Example sentences of "the [adj] or [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all cases , then , whether the infinitive evokes the possible or the real actualization of its event , the person of the to infinitive is referred to two positions in time , one before , one coinciding with this event 's place in time . |
| 2 | The time has come when the fact ought to be generally admitted that the amount of government … which is necessary to the welfare or even to the existence of a civilised community , can not permanently co-exist with the effective belief that deference to public opinion is in all cases the sole or the necessary basis of a democracy . |
| 3 | However , what does seem to me to be both dangerous and impermissible is the judicial superimposition , under the guise of statutory construction , of a principle , supposedly based on some parliamentary intention nowhere expressed , that genuine transactions carried out in conformity with unequivocal statutory provisions are to be annulled or rendered ineffective because undertaken with either the sole or the predominant motive of obtaining the fiscal benefits which those provisions confer . |
| 4 | As shown in Fig. 2A , two footprints were observed either with the lower or the upper strand labelled . |
| 5 | … by far the most powerful weapon at the command of the League of Nations is not the economic or the military weapon or any other weapons of material force . |
| 6 | ‘ Whether under the Labour or the Conservative Government , links with the Commonwealth were regarded as precluding too close links with the countries of Europe ’ ( Kitzinger , 1961 , ) . |
| 7 | Do these utterances refer to the illocutionary or the perlocutionary force ? |
| 8 | In Britain , where the top 10 house-builders dominate the output of new private houses , it has traditionally been either the rich or the enthusiastic DIY brigade who forged ahead with their own individual home building . |
| 9 | But the 700,000 refugees perched on either the Iraqi or the Turkish side of the mountain frontier are slow to be tempted down . |
| 10 | That is , the duodenal mucosa became more resistant to acid after a mild acid challenge , indicating that adaptive cytoprotection occurred in rats fed the linoleic or the eicosapentaenoic acid diet as observed in the oleic diet group . |
| 11 | The analysts who expressed a preference for the cash flow statement did not indicate whether they preferred the direct or the indirect method . |
| 12 | From a production point of view , it can either be obtained ready-made from a music ‘ library ’ , or be specially recorded — whether it is music composed for the commercial or an existing piece . |
| 13 | The Tudor Lord Chancellors and Lord Keepers were all trained in the civil or the common law ; and some of them — Wolsey , More , Gardiner , Nicholas Bacon , and Egerton — were outstandingly able . ’ |
| 14 | Once a decision has been reached by the housing authority which gives rise to the temporary , the limited or the full housing duty , rights and obligations are immediately created in the field of private law . |
| 15 | The complexity of rural development everywhere , whether in the developed or the developing world , is not always realised . |
| 16 | Mr Berisha has no rival in either the Democratic or the Socialist Party . |
| 17 | It followed , therefore , that if the Labour Government was to secure acceptance of its economic package , it had to secure the support of MPs from either the Liberal or the Conservative party . |
| 18 | Do these words refer to the actual expense incurred by the school in providing the benefit or do they refer to the hypothetical expense incurred by the school arrived at by the formula of dividing the total cost of running the school by the number of pupils attending it or to put it more shortly do they refer to the additional or the average cost of the provision of the benefit . |
| 19 | Circumstances which may lead to chronic grief or clinging , for instance , included a previous ambivalent relationship with the deceased or a previous relationship in which the survivor felt either inferior or insecure . |
| 20 | ‘ Nine times out of ten we do not know the deceased or the grieving family . |
| 21 | To quote Kurt Vonnegut in Bluebeard : ‘ In the movies back then , just about any big-nosed person whose ancestors came from the shores of the Mediterranean or the Near East , if he could act at little , could play a rampaging Sioux or whatever . |
| 22 | Motionless , unmindful of the cold or the swirling fog , he watched the man below , waiting for boredom to slacken his concentration and make him careless . |
| 23 | There were some striking differences among the non-right handers with lesions of the right hemisphere , depending on whether the left or the right hand was used for writing . |
| 24 | The important thing to realise is that you should follow the shaping instructions from either the left or the right side of the diagram . |
| 25 | He found it hard to remember whether you had to position yourself on the left or the right side . |
| 26 | This is not merely a question of allocative efficiency , which we might answer by considering the resources tied up in looking after the sick or the extra output that healthier workers could produce . |
| 27 | In place of the great Moscow or Kolomna merchant , the Nizhny Novogorod miller , the Moscow flax or hemp-factory owner , the large export wholesaler , and the old ‘ flour dealers ’ , the railroad stations now swarmed with a mass of small traders , exporters , and commission merchants , all buying grain , hemp , hides , lard , sheepskin , down and bristles — in a word , everything bound for either the domestic or the foreign market . |
| 28 | The object of the present volume is : to indicate the character and approximately , the extent of the changes produced by human action in the physical condition of the globe we inhabit ; to point out the dangers of imprudence and the necessity of caution in all operations which , on a large scale , interfere with the spontaneous arrangements of the organic or the inorganic world ; to suggest the possibility and the importance of the restoration of disturbed harmonies and the material improvement of waste and exhausted regions ; and incidentally , to illustrate the doctrine , that man is , in both kind and degree , a power of a higher order than any of the other forms of animated life , which , like him , are nourished at the table of bounteous nature . |
| 29 | In each case students registered for the module in the current or a future term must be counselled about and registered for viable alternative programmes . |
| 30 | Even those who do not exemplify the cynical or the blasé attitude tend towards a certain reservation in their social relations which barely conceals an aversion to direct personal contact ( 1978 : 331 ) . |