Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ever since its first exhibition in 1948 , which brought works by De Chirico , Man Ray , Picasso , Francis Bacon and others to the public attention , the ICA has risen to the challenge of supporting the innovative or the unfamiliar with considerable energy . |
| 2 | They have no dislike of getting their feet wet , while preferring to stay dry where the easy option exists . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The LAW 's main function is ‘ to make development land available as quickly as possible where the private sector finds it difficult to complete transactions ’ . |
| 7 | I was feeling a bit pissed off : I was sore where the fickle Shelly had left her mark and I was distinctly peckish . |
| 8 | The characteristic stylistic tic ‘ tout se passe comme si ’ puts their discourse technically into the mode of the hypothetical or the fictional , reflecting ‘ this curious paradox , the ardent desire for a system and the basic scepticism about all systems ’ ( 614 ) . |
| 9 | The notions of men and women as economic beings , or political beings , are discarded by global capitalism , quite logically , as the system does not even pretend to satisfy everyone in the economic or the political spheres . |
| 10 | … 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 . |
| 11 | It will not be dishonest where the accused believes he had a right in law to the property or that he would have the other 's consent to take the property . |
| 12 | For this reason , poverty is closer to our true condition than the much-admired qualities of the rich or the powerful . |
| 13 | Finally abandoning M3 , the medium-term financial strategy , and other totems , he strongly urged major cuts in public expenditure and extensive cuts in personal taxation to offer incentives for the rich or the would-be rich . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Scotland was divided into 5 regions and guides to them were written and published in 1935 or the following year . |
| 16 | Do these utterances refer to the illocutionary or the perlocutionary force ? |
| 17 | As shown in Fig. 2A , two footprints were observed either with the lower or the upper strand labelled . |
| 18 | It has been suggested above that where the true owner of goods can not be involved in the proceedings the common law rule that a mere possessory interest entitles the plaintiff to recover the full value of the goods against a wrongdoer still applies . |
| 19 | The problem is particularly acute where the dynamic competition involves investment in risky R&D : the market power it confers is the incentive for undertaking the investment . |
| 20 | In speech we frequently use reference words such as the demonstratives this and that or the personal pronouns , he , she , it to point to persons or objects present and therefore known to the participants . |
| 21 | This Act of 1806 may well have given young Ben the final push he needed : in that or the following year he packed his bags for good , waved his loving sisters a fond farewell , and set off for London , fame and fortune . |
| 22 | It was dreadful while you could n't remember what time tea break was , or what time breakfast was , or what time you were meant to line up for this , that or the other , or what time doses [ handing out medication ] was . |
| 23 | Er you ca n't imagine this I do n't suppose , but nevertheless it 's true and in a time , the men in the shop they was mass-production , you know what I mean and they wanted this or that or the other , well I had the authority to go down the machine shop and tell them , look here , so and so wants this you do that . |
| 24 | He was very friendly with erm who was in charge of the Extra Mural Board and erm then possibly because of this connection erm we were asked by the erm Ministry of Defence to provide lectures and courses for erm units of H M Forces stationed in the area and erm so a panel of lecturers was erm formed and erm they used to go out , the , the units used to have their own Education Officers , usually a sergeant or perhaps a second lieutenant and erm they used to come into the office and say that they 'd like somebody to go out to their Searchlight Unit or A A Unit stationed somewhere out in the sticks and er lecture on this that or the other and erm we were supposed to try and fix them up and erm the panel erm , it had quite a number of erm people on it that erm , I ca n't remember who they all were , I know that erm you 'd hardly believe this but there was a chap named Mr and another chap named Mr |
| 25 | Where the parenthetical term in ( 7–38 ) is positive ( sufficient conditions for which are that or the gross factor price of capital in the corporate sector rises ( falls ) , and this increases the equilibrium firm size where fixed costs are relatively capital-intensive ( ) . |
| 26 | There is a fuel advisory service , I wonder if they call themselves that or the British fuel advisory service or something ghastly . |
| 27 | The expectation of an open offer and clawback from shareholders may be strong where the new shares being issued represent a significant proportion of the existing issued shares of the bidder or are being offered at a significant discount to their current market price . |
| 28 | A vote for Labour or the Liberal Democrats will take Mr Kinnock to Downing Street tomorrow . |
| 29 | Asked who they thought had ‘ campaigned most impressively ’ , the great majority of voters cited Labour or the Liberal Democrats . |
| 30 | Individually , judges may support the Conservative or the Labour or the Liberal parties . |