Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | William Seward , President Lincoln 's Secretary of State , the man who had committed the legendary ‘ folly ’ of buying Alaska for rather more than $7 million , made an even more provocative forecast in the mid-nineteenth century : . |
| 2 | This ability is accounted for most simply if we assume that the recruits have mental maps of the surroundings on which they somehow ‘ place ’ the spots indicated by the dances . |
| 3 | At the height of his career his whole estate , including his patrimony , was probably worth rather more than £1,300 a year . |
| 4 | just as the ermine changes it coat for winter ; just as the seed can lie dormant for thousands of years ; just as the bacteria and the rotifers can live in their desiccated time capsules for perhaps longer than we can ever envisage , awaiting a change of outer circumstances for the tiny living specks of dust to take on another form — just so , perhaps , may the living forms we know so well have secrets tucked away within them that only the rolling of the aeons can reveal . |
| 5 | That failure owed as much to English inability to sustain their efforts for long enough as to successful Scottish resistance . |
| 6 | Joe Delaney , the FAI 's security officer , said : ‘ FIFA have known for long enough when and where this match would be played and the background to it . |
| 7 | The early modern transvestite and the post/modern gay ( anti ) sensibility suggest some of the ways in which transgressive reinscriptions have been around for much longer than post-modernism has been fashionable . |
| 8 | Because the fuel used in PWRs is comparatively compact , it can in fact be stored on site after use for much longer than in previous British designs — up to seventeen years . |
| 9 | No-one 's ever in for much longer than four days altogether . ’ |
| 10 | I wonder how many of you battled on for much longer than the allocated time or got demoralised and gave up ? |
| 11 | My concern about the caravan site was only a kind of self-importance , and , as a result of my terrible selfishness poor Tom had been frightened in a way that might well scar him for much longer than that little stone . |
| 12 | I ca n't remember much about that first talk , but it went on for much longer than the five to ten minutes it was supposed to last . |
| 13 | Despite being repudiated , condemned and persecuted , Nazarean teachings continued to survive , for much longer than is generally suspected . |
| 14 | ‘ Whatever intrigue there was between Lotta Petterson and myself died slowly and painfully and has been extinct for much longer than the six months we have gone our separate ways . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Whatever intrigue there was between Lotta Pettersson and myself died slowly and painfully and has been extinct for much longer than the six months we have gone our separate ways … ’ |
| 16 | First , the industry survives with two firms for much longer than is socially efficient . |
| 17 | Researchers at the University of Warwick have found that Salmonella typhimurium , a bacterium that causes diarrhoea , survives for much longer than three weeks , but in a dormant state that makes it much more difficult to detect . |
| 18 | I believe that the Government would have kept the matter secret for much longer if the draft letter had not been leaked . |
| 19 | While the EEC did not disintegrate under the conflicting pressures , by the end of 1965 the stalemate could not have been permitted to persist for much longer lest the Community itself be endangered . |
| 20 | Why was it the gorgeous ones passed through so fleetingly while others , like that paunchy , moist-palmed Vic Tatum from Marine Claims always managed to delay in her office , ogling , leering and making suggestive remarks that she could probably take to a Sexual Harassment Tribunal if she had a mind to ! |
| 21 | Coming back to the family after being away for so long except for short periods , Joe saw them with new eyes . |
| 22 | She wondered how she could ever have thought that she loved him , and why she had stayed with him for so long after she 'd realised that if she ever had , she did not love him now . |
| 23 | She said she had held the document back for so long because she was afraid it would re-open old wounds for my mother and because she felt sure it was better for us not to know what it contained . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I know you mean well , love , ’ he wrote , ‘ but Maureen and Chris have managed for so long because they have kept it so low key . |
| 25 | She said she sometimes longed to go out , to a disco or an amusement arcade and be with other girls , but her uncle was strict and did n't like her going to those places , and although she was sometimes lonely she could n't stand the thought of going back to that school , especially now she had been away from it for so long because anyway her friends would n't be there any more and she would be treated like a little girl and the things they had to do would seem more stupid than ever because in her uncle s house she was treated like a grown-up , which she was anyway , and she ran the house . |
| 26 | He 's reduced the amount of water in his lavatory system and does n't let the tap run for so long when developing photographs in his darkroom at home . |
| 27 | Mr Hunt said of the changes in the poll tax rules for teenagers : ‘ A new wider exemption will apply to all young adults under the age of 20 for so long as they are still at school or in full-time further — though not higher -education . ’ |
| 28 | The life they had come to know so well for so long as it slipped by changelessly would be irrevocably altered : it was like a death or a wounding and brought all the wonder and fear and awe of change . |
| 29 | The House of Lords held that parental rights are recognised in law only for so long as they are needed for the protection of the child . |
| 30 | And for so long as the honours system continues in operation , there ought to be recognition of citizenship as a criterion . |