Example sentences of "[subord] the [adj] [conj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does n't matter what you 're up against , who 's being unfair or where the financial and emotional pressure is coming from this week . |
| 2 | If , for example , I am engaged in reading a text on a subject in which I am well versed ( where the ideational or content schema is familiar ) , which has been written in a manner conventionally associated with writing on this subject ( where the interpersonal or formal schema is familiar ) , then I shall only need to pay attention to the linguistic signs to the extent that they key in this schematic knowledge and indicate how it is to be extended . |
| 3 | Evolution as a ladder of progression , where the tiny and simple aggregate together over time to become the large and complex . |
| 4 | If , for example , I am engaged in reading a text on a subject in which I am well versed ( where the ideational or content schema is familiar ) , which has been written in a manner conventionally associated with writing on this subject ( where the interpersonal or formal schema is familiar ) , then I shall only need to pay attention to the linguistic signs to the extent that they key in this schematic knowledge and indicate how it is to be extended . |
| 5 | " Conspiracy to injure " is another civil wrong which can be invoked against media falsehoods although it requires proof of an agreement where the sole or dominant purpose is to injure the plaintiff . |
| 6 | But , where the substantial or only ground for impeaching the instrument is misunderstanding or want of understanding of its contents or effect , the amount of reliance placed by the creditor upon the husband for the purpose of informing his wife of what she was about must be of great importance . |
| 7 | This is clear from a passage in Dixon J. 's judgment where he is dealing with the second class of case : ‘ But , where the substantial or only ground for impeaching the instrument is misunderstanding or want of understanding of its contents or effect , the amount of reliance placed by the creditor upon the husband for the purpose of informing his wife of what she was about must be of great importance . ’ |
| 8 | There are powerful arguments in favour of saying that there are other killings where an intent to kill can not be established , and yet where the moral or social culpability is equal to that in most intentional killings . |
| 9 | ( Evidence of the effectiveness of small strikes was seen in the Gulf War where the careful and strategic destruction of the enemies ' forces came into its own . ) |
| 10 | In the two schools in which I spent much of my working life ( one as head , one as assistant teacher responsible for physical education ) the broad aims were almost identical and may be summed up as follows : the creation of a living community of children in which the Arts , music , painting and poetry flourished ; where social awareness came before selfish intolerance ; where the written and spoken word was valued as a means to a more distant educational end rather than as an end in itself ; where understanding of number was regarded as more important than the ability to manipulate figures . |
| 11 | The polar regions , the high glaciated mountains and the deserts seem to have attracted explorers far more than the equatorial and tropical rain forests . |
| 12 | However , they can still be useful for organizations in the throes of change , marker buoys in rough seas , navigational aids rather than the one and only route to take . |
| 13 | Before , she had understood his choice in a theoretical fashion ; now she was seeing what that choice meant , and how hard he tried for his poor patients , and for such little return other than the simple and offered faith of the poor , suffering girl on the bed . |
| 14 | It used to have less unemployment than the regional or national average . |
| 15 | However , the relevance of these technical , physical and economic problems to development is discussed infinitely more frequently than the political and social context in which they are found . |
| 16 | The Nonconformists also had reason to feel disappointed , since the relief granted was considerably less than the civil and religious liberty which they had enjoyed towards the end of James 's reign . |
| 17 | In almost every respect , they posed less of a menace than the civil and racial violence which he advocated and assisted as Mosley 's Director of Propaganda . |
| 18 | Perhaps the status of the collection , filled with classic modern masters ( Picasso , Braque , Gris and Leger ) , all now ensconced in the art-historical pantheon , seemed more reassuring than the overinflated and uncertain status of last week 's contemporary art ( see p. 17 ) . |
| 19 | Just as at Henry VIII 's death in 1547 , what was at stake in 1542 was nothing less than the religious and political future of the kingdom ; and that was entirely uncertain . |
| 20 | It is the effort and pressure which the bowel-wall muscle has to exert in propelling onward the firm faeces produced by a Western diet ( rather than the soft and voluminous matter produced by fibre-rich diets ) which has been found to be the cause of this illness . |
| 21 | The ‘ necessity ’ sought was not that of Newton 's grand mechanical scheme of iron laws and inescapable forces but was strong enough to sustain the thought that the international system is more than the constant and regular behaviour of its parts . |
| 22 | I did , however , manage to persuade Bantam to use a better photograph on the British edition than the miserable and out-of-date photo used on the American edition . |
| 23 | And a fresh , even an iconoclastic , influence , even a little healthy rivalry , could be more effective operationally than the collusive and macho freemasonry which frequently bound together a team of all male officers . |
| 24 | There was nothing the big , anxious woman could do to investigate the matter further and although she played the beam of the torch on every inch visible to her , she could n't see whatever it was that might have made her daughter scream other than the damp and secret darkness of the place . |
| 25 | It may be that the central significance of modern manifestations of the humanist impulse is to be found at the practical rather than the methodological or theoretical level . |
| 26 | He had clearly emerged from a rougher mould than the well-mannered and smooth-tongued Golding . |
| 27 | Although the imperial and colonial railway companies discovered that Indians and Africans desired to travel in large numbers and contributed the bulk of passenger earnings , little money was spent on their comforts . |
| 28 | Although the unquestionable and striking originality , particularly of the last two buildings , made this a valid assessment in 1900 , Townsend never again produced anything of equal quality . |
| 29 | Knill added that although the commercial and strategic logic for the Thorp project had collapsed with the end of the cold war , it might still be needed to help nations that could not cope with their own nuclear waste . |
| 30 | When services were concentrated in large hospitals , it was possible for good managers to keep a watchful eye open for the danger signals , and although the physical and emotional environment may not have been of high quality , most residents would be properly fed and clothed and protected from abuse . |