Example sentences of "the [adj] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AT LAST the electors have an opportunity to put in power a government that will look after the needy instead of the greedy . |
| 2 | The contracts — $217m for Eteq and $127m for Alaris — are the largest yet for the IBM Charlotte facility , which began contract manufacturing last August . |
| 3 | Its twelve articles covered military as well as economic collaboration , and the Soviet presence in Egypt in the early 1970s became the largest anywhere outside the communist bloc at this time . |
| 4 | The first tomb to be excavated in 1991 was one of the largest ever to be scientifically excavated in the New World . |
| 5 | On May 20 the government deployed 630 companies of paramilitary troops — the largest ever for an election — to supplement security arrangements . |
| 6 | The population sample was the largest ever for this kind of study , as was its timescale ( twenty-five years from 1960 to 1985 ) . |
| 7 | The good news is that the surplus of a hundred and ninety three thousand six hundred and eighty seven pounds after tax is the largest ever in the Association 's history . |
| 8 | This is the first IDB mission to target all four countries and is one of the largest ever from Northern Ireland to Scandinavia . |
| 9 | As the stories are presented , the timeless Paradise is always placed at the beginning and the time-bound here-and-now at the end , though in some versions , as in Christianity , there is also a vision of an eschatological future when mankind , redeemed , will once again get back to the Paradisal beginning . |
| 10 | Hereward 's doing the eight o'clock at St Benet . |
| 11 | The red tape always seems less voluminous the farther away from headquarters you are , and Fairbanks was apparently far enough away from both U.S. , and U.S.S.R. officialdom to make the approval possible . |
| 12 | But he can play the spolier only with Soviet aid . |
| 13 | Alright , now if we look at the , the rural instead of the urban wage rate , right , up here alright , now let's just say that it takes that amount of time before this individual gets a job in the urban area , alright , now if we discount alright the erm , the rural , the urban wages right , that 's all this |
| 14 | he 's got his heart on the right instead of his left , the liver on the left instead of the right , the appendix on the left instead of the right and other internal organs possibly |
| 15 | because we have done everything we should of done , we 've defended the right all over the world , we went to the Falklands , we , we defended the right in it |
| 16 | The 1985 is very charming and beautifully balanced , the 1986 seemingly in a quite different style — chewily tannic and concentrated , but unpredictable . |
| 17 | They called off the alert only after finding Frankie 's hat and ‘ cowboy ’ gun in the house in Chippenham , Wilts . |
| 18 | Canada 's Norm Hadley and Glenn Ennis , widely recognised as two of the outstanding forwards during the ‘ 91 World Cup campaign , have been in Japan since late last year and are now looking ahead to the new season . |
| 19 | After the red-hot protests of the retired classes , Clinton will not touch the expensive cost of living adjustments to their social security pensions , although he will make taxable 85 per cent of the benefits paid to the rich instead of the present 50 per cent . |
| 20 | His century , the slowest ever for Australia , almost endorsed the selectors ' view that he had no part in the one-day side , while underlining what truly Test calibre he was . |
| 21 | Asquith was manifestly a major — if currently under-estimated — prime minister , the longest continuously in office between Lord Liverpool and Mrs Thatcher . |
| 22 | The US space shuttle Columbia successfully completed a 14-day flight on July 9 , the longest ever by a space shuttle crew , during which the prolonged effects of weightlessness on the human body were further studied . |
| 23 | With three of the family married , grandchildren coming along , the youngest still at home and the others visiting frequently , I used to think , This really must be the best time . |
| 24 | Not quite a donkey but Wallaces goal to win the league at Sheff Utd will probably go down as the jammiest ever in my book . |
| 25 | Two options were given and 92% favoured the 10 am to 5 pm period while only 8% preferred the 2 pm to 9 pm period . |
| 26 | Starting from the position that the dominant framework of feminist film criticism was ‘ too restrictive in the kinds of questions it asks of cinema ’ Gledhill gave a convincing defence of feminist realist practices and concluded with a plea for a kind of cultural analysis which could ‘ hold the extra-discursive and the discursive together as a complex and contradictory interrelation ’ . |
| 27 | I used my Telecasters a bit and I used the 330 just for feedback , because the whammy bar is excellent for controlling that . |
| 28 | The prospect of having the British here for another twenty years ! |
| 29 | Before the National Anthem had finished playing , the first air-raid siren of World War 11 had sounded , a false alarm that sent the British nervously into the shelters , some — like Winston Churchill — defiantly clutching bottles of strong drink . |
| 30 | The British abroad at their old work . |