Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If none of the candidates is suitable or fulfils the basic requirements of the job/personnel description think twice before appointing the best of a bad bunch . |
| 2 | What initiates or sustains the immune response against α subunit in MG is unknown . |
| 3 | That court tells the executor or administrator what to do , or takes the whole estate under its charge and distributes it . |
| 4 | To the extent that agreement is reached which goes beyond the provisions of a pre-existing document or displaces the relevant provisions of the Partnership Act , the agreed terms should be reduced to writing to reduce the scope for subsequent dispute . |
| 5 | Gardiner usefully quotes or paraphrases the lively testimony of many sitters and visitors from a wide variety of sources and it is at these moments that the artist at his most affectionate , considerate , perceptive and even gently self-deprecating comes to life . |
| 6 | No one else in the world has had your experience of life , sees the world through your eyes or treads the same path through life ‘ towards the light of your particular guiding star ’ ( this is described in a rather dull way as ‘ motivation ’ ) . |
| 7 | If that breach ‘ goes to the root of the contract ’ or deprives the other party of ‘ substantially the whole benefit of the contract , ’ then it entitles the latter to treat the contract as repudiated and himself as discharged from it . |
| 8 | You can then select the one which you think solves the most important problem , or gives the best effect in the most visually important part of the garment . |
| 9 | Is it my imagination or does the tranquil state of mind the car encourages contribute to these things ? |
| 10 | Do these differences arise from the local packing of cations and anions , or does the random network of chains and planes of silicate , for instance , impose the main constraint ? |
| 11 | If the joint tenancy is severed by agreement then the notice of severance or declaration of trust which would have the same effect ( see precedent in Kelly 's Draftsman , 15th edn , Butterworths , 1986 , p673 ) should specify in what proportions or shares the equitable interests of the former beneficial joint tenants are to be held . |
| 12 | They occur when an action by i directly affects j 's costs or the demand which it faces , or when R&D undertaken by firm i retards or blocks the innovative efforts of j . |
| 13 | You could see a band that plays the same type of music as us on TOTP but they would n't look like us … |
| 14 | It is precisely this formal disturbance in the texture of Nizan 's fiction that constitutes the very essence of his project as a communist novelist . |
| 15 | This class , whatever we call it , can not be properly understood and its historic role can not be adequately explained , outside the necessity that produces the eternal contradiction of capitalist accumulation on a mass scale . |
| 16 | They suggest the sorts of function an area might be involved in , and some degree of localization is possible by varying stimulation sites and finding the one that produces the largest response for the lowest level of stimulation . |
| 17 | It is the solution that offers the best balance between advantages and disadvantages — the animals gain the greatest degree of mutual protection from predators whilst sacrificing the least in terms of their ability to find food in the inhospitable terrain . |
| 18 | At Baker Street Estates our clientele are all treated as individuals and detailed advice from an experienced member of our integrated team ensures that any property requirement can be efficiently satisfied from an office that offers the friendliest atmosphere in W1 . |
| 19 | In a challenge to the perceived order of things MIT Press is bringing out a book that turns the accepted view of Modernism on its head . |
| 20 | To paraphrase Mr Polly , it 's only school that turns the young child from someone who wonders at the marvels around him or her into someone who sees them only in terms of history and geography . |
| 21 | Surely , happiness will spring from the husbandry that turns the gross mind into this magic box with its promise of immortality ? |
| 22 | Then the sky lights up with a devil lightning prong that turns the whole countryside into a photo negative . |
| 23 | But , in a ground-breaking move , EIGA has struck a deal that involves the Russian Agency for International Cooperation and Development giving companies buying the cover a letter promising not to pounce . |
| 24 | a definite mandate directed towards citizens to take whatever steps are available to them to achieve a law-oriented foreign policy for their own country , including , as both conscience and good sense dictate , non-violent acts of civil disobedience , and efforts to persuade members of all branches of government to overcome the gap that separates the normative consensus of the public as to the illegality of the use of nuclear weapons from prevailing official policies . |
| 25 | The linker that separates the POU-specific domain from the POU-homeodomain is poorly conserved , of variable length , and may not be critical for functions such as DNA binding ( 8 ) . |
| 26 | The Mystical Theology of Dionysius the Areopagite had also dwelt upon a thick cloud of unknowing that separates the ineffable God from mankind and this image dominated Greek theology . |
| 27 | It is the rheme that fulfils the communicative purpose of the utterance . |
| 28 | The programmer writes programs to unleash the powers of the machine ; the designer writes an interface for the program that fits the personal needs of tailor , musician , secretary or — dare we hope — journalist . |
| 29 | ‘ Salutary neglect ’ is a description that fits the colonial policy of the British government in the first half of the eighteenth century , particularly when it is compared with the fairly active government of the late seventeenth century . |
| 30 | This inevitably means that in each generation the loss of individuals from the population through mortality prior to breeding or through failure to breed , eliminates not isolated genes but sets of associated genes from the pool of genes that represents the total population of that species . |