Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb past] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Dutch should have been aware of it , but strangely the RLD gave the KLM DC-10s a Netherlands certificate of airworthiness , or rather validated the US certificate , notwithstanding their considerable reservations about the strength or ventilation of the cabin floor . |
| 2 | Within them , the companies either owned or effectively controlled the services , so that the miners and their families shopped at company shops , drank at company pubs , and played sports at colliery clubs . |
| 3 | Whereas before I had more or less ignored the game and engaged myself in gossipy conversation with whoever was E ) laying opposite me , I now began to act out a parody of the ludicrous pastime in which I found myself , tackling everyone in sight , yelling for the ball to be passed to me , jumping up and down , and generally getting in everyone 's way . |
| 4 | The two elements , those who more or less kept the rules and those who never tried , had always lived side by side in Paradise Street . |
| 5 | Certainly until John got sick his Dad more or less avoided the bedroom . |
| 6 | On being asked about the condition of the front door and windows , he admitted they had n't been painted for many years and that the door had more or less reached the end of its life , and showed it . |
| 7 | This refers to the decision of the NATO countries in December 1979 , when Europe more or less begged the US to act as its protector . |
| 8 | He more or less started the Gloucester County Youth Orchestra , which he conducted for 13 years , as well as running the County Music Summer Schools . |
| 9 | Or so said the signals on the pit wall . |
| 10 | Only in the last year or so did the attack flow more regularly to the three-quarters , to make the best use of Cooper 's thrusts from fullback quite often finished off by Timu or an exciting youngster Marc Ellis from the wings . |
| 11 | Previous reports have found that parity did not increase the risk of symptomatic gall bladder disease , increased the risk after a single pregnancy , or only increased the risk after several pregnancies . |
| 12 | But alas , most seemed to have been born with only one or just mislaid the other on the way . |
| 13 | He concluded that after the main chute had failed to open , Mr Tipping ( 34 ) either could not locate the handle for the reserve chute or possibly pulled the dummy by mistake as he hurtled towards the ground . |
| 14 | The next stretch northward for a hundred miles or more showed the variety of the Romanian countryside . |
| 15 | For the third day running , 200,000 or more blocked the centre of Prague , cheering Mr Dubcek 's call on the hardline leadership to quit . |
| 16 | For the third day running , 200,000 or more blocked the centre of Prague , cheering Mr Dubcek 's call on the hardline leadership to quit . |
| 17 | The remaining 90 per cent or more included the majority of the peasants . |
| 18 | It will be a question of fact in each case whether the visitor has voluntarily or willingly accepted the risk as his or her own . |
| 19 | The assistant had not deliberately or knowingly misled the plaintiff . |
| 20 | My main aim was for some relief to the back pain that I had had for many years but , having tried many other so-called ‘ back pain relief techniques ’ , without much success ( some worked for a short while , others not at all or even made the pain worse ) , I was not too optimistic . |
| 21 | Might have killed the Canadian engineers , or even derailed the train . |
| 22 | In view of the problems , over time many regions have modified or even abandoned the RAWP cross-boundary flow adjustment method for their subregional allocation . |
| 23 | Or simply told the truth — told them there and now that it was n't Syl 's smile that repelled me but that I had an intuitive conviction that there was something unsound in him , something unwholesome by virtue of being undeveloped , something that would , sooner or later , cause me to turn on him with bitter cruelty as Nour had turned on me . |
| 24 | Nothing more than that someone , by no means necessarily the purchaser of the record , has in the past bought not from Nestle 's but from a retail shop three bars of chocolate and that the purchaser has thus directly or indirectly acquired the wrappers . |
| 25 | Modern legislation had increasingly vested quasi-judicial powers in officials and excluded or indirectly diminished the authority of the courts . |
| 26 | Occasionally , though , a dramatist will uncover someone with an interesting story , regardless of how unknown or vaguely remembered the subject is . |
| 27 | What had Labour done — or where had the Conservatives gone wrong — to create such a gap ? |
| 28 | However wrong the opinion expressed may be in point of truth , or however prejudiced the writer , it may still be within the prescribed limit . |
| 29 | When the Japanese invaded , most of the population showed indifference , or actively welcomed the invader . |
| 30 | Further , one after another these theories either overlooked or actively disallowed the erotics of other kinds of difference ; as Mandy Merck observes , in such theories ‘ no non-genital differences ( of race , class , age , etc ) can signify such total Otherness , no genitally similar object can be legitimately eroticised ’ ( Merck , ‘ Difference and its Discontents ’ , 5 — 6 ) . |