Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What justifies the assumption that two qualitatively identical things can occupy simultaneously two different places , or numerically the same place in succession ? |
| 2 | The outward characteristics of religions have an inner meaning which brings them from their very separate and distinct starting-points towards an appreciation of the Mystery at the heart of religion where paradoxically the distinctions merge . |
| 3 | The problem is quite general : when the pragmatic implications of an utterance do not match the context , then in general the utterance is not treated as in any way infelicitous or inappropriate or bizarre-rather the pragmatic implications are simply assumed not to hold . |
| 4 | To counteract this , an individual generally benefits from continual changes in the type of task being performed as well as continual updating on how well or badly the task is being done . |
| 5 | According to Cochrane et al. ( 1985 ) , the land-use practised depends mainly on how well or badly the savannas are drained . |
| 6 | The Labour group , currently with 25 seats compared to the Tories ' 57 , believes it needs another 25 to gain control — depending on how well or badly the Liberal Democrats fare . |
| 7 | If anything more was promised informally or verbally the American version remains classified . |
| 8 | For the Third World or rather the underdeveloped world these questions have existed for the greater part of this century . |
| 9 | However insignificant , they still do n't deserve to be thrown out with the bathwater , or rather the pond water . |
| 10 | It 's no accident that Svidrigailov is the only one in the novel to handle yellow paper money , just as it 's no accident that children are frightened of him and run away ‘ in indescribable terror ’ because ( so we understand in our bones ) they smell death on him , or rather the unattachment to life which defeats even Sonya Marmeladov . |
| 11 | But it is another matter to use these ideas , or rather the names of their originators , primarily as weapons against an insular establishment . |
| 12 | Another way the AX deceives is by the noise it makes , or rather the lack of it . |
| 13 | But the residents are the problem , or rather the lack of them . |
| 14 | Shakespeare and Racine — or rather the developments which led up to them — each found his own reason . |
| 15 | The Akali Dal , or rather the faction of the much splintered Sikh movement which swept the November poll in Punjab , was formerly in the forefront of the campaign for a separate homeland . |
| 16 | The third problem is the Security Council , or rather the latterday powers that want permanent seats on it . |
| 17 | But now he appears , or rather the people see the effects of his presence , the sweep of his mighty hand . |
| 18 | The most obvious case is when a hoard includes both coins and other objects ; indeed it is only in these cases that the objects in question can be accurately dated ( or rather the date by which they must have been made can be accurately established ) . |
| 19 | The neglected appearance of so much crofting land is not a reflection of current under-use , but of too intensive use in the past , when land was put under the plough , or rather the spade , which no one who had freedom of choice would ever have broken in . |
| 20 | Legs , perhaps of the same body have turned up and last year yet another body , or rather the 70 or so fragments of what had been a body , had it not been mangled by machinery , were recovered . |
| 21 | Discussion of Sandra 's sex-life could easily stray into the area of his and Marjorie 's sex-life , or rather the lack of it , and he would rather not go into that . |
| 22 | He reached the door , or rather the cast-iron gate as his destination was a villa , quite a large villa with a central courtyard . |
| 23 | It is the new paganism , or rather the old variety with a facelift and a fresh application of make-up . |
| 24 | Scriptural authority , or rather the lack of it , is at the heart of the difficulties experienced , for example , by The Churches ' Fellowship for Psychical and Spiritual Studies . |
| 25 | In 1813 he mentions ‘ our dance , or rather the girls ' first dance ’ and there are many other diary entries showing attendance at Balls at Hawkshead and Ambleside . |
| 26 | Now , the academics ( or rather the best of them ) have caught up with the real world . |
| 27 | The hole , or rather the volume of waste material that is dug from it , has greatly bothered conservationists . |
| 28 | If hamlet ( or rather the actor playing him ) , catches a frog in his throat during a soliloquy , since one is experiencing a human drama this need n't be in the least distracting — indeed the element of human fallibility and frailty thus introduced could even enhance the impact of the performance ( admittedly it could also be unintentionally quite hilarious ) ! |
| 29 | ‘ You asked for this , ’ he commented , ‘ or rather the man you sent demanding an audience asked for it . ’ |
| 30 | Telling her the truth about my feelings , or rather the lack of them , would just have made our life together even more intolerable . ’ |