Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have a particular problem , please tell the tour escort or representative and/or the Hotel Reception Desk at the time so that , if possible , it can be dealt with there and then . |
| 2 | It is suggested that pupils choose a person whose Christian commitment has led him/her to work for the good of others , thus making a link with the Christian vocation to alleviate suffering and/or the work of Christians in relation to respect for human life ( both indicated in L.0.2 ) . |
| 3 | It was only in the more enlightened judgments that it was held that resistance was unnecessary where the complainant was overcome by fear . |
| 4 | ( f ) Insurance If the matrimonial home is in the sole name of the husband then it is best to change the insurance arrangements once agreement is reached or the court order made ; the husband may neglect or to be unnecessary where the property already stands in the joint names of husband and wife and a separate declaration of trust is made . |
| 5 | The transnational capitalist class is a bridge between the nation-state and the global system and the more assiduously it brings transnational practices into what were once the realm of the regional or the national , then the more faithfully it serves the interests of the system . |
| 6 | The alternative version has the same two properties together making up a property complex that is applied to the immediately adjacent subject of the sentence ; moreover in both cases the complex as a whole is assigned syntactically to the subject E ; the sole difference is in the matter of which property is taken as " senior " to the other within the bounds of the complex , as in ( 63 ) , and in such a case this will produce an infinitesimal semantic difference : ( 63 ) However this sort of syntactic trading is only possible where the language contains suitable lexical items ; it must have an adverb and verb with the appropriate meanings ; thus , in the absence of an adverb equivalent to after a change and a verb meaning to be orange , for instance , English can not offer such an alternative for ( 64 ) : ( 64 ) in spring , their skin turns orange 5.8 The range of verbs which can occur with postverbal adjectives is in fact quite wide . |
| 7 | That is only possible where the signer can establish ( a ) that he/she signed the document without negligence and ( b ) that he/she mistakenly thought he/she was signing a document of a fundamentally different type from that actually signed ( Saunders v Anglia BS [ 1971 ] AC 1004 ) . |
| 8 | He gropes mentally , ‘ straining every nerve in an agonised attempt to divine as quickly as Possible where the trap lay ’ . |
| 9 | The basic principle of law is that assignment of a contract is not possible where the identity of the assignor is an important factor for the other party to the contract either as a reason for his entering into the contract in the first place , or because it is for some reason significant for the proper discharge of the contract . |
| 10 | The Criminal Law Revision Committee disagreed , recommending that a verdict of manslaughter should be possible where the use of some force was justified by the occasion and where D honestly believed that the force he used was reasonable in the circumstances . |
| 11 | In this context , dominant means prevailing or the majority view . |
| 12 | Now it 's one thing to say well , you know , perhaps these are women who take more exception than other women would do , but there comes a point where you have to accept , I think , that there 's going to be a shift of perspective , that what women have customarily put up with is no longer what they wish to put up and that I think we ought to be , as it were , acknowledged to have the right or the scope to say we want things to change , and to define or to set out in a process of defining what should be sexual appropriate sexual behaviour in future . |
| 13 | If the chips are n't right or the batter mix is n't quite what it should be , he lets us know , ’ he said . |
| 14 | Is it the one of the right or the left or one that 's got his finger in . |
| 15 | Is that on the right or the left ? |
| 16 | VAT will not be due if the vessel is a pleasure craft over eight years old on 1 January 1993 , or when the VAT due is negligible ( for UK purposes it will not be due where the vessel is worth less than £4,000 ) . |
| 17 | There was no one in the stable or the yard , but when she came close to the back door she could hear voices from the kitchen . |
| 18 | The formal social care providing agencies are divided into various categories either by the type of agency involved , public or private or the location of care , institution or domiciliary . |
| 19 | • A free-running rhythm with a period greater than 24 hours ( because the time-cues were too weak or the subject was unable to receive or respond to them adequately ) ; |
| 20 | If a secured creditor omits to disclose his security in his proof of debt , he must surrender it for the general benefit of creditors unless the court relieves him on the ground that omission was inadvertent or the result of honest mistake ( r 6.116 ) . |
| 21 | Where retirement relief is also claimed , the agreement of the market value will be deferred , unless requested by the claimants , until it is necessary to determine either the amount of the retirement relief due or the transferee 's cost of the asset . |
| 22 | The problem with tied bars is particularly acute where the bar is linked to the number two blond beer , Anker , which has its own black beer , Anker stout . |
| 23 | If the system is used to derive advice for a professional to use in the execution of his duties , the ultimate recipient of the advice may find that he has a right of action against the professional or the system developer ( or even the independent experts and knowledge engineers engaged by the system developer ) . |
| 24 | forced mergers of sole practitioners are not in the interest of the professional or the public ; |
| 25 | Many colleges , particularly those designated as Tertiary where the relationship is closer , ordinarily describe the 11–16 high schools with which they work as ‘ partner ’ schools , rather than the unhelpfully condescending term ‘ feeder ’ schools . |
| 26 | Then in the 18th century , either the choir was awful or the weather was awful , er nobody 's too sure which , but they then settled for just seeing the one thing they knew by memory which was this Eucharistic hymn : Todaym Parchym that they sang in the hall every night as a grace , and that 's how it 's gone on . |
| 27 | Involvement in a meeting is a " spiritual " process : it is not simply mental , educational , emotional or the process of providing group support , although there are elements of all of these . |
| 28 | This nowhere land has neither the benefit of distance from Chicago to either become agricultural or the proximity to be wholly relevant . |
| 29 | There is obviously a marked difference between the strategic and finance approaches , but they are not mutually exclusive : the one is strong where the other is weak . |
| 30 | Intentionally or not , Sharp 's collection was strong where the museum 's was weak ; among his treasures were an exceedingly rare Adam Elsheimer copper of ‘ The flight into Egypt ’ , Annibale Carracci 's ‘ Boy drinking ’ ( the primary version of the ex-Ellesmere canvas now in a private collection , Zurich ) , Giovanni Gerolamo Savoldo 's ‘ Boy with a flute ’ , Guido Reni and G.A . |