Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] [prep] the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much the biggest is the Electricity Corporation ( NZ$3.3bn ) , followed by the Earthquake and War Damage Commission ( NZ$1.5bn ) , right down to the very capable NZ Symphony Orchestra ( NZ$0.002bn — about £600,000 ) . |
| 2 | If British Raik were seeking to finance this project entirely out of the relatively small amount of revenue that will come to the station from the operation of the services and from the surrounding property development , it would find that impossible . |
| 3 | " Go out in the airfield and we will tell you , and field away out , " they said , I went away out to the most remarkable end until I was on the edge of the main runway . |
| 4 | Guidelines for centres on alternative routes to certification was also published in the last year and provides centres with advice on how to get the best out of the highly flexible assessment and certification system which SCOTVEC offers . |
| 5 | This RYA recognised school offers a variety of sailing courses catering for the absolute beginner right up to the most advanced sailor . |
| 6 | Thin blue smoke poured straight up from the freshly mortared chimney of the McCullochs ' house in Weem . |
| 7 | I trod carefully up to the most important-looking window , and peered in . |
| 8 | This technique has been around as a possibility for these machines for years , dating right back to the very early 1970s and the S42 , or ‘ peg-board ’ machines . |
| 9 | The theories in question arose originally out of a joining together of empirical research and clinical observation , some of which go right back to the very earliest descriptions of schizophrenia and it is therefore instructive to consider , first , what Bleuler himself believed to be the essential features of the ‘ disease ’ that he had named . |
| 10 | It never fails to amaze me how little some people know about the fish they are buying , even down to the most basic of aspects . |
| 11 | Most of them have a very good knowledge of English , even down to the most obscure idiom , but they are not always fluent in expressing their ideas . |
| 12 | The performance of the instrument belies its humble price ; the action is even and consistent across all twenty-four frets , and even down to the relatively unflappable low B. The minimalist headstock and long top horn combine with the bass 's reasonable weight for a well-balanced and comfortable instrument , with total access to all frets an added bonus . |
| 13 | Written entirely in two parts , the lower of which is made of standard accompanimental figures ( mostly Alberti bass ) , it is nevertheless somewhat more expansive and faintly more interesting than the ‘ Eckard ’ The following Corrente ( which demands a keyboard compass of F' to d'' ) , while made exclusively out of the rather mechanical formulas of the first few bars , at least generates plenty of energy with its leaps and crashing octaves . |
| 14 | Certainly I felt , for the first time , that sense of anticipation , of excitement almost , at the prospect ahead of me — a journey down the whole coast of South America , and then on to the very southernmost rim of the world . |
| 15 | He flirts occasionally with the rhinoceros and the camel as self-images , but mainly , secretly , essentially , he is the Bear : a stubborn bear ( 1852 ) , a bear thrust deeper into bearishness by the stupidity of his age ( 1853 ) , a mangy bear ( 1854 ) , even a stuffed bear ( 1869 ) ; and so on down to the very last year of his life , when he is still ‘ roaring as loudly as any bear in its cave ’ ( 1880 ) Note that in Hérodias , Flaubert 's last completed work , the imprisoned prophet Iaokanann , when ordered to stop howling his denunciations against a corrupt world , replies that he too will continue crying out ‘ like a bear ’ . |
| 16 | This was the archaic picture of a king ten times as large as a noble , a noble ten times as large as a merchant — and so on down to the almost imperceptible peasant woman . |
| 17 | This is an attractive and historic place , and very much a river town , having formed around the point where two dynamic Pyrenean torrents , the Gave d'Aspe from high up on the Col du Somport , and the Gave d'Ossau from even higher up on the ruggedly distinctive Pic du Midi d'Ossau , flow together . |