Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] " 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 | Instead of staring blankly out at the world , or nervously striking at the fence , as some of the eagles did , he trekked back and forth in a figure of eight over an area that was only one tiny part of his caged area . |
| 4 | Vines can be lifted high off the ground to avoid frost ; dropped as low as possible to benefit from heat reflected by stony ground at night ; generously spaced along the rows to attract the sun and avoid humidity ; or intensively cultivated into a canopy of foliage to avoid too much sun and encourage humidity in dry areas . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The patron of the third kind , offering social reputation and protection , often worked within conditions where the work was being partly or wholly offered to a paying public ; the Elizabethan public theatres were in that sense fully commercial institutions . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He could see that the singer was n't especially old or badly dressed under the coat . |
| 10 | Finally , a screw-in side handle is fixed on to the alloy gear cover , offset either to the left or right depending on the user . |
| 11 | He was obviously moving left or right depending on the fall of the coin . |
| 12 | His manager , Simon , who was also Cyril 's elder brother , had persuaded him to lower his sights — or rather to aim at a different and better target . |
| 13 | Michael spent hours sitting in the garden , or rather lying on a folding bed . |
| 14 | Expensive miss ; costly save , because just 4 minutes later , Derby had hit or rather rolled in the winner ; soft goal it was . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The agitation section of the town 's Communist Party committee decided , or rather passed on a directive probably originating in Moscow , that the Paris Commune of 1871 should be celebrated on 18 March . |
| 17 | HAVING REACHED the point of flying your model around in circuits , rather like a fixed-wing model , you will sooner or later-probably sooner-arrive at a point where you are unsure of the model 's exact position or attitude . |
| 18 | Among these fish are a number of vital breeding projects , containing fish like Skiffia francesae that are extinct or extremely threatened in the wild . |
| 19 | This effect can vitiate scientific observation , as when seventeenth century experimenters , familiar with the concepts of post-Galilean mechanics but not of electrostatic attraction and repulsion , regularly reported observing chaff falling as though by gravitation , or mechanically rebounding from the electrified bodies which attracted them . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Local farmers preferred black or dark brindled animals in both breeds and some said that the Galloway had originally been a horned black animal with touches of white , or perhaps brindle with a white dorsal stripe and occasionally belted . |
| 22 | More generally one can say that for attitudinism ethical statements invite the hearer ( or perhaps the speaker when in discourse with himself ) to express his agreement or disagreement in attitude , or perhaps join in a shared attempt to arrive at some stable and better based attitude , towards what is in question , and that this is quite a different matter from any discussion concerning the psychological state , of approving or disapproving , on either the speaker 's or hearer 's part . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Looking around her , she would see that while her brothers might follow their father 's trade or profession , whatever that was , or perhaps look for an apprenticeship in a traditional craft , or take advantage of the new opportunities in , say , transport — in short choose , within limits , a career that appealed to them — she was not likely to be able to indulge a personal preference . |
| 25 | Such judgements are supposed to be true or false in a fairly straightforward way , and to be testable by empirical enquiry or perhaps appeal to the common experience of the human race . |
| 26 | Walter Scott seriously contemplated doing the same , or perhaps fleeing to the Isle of Man , as his brother Tom had done , but was persuaded that a better way out was the Trust Deed . |
| 27 | By chance the introduction of better rigging more or less coincided with the gold discoveries in California . |
| 28 | They had more or less drifted into a relationship , meeting at lectures , having the occasional meal together . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ We come to what we more or less knew in the first place . |