Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For perhaps only the second time since the Turner Prize was inaugurated in 1984 , the jury , comprising Nicholas Serota , Director of the Tate Gallery , Marie-Claude Beaud , Director of the Cartier Foundation , Robert Hopper , Director of the Henry Moore Sculpture Trust , Time Out 's art critic , Sarah Kent , and collector and director of CNN 's European operations , Howard Karshan , has compiled a genuinely balanced short-list of artists whose work will be shown in an exhibition opening at the Tate Gallery at the beginning of this month ( 4–29 November ) and from whom a winner will be announced at a formal dinner taking place at the museum on 24 November . |
| 2 | For so long the London folk had been patient and kindly helping one another , and always so cheerful . |
| 3 | Yorkshire , for so long the ugly sister ( fancy clinging to the extraordinary notion that you wanted Yorkshiremen to play for Yorkshire ) had overnight turned into Cinderella , with Tendulkar cast in the role of the Prince who found the shoe fitted perfectly . |
| 4 | PENARTH , for so long the chopping blocks of senior Welsh club rugby , gained their first-ever Heineken League win by beating Ebbw Vale 13–12 . |
| 5 | The Bank of England , for so long the City 's unofficial leader , is also discredited . |
| 6 | Her sister Sarah , for so long the Spencer girl in the spotlight , now had to make way for Diana . |
| 7 | A final essential advantage for the party manifested itself in the general election campaign , when Attlee , for so long the ‘ unknown Opposition Leader ’ , came to notice as a sober and responsible figure apparently capable of assuming the reins of government . |
| 8 | It is rare for a house of this size and date to remain thatched , for so often the roof pitch would be changed to accommodate the more convenient slates or tiles . |
| 9 | AT just after 3pm yesterday the Press Association put out a story about Prime Minister Neil Kinnock kissing the Queen 's hand . |
| 10 | ‘ It was supposed ’ , wrote Mrs Sturt , ‘ that Gould 's remarks must have drawn the attention of some dishonest workman to the value of the drawings , for soon afterwards the military chest in which they were left , disappeared and was never again seen . |
| 11 | Moreover the lack of correlation between this task from Study 3 and from Groeger and Chapman ( 1992 , in preparation a ) raises serious questions about exactly how the task was interpreted in each case . |
| 12 | The fledgeling league 's first match is scheduled for tonight when the council 's football development officer Jim Wattis , ward member Coun Syd Holt and local beat bobby PC Dave Peacock will be on hand to start the ball rolling . |
| 13 | I started to read newspapers and magazines more , and , for just about the first time in my life , I began to take an interest in current affairs . |
| 14 | Ian Rush fed the ball to Steve McManaman , who for just about the first time was decisive with his delivery , hitting the ball low across the face of the goal , and there was Walters at the far post to tap it in . |
| 15 | But if you do not know your distance from the station , then use an interception angle of exactly twice the number of degrees off track , plus/minus drift . |
| 16 | Generally , it requires fabric fullness of exactly twice the track length , depending on the variety . |
| 17 | In this paper we have outlined two lines of research that address the question of exactly how the mental model of the text so far provides ( part of ) the context for interpreting the current sentence . |
| 18 | Each transition student received , on each term 's record , a personalized statement of exactly how the tariffs applied to his/her individual circumstances ( see Figure 1.2 ) . |
| 19 | But we are still left with the problem of just how the Stewart monarchy could achieve what it did . |
| 20 | In fact , the reader will seek in vain for an explanation of just how the column-inches in 2 million articles in local American newspapers over 12 years are converted into the 10 ‘ megatrends ’ . |
| 21 | One path , clearly , leads back to the puzzle of just how the Sun works . |
| 22 | He had never dreamed that his enemy would dare show his face in the army , and Lord John 's presence seemed evidence to Sharpe of just how the cavalryman must despise him . |
| 23 | Both cases raise the question of just how the press should cover this type of crime . |
| 24 | Defendus came up with a projected energy requirement in 2000 of about twice the current consumption , some 40 per cent of the projection made by the LRPPP . |
| 25 | Often there is another problem that clients have complained of ie sometimes the staff coming on shift are full of energy and very committed and full of ideas — the client , having just survived one shift with a previous enthusiastic staff , may be reluctant to start the whole process again . |
| 26 | I spent the first eighteen months working in all the factory departments , so I started with a good knowledge of precisely how the product was made and did all the jobs that then existed in the production of confectionery . |
| 27 | the only way of Maybe not the only way , but the the easiest way for people to er get debt , if you want to call it that , was er to use this Co book . |
| 28 | Still , all this pales into bland insignificance in comparison to Norma — A Biography , a new book by journalist Tim Walker , an in-depth study of quite possibly the most boring woman in the western world . |
| 29 | It consists of pretty much the same dishes found in simpler households , but will be made with more expensive ingredients , made smaller and more delicate , with almost no chilli , and served in particularly exquisite porcelain , silver and gold . |
| 30 | However , normal mass spectrometers are not sensitive enough to detect 14 C and to reject all other elements or molecules of very nearly the same weight , such as 14 N. As this nitrogen isotope makes up some 80 per cent of the atmosphere it is very common relative to 14 C. The techniques of nuclear physics were brought to bear on this problem in the late 1970s , and it was shown that 14 C could be detected using what is now referred to as accelerator mass spectrometry , AMS . |