Example sentences of "further [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sweeney Agonistes takes its audience back not simply to what was seen as the childhood , even babyhood of ritual and civilization , but further down the evolutionary ladder to the most primitive level of that ‘ amorphous protoplasm ’ which makes up the human egg . |
| 2 | The fact that the materials which emerged , for all their faults , were usable in schools reflects the hard work and experience of the writers , but as many of the participants themselves readily admitted the original ‘ Entebbe ’ books needed considerable modification — and the further down the primary age range one travelled the more they needed it . |
| 3 | The Founders and other people within NoS kept up the pressure to go even further down the Equal Opportunities road . |
| 4 | F. Further down the main valleys the rivers have become larger ( 3rd and 4th Order ) . |
| 5 | Each new administration in Washington appoints not only the heads of its departments , or ministries , but also a lot of people further down the departmental ladder . |
| 6 | Dave is further down the sixth floor corridor , it 's almost directly under this room |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 … " |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In 1946 the premises at 94 Charing Cross road had been taken over by Tony Godwin , and under his ownership the place had become to radical culture what Collets , further down the same road , was to radical politics . |
| 13 | This would entail a view of nature as organic and ecological , rather than mechanistic ; an interpretation of lower forms of organisation in terms of higher ones , as well as vice versa ; an acknowledgment of sentience much further down the organisational ladder than is at present commonly imagined ; a biocentric ethic ; and a holistic approach to knowledge . |
| 14 | All political parties have their own reasons for pushing the quality of public services further up the political agenda . |
| 15 | Only slightly further up the evolutionary scale in terms of reproduction are the Echinoderms . |
| 16 | Don Peters had failed in his UK assignment and had effectively blown his chances of being moved further up the corporate ladder to a Vice Presidency and , maybe , to the Presidency itself . |
| 17 | A magistrates ' or crown court will rarely second-guess a constable and it in turn will only very occasionally be overruled on this issue further up the judicial ladder . |
| 18 | First there is an increase in misdemeanours — the type of behaviour a girl might be ticked off for at home but which in care results in her finding herself further up the custodial ladder in a Community Home with Education . |
| 19 | That influence will be needed tonight as Wrexham bid to climb further up the third division table . |
| 20 | Further up the same road there were even more Walkers , all related , living at Botany Farm — William and Annie with one daughter , Marjorie , who was a little bit older than me . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |