Example sentences of "be [adv] [subord] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Northern Ireland are all but out of the competition , needing a miracle to make it to the US , Scotland are already out and Wales are still in with a chance . |
| 2 | By 10.10 the men have still not eaten , although by this stage they should have ‘ stood down ’ for an hour and been more than half-way through the second training session . |
| 3 | No one had ever been more than twice round the Bay in those conditions and survived . ’ |
| 4 | At the end of the last century when Impressionism was still a dirty word in England , and anyone who bought a Monet was considered as being more than half-way on the road to Bedlam , the Americans were taking to him with something of the enthusiasm which they were then displaying for the newly discovered chewing-gum . |
| 5 | She was all but out of the door on her way to Oxford Street when , incredibly , she found herself shaking , so much so that she went back into the tiny bedroom and lay down . |
| 6 | It took a further eight years before classes got under way , and then only in medicine , and it was not till well into the 1850s that it became really established . |
| 7 | It was not until well into the war that serious attacks were first launched on the principal Iranian terminal at Kharg Island , a nut that proved particularly difficult to crack . |
| 8 | It was not until well after the war began that Iraq started to diversify in the direction of France , with the Mirage and Super Etendard , both capable of delivering the much-discussed Exocet air/surface ( AS ) missile . |
| 9 | While Television began in Britain during the 1930s , it was not until just after the Second World War that a regular broadcasting service commenced . |
| 10 | It was not until just before the turn of the present century that it was revived by those who sought to promote the occult and a New Age mentality . |
| 11 | More slowly , ministers and departments of State charged more or less specifically with the conduct of foreign affairs emerged in most West European countries , though it was not until late in the eighteenth century that this process began to reach completion . |
| 12 | She was more than halfway through the set before she managed to screw up enough courage to glance down at Adam 's table , and her heart turned to cold stone as she spotted him in his usual seat , his dark eyes staring at her with their disturbing lack of expression . |
| 13 | Sean Thompson , 52 , was more than twice over the limit when he was stopped on the way home from the station . |
| 14 | Ferguson , who was more than twice over the legal limit , pleaded guilty and was ordered to pay £25 prosecution costs . |
| 15 | ‘ It was n't until late in the coup activities that it became clear that the coup plotters did , in fact , have him , ’ Mr Cheney said . |