Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] [conj] [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger ( Bryan Ferry could n't come because he had a cold ) were at my d'Offay Gallery opening last year raised it into a social event , so much so that Robin Vousden said , ‘ We have n't had an opening like this since Andy Warhol ’ . |
| 2 | Strachan on song is a familiar sound this season , so much so that Howard Wilkinson confesses he finds it difficult to say something new about his club captain . |
| 3 | According to Rupert Sutcliffe , the most senior member of the Department , and its most pertinacious gossip , there was a time not so long ago when Philip Swallow was for ever swanning around the globe on some conference jaunt or other . |
| 4 | I think that 's the trouble ; I 'm very recognisable ; much more so than Paul McCartney walking through Soho in a beard . ’ |
| 5 | Tree-living kangaroos got only as far as New Guinea . |
| 6 | In his grandfather 's time the City had stretched only as far as Ch'ung Ch'ing . |
| 7 | In 1905 the Lytham Company , whose blue cars operated into Blackpool only as far as South Shore Station , threatened legal action unless Blackpool Corporation allowed them to operate further into town . |
| 8 | Initially they could get as far as point A , then only as far as point B , and then only as far as point C. Thus the circle of safety tends to diminish gradually . |
| 9 | At some point in the second half of next year , and perhaps even earlier if President Mitterrand decides to bring forward the abolition of French controls , the Government is going to be faced with an inescapable decision . |
| 10 | In Edinburgh I discovered all too soon that Sylvia Grey was not there either . |
| 11 | The work started in northern Scotland and has progressed southwards as far as North Wales . |
| 12 | Just as well that Neil Mallender is having an impressive season and that the towering Dutchman ( yes , another ! ) |
| 13 | Which was just as well because Derek Jefferson , the managing director of the firm , was there as the stand-in caddie , and was similarly dressed in Supersight clothing . |
| 14 | Some were critical of this orthodoxy and — behind the scenes — nobody more effectively so than Toby Weaver , the most powerful civil servant of his generation in the formulation of educational policies . |
| 15 | The lights are always there so that Mrs Thatcher , at whatever hour , may choose to be seen on TV sweeping through saying nothing , thus demonstrating that she is Prime Minister and going busily about the nation 's business . |
| 16 | But these changes aside , the rest of Blenheim is still very much as Capabilty Brown designed it — and there can be little doubting that he 'd be delighted to see his work still very much alive and admired today . |
| 17 | It has been a principle championed in the fiction of Kingsley Amis , from as long ago as Luck Jim , that ‘ nice things are nicer than nasty things . ’ |
| 18 | But it should be clear to us now that the English hide which she thought so ‘ thickly padded ’ was in fact morbidly sensitive — certainly as long ago as Beerbohm 's spitefulness in the 1930s , and perhaps as long ago as Robert Nichols 's inexusable review of ‘ Homage to Sextus Propertius ’ in 1920 . |
| 19 | Ireland , which had been ruled by England for nearly seven centuries , had remained largely Roman Catholic — despite considerable immigration from Scotland and England to Ulster , in the seventeenth century — had harboured bitterness as long ago as Queen Elizabeth I 's time and , in 1845 , a great period of famine occurred , resulting in wholesale emigration , mainly to the United States of America , generally in ships with appalling travelling facilities and causing appreciable loss of life to the passengers on the way . |
| 20 | More importantly , they adapted to the conditions far more effectively than Gavin Hastings ' band of teetotallers . |
| 21 | That there are people alive as straight ahead as Abslom Daak . |
| 22 | I want at the end erm , Chairman to give you my views of what is meant by er , an integrated and balanced community because I think that 's that 's quite important , but before I do that , I 'd like to mop up one or two er points right at the end in response to some of the contributions that have been made , and I 'll deal with them , Wincup , Curtis , Brook , er and Thomas , if that 's acceptable er to you , and really as far as Mr Wincup is concerned , he 's quite properly raised the issue of procedural issues about how the Greater York authorities is going to address moving towards er an agreed location , and quite clearly I 've got to reaffirm again that the County Council will want to look at both the greenbelt local plan report and your panel report before er it moves erm er forward or looks at any conclusions it may be moving to in the light of those er in the light of those reports , and quite clearly , as we all know , there are a number of options . |
| 23 | Our own hardships palled to insignificance when we learned that often their ships were away from home for six months , and that they could be roaming as far afield as Nova Scotia after leaving Scotland . |
| 24 | From Iran turquoise was carried as far afield as west Caucasia , where it occurred in the Maikop barrow in the Kuban , and north Mesopotamia , where it was present in the same tomb at Tepe Gawra as lapis lazuli . |
| 25 | Many came from within North America itself , but others concentrated from as far afield as South Africa , Australia and China . |
| 26 | WINE-growers from as far afield as South Africa and Chile are in Belfast today for the annual wine-tasting organised by drinks company Guinness . |
| 27 | Approximately half the force were from the Commonwealth — Aussies , Canadians , New Zealanders , South Africans , Rhodesians and even from as far afield as Hong Kong , Fiji and the West Indies , this all made for healthy competition . |
| 28 | This week , 13 and 14-year-old pupils have been gathering data on the county 's public footpath system , working as far afield as Saffron Walden . |
| 29 | The Government has invested £1.1m to make CD-Rom technology available in schools and apart from being available in many North-East schools our CD-Rom is widely used in schools as far afield as St Albans and London . |
| 30 | And what happens from district to district , region to region , is sometimes as far apart as John Major and the British people . |