Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By chance the introduction of better rigging more or less coincided with the gold discoveries in California . |
| 2 | ‘ We come to what we more or less knew in the first place . |
| 3 | Nor did he see another consequence , as his nephew Mauss confessed , shortly before going mad : ‘ how large modern societies which have more or less emerged from the Middle Ages in other respects , could be hypnotized as aborigines are by their dances and set in motion like a child 's carousel . |
| 4 | Another time his father might have laughed or mildly remonstrated about the cruelty of the imitation . |
| 5 | For many that was Buncrana or Fahan in County Donegal where they surfed , skiied , took boat trips or just lay in the sun . |
| 6 | I thought you were here at first , or just nipped to the pub or something . ’ |
| 7 | In 1966/67 and 1973/74 six or more birds wintered in the county , but the autumn and winter of 1974/75 were quite remarkable , with a total of 45–50 birds altogether , of which at least 20 wintered ; 15 or more arrived from the south at Beachy Head on 22 October 1974 . |
| 8 | At many moments of weakness , or love , Thomas had spent far more money than he could afford or even wished for the sake of Simon 's joy in the holidays . |
| 9 | Even if a relatively highly geared mortgage can be obtained , the cost of indemnity insurance on such mortgages has doubled or even tripled since the boom . |
| 10 | This consideration was never advanced or even pondered by the opponents of the agreement . |
| 11 | Most studies do not use representative samples , and personality traits are typically assessed after the eating disorder has developed , thus making it difficult to determine whether the personality features caused , maintained , or simply resulted from the eating disorder . |
| 12 | They sat in rows and watched television or simply stared into the distance . |
| 13 | But funerals in any expensive way here with us , are now accounted but as a fruitlesse vanitie , insomuch that almost all the ceremoniall rites of obsequies heretofore used , are altogether laid aside : for we see daily that Noblemen , and Gentlemen of eminent ranke , office , and qualitie , are either silently buried in the night time , with a Torch , a two-penie Linke , and a Lanterne ; or parsimoniously interred in the day-time , by the helpe of some ignorant countrey-painter , without the attendance of any one of the Officers of Armes , whose chiefest support , and maintenance , hath ever depended upon the performance of such funerall rites , and exequies . |
| 14 | Other couples wandered in their wake , or else lingered on the hilltop by the Commemorative stone , happier in their partners . |
| 15 | Each classroom is built of sticks and foliage and is either carefully camouflaged under trees or else dug into the sides of rocky hills . |
| 16 | The area was featureless for precision flying , with large square fields either filled with cattle or recently ploughed after the wheat harvest . |
| 17 | Competitive Regulation : here , the aim is to ensure that competition is not eliminated or seriously hampered by the formation of cartels . |
| 18 | The chair of the US House of Representatives banking committee stated on Feb. 3 that investigations revealed that 13 US firms had knowingly or unknowingly participated in the Iraqi nuclear weapons programme prior to the invasion of Kuwait , despite an administration report in autumn 1991 to the contrary . |
| 19 | All too often records of women , whether mistress of the house or maid servant , are lost or never existed in the first place . |
| 20 | The Holy Roman Empire , of Charlemagne , of the Ottonian emperors , through to the Hohenstaufens , was to be seen in all seriousness as the legitimate heir of ‘ the Augustan peace ’ : a dispensation which , though seldom or never actualized through the last five centuries , must be held in mind as the one and only imaginable harmonizing of Church and State , of religion and politics , at least throughout Europe . |
| 21 | Part of the trouble stemmed from a dislike of Sandys ' refusal to heed professional advice , and from his propensity for allowing the senior civil servants in the Ministry of Defence to usurp the powers that properly belonged to the Chiefs of Staff . |
| 22 | That was when Sharpe bothered to show himself at the Prince 's headquarters at all ; he evidently preferred to spend his days riding the French frontier which was a job that properly belonged to the pompous General Dornberg , which thought reminded the Prince that Dornberg 's noon report should have arrived . |
| 23 | It was thought desirable to hedge it about with safeguards that would prevent the representatives from arrogating to themselves the powers and authority that properly belonged to the people . |
| 24 | The civil servants ensured that our drafts were the ones that eventually went into the Statutes , so we were able to return to our second Report . |
| 25 | As an undercover customs agent based in Tampa , Florida , it was his suggestion to target a small-time Colombian drug-money launderer called Gonzalo Mora Jnr that eventually led to the uncovering of a huge laundering operation centred on BCCI . |
| 26 | Although little emerged from the conference in terms of new financial proposals , it was agreed that there should be nationwide targets for literacy , scientific and mathematical knowledge , vocational training , better teacher training , a reduction of dropout rates , and drug-free schools . |
| 27 | As the hacks speculated about the cloud of black smoke that suddenly appeared over the palace roof — it did not mean that no decision had been taken , only that a chimney had caught fire — the President was browsing in his favourite bookshop , Les Arcades , just below The Sunday Telegraph 's Paris office . |
| 28 | Instantly , the reaching figure became a puppet , jerking backwards in a pirouette that suddenly collapsed with the abrupt finality of cut strings . |
| 29 | It was by no means a simple set of feelings : many longed for the straightforward solutions that apparently lay in the golden-age reign of the Emperor Charlemagne when unity , conquest and expansion to the east had surely indicated racial superiority . |
| 30 | Analysis of these omissions from the W7 showed that about a quarter were simply inflexions of words that already existed in the dictionary . |