Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb past] [art] " 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 | There is evidence of a religious enthusiasm more acceptable to the establishment among the nobility , some of whom appear to have either anticipated or eagerly embraced the official establishment of new liturgical feasts in devotional offices in their private chapels . |
| 4 | It was he who ended the war with Athens , or perhaps turned the hot war into a cold one ( because satraps continued to subvert Athenian-supported democracies in Anatolia ) : after the Persian recovery of Egypt in the 450s Athenian aggression against Persia was checked , except for a brief campaign in Cyprus at the end of the 450s . |
| 5 | ‘ Once you 've got that basic drawing of a person sitting sideways on a chair , if you draw straight lines around him you 've more or less got a pyramid shape . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Certainly until John got sick his Dad more or less avoided the bedroom . |
| 9 | Once Edna had left school , she more or less became a fixture in the household and there was no doubt that Celia was a much happier and more tractable baby under her young but competent handling . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | By this time the Hintons more or less had a monopoly on sugar processing , and more and more land was being turned over to sugarcane production . |
| 12 | There were no trends in death from cardiovascular or non-cardiovascular disease with length , though men whose length at birth was 20 inches ( 50.8 cm ) or less had a standardised mortality ratio of 103 from cardiovascular disease , compared with 93 in the remainder . |
| 13 | So I more or less had a crew cut . |
| 14 | ‘ David more or less said the same , but I really do n't know what to think . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The Great War more or less put an end to the era of the great station and with it the period of the pre-eminence of the railways . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I believed at the time that I more or less grasped the metaphorical implications of this , but after I had put the phone down I found I was not as clear as I should have hoped to be about exactly what was required of me in concrete practical terms . |
| 19 | Or so said the signals on the pit wall . |
| 20 | The remaining half-dozen or so clasped the last tattered shreds of the undergraduate life around them to keep out the cold winds of the world . |
| 21 | On hearing about our plans for a summer course at Green Park in 1982 some 30 or so showed a positive interest in attending . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Apart from the military and administrative functions of the town , which included offices for collecting taxes from native and Russian alike , there was the beginning of a perish structure established by Orthodox clergy who had accompanied or soon followed the first government forces . |
| 25 | Such thoughts soothed me , and then the reality of what had happened would come shooting through my consciousness like a speedboat churning up a calm sea : how dare he decree that I must wear a badge indicating , for men 's convenience , whether I was available or already had an owner ? |
| 26 | But alas , most seemed to have been born with only one or just mislaid the other on the way . |
| 27 | Type Images , ( or just hit the |
| 28 | That was the best way to find out how good you were at your job , whether you could regard yourself as being on a par with the best — or still had a lot to learn . |
| 29 | Apart from spending a lot of money on the church , they built this house , where once stood a meagre rectory , and called it ‘ Sutton on the Hill Hall ’ . |
| 30 | Easily Accessible : Mere is an attractive town dating back to Saxon times with pretty stone cottages and fine views of Blackmore Vale from Castle Hill , where once stood a medieval fortification . |