Example sentences of "to [coord] [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For both these reasons we need to think not in terms of individual possible worlds but of groups of possible worlds , all worlds in a group being equally close to or distant from the actual one . |
| 2 | As Neil MacCormick has observed : ‘ It remains a contested issue whether an aspiration to justice is to be treated as essential to or definitive of the legal enterprise in all its manifestations , or is to be distinguished as a specially urgent demand issued in the name of critical morality . ’ |
| 3 | It 's like being lectured to and bored at the same time . |
| 4 | It was a curious conceit of imperial memoirists of the time to claim that their labours were unknown to and unappreciated by the British public . |
| 5 | It so happened that in 1885 a Royal Commission had been set up " to investigate and report upon , the condition of the blind in the United Kingdom , the various systems of education of the blind … the employments open to and suitable for the blind and the means by which education may be extended so as to increase the number of blind persons qualified for such employments . " |
| 6 | The older definitions all revolve around the element of law or right , and rest the force of a claim ( whether it be a claim to political power or to the validity of a conclusion in an argument ) upon foundations external to and independent of the mere assertion or opinion of the claimant ( e.g. the laws of inheritance , the laws of logic ) . |
| 7 | The mammoth was related to but distinct from the modern elephants , and therefore it must be an extinct species of the same genus . |