Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He decided to attack right down the landing path , diving from behind them , and he nudged his throbbing aircraft slightly to one side . |
| 2 | The northern ( and earlier ) approach was by passes across the Ural mountains to the lower reaches of the river Obn and thence down the Ob Gulf by boat to the mouth of the Tazn which was ascended as far as a portage to the lower Yenisei ; from there they followed an eastward course up the Lower Tunguska river , crossing a portage to the Vilyui and so to the Lena . |
| 3 | Nothing for it but to go back the way you came , to Neu St Johann , thence down the Toggenburg valley through the resorts of Nesslau and Ebnat-Kappel to Wattwil . |
| 4 | He is carried slowly down the centre aisle upon a cushioned palanquin , borne upon the naked shoulders of four local May Queens . |
| 5 | Barney explained the intricacies of the pre-selector gearbox , after which Julie engaged first gear and , with a slight jolt , moved the big car slowly down the station drive . |
| 6 | This guide deals only with the northern fringe of high country lying to the north of the watershed and thus within Canton Berne , so confusingly the book title is more administrative than topographical . |
| 7 | Yet Leicestershire also has many parishes where the village has disappeared from the landscape , leaving perhaps only the manor house or squire 's hall and sometimes a forlorn and decaying church . |
| 8 | However , the shallow roofline means no sunroof , much less the targa roof of an MR2 . |
| 9 | Alternatively it has been suggested that it is not so much the school effect which is important as the curriculum which is followed . |
| 10 | To be honest , it is n't so much the W particle that they 've found at CERN , as the ‘ signature of a long-sought particle of matter ’ , as the establishment 's press release puts it ( for more details of this exciting find , turn to p 221 of this issue ) . |
| 11 | That tradition lives on at the Banzai Pipeline , not so much the Wembley Stadium of surfing as its Coliseum . |
| 12 | It was not so much the kite design , rather , the principle of moving the centre of lift as the lines were pulled that made this early application a forecast of today 's steering methods . |
| 13 | F S Civilis , a marine scientist at the UN 's Mediterranean Action Plan based in Athens , thinks it is not so much the oil spillage as the sewage from the coastal cities that is doing the most damage , with consequent algal growth killing off marine organisms . |
| 14 | As the concept of the predestined moment receded , there entered their minds not so much the ringing message of the Pauline Epistles as the echo of an older despair . |
| 15 | The plane dropped a wing towards Brooklyn and the dark water of Jamaica Bay and nosed gently down the traffic pattern of Kennedy Airport . |
| 16 | The rest of us saw the year in in a hut halfway down the Greenstone valley ; the warden brewed her own beer , and brought us generous supplies of it ! |
| 17 | He slid down from the pill-box and sat in the high grass , halfway down the canal bank . |
| 18 | This was long enough to become an expert by American standards , but not so long the life force would be sucked out of me . ’ |
| 19 | Her sister Sarah , for so long the Spencer girl in the spotlight , now had to make way for Diana . |
| 20 | Farvver Murphy told my muvver so only the ovver day . |
| 21 | He scanned the print , seeing that it echoed more or less exactly the story Swansborough had just told him , then turned his attention to the photograph alongside — three people , obviously dressed for leisure . |
| 22 | ‘ But she would come in from time to time to inspect the ingredients and make sure everything was fresh , nothing frozen , dried or packeted , especially not the orange juice for breakfast , which had to be freshly squeezed from three kilos of oranges . |
| 23 | The department said it had been decided not to invite competing tenders for Norcross because the contract award , worth between £17 million and £20 million over five years , followed so quickly the tendering exercise for Livingston that competition would have been ‘ unlikely to yield any improvement in value for money ’ . |
| 24 | Since each inter-probe distance need be calculated only once the execution time is dependent primarily on the number of probes , not the number of clones . |
| 25 | I found we used to have them mixed with sweet almond oil and soya oil , which I find this one brings out their aroma much more the grapeseed oil . |
| 26 | In an unfortunate sign of a shortage of cash in both the computer industry and museum world , however , it was unclear how much further the prototype system would evolve and whether the money could be found ultimately to deploy it in the museum . |
| 27 | It could be argued convincingly , for instance , that the nature conservation interest ( perhaps also the landscape appeal ) would be increased considerably if large expanses of the uplands were not exploited for agriculture ( nor forestry ) . |
| 28 | Particularly in secluded , well sheltered , and not so well ventilated gardens , the open centre — and perhaps also the planting distance between plants so that they do not merge and clash — is more important with Floribundas . |
| 29 | It seemed to me that no one really took us seriously , or perhaps both the Cutter Service and the Investigation Division were still getting their acts together . |
| 30 | Then , as the rain cleared , the moon shone out to reveal what they had feared : one hundred and thirty tall-masted galleons , in perfect crescent formation , sailed slowly but purposefully up the channel coast . |