Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] [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 | 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He could see that the singer was n't especially old or badly dressed under the coat . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He was obviously moving left or right depending on the fall of the coin . |
| 10 | Expensive miss ; costly save , because just 4 minutes later , Derby had hit or rather rolled in the winner ; soft goal it was . |
| 11 | There is an important stage at which the person-centred world is superseded or rather supplemented by the world of which the person is one part . |
| 12 | Among these fish are a number of vital breeding projects , containing fish like Skiffia francesae that are extinct or extremely threatened in the wild . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | By chance the introduction of better rigging more or less coincided with the gold discoveries in California . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ We come to what we more or less knew in the first place . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I did more or less ignore on the tube journey and the walk to the choir that evening , I mean |
| 24 | Cut the salmon into thinnish steaks , arrange them in one layer in a well-buttered baking dish , sprinkle them with salt and seasonings , add about I oz. of fresh butter , cut in pieces , for every pound of salmon , cover the dish with buttered paper and a lid , and put to cook in the centre of a moderately heated oven , gas no. 3 , 330 F. In 45 to 50 minutes — a little more or less according to the thickness of the steaks — the salmon will be cooked . |
| 25 | The remainder , together with the open arable field , he divided into small squarish fields of eight to twelve acres each ( sometimes more or less according to the convenience of the farmers ) and parcelled out as farms among his tenants . |
| 26 | The average price at which shares sell during this period is somewhere in the neighbourhood of $55 ( more or less depending on the shape of the time-price curve ) . |
| 27 | The era of the great train-shed more or less ended with the Great War . |
| 28 | ‘ Rivalry within the PDPA is a phenomenon that more or less belongs to the past , ’ he said . |
| 29 | Nor did he see another consequence , as his nephew Mauss confessed , shortly before going mad : ‘ how large modern societies which have more or less emerged from the Middle Ages in other respects , could be hypnotized as aborigines are by their dances and set in motion like a child 's carousel . |
| 30 | That is the area which has been used for the last five or six years as the basis of the And that outer boundary more or less coincides with the outer boundary erm of the York greenbelt . |