Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A good woman , someone had explained to him on the road from Brighouse , the widow of Radical Jack Thackray , something of a local hero , who had been cut down by a sabre at St Peter 's Fields in Manchester , asking for rather less in the way of electoral reform than Daniel himself was demanding now . |
| 2 | It 's fair to say , however , that he put himself about rather more in the red and white of Sunderland than he did on Tuesday in the orange of the Liberal Democrats . |
| 3 | Pictures then , if they are to be understood and enjoyed , need to be talked about , and talked about most profitably with a more-experienced reader . |
| 4 | He contrasts the moral ideas of humanity with those of the deity , who is described in terms reminiscent of Voltaire : ‘ Why have we sympathies that make the best of us so afraid of inflicting pain and sorrow , which yet we see dealt about so lavishly by the supreme governor ? ’ |
| 5 | There are n't many flowers about so early in the year . |
| 6 | Cut a thin v-shaped wedge along the centre of the cake widthways , about halfway down into the sponge . |
| 7 | Chapters Four to Seven , which present the research findings , examine : whether the project made any difference to those who received it , compared with those who did not , in terms of institutionalisation , mental or emotional well-being , self-care capacity or receipt of other community services ( Chapter Four ) ; the effects of the project upon the principal informal carers of the dementia sufferers ( Chapter Five ) ; the major costs of community care for those receiving or not receiving support from the project ( Chapter Six ) ; and the limits to care , that is , the characteristics or circumstances of those who could not be supported at home for long even with the Home Support Project ( Chapter Seven ) . |
| 8 | Even dressed as he now was , in a blue cotton jacket and trousers , he could never have been taken for an Italian , and since he was n't able to walk — he could only hop on one leg — or speak the language , he was hardly likely to remain free for long out in the open . |
| 9 | So it has come up with the idea of a tape ‘ loop ’ to delay the broadcast of ‘ live ’ debates for long enough for an engineer to hit a panic button until the offending words have passed . |
| 10 | Arsenal , having won the Cup and two Championships in four years , could not go on for much longer with the same team , and in 1933 Chapman 's major concern was to find replacements to keep the club on top . |
| 11 | As the article correctly acknowledges , generally magnox fuel must be reprocessed within a few years of discharge from a reactor , from an advanced gas-cooled reactor ( AGR ) , fuel may be stored underwater for somewhat longer periods and for much longer in a dry store . |
| 12 | ‘ He would not have survived for much longer in the Arctic conditions , ’ said a spokesman for Gwent Police . |
| 13 | Whether this policy can be continued for much longer in the face of the decline in scruples shown by the large drug syndicates who are raking in huge profits from sales of cannabis , heroin and cocaine , remains to be seen . |
| 14 | The peso , strong for so long under the IMF 's high real interest rates , has begun to slip , from 25 to the dollar throughout 1992 to 27 now . |
| 15 | Is the right hon. and learned Gentleman aware that many people in this country find it almost inconceivable to understand how such a crook as Maxwell could have got away with what he did for so long without the Crown prosecution service being in any way involved ? |
| 16 | Neither Andy Forshaw nor Martin Langston stood out in the HDM event , so Clark , for so long on the fringe of national selection , could get his chance for England in the Buttermen Indoor tournament at Crystal Palace on December 29-30 . |
| 17 | Nevertheless his characters are heathens , strictly speaking , and Tolkien , having pondered for so long on the Beowulf -poet 's careful balances , was as aware of this fact as he was aware of the opposing images of open Christianity poised at many moments to take over his story . |
| 18 | We 've all been trucking along for so long on the back of the post-war consensus ( more growth , more production , more consumption , more jobs , more energy , more roads , more hospitals , more rubbish , etc ) , that most people are understandably reluctant to get off the treadmill — even though they can see it 's falling to pieces . |
| 19 | In retrospect it seems remarkable that economic policy should have paid lip service for so long to an untested hypothesis . |
| 20 | The fall , identified for so long with a sweet , sad nostalgia , a magnificence of gold and crimson under startling blue skies , became for us a nightmare . |
| 21 | His line was that he 'd lost contact with Malcolm because he could only stand to be with him for so long at a stretch . |
| 22 | What is remarkable is that Republican resistance continued for so long after the loss of the north in mid-1937 — a tribute to improved military organization and human courage . |
| 23 | With the precious metal that has been undetected for so long in the folds of these hills , disseminated through the rock in an average ratio of half an ounce to a ton of stone , the sheer volume of likely debris is worrying . |
| 24 | Old people have been indoctrinated for so long in the necessary frailty and peripheralism of their lot that this is not surprising . |
| 25 | Sometimes , of course , all that had arisen was a lump of anxiety in her throat at being interrupted for so long in the middle of work which required a high degree of concentration and often had to be done to a deadline . |
| 26 | DEL Harris of Colchester , for so long in the top three of the British squash rankings , has dropped down the list because of injury and a recent loss of form . |
| 27 | At this time I was at a loss to understand how it managed to hover for so long in the same place . |
| 28 | In fact , they 'll be amazed that nineteenth-century Catholics contrived to believe for so long in the literal truth of those poetic legends . |
| 29 | Robertson was carrying a can of Tartan Ale from which he frequently refreshed himself , and in turn denied any knowledge of the great part Sir Ralph Grunte had played for so long in the counsels of the Tory Party . |
| 30 | ‘ I played pretty well for so early in the tournament , ’ said Seles after handing the French girl her third successive first round defeat here . |