Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unit operated very effectively during the 1980s on the Namibia/Angola border against infiltrating bands of SWAPO guerrillas who were attempting to destabilise the country by ambush and assassination . |
| 2 | It was the thought of her that had drawn me back to the Lodge with my dream , and if this odd enterprise had any meaning at all it must lie , I believed , somewhere between the three of us . |
| 3 | Yeah it 's like with me , I mean of course do n't forget that I 've got a good two hundred pounds to come on about the fifth of December from the British Legion 's savings . |
| 4 | Was n't that implicit in whatever it was which was going on between the two of them ? |
| 5 | ‘ Maybe this is an old-fashioned viewpoint , but last night I thought something fairly important went on between the two of us … ? ’ |
| 6 | The southern islands became known mostly during the 17th to 19th centuries ; Antarctica itself remained unvisited until the late 18th century , and unrecognized as a continent before the start of the 20th century . |
| 7 | I was happy in that I felt that I had paid him back a little for the thousands of hours he had spent at West London Stadium , stopwatch in hand , urging us all on to greater things . |
| 8 | It seemed that the Bangor girl had timed her late surge to perfection , but Martin held on for the closest of wins . |
| 9 | However , he would n't be surprised if it was announced at DECUS in Cannes in September and first shipments came right after the first of the year . |
| 10 | ‘ I pay enough for the poor with my taxes , ’ he said , ‘ so why should n't I be able to make use of them in my work ? |
| 11 | It 's not enough for the rich to be rich , they have to boast about their perks and fiddles and scams as well . |
| 12 | Was n't a weekend enough for the two of you , Maria ? ’ |
| 13 | Surely the place was big enough for the two of them ? |
| 14 | It ca n't come soon enough for the homeless on the street , They feel the longer they wait the more they 'll be forced to beg on the streets , and even turn to crime . |
| 15 | My two brothers have worked for my father all their lives and there is n't really enough for the three of us to do . |
| 16 | He knew that if Silas wished to marry , the place was more than large enough for the three of you . |
| 17 | This is the first manufacturing company to take this step , arguing that the price differential between the 386 and 486 is now small enough for the 386 to be disregarded . |
| 18 | Despite the increase in the number of scholars studying the period , the same preoccupation with art-history and the origins of peoples persisted and continued to do so through the 1960s in studies of pottery ( Myres 1969 ; 1970 ) and metalwork ( Hawkes 1961 ; Hawkes and Dunning 1961 ) . |
| 19 | All through the 1960s to the present there have been numerous minor changes of staff but the net result has been a gradual increase in numbers of the field staff to meet the ever growing commitments . |
| 20 | It did not take long for the two of them to agree that cost-cutting and restructuring were required . |
| 21 | Somewhat surprisingly , given the avowed centrality of curriculum development in the project , " linking the centre closely to the curriculum of the school " appears only as the last in a long list of implementation steps . |
| 22 | The men who obey their party 's call in the House of Lords do so for the highest of motives . |
| 23 | Her poor academic record was traded in for the sharpest of wits , her gaucherie for poise . |
| 24 | It was his pick-up and feed from a scrum which sent David Wright in for the first of his tries and then the No. 8 charged over from a similar situation to grab the lead on the stroke of half-time . |
| 25 | Gregor Townsend later managed to pass to the referee — clad in near identical colours to the Scots — for the Samoans to plunder ball and scuttle in for the first of their three tries , though it might have been more had we not seen defensive heroics typified by a timely tackle on Leilane Une by Derek Turnbull . |
| 26 | Alistair , Wendy and Anna come in for the worst of it . |
| 27 | ‘ Charles the Cheesemonger ’ now moves to the centre of our stage ; a very significant actor in the little drama , too , since he , and he alone of his generation of the Titford family in Frome , was to father sons who would in their turn pass the name down through the 19th into the 20th century . |
| 28 | These two concerns were brought together during the 1970s with the development of a system for the allocation of resources between regions and districts based upon health indices ( RAWP , see chapter 7 ) . |
| 29 | Despite this apparent vagueness there came into existence a body of individuals who may be referred to collectively as " the Left " , who were described as such by themselves and by their opponents and who acted together during the 1930s on most political issues . |
| 30 | It does not have this appearance , however , and it may simply be a copy that updates but generally reproduces one that was written in about the 1270s by or for Richard of Haldingham . |