Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] the [adj] scale " in BNC.
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| 1 | Groups further down the social scale were in a much weaker position than the boyars or the Church to press their interests upon the Grand Prince . |
| 2 | State-sponsored housing began to reach further down the social scale than previously and house building under subsidy began to increase in the later 1920s . |
| 3 | I can tell you that the further down the social scale we went the brighter and sweeter and richer the orange squash , and the more I loved it . |
| 4 | John Byng in 1781 saw the revolution as reaching rather further down the social scale : " I wish with all my heart that half the turnpike roads of the kingdom were plough 'd up , which have imported London manners , and depopulated the country — I meet milkmaids on every road , with the dress and looks of Strand misses … " |
| 5 | Even in the merchant activities of the outports , however , a great number of people were taking shares in trading ventures , and from much further down the social scale than was the case with the East India Company , only 1.6 per cent of whose investors held less than £100 in 1764 . |
| 6 | In North America consumer expectations moved quite rapidly down the social scale , drawn by high wages and less marked social rigidities . |
| 7 | Only slightly further up the evolutionary scale in terms of reproduction are the Echinoderms . |
| 8 | But further up the social scale , unrewarded deference was often required , often with the constable being treated as simply another flunkey in uniform , an attitude that might provoke a retaliatory reaction . |
| 9 | By the 1960s , on the other hand , it was becoming increasingly difficult for those further up the social scale to avoid the consequences of industrialization any longer — even by indulging in rural retreatism . |
| 10 | Only a little further up the social scale , another quarter or more of the rural inhabitants had tenements varying in size up to a yardland , which in Cambridgeshire seems to have been about 30 and 40 acres . |
| 11 | How far down the social scale the possession of seals extended is not known , but the carrying of personal identification tags is exactly what we would expect of such a minutely organized society . |
| 12 | It is now necessary to consider how far down the social scale these party tensions permeated . |
| 13 | The sounds they produce in their larynx may reach as far up the ultrasonic scale as 200 000 hertz , allowing them to detect objects as tiny as a midget 20 metres away . |
| 14 | Generally speaking , black people hold jobs lower down the socio-economic scale , being under-represented in comparison with whites in non-manual occupations , and over-represented in the less-skilled manual occupations . |
| 15 | Young and Willmott ( 1973 ) found , however , that those lower down the occupational scale were more family-centred than the professional and managerial classes . |
| 16 | Discontent lower down the social scale was no less intense . |
| 17 | She has discovered that a boundary line for consumption of non-staple household goods existed even across the bequeathing classes , and has cautioned against accepting much contemporary opinion that the " luxury " market had reached well down the social scale . |
| 18 | Many after all had served in households not much better than their own , for servant-keeping reached well down the social scale . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , from what we do know , there can be no doubt that the children 's world of the eighteenth century — at least for those born higher up the social scale than the labouring poor — changed dramatically . |
| 20 | There is nothing implausible in the argument that peasants , especially better-off peasants , managed their holdings , and their familial strategies , as adroitly as did some people higher up the social scale . |