Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adv] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wonder how many of you battled on for much longer than the allocated time or got demoralised and gave up ? |
| 2 | I ca n't remember much about that first talk , but it went on for much longer than the five to ten minutes it was supposed to last . |
| 3 | ‘ Whatever intrigue there was between Lotta Petterson and myself died slowly and painfully and has been extinct for much longer than the six months we have gone our separate ways . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Whatever intrigue there was between Lotta Pettersson and myself died slowly and painfully and has been extinct for much longer than the six months we have gone our separate ways … ’ |
| 5 | I believe that the Government would have kept the matter secret for much longer if the draft letter had not been leaked . |
| 6 | While the EEC did not disintegrate under the conflicting pressures , by the end of 1965 the stalemate could not have been permitted to persist for much longer lest the Community itself be endangered . |
| 7 | And for so long as the honours system continues in operation , there ought to be recognition of citizenship as a criterion . |
| 8 | 8.4 If at any time is at default in performance or observance of any of its obligations under this Agreement , shall be entitled for so long as the default continues , but without prejudice to any other rights under this Agreement , to withhold delivery of the Licensed Software from notwithstanding that orders for the Licensed Software have been accepted by . |
| 9 | The results were all good for so long as the growth in output kept pace with the expansion of the new ‘ money ’ . |
| 10 | Finally I wish to report that Terry Snow , Peter Jacob and Clive Labovitch will be continuing as Chairmen of their respective subsidiary companies for so long as the executive directors remain responsible for their companies . |
| 11 | However , Hercules will still have to make resupplying runs to Saudi Arabia for so long as the air exclusion operation lasts . |
| 12 | They should be accounted for separately only if the instruments are capable of being cancelled or redeemed independently of each other ; otherwise they should be accounted for as a single instrument . |
| 13 | It is a striking reminder of the pastoral rural life of long ago and the first pointer to the fact that one is entering ancient quarters . |
| 14 | If the precursor O 2 is passed through an electrical discharge so that dissociation and recombination leads to the formation of as well as the symmetrical species , the products of reaction with X will also include and , which are different molecules ; their frequencies will probably be quite similar , but their frequencies will differ considerably . |
| 15 | ‘ But I see no reason for him to be hounded from office for endeavouring to restructure the BBC to meet the needs of tomorrow rather than the needs of yesterday under the thinly-veiled guise of impropriety. ’ — PA |
| 16 | As the sun rose , the sky became perfectly clear and blue all around us , except for directly overhead where the island was creating its own weather . |
| 17 | It seems like only yesterday that the charming Mike Gatting , then England 's captain , was calling umpire Shakoor Rana ‘ a cheating b*****d . ’ |
| 18 | IT SEEMS like only yesterday that the pages of FlyPast were helping to launch the Friends of the Fighter Collection , but they are two years old this month . |
| 19 | That too is a long way off , but nothing like as far as the stars . ’ |
| 20 | What I found , though , was that what appeared to be a very good erm system from an ideal point of view was actually terribly hard to cope with so far as the teachers were concerned . |
| 21 | He said some of the cases should be dealt with soon so that the principles for deciding who should be granted asylum ‘ can emerge and be tested on appeal ’ . |
| 22 | This involves studying the social relationships people enter into as well as the kinds of knowledge and beliefs , values and sentiments people acquire as part of these social processes . |
| 23 | At the same time , chemical drugs cause side-effects which the body then has to deal with as well as the disease . |
| 24 | It shows what was involved in the running of a small yet busy rural station , the variety of incidents that Norman had to deal with as well as the people under his span of control . |
| 25 | PAYE , National Insurance , statutory sick pay — all these have to be dealt with as well as the problems of year end returns and changes in legislation . |
| 26 | Now when we came across that it was dealt with very quickly and the , er sparklers were removed , but , er you know , the potential danger there particularly with young children running around , might want to play with a sparkler , with thirty or fifty thousand of the things in the same room . |
| 27 | As well as a mid-day meal , stimulating activities are arranged ; and these , plus the company , can make an enjoyable break for the cared for as well as the carer . |
| 28 | Newcastle 's success is less easy to explain , for as late as the early sixteenth century its main export commodity was wool , although by the reign of Henry VIII it seems to have expanded its trade in coal , iron and lead ( 59 ; 71 ; 75 , p.45 ) . |
| 29 | For as far as the distant bluffs , the land is lost to prairie larks and prong-horned antelope . |
| 30 | She could see twigs scattered along the lane for as far as the car 's headlights reached . |