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 | In their cramped and insanitary dwellings , often ill-fed as they were , the poor of Frome were constantly beset by outbreaks of typhus ; known variously as ‘ Irish Fever , or ‘ Gaol Fever ’ , it frequently picked off not only the inmates of the country , s overcrowded prisons , but also the hapless judges who had to try the prisoners . |
| 8 | The exclusion from the survey of land held by customary tenures not only restricts attention to a minority , but seriously distorts the profile of effective ownership , for not infrequently the lord of the manor 's control was more apparent than real : |
| 9 | Adjusting to her style of leadership must have been a learning process for not only the maintenance man . |
| 10 | So , the elaboration of a theory is through not only the kind of conceptual elaboration spoken of earlier , but also elaborating the indicators through pattern searching . |
| 11 | It reaches us through not only the filtering processes of memory but also the demands of style : and this is particularly obvious in this instance Although his autobiography was never published , the teller of this tale , James Mackenzie , was a professional showman who ended up on the fairground stage . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Most of the literature that deals with indigenous psychologies fails to take into account the possible variations in this respect between not only the sexes , but between other social categories such as chiefs and commoners . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Generally , it requires fabric fullness of exactly twice the track length , depending on the variety . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | One path , clearly , leads back to the puzzle of just how the Sun works . |
| 19 | Both cases raise the question of just how the press should cover this type of crime . |
| 20 | But we are still left with the problem of just how the Stewart monarchy could achieve what it did . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ A strike could lead to the collapse of not just the economy but of Russia … |
| 24 | The implication of this is that any policy proposal for a particular industry can only be made after an investigation of not only the structure of the industry , but also of the objectives and conduct of the firms within it . |
| 25 | Each language module under WSP consists of not only the character tables , but also a dictionary , which WSP uses to improve recognition accuracy — see the How does OCR work box . |
| 26 | And it became the best selling single of not only the year but of the decade in Australia . |
| 27 | It forms a record of not only the resources allocated , but also those requested , and after a few months of operating the system the project leaders ' requests become realistic and they even strike agreements with each other on timing and amount of resources in advance of the meeting . |
| 28 | a paying in defendant can be ordered to pay the cost of not only the plaintiff but also the costs of co-defendants and the plaintiffs costs of proceeding against the co-defendants . |
| 29 | Based on these assessments , the proposals have the support of not only the County Council and the Borough Council , but also the general public . |
| 30 | He expressed the Malaysian hope that the non-aligned countries ‘ will be able to endorse the neutralisation of not only the Indo-China area but of the entire region of Southeast Asia , guaranteed by the three major powers , the People 's Republic of China , the Soviet Union and the United States , against any form of external interference , threat or pressure ’ . |