Example sentences of "[conj] the [adj] [conj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three major Islamic options are to be considered — the maintenance of Muslim tradition , or the pursuit of modernisation , or the messianic or indeed the modern fundamentalist path of revolution . |
| 2 | This does not , however , prove that the exclusive or even the main purpose of the decree was religious , i.e. not political or economic . |
| 3 | I knew that the military and particularly the Civil Affairs Service ( CASB ) would be urgently at work , and that Colonel Glass in charge of publicity , who had taken part in our Simla planning , would be preparing the way . |
| 4 | The lessons that the British and later the Americans drew from Dakar were twofold : first , the operational and political disadvantages of collaborative expeditions with Free France ; and second , the practical necessity of working with or at least through Vichy 's imperial administrators . |
| 5 | Until the mid or even the late 1950s these comparisons were made mainly in a discrete way in the belief that advantages shifted from time to time between one country and another [ Postan , 1967 ] . |
| 6 | Those who marched were a coalition of wildly different elements : pacifists and Christians , Trade Unionists and Little Englanders , anarchists and rationalists , Beats and ravers , the barefoot and the long-haired and also a great many quiet and concerned young parents pushing prams or carrying infants on their shoulders . |
| 7 | Since the left- and hence the right-hand sides of this equality are polynomials they are simply shorthand for ( 2 , -3 , 1 , 0 , … ) and ( 0,0 … ) respectively . |