Example sentences of "[art] [adj] and [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the normal and primary way of justifying the legitimacy of an authority is that it is more likely to act successfully on the reasons which apply to its subjects then it is hard to resist the dependence thesis . |
| 2 | It merely states that the normal and primary justification of any authority has to establish that it is qualified to follow with some degree of success the principles which should govern the decisions of all authorities . |
| 3 | Throughout the Bible private property is the normal and accepted form of ownership and there is no conflict between trusteeship and private property rights . |
| 4 | All in all , it was still impossible to predict that , within six years of the 1911 national transport stoppage , Wilson 's vision of a joint union-Shipping Federation board would be imposed on the industry and that within nine years it would have been accepted voluntarily by the Federation as the normal and accepted method of conducting business with Wilson and his colleagues . |
| 5 | Actually what is now taken to be the normal and basic meaning of the English word " family " is far removed from the meaning it carried in earlier times when the economic basis of English society was different . |
| 6 | In many central African societies indeed , accusations of witchcraft ( or sorcery ) provide the normal and expected accompaniment to the break-up and dissolution of previously united kinship groups . |
| 7 | In this method , the phase difference between the phases from the normal and anomalous scattering in the structure is estimated by measuring Bijvoet pairs for a reflection at two or more wavelengths . |
| 8 | ‘ a system of ideas and practices based on a set of beliefs about heterosexuality being the normal and natural sexuality for both women and men , and all other sexual practices , in particular homosexuality , being deviant . |
| 9 | The Commanders having in person executed the covetous part of Sacrilege , they leave the destructive and spoiling part to be finished by the common soldiers ; [ who ] broke down the organs and dashing the pipes with their pole-axes , scoffingly said ‘ hark how the organs go ’ . |
| 10 | Though they adopt the confusing and misleading distinction between normative theory and empirical theory , Duncan and Lukes argue cogently against Dahl that classical democratic theory is not invalidated by modern sociological findings since their ideals can logically contrast with facts without being invalidated by empirical research , which does not in any obvious way call for their general revision' . |
| 11 | The confusing and contradictory nature of the medical evidence comes over even more clearly when one examines the findings of the later waves of evacuation , for in these the Board of Education and Ministry of Health , anxious not to repeat their mistakes of September 1939 , did intervene more actively . |
| 12 | In scene four , Anderson 's uneasiness is ultimately of his own making , but in scene six it is the confusing and confrontational nature of the speech situation he finds himself in which unnerves him . |
| 13 | His pen-and-ink drawings provided Minton with unrelieved amusement , as Lyttelton has recalled : Humphrey Lyttelton 's presence at Camberwell helped make it a centre for the beginnings of ‘ trad ’ , a jazz revival which replaced ‘ the polite and effete noise which had hitherto passed for genuine jazz ’ with a new vitality and energy . |
| 14 | Daryl Fowler of The Conservation Practice commented ‘ The cultural spine of the Fatimid and Ayyubid city has been badly damaged and repair and conservation programmes , long needed in Cairo , are now increasingly urgent ’ . |
| 15 | The painstaking and unbiased work of the Royal Commission , the failure of the 1957 alternative , the well-directed flow of abolitionist propaganda , and the reliance on factual evidence as well as moral arguments , in particular the recognition that mistakes could , and in all probability had occurred , led to the progressive conversion of Parliamentary opinion . |
| 16 | The ideal vaccine for the prevention of tuberculosis in both the uninfected and infected person may be a non-pathogenic rapidly growing mycobacterium such as M vaccae . |
| 17 | The method of line fitting adopted in this chapter involves joining two typical points : the X -axis is roughly divided into three parts , conditional summary points for X and Y are found in each of the end thirds , and then a line is drawn connecting the right-hand and left-hand summary points . |
| 18 | Firstly , it has the opportunity to combine successfully , in its dual focus , the short-term and long-term library and information needs of the school users it is instructing : schoolchildren using the public library will one day use it as adults . |
| 19 | Always differentiate between the short-term and long-term investment pay-offs . |
| 20 | Fees for the Junior and Senior School are payable either by lump sum on or before 5th September 1992 , for which an advance payment allowance of 4 ½%; will be granted , or by ten monthly instalments on the fifth day of each month from September to June inclusive under Direct Debit Mandate . |
| 21 | He ‘ saw ’ himself , ludicrously ill-dressed for the narrow and rock-tumbled track , gaping like a foppish caricature of the Lake Tourist : but that did not unsettle him . |
| 22 | According to the narrow and uncontroversial version of the doctrine ( to which most other democratic countries , including the Netherlands , subscribe ) it simply requires that governments should not try to influence the decision of the courts in an individual case . |
| 23 | The general muddle was discussed in Chapter 6.2(c) above : in principle , a person whose conduct was caused by mental disorder should not be liable to criminal conviction , but in practice the narrow and antiquated defence of insanity is rarely invoked in England ( a handful of cases each year ) , and the courts normally proceed to conviction and then select a medical disposal where appropriate . |
| 24 | It has led not only to the preservation and publication of documents — in the narrow and conventional sense of the term — on a colossal scale , in an age when they are more plentiful than ever before , but also to the reverential preservation of monuments from the more distant past by learned societies , governments and interested private persons . |
| 25 | Or , you can carry on up the narrow and beautiful Nive valley to the village of Esterençuby . |
| 26 | The problem was the narrow and old-fashioned character of the traditional industrial base and the states ' solution was to modernize and diversify ( see North Tyneside CDP , 1978b ) . |
| 27 | The political parties of the narrow and fragmented centre of the political spectrum , from which all governments had to be drawn , were agreed only on the fundamental issue of preserving the Fourth Republic : they had , as it were , reserved their right to disagree on everything else . |
| 28 | Unfortunately this debate has revealed the narrow and naive view held by the Conservative party — illustrated graphically by the hon. Member for Stockton , South ( Mr. Devlin ) . |
| 29 | They pointed to the solidity and height of the buildings raised on the land — ; the broad and fragrant house at Belmont where Kit Everard was now living , the smaller , but equally sturdy dwelling of Tom Ingledew on the opposite bank , of James Lariot around the bay . |
| 30 | But he knew that he was right and , much more , he felt that he was good , that he had been given this chance to act well , that he must take it and to take it would get him off on a new and better path ; while to succumb would be the broad and easy road to hell . |