Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A decree published by the High Committee of State ( HCE ) on Aug. 15 gave the authorities additional powers to order the suspension or closure of any enterprise the activities of which " endanger public order , public security , the normal functioning of institutions or the higher interests of the country " . |
| 2 | He should not overrate his resources , the goodness of his debts or the probable sale of his merchandise . |
| 3 | Clearly you would n't write in the same way for the Sun as you would for the Times or the Financial Times or the Guardian , or the Cambridge local paper . |
| 4 | She did n't read the English Times or the Irish Times , which were the only two papers that came into the house . |
| 5 | This may have been the situation at the time of Domesday Book and it may be that a nucleated village was not established until late Saxon times or the twelfth century . |
| 6 | Whilst it described an ‘ Internal Market ’ where ‘ [ … ] the district health authority operates much like the Health Maintenance Organisation in America ; here the patient and GP may have less choice concerning where treatment is obtained because the health authority will make its own assessment of value for money services from other authorities or the private sector ’ , it also pointed out that there is another totally different model being advocated under the generic term ‘ Internal Market ’ , that is ‘ Automatic and immediate cross-boundary flow reimbursernent ’ , which it states ‘ carries the internal market concept to its full fruition , involving transferring the initiative from the planners and treasurers , to the market customers ( i.e. patients ) and their advisers ( i.e. GPs ) with money following the patient ’ . |
| 7 | They may recommend a structure based on unitary authorities or the present two-tier arrangements . |
| 8 | If some companies are incorporated in ( for example ) Spain , Italy , Germany or Finland which set of accounts are to be warranted : the legal ( tax-based ) accounts or the internal management ( business-based ) accounts ? |
| 9 | Even the most basic multi-language signs or the occasional ‘ Guten tag ’ will create goodwill and develop future business . |
| 10 | The objects or concepts referred to are known as signs or the signified , while the words ( written or spoken ) are called signifiers . |
| 11 | China went one stage further when on signature it ‘ reserve[d] its right to reconsider these obligations if other nuclear weapon states or the contracting parties to the Treaty take any action in gross violation of the Treaty ’ . |
| 12 | Studies of aid projects have tended to focus on the results of such projects and have lacked detailed analysis of what preceded the projects or the political and bureaucratic factors which have led to a project being implemented or abandoned . |
| 13 | Not many are accessible with binoculars , and to see the ring forms or the central stars means using a telescope . |
| 14 | Hundreds gather on the platforms at Hof station , Bavaria , holding sheets of paper with names aloft on sticks , anxiously scanning the faces of the crowds pouring out of the trains , just as Germans did when millions fled before the advancing Russians or the avenging Poles and Czechs at the end of the war . |
| 15 | to report to parents , employers or the next stage of education ; |
| 16 | It is certainly true that during the course of this century professionals have increasingly become employees , rather than being employers or the self-employed . |
| 17 | As in the case of the early home-grown British firms , many of the Big Four's consultants were of the first two types of headhunter we have identified : either the aristocrat with the old-boy network contacts or the practical selection and management consultant type whose experience was more in personnel than commerce and industry . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | FTC could probably make the idea work without coverage of the 22 Premier League clubs or the European Cup mini-leagues , but it would be impossible to do so without the co-operation of the Football League clubs unloaded by the Premier League as , ironically , an impediment to their progress . |
| 20 | In my day we had taxis or Beetles or the old-style Escorts and Australians always had VW Dormobiles . |
| 21 | Wherever CT scans or the new MRI scans or even ultrasound scans are involved in the management of patients , the images can be transferred down an image link . |
| 22 | Even when a discharge is discovered , it is sometimes very difficult to establish where the other end of the pipe is : town plans or the other records which comprise the organizational memory are often incomplete or out of date , while physically tracing the effluent can involve the time-consuming and hazardous task of lifting manholes in the middle of city streets while filling sample buckets , proceeding by trial and error to narrow down the possible sources of pollution . |
| 23 | It 's a friendly rolling dale , green and fertile , yet with limestone scars , gritstone crags and high ridges , giving miles of walking along the high wild peaks or the gentler riverside paths . |
| 24 | ‘ They come and go , so it pays to deal with a member of a professional body , such as the NAEA , the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors or the Incorporated Society of Valuers and Auctioneers . |
| 25 | The relevant conditions of engagement may be either those of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors or the Incorporated Society of Valuers and Auctioneers . |
| 26 | One only has to note the impressive erudition manipulated by the likes of Borges , Cortázar , Carpentier or Fuentes or the intertextual references that abound in the new narrative to realize that the Spanish-American writer has long since ceased to be a provincial and is now very much a citizen of the world . |
| 27 | The SWD-funded school provides 24 places for children referred by children 's hearings , courts or the Scottish Secretary . |
| 28 | References to the House of Lords would be available following a decision of the Court of Appeal , but could also be allowed from either the county courts or the High Court where the Attorney-General was satisfied that the criteria for the grant of a certificate under Part II of the Administration of Justice Act 1969 were met . |
| 29 | The apparently fragmented organization of the state apparatus represents not polyarchic pressures but rather the outcome of intra-state conflicts or the deliberate fragmentation and disorganisation of policy-making by state officials . |
| 30 | M. F. D. Young has pointed out that , while scientists of different persuasions can be said to form a professional group sharing assumptions and methodologies , the same is not by any means true of the humanities or the social sciences . |