Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] [conj] the [num ord] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The agency says fathers were paying much too little , ninety percent of the mothers are living on social security , so are be definition far poorer than their ex-husbands , and that the formula always leaves the second family better off than the first . |
| 2 | I mean , we 've been all round but the last three years we 've stayed at Carlton |
| 3 | Yet right up until the Second World War , I suspect , Pau was looked on by a certain kind of English middle-class family as a safe and congenial southern town to which one might retire , or where , if need arose , the socially disgraced might comfortably hide . |
| 4 | In fact , there , that that , that 's that printing of s , that shape of s , followed by a t , was still used by some printers right up until the twentieth century , because it 's actually , you know that when when prints , print was put together by hand , by picking up each letter erm , and as assembling it separately , there was actually always a stop letter , a stop erm , I ca n't remember what it 's called , although I did some printing years ago , erm , lump a die thing with s t already printed together , because because s t is used so much in combination , the erm , printer did n't always have to set up s followed by a t , but had a rack of s t's already prepared and they were often , virtually joined together in this way , and erm , I got , I got an edition of I think it 's the novels of Jane Austen printed in the nineteen twenties which still use that shape of s t but used as the small s for any other forms . |
| 5 | Since right up until the first census in 1801 the increase in population was not generally perceived , much contemporary comment was not qualified by this relationship . |
| 6 | It goes without saying that all the material needs to be checked repeatedly and authorized by various departmental heads , and that it will be changed right up until the last minute . |
| 7 | They were in fact social outcasts , to whom documentary references can be found going as far back as the thirteenth century . |
| 8 | And even as far back as the second century , Britannia graced the back of their coins . |
| 9 | And even as far back as the second century , Britannia graced the back of their coins . |
| 10 | The race has been taxing young bloods as far back as the 17th Century . |
| 11 | History tells us that as far back as the 12th century , there used to be a fortified castle here . |
| 12 | As far back as the seventeenth century , Dryden described the devil as ‘ the Brummijam uniter of Mankind ’ , whilst also penning the lines , ‘ T was coined by stealth , like groats at Birmingham ’ . |
| 13 | As far back as the eighteenth century , and probably before , trial reports about cases of sexual crimes , adultery and non-traditional sexual practices have been constructed as a genre of pornography . |
| 14 | Scientific study of whales and dolphins began as far back as the fourth century BC , when the Greek philosopher Aristotle observed and experimented with live animals . |
| 15 | As far back as the fourth century , one of the founding fathers of the Greek Orthodox Church , Saint Basil , reported with admiration and astonishment that a parent bird may risk its life for its nestlings by attempting to lure a predator away from the nest . |
| 16 | It is instructive to begin with to compare the stones listed by the Greek naturalist and philosopher Theophrastus ( 373/ 368–c.287 B.C. ) , in so far as these can be certainly identified , with those used for the stamp seals of the Aegean world during the second millennium B.C. and the cylinder seals of Mesopotamia as far back as the fourth . |
| 17 | In fact , Plato , who as far back as the fourth century BC had divided the sentence into what we now know as subject and predicate , used the terms ónoma and rhema ( which originally meant ‘ name ’ and ‘ saying ’ respectively ) . |