Example sentences of "[coord] the [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Nor is ‘ law and order ideology ’ an inevitable result of economic decline and/or the collapse of the rehabilitative ideal . |
2 | ‘ The individual producer , or the individual as the elementary subject of production , which eighteenth century mythology imagined to be at the origin of society 's economic development … only appeared , even as an ‘ appearance ’ in developed capitalist society , that is , in the society which had developed the social character of production to the highest degree . ’ |
3 | IT 'S DIFFICULT to know whether Joe Bear 's statement ‘ we 're out of tune but you 'll just have to put up with it ’ is an apology or the title of the first song , as Huggy Bear embark upon a set that includes lots of shouting , inept but enthusiastic attempts to play their instruments and generally deconstructs the rock myth with the viciousness of a tantrum in the nursery . |
4 | MPs familiar with claims for workmen 's compensation , or the operation of the Industrial Injuries Compensation Scheme , took a leading part . |
5 | The last major constraint , and the one we will examine in most detail , is peer group pressure on the managers themselves , or the operation of the managerial labour market . |
6 | The success was so great or the rivalry of the wealthy families so keen that during the next four years three more opera-houses were opened : the Teatro dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo , the San Moisè , and the Teatro Novissimo . |
7 | Of more importance is an assessment of the spread of particles about the average , to define the dispersion or sorting of the sediment , as represented by the breadth of the frequency curve or the shape of the cumulative frequency distribution . |
8 | I do not believe that Summerchild and his Director were discussing the financial structure of the Marmite company , or the competitiveness of the British savoury spread industry . |
9 | The , in effect the Communist Party had to choose between either equal distribution or the preservation of the middle peasants . |
10 | A boatload of men came ashore to demand a ransom of 2000 guineas [ £2100 ] , or the surrender of the local vicar as a hostage , for not attacking the town . |
11 | The minimum balance is US$1,000 or the equivalent in the major currencies and US$3,000 otherwise . |
12 | In view of the support and assistance which we have already provided I am not prepared to contribute towards your internal training arrangements or the preparation of the 2 self-study units you are proposing . |
13 | He explained that the programme makers had relied on a handful of people whose experience and view of the holiday camp were not representative of the resort as a whole or the experience of the vast majority of holidaymakers . |
14 | Where was such-and-such street , I asked , or the beautiful shop where my mother regularly bought her hats and gloves , or the church with the gilded domes , or the cake shop which had such a show of delicate confections at Christmas time , or the butcher 's where I could hardly bring myself to look at the great sides of dead meat hanging on hooks , or the musty bookshop , smelling of dust and leather , kept by the bent old man whose white hair seemed to be falling off the back of his head , leaving his bald crown all shiny and hopeful and new ? |
15 | Exchange controls Controls on the outflow of foreign exchange , notably on the payment of dividends or fees to foreign companies , or the transfer price payments for goods from another part of the group in another country , or the transfer to the foreign holding company of proceeds from the sale of entire subsidiaries . |
16 | To see that this is the case , annotate each term below to say whether it belongs to the typical register of the birthday card or the register of the legal contract ( even if you have never seen a legal contract you can probably do this ) . |
17 | It is doubtful whether these last two charges could properly be regarded as offences , for such licences had frequently been sold in the past , and the surviving evidence does not provide conclusive proof one way or the other about the usurious nature of Latimer 's and Lyons 's financial dealings . |
18 | Through the centuries of developing life , the need to choose one or the other of the two routes indicated in the Choices has faced all human races . |
19 | This is now happening in Scotland and the kingdom is beginning to veer to one or the other of the two powerful families with such claims to the throne . |
20 | At those two points and most of the states of our day , old and new , are at one or the other of the two theory must be called in to buttress and justify obedience . |
21 | I know of one private home in the Darlington area where a number of elderly residents would give their eye teeth to be in one or the other of the two Darlington homes being closed . |
22 | I will examine the strategies used in HARPY , HWIM and two more recent systems , SPHINX and RM1 , and discuss how each system has adapted one or the other of the basic admissible algorithms in order to reduce the potential combinatorial explosion of word string hypotheses . |
23 | A learned paper from Paris has confirmed this opinion by declaring , after an exhaustive description of my son 's genius , that there was no doubt that this child would at the age of twelve write an opera for one or the other of the Italian theatres ; but everybody thought that a German should reserve such glory for his own country alone . |
24 | Some people would argue that many applications for judicial review which are heard by courts in fact involve wider political and administrative issues ; and that the rules of evidence and procedure in such cases should be changed to allow interested third parties to ‘ intervene ’ in the proceedings and to allow relevant information to be given about the likely impact of a decision one way or the other on the administrative process and on the public at large . |
25 | In any event , they are adjusted one way or the other at the next meter reading . |
26 | Anyway , since the English language , not unlike its speakers , and the climate in which it was reared , did not necessarily adhere to the principles of predictability , even had the thought of the good Earl occurred to me , I may st ill not have surmised that it gave proof positive one way or the other re the acceptable pronunciation of the Square 's Christian name . |
27 | ‘ But something definite will happen one way or the other in the next 48 hours . ’ |
28 | It is to look at the characteristics of the land itself , rather than to associate it of necessity with the land on one side of it or the land on the other side of it . |
29 | In these days of the video camera and ‘ instant ’ processing it is possible to make memorable recordings of important local events — from rag-day parades to the church bazaar , the Remembrance Day service at the war memorial , or the opening of the new parish hall . |
30 | I did not become a Labour Member of Parliament or the Chairman of the Select Committee on Employment to work for policies that would lead to chronic mass unemployment . |