Example sentences of "the [noun] [adv] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hugh was carrying the sack now as inconspicuously as possible over his shoulder but the others no longer cared about it ; the word ‘ friar ’ had claimed their attention . |
| 2 | The Egyptians used the technique as long ago as 2,000 B.C. |
| 3 | The times they are a-changing , however , and the Church is doing no more than facing up to the inevitable , as did the Anglicans as long ago as 1968 . |
| 4 | Present at that meeting was Walid Maroni , officially an Iraqi member of the UN press corps , who told them that his government was prepared to support the CLAO financially as well as in other ways . |
| 5 | Villa hit the framework again almost immediately when a Richardson corner struck the far post . |
| 6 | The appliance manufacturers , the frozen food kings , the canners and food merchants exploited to the hilt the female desire to get out of the kitchen just as quickly as possible . |
| 7 | The difficulty now as far as I was concerned was not being able to stay awake all night , but being able to sleep all night . |
| 8 | It followed the discovery that many old people metabolise the drug much more slowly than normal . |
| 9 | On 20 October , Christie 's are offering the contents of Stackallan House in the Republic of Ireland , which is feeling the recession even more severely than Britain . |
| 10 | Thus , Mercier and Baker report a series of experiments in which rats pre-exposed to a compound of a clicker and a light acquired latent inhibition to the click just as readily as subjects pre-exposed to the click alone , and this in spite of the fact that the light was a salient event that was certainly noticed and processed by the animals . |
| 11 | Do not be tempted to throw the toy too far ahead as this will be counter-productive . |
| 12 | Levels one and two are by far the commonest in education but there is a new type of partnership which appears to be developing and which may meet the needs of the future rather more fully than the other two — though those will always continue in existence because they fulfil real short term needs . |
| 13 | They thought he could be used at some time in the future even better internationally than locally . |
| 14 | Deforestation , whether to clear the ground for pasture or to produce timber and fuel , was a worry in these parts of the Pyrenees as long ago as the seventeenth century , when the prescient minister Colbert sent an eminent forester from Paris to report on the local resources in wood ; but it is only quite recently that felling and replanting have been properly controlled . |
| 15 | Merrill thought , as she sat in the car as far away as possible from him . |
| 16 | He had been going to convert it into flats but backed out of the deal nearly as fast as the second prospective buyer , who was a surveyor himself . |
| 17 | Baldwin was to undermine the radical right as effectively as he disarmed the left in the inter-war period . |
| 18 | The building looked as impressive in actuality as it did in magazines , though the Hudson somewhat less so than the river I 'd just left . |
| 19 | Recent reports on current or just completed land-drainage schemes emphasize the trend whereby large farmers accrue the benefit much more commonly than small men . |
| 20 | This finding may explain why attempts to liberalise the archaic Sunday-trading laws of England and Wales ( Scottish shops can open as they please ) have split the Conservatives quite as deeply as the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 21 | Devlin and O'Cathain found that of 122 children consecutively referred , 22 became dry after a structured interview ( with the child alone as well as with a parent ) , advice on personal hygiene and cleanliness training , daily bladder exercises , and provision of a ‘ star chart . ’ |
| 22 | He kept himself diagonally across the room as far away as he could . |
| 23 | It remains true , however , that the Greeks see the cross within the context of the incarnation perhaps more so than most Western thinkers . |
| 24 | The French government acceded to her request that she be buried at Malmaison , but her son was permitted to accompany the funeral only as far as the frontier between France and Switzerland . |
| 25 | I 'd rather not talk to the guests much beforehand simply because I find it works better just to say hello , and thanks for coming , and leave it at that . |
| 26 | When a routine problem arises he perhaps assembles the information and pursues his inferences to the conclusion almost as tidily as he would on paper . |
| 27 | A few says later the Shah sought assurances from the US Embassy that he was still welcome in the United States cabled Rabat to say , " we assured the Shah publicly as well as in private messages that he would be welcome in the US should he choose to go there , and that there should be bo doubt whatsoever as to our willingness to receive ( him ) and provide him with appropriate protection " . |
| 28 | More importantly , they adapted to the conditions far more effectively than Gavin Hastings ' band of teetotallers . |
| 29 | ‘ I play a lot of hockey as well and that 's all bending down , so I can approach the ball much more fluently than a bigger guy . |
| 30 | Throughout the round Alliss hit the ball almost as well as he did during a competitive career in which he won 23 Tour titles and represented Britain and Ireland eight times in the Ryder Cup . |