tyre and we had to pay for the residual value , mind you being in accident we could then claim it off the insurance company but , so right up to the time I retired that 's how tyres were paid for . |
| 3 | as if suddenly he might not be able to help himself and suddenly right there in the middle of The Bar he would say out loud : Fuck me . |
| 4 | Boy stood outside the window and imagined the things he might see inside this magazine , should he ever take it down off the high shelf and open it , perhaps in the privacy of his room or perhaps right there on the street at five o'clock . |
| 5 | Linguistic and sexual terminology come together most often in the context of the Saussurian theorization of binary opposition , illustrated by an excerpt from a paper given at a conference on linguistics : |
| 6 | Four ‘ change-facilitating factors ’ are picked out by Ramon ; heavy and unchanging reliance on segregated institutions ; the existence of a minority of psychiatrists prepared to act politically ( while not having the desire to act in a party political framework ) ; the autonomous nature of the regions leading to more enthusiastic reform beginning in socialist and communist areas ; and perhaps most importantly for the concerns of this book , |
| 7 | Of course , this in itself is not a new finding ; it has emerged elsewhere in experimental work , perhaps most notably in the field of bargaining experiments . |
| 8 | The matrix equation unc arises perhaps most commonly in the study of the natural frequencies and modes of vibration of an undamped mechanical system having n degrees of freedom . |
| 9 | ‘ There 's a camp being put together right now on the moor at the top of the brae , ’ Maggie explained . |
| 10 | If the Government spends less than the budget says it would spend during the year , then it is obviously better off at the end of the year and can then spend more or repay borrowings or reduce taxes . |
| 11 | Soviet control had originally been exercised through the Communist International and much less effectively through the Cominform , which was established in 1947 and dissolved in 1956 . |
| 12 | In the Second Duma , although their urban vote held up , they fared much less well at the hands of more politically-conscious peasants , they failed dismally to attract working-class support , and their representation fell by half . |
| 13 | But rabbits are most accessible to the mink in the spring and autumn , and much less so over the winter . |
| 14 | These comments are obviously most relevant for work forces where there is little tendency to move out , this is characteristic of a surprisingly large number of organisations in European countries and in Japan but much less so in the U.S.A. |
| 15 | This second wave was most successful in the ‘ Neo-Europes ’ of temperate America , Australia and New Zealand but was perhaps much less so in the tropics because of micro-organisms , which the societies based on shifting cultivation there , had evolved to avoid . |
| 16 | Perhaps because such a high proportion of bank or other loans are devoted to car-buying , they turned up less often than other types of credit as a means of financing things bought from shops — much less often in the case of shop chains . |
| 17 | And it was basically long ago in the Well in me mother 's day , there was the herring fishing , it was a busy time then . |
| 18 | ‘ You 'd be much better off in the dining-room , ’ Alexandra said to the mice . |
| 19 | It was quite another to feel she had made a complete fool of herself and taken her daughter alone so far from the safety of Four Winds . |
| 20 | She fell as Lucifer , the ancient dragon , had fallen first , long long ago before the creation of the world . |
| 21 | ‘ I always felt close to Freddie in the studio , whether he was there or not , because we worked together so intensively over the years . |
| 22 | I always felt close to Freddie in the studio , whether he was there or not , because we worked together so intensively over the years |
| 23 | So so apart from the death grant erm the other the short term and long term pensions tend to mirror erm you know what would be payable should you actually die in service . |
| 24 | Constance remembered the many times she had seen her mother and him alone together either in the village street or at home ; she had been uneasily aware of their absorption in each other . |
| 25 | My Lords , may I ask my Noble Friend if it would n't be better really to lease the land for a period of time , perhaps long enough for the anguish felt about the cost of the library as it currently stands and when perhaps more optimistic views could be entertained , because the piece of land it 's on is not going to be recoverable once it 's sold . |
| 26 | Nearly all the Sundays fell back more or less steeply later in the period , however . |
| 27 | My Lords , I did not speak on the second reading of this Bill , because I spoke extremely critically on in the debate on the White Paper o on er May the 26th last year , but er I would therefore like to er commence by joining with my Right Honourable Friend Lord Whitelaw because I was so critical , in welcoming the changes which the Home Secretary has now proposed . |
| 28 | It finished only just ahead of the Alliance poll of 26 per cent ( which produced for them only seventeen Liberal and six SDP seats ) . |
| 29 | He was only just back in the house when he heard his Mum draw up in the car . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's because of that helplessness that I have to go , ’ and he walked so quickly out of the churchyard that she could not follow him . |