Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If so , take a pair of tweezers and GENTLY easy out the offending bit of yarn . |
| 2 | Even in the merchant activities of the outports , however , a great number of people were taking shares in trading ventures , and from much further down the social scale than was the case with the East India Company , only 1.6 per cent of whose investors held less than £100 in 1764 . |
| 3 | This would entail a view of nature as organic and ecological , rather than mechanistic ; an interpretation of lower forms of organisation in terms of higher ones , as well as vice versa ; an acknowledgment of sentience much further down the organisational ladder than is at present commonly imagined ; a biocentric ethic ; and a holistic approach to knowledge . |
| 4 | It was quite unheard of for the White House to be so intimately involved in the appointment process so far down the administrative hierarchy . |
| 5 | Ann was already half-way up the primitive stairway , a series of flat stones jutting out from the inner surface of the highest section of wall . |
| 6 | Only a little further up the social scale , another quarter or more of the rural inhabitants had tenements varying in size up to a yardland , which in Cambridgeshire seems to have been about 30 and 40 acres . |
| 7 | John Byng in 1781 saw the revolution as reaching rather further down the social scale : " I wish with all my heart that half the turnpike roads of the kingdom were plough 'd up , which have imported London manners , and depopulated the country — I meet milkmaids on every road , with the dress and looks of Strand misses … " |
| 8 | Only slightly further up the evolutionary scale in terms of reproduction are the Echinoderms . |
| 9 | The sounds they produce in their larynx may reach as far up the ultrasonic scale as 200 000 hertz , allowing them to detect objects as tiny as a midget 20 metres away . |
| 10 | ( This makes it hard to draw any line between old and ‘ new ’ , i.e. post-Periclean , politicians in terms of social standing ; similarly we now know that the later and much-vilified demagogue Kleophon was the son of a man high enough up the social ladder to have served as a general : ML 21 . ) |
| 11 | The Founders and other people within NoS kept up the pressure to go even further down the Equal Opportunities road . |
| 12 | In North America consumer expectations moved quite rapidly down the social scale , drawn by high wages and less marked social rigidities . |
| 13 | Nara was perched safely halfway up the notched-pole ladder to the upper roof . |