Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For so long the London folk had been patient and kindly helping one another , and always so cheerful . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Bank of England , for so long the City 's unofficial leader , is also discredited . |
| 4 | Her sister Sarah , for so long the Spencer girl in the spotlight , now had to make way for Diana . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | AT just after 3pm yesterday the Press Association put out a story about Prime Minister Neil Kinnock kissing the Queen 's hand . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Generally , it requires fabric fullness of exactly twice the track length , depending on the variety . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | One path , clearly , leads back to the puzzle of just how the Sun works . |
| 13 | Both cases raise the question of just how the press should cover this type of crime . |
| 14 | But we are still left with the problem of just how the Stewart monarchy could achieve what it did . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change , ’ wrote Tennyson , somewhat later , catching the romance and enthusiasm exactly but getting the detail of his metaphor badly wrong . |
| 20 | He is both the unique bearer of the Spirit , and the unique dispenser of that Spirit to the disciples ; moreover , for ever afterwards the Spirit remains stamped with his character . |
| 21 | , writes : IS a print of Tretchikoff 's green-faced Oriental girl , which the artist signed when he was alive , worth more now the painter is dead ? |
| 22 | ‘ And OK , I get carried away like today when the pigs wade in and start throwing their weight about . ’ |
| 23 | Owen and the apprentices Owen like everywhere else the apprentices and the cutback has been . |
| 24 | Furthermore , it has previously been shown that bile may either be more directly noxious to the oesophageal cell proteins ( including perhaps also the DNA ) than acid and may also generate abnormal nucleic acid metabolism making these cells more liable to death or serious epigenetic or genotoxic damage . |
| 25 | The potential is underlined by the fact that the US market , with just twice the population of Japan , absorbed about 10m personal computers last year , against the modest 2.2m sold in Japan — although the comparison is distorted by the fact that the dedicated word processor is still a major force in the Japanese market , and 2.24m Japanese-language word processors produced in 1992 according to the Electronics Industry Association of Japan , which means that combined sales for word processors and personal computers are much closer to parity with the US market . |
| 26 | It is a measure of success , not in the commercial sense of the word but an exploration into just why The Smiths connect with so many and whether that connection invokes a solid and lasting influence or is simply a mere fad . |
| 27 | It is important to try to give the tenant the opportunity of objecting to unreasonable requirements and recommendations , hence the suggested amendment , although it may be that the landlord will make the reasonably valid statement that the actual requirements of the insurers must be complied with as otherwise the landlord will be forever switching insurance companies . |
| 28 | and then maybe only one or two or three other interests you got you go to into very deeply the rest are just sort of friends |
| 29 | I retired late to bed , for as always the morning would arrive too soon . |
| 30 | ( iii ) Remove the supernatant , except for about twice the volume of the pellet . |