Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Copernicus had shown that the apparent movements of the planets as observed from the earth can not be satisfactorily or coherently explained on the assumption that the earth itself lies immobile at the centre of the universe . |
| 2 | the proletarian party must first of all advocate the proclamation and immediate realization of the complete freedom of secession from Russia of all the nations and peoples who were oppressed by Tsarism , or who were forcibly joined to or forcibly kept within the boundaries of the State . |
| 3 | Social relations typical of the integrated professional market persisted into this phase , but there was also a significant development of new social relations , for some kinds of writer , who were now effectively or wholly employed within the new corporate structures . |
| 4 | William and Andrew Smith invented an ingenious machine for printing tartan paper and from then on many of the products were partly or wholly covered with the paper , making them unique in the souvenir trade at that time . |
| 5 | Position your partner on his or her front , head to one side , arms relaxed at the sides or loosely bent with the hands at shoulder level . |
| 6 | He could see that the singer was n't especially old or badly dressed under the coat . |
| 7 | Expensive miss ; costly save , because just 4 minutes later , Derby had hit or rather rolled in the winner ; soft goal it was . |
| 8 | There is an important stage at which the person-centred world is superseded or rather supplemented by the world of which the person is one part . |
| 9 | Among these fish are a number of vital breeding projects , containing fish like Skiffia francesae that are extinct or extremely threatened in the wild . |
| 10 | Consequently , it is possible to identify types of information that are needed by language processing systems but are either absent from or wrongly presented within the dictionary . |
| 11 | Legends about the Babylonian and Persian period were revived — or perhaps invented for the first time — to encourage faithfulness to the Mosaic Law in the new conditions . |
| 12 | All of these were more or less subsumed under the rubric of the developed ( advanced industrial ) societies and the developing ( usually a euphemism for undeveloped or , more radically , underdeveloped ) societies . |
| 13 | They took to the path with gusto , he finding the line somewhere between the nearside bank and the middle ridge , while the other more or less followed in the wake , content to orchestrate himself around the camera with his umbrella . |
| 14 | Economists , for example , often work with theories which stipulate that human economic behaviour is motivated by rationality , more or less conceived as the maximisation of means to ends . |
| 15 | The era of the great train-shed more or less ended with the Great War . |
| 16 | The rational expectations hypothesis challenges macroeconomists of widely differing outlook to re-examine the short-run dynamics of their respective models so as to check that no assumption of irrational behaviour has been implicitly or inadvertently embedded within the structure of the model . |
| 17 | Those holiday homes providing higher quality standards will have Approved , Commended or Highly Commended alongside the Keys . |
| 18 | In practice , prayer in common , above all within a non-Catholic church , theological dialogue and practical co-operation were all either forbidden or highly restricted until the Council . |
| 19 | If Gunnell herself has cashed in , she 's not been so blatant or obviously motivated by the financial side as other athletes . |
| 20 | Although it can not be entirely free of period distortions , it shows more modest fluctuations in fertility than the TFR and in particular gives an estimate of fertility of over 2 children for most of the time since 1972 , not the 1.8 or so given by the IFR . |
| 21 | The total number of Egyptian fighting men in Saudi Arabia is put at about 27,000 , with another 5,000 or so based in the United Arab Emirates . |
| 22 | Yet Roxborough Tower was kept well by its owners , who once every month or so gathered in the single room which occupied the top floor of the building in the name of the man who had owned this plot of land two hundred years before , and who had left |
| 23 | Stained preparations may fade rapidly when first examined but usually stabilize after a day or so stored in the dark at 4-C . |
| 24 | Am I alone in questioning the wisdom of giving a gift which the donor can not afford and which must be paid at the ludicrous interest of 25 per cent or so charged by the credit card companies ? |
| 25 | The ecology wall charts were to be the most recent in a series of a dozen or so published by the Natural History Museum with sponsorship from BP and featured in their educational catalogue . |
| 26 | As the last wave periscoped up , with only a minute or so left in the heat , Pottz knew he had to take it : he needed a fourth wave to beat Carroll . |
| 27 | first the base budget , an this and return to give increase the expenditure is the five million pounds or so needed for the increased number of pupils . |
| 28 | Its de facto leader — or so identified by the right-wing Springer press empire — was Rudi Dutskche . |
| 29 | Second , a court might interpret the rule restrictively so that it only permitted the replication of common law rights and duties or only operated in the regulatory sphere . |
| 30 | Again the goodwill is either inherent in the site or personally attached to the owner . |