Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] the " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | At the peak of the Middle Ages , around the year 1200 , Christianity was more or less solidly established as the religion of Europe . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | For those alarmed , mystified or just inexplicably fascinated by the whys and wherefores of the Data Protection Act , the Data protection Registrar is holding a series of free one-day seminars on ‘ Understanding Data Protection ’ around the country in March . |
| 12 | One of the er matters that er one needs to apply one 's mind to in considering whether or not this land serves a greenbelt function or not , is to look at the land and assess whether or not it is more closely associated with the village or more closely associated with the er agricultural open land beyond the village . |
| 13 | S 392 states that the resignation may be effected by depositing written notice to that effect at the company 's registered office , and that the date of resignation will be that on which the notice is deposited , or as otherwise specified in the notice . |
| 14 | He was n't a bore or a boor , he could n't be typecast or even neatly slotted within the underground , from which he always maintained an apparently effortless sense of distance . |
| 15 | This plant with flowers of yellow white , pink and red , often striped or even differently coloured on the same plant , grew out of the walls , and in cracks between the cobbles of the streets . |
| 16 | It is up to each one of us , he wrote , at every point in our lives , to decide how much order and how much disorder , how much discipline and how much freedom we need for the best realization of our project of the moment , even though that project may turn out to be flawed or even utterly mistaken in the short run , of course I am only talking about the short run , he wrote , in the long run , as I have already said , both success and failure are quite without meaning , the notion of meaning is quite without meaning . |
| 17 | It will always be the case that sets of standard terms and conditions contain a number of miscellaneous conditions , falling either within the popular designation of " boilerplate " , or else specifically tailored to the type of transaction that the standard set of terms is designed to cover . |
| 18 | Indeed , the tradition of personal contact between the Council and the public , the accessibility of local government officials , and the identifiable nature of the officials and councillors involved , gave the whole thing a highly personal tone to the point where some of the wider issues were obscured , or else never raised in the first place . |
| 19 | For example , this definition of federalism seems reasonable enough : ‘ a federalised state is one in which the several units and their respective powers are constitutionally or otherwise legally united under the ultimate power of a central state or government ’ . |
| 20 | At the same time , the sentiments of pity which he who suffers punishment evokes in us can no longer be so easily nor so completely extinguished by the sentiments he has offended and which react against him ; for both are of the same nature ’ ( Durkheim , 1973 : 303 ) . |
| 21 | They point out that the recent North American Free Trade Agreement signed by the USA , Canada and Mexico contains more explicit environmental protection language than so far proposed for the MTO . |
| 22 | Although only just elected to the Executive Committee as Galway Area Secretary , Tom is no stranger to ‘ 93 ’ as for 6 years , from 1973 top 1979 , he was an Executive Committee member as Cork District Secretary . |
| 23 | Although not infrequently recorded in the 19th century , when it was possibly a fairly regular winter visitor , only six were recorded between 1900 and 1929 , and there has been only one since , at Selsey Bill on 30 July 1961 . |
| 24 | Although not previously described in the literature at the molecular level , ZNF gene clustering is probably a common phenomenon in mammalian genomes . |
| 25 | If , as implied although not explicitly stated in the Origin , man was descended from other animals , it was no longer possible , or so it seemed , to regard human behaviour as the product of the will , and at the same time to accept Descartes 's view that animals are machines . |
| 26 | Although not directly connected to the constitutional difficulties being experienced by Canada , McKenna acknowledged the indirect connection when , speaking of the growing co-operation between the four provinces , he admitted that he had " seen more co-operation during the last six months than I 've seen in the last five years that I 've been Premier " . |
| 27 | Although not directly linked to the Suso affair , Lee Seung Yoon had been criticized for the country 's rising inflation and trade deficit . |
| 28 | ALTHOUGH already well established in the area of downhole data acquisition in the UK , the Group has only recently formed a company to penetrate this market directly in the United States . |
| 29 | We , at Motorlux Volvo , recognise that over 35% of all car drivers in Britain are female and their particular motoring requirements are more often than not completely misunderstood by the average dealership . |
| 30 | Although still little known to the general public , Bolognese draughtsmanship of the sixteenth century produced many of the Masters most sought after by collectors , in addition to the obvious Carracci family ( already active by the 1580s ) Bartolommeo Cesi , Pietro Faccini and Orazio Sammacchini and Lorenzo Sabbatini . |