Example sentences of "[conj] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the ‘ slice ’ considered is unaffected by , say , decreased road expenditures or health expenditures and/or the increased indirect taxes required to increase the transfers paid out , then the cash transfers misleadingly appear as a ‘ free lunch ’ . |
| 2 | There has been a political revolution in Paddock Wood in Kent , though it has got marginally less press coverage than the fall of the Berlin Wall or the failed Russian coup . |
| 3 | In response to criticism of Germany 's formal rejection of military involvement in the Gulf war , Kohl said that he aimed " to establish a clear constitutional basis in Germany " for German troops to serve outside the NATO area under the auspices of the UN or the Western European Union ( WEU ) . |
| 4 | Or the warm golden fatness of the drenched haricot beans , and the pale smoky moon ? |
| 5 | Why did the species on younger land — the Galapagos islands or the southern Patagonian plains , for instance — often resemble closely other species on the nearest older land ? |
| 6 | This being said , and allowing for the fact that much which was viewed as sexually deviant a generation ago is now viewed tolerantly if not taken for granted , a few words may be said about some practices or groups of practices which are generally recognised as deviant from either the normal object , the normal aim or the normal focal issues of sexuality . |
| 7 | Nothing much hangs on my own , so easily distracted by the swoop of a crow or the amazing bright green of raspberry leaves as the sun floods our hillside acre . |
| 8 | it would have gone to whichever region the sales manager responsible or the regional managing director |
| 9 | it would have gone to either the sales manager or the regional managing director of the Eastern region of at the time |
| 10 | Draw these parts separately on to a piece of strong wrapping paper or thin card , or you can buy a special waxed fabric like the waxed linen our grandmothers and great-grandmothers used for making braid , Irish crochet lace or the genuine fine needlepoint laces . |
| 11 | France decided not to rely upon either the Americans or the perfidious British — a reaction which was strengthened by the return to power of Charles de Gaulle ( May 1958 ) . |
| 12 | There is no offer or tender or the like given or made by the Vendor in relation to the Business which is still outstanding and capable of giving rise to a contract merely by the unilateral act of a third party . |
| 13 | In general the practice of searching wrecks for treasure is deplored by the Museum : in most cases no provision is made for properly recording where items were located ; only items of commercial value are salvaged and there is no interest in the wreck as an entity or the long-term conservation issues involved in raising perishable items such as iron and wood from the sea bed . |
| 14 | Or the eminent Welsh barrister , Roderic Bowen QC , wrestling with the problems of bilingual roadsigns ? |
| 15 | The intent of the politician was of course to create a feeling of obligation , which he undoubtedly hoped would stand him in good stead at the next election , but such feelings were all the stronger because the shrewd political manager never breathed a word about a bargain or the anticipated political return . |
| 16 | As we spent hour after hour sitting at our work-table , all curtains drawn to intensify our concentration beneath the old-fashioned fringed standard lamp , he would from time to time ease his buttocks and balls , pulling and tugging on the firm seams of the taut , well-worn jeans or the well-rubbed brown needle cords , scratching and stroking himself idly , as if unselfconsciously in the most private places with those delicate fingers with the bitten nails and his big , warm palms . |
| 17 | As time went on and I knew that I had a fight on my hands , healing became as important to me as my new diet or the other new therapies . |
| 18 | A year ago it was assumed that either he or the other Young Pretender , Tony Blair , would succeed to the leadership if Neil Kinnock stood down . |
| 19 | In the course of these policies , one or the other restrictive practice has been singled out as the root cause of our ills — resale price maintenance , clearing banks ' cartel , trade unions — the cry has been for their removal . |
| 20 | The South African was looking for this patterning , to ensure they had not been foisted off with sand-blasted bottle-glass or the other principal substitute , cubic zirconia . |
| 21 | She stared until it was hard to know which was herself — the disconsolate woman in the chill room or the other sorrowful face in the night outside . |
| 22 | The manufacturer is likely to prefer one or the other depending upon the nature of uncertainty and the risk preferences of retailers . |
| 23 | Serve with tortillas or the other Mexican dishes . |
| 24 | Moreover , the symbol of Einstein is different from the symbol of ‘ neurosis ’ , or the other psychoanalytic terms studied by Moscovici ( 1976 ) , in that it is a representation not of scientific concepts , but of science itself . |
| 25 | The big glass and the notes for the big glass , he wrote , not the big glass by itself and the notes by themselves , the big glass and the notes for the big glass , the notes for the big glass and the big glass , he wrote , never the one alone or the other alone , for neither by itself has any meaning , neither by itself will have any force , but always both together , not as text and gloss , not as image and caption , but always as exchange and delay , mirror and reflection . |
| 26 | Indeed , we can find sedentary spiders like the webless , but sedentary , bolas spider , Mastophora , or the unrelated tangle-web spider , Tidarren , where males have undergone runaway evolution for dwarfism and mature inside the egg sac , clearly a derived character . |
| 27 | The Argus should stick to printing what it knows best , like the annual flower show or the quaint old custom of rolling the vicar under a bus . |
| 28 | I wonder if I could have belonged to revolutionary movements , even if they were as just as — I find the panthers ' movement and the Palestinians ' movement to be very just — but this belonging , this sympathizing with them is at the same time dictated by the erotic charge which the Arab world in its totality or the black American world represents to me , to my sexuality . |
| 29 | Try to track down more details of either the EEC Standard Industrial Classification or the International Statistical Classification of Diseases than are given in Section 6.4.1. ( you may be lucky enough to have a sight of the complete listings or you may have to scan EEC or World Health Organization publications for information . ) |
| 30 | One of the potentially most significant developments in the period of glasnost and perestroika was the setting up of a constitutional review committee which could comment on the constitutional legality of legislation passed by the Congress of People 's Deputies or the Supreme Soviet and decrees issued by the President . |