Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Month followed month without news — we clung to every shred of hope — was he a prisoner , or perhaps even hidden by the French Resistance ? |
| 2 | For many years nobody saw a dislocation in the flesh , or perhaps ever expected to , but their hypothetical movements ( dislocations of like sign repel each other etc. ) and breeding habits ( when the union of two dislocations is blessed about five hundred new dislocations are suddenly released upon the crystal ) could be theoretically predicted and provided a superb intellectual exercise like three dimensional chess . |
| 3 | In many societies , but more particularly in modern societies , there are numerous different centres of political thought and experience : educational institutions of various types ; party organizations ( including party schools and research institutes ) ; the mass media ; more or less official ‘ think tanks ’ ; the central offices of trade unions and employers ' associations ; international agencies ; and a considerable number of private associations devoted to political research and education , some of which have grown out of social movements and remain more or less closely connected with them . |
| 4 | In fact , the two meetings we observed were concerned with a number of issues more or less closely related to the concerns of the project . |
| 5 | So popular government was more or less firmly established from 461 BC until it was finally swept away by the Macedonian conquerors in 322 BC , to be replaced by the kind of restricted franchise which its opponents had always preferred . |
| 6 | All these ideas were incorporated into the theory of plate tectonics which was more or less separately developed by a number of workers at about the same time in the late 1960s . |
| 7 | It would seem that the direction in which it will be refined is to move towards a system more or less completely based on unit costs , or common funding , and that the element of further funding has been included as a temporary measure to allow high cost institutions to adjust to the new system . |
| 8 | For new applicants , different councils ' rules and regulations on allocations may be more or less strictly enforced by local officials . |
| 9 | Despite ritualistic genuflections from time to time towards the value of local democracy , it was assumed that the purpose of local government was more or less consensually agreed to be the local delivery of a set of services enshrined in centrally determined statutes . |
| 10 | As to 1 , the court took a rule of liability which had been more or less clearly perceived in connection with the escape of fire , cattle or unruly beasts , and extended it to the escape of mischievous things generally . |
| 11 | There are many degrees of cerebral development in insects , more or less clearly correlated with the complexity of the insect 's sensory equipment or behaviour ( Howse , 1975 ) . |
| 12 | … As appears from the decision below , the plaintiff could have had no certainty of ultimate success , and we are of opinion that it was not called upon to take the risk of having its contracts disputed and its business injured and of finding the tax more or less nearly doubled in case it finally had to pay . |
| 13 | were more or less successfully incorporated into political life , first by successive extensions of the suffrage and political ‘ citizenship ’ , later by the evolution of well-organized institutions of interest mediation . |
| 14 | With the two sides more or less equally matched in numbers , and Wightman 's horse unable to deploy effectively , Tullibardine was well placed to achieve a modest victory . |
| 15 | While they were at the mercy of erratic weather or changes in the migration routes of reindeer , so that they might suffer famine from time to time , they were generally well fed , more or less comfortably adapted to their environment , and enjoyed a surplus of resources sufficient to allow expenditure of time on the decoration of clothing and utensils on story-telling and dancing . |
| 16 | It is simply that these conflicts , which once would have been more or less wholly contained within the personality , are now becoming externalized and , indeed , are transforming society . |
| 17 | Unlike the brachiopods , many of the modes of life of living bivalve molluscs can be more or less directly matched in fossil examples . |
| 18 | Hence he is more or less permanently associated by middle class opinion with a back region . |
| 19 | Over most of enclosed England , the small fields were hedged around with hawthorn fences , more or less thickly interspersed with ash and elm — the great trees of the Midlands — which when they were full grown gave the appearance of an almost continuous wood , especially when seen from an eminence . |
| 20 | As the answer to the first of these shows , the pair are closely linked ; for there appear to be two kinds of criteria for identifying the dominant instance of a society , which are more or less explicitly mentioned in Althusser 's work . |
| 21 | This is an identical result to the one just described ( Fig. 3.1 ) for the maximum bone count , but it provides additional information that there is considerable bone loss more or less evenly spread across the mammalian skeleton ( except for the phalanges and metapodials ) . |
| 22 | What is more , whereas in hydra the proto-nerve cells are more or less evenly distributed throughout the animal 's body , in planaria the distribution of cells is not symmetrical . |
| 23 | By early in the seventeenth century several of the states of Europe — France , England , the Dutch republic , Venice — already had permanent diplomatic representatives more or less securely established in Constantinope ( though the English and Dutch ones at least were for long concerned above all merely with the fostering of their countries ' trade : the former continued to be paid not by the British government but by a group of merchants , the Levant Company , until as late as the 1820s ) . |
| 24 | At the peak of the Middle Ages , around the year 1200 , Christianity was more or less solidly established as the religion of Europe . |
| 25 | Or that there are Gospels other than those in the New Testament , which were more or less arbitrarily excluded from the canon by councils composed of eminently mortal , eminently fallible men . |
| 26 | The putatively modern new business district was more or less haphazardly established along the Leipziger Strasse , just a bit west of the old city centre . |
| 27 | The industries which used to provide employment for inner city residents have either died or long since gone to the new towns or to green field sites and industrial estates on the outskirts of the towns . |
| 28 | A projected total of around 700,000 for the year is now expected , rather than the one million or so originally hoped for . |
| 29 | The question is , will interest rates be strongly or only slightly affected by changes in money supply , and will aggregate demand be strongly or only slightly affected by changes in interest rates ? |
| 30 | The question is , will interest rates be strongly or only slightly affected by changes in money supply , and will aggregate demand be strongly or only slightly affected by changes in interest rates ? |