Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the deep [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1 Success in some new industries and London 's continuing world importance in finance during the ‘ upswing ’ from 1933 to 1966 , together with the deep interruption of the Second World War , largely disguised the gradually declining value of the UK 's old international and political role .
2 THE AGRICULTURAL Research Council is about to dive in at the deep end of commercial research by launching the Agricultural Genetics Company .
3 The men paused in their tracks , locating the sound , and within seconds we were hurrying back to a place that we 'd passed where the sheer slope of the mountain was broken only by the deep rift of a water-course .
4 Tsu Ma had pushed for forward through the water until he was standing just below the deep lip of the bank .
5 It was like a wild , graceful leap in the air and they both disappeared momentarily into the deep water of the lake .
6 The engine of the big mechanical monster was ticking over with the deep throb of impatient , reined-in horsepower .
7 Beyond , the path was the same — empty in the darkening moonlight and leading gently downhill into the deep shadow of a grove of ilex trees .
8 Even as she observed this , it did just that , slithered off the nail which supported it and plunged headfirst into the deep blue of the mantelpiece .
9 She stepped up into the deep cool of the room .
10 Christians were distressed because the age of revelation was over ( and they were acutely conscious of this with the passing of the apostolic generation , as is made clear not only by the speedy recognition in the second century that their writings were determinative for the Christian faith , but also by the deep sense of nostalgia to be found in the earliest of the sub-apostolic writers like Polycarp and Ignatius ) .
11 Eventually she would climb out of the deep pit of the subconscious , exhausted .
12 Robert O'Mahoney 's King , a ‘ dynamotologist ’ — ‘ self-realisation , you know ? ’ — is the picture of a man floundering around in the deep end of life , who has forgotten not only how to swim , but even where he left his life jacket .
13 In Chapter 2 , I argued that the emancipatory conception of higher education — as I termed it — is to be found historically in the deep structure of the concept of higher education ( and I developed the idea in Chapter 8 , in discussing emancipation as the highest form of rationality ) .
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