Example sentences of "further down the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 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 .
4 Dave is further down the sixth floor corridor , it 's almost directly under this room
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 … "
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
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