Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have no dislike of getting their feet wet , while preferring to stay dry where the easy option exists . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | … 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Scotland was divided into 5 regions and guides to them were written and published in 1935 or the following year . |
| 9 | Do these utterances refer to the illocutionary or the perlocutionary force ? |
| 10 | As shown in Fig. 2A , two footprints were observed either with the lower or the upper strand labelled . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ( ) . |
| 15 | There is a fuel advisory service , I wonder if they call themselves that or the British fuel advisory service or something ghastly . |
| 16 | ‘ Whether under the Labour or the Conservative Government , links with the Commonwealth were regarded as precluding too close links with the countries of Europe ’ ( Kitzinger , 1961 , ) . |
| 17 | It is not the purpose of this or the following chapter to present a comprehensive guide to the administration of a solicitors ' practice or to advise as to the ways in which its profitability can be increased . |
| 18 | The new work also involved the construction of a road over a quarter of a mile long but no unexpected difficulties were experienced , either with this or the realigned route of the railway . |
| 19 | The British government 's decision to upgrade its Polaris weapons by replacing them with much more powerful Tridents introduced a further tension , since it was unclear whether this or the French deterrent would be included in general East-West agreements . |
| 20 | Her throat was still painful where the other woman 's fingers had dug in to her . |
| 21 | Although reports indicate that the Soviet Union has exclusive control over Cam Ranh Bay there remains a difference in size between it and the Soviet ‘ base ’ in Alexandria until 1972 or the American base in the Philippines . |
| 22 | The media regularly feed off each other 's stories : a practice which may be defensible where the original story is an accurate one but which can otherwise lead to the dissemination of a falsehood . |
| 23 | The French ravaging of Bergen-op-Zoom in 1747 or the Russian sack of Memel ten years later are good cases in point . |
| 24 | The analysts who expressed a preference for the cash flow statement did not indicate whether they preferred the direct or the indirect method . |
| 25 | One interpretation must be that voluntary work is viewed as rather less significant , in the sense that some old person doing a little forest conservation is less likely to be as dangerous as the ancient quack prescribing cupping or the antiquated magistrate consigning culprits to the stocks . |
| 26 | It has a very local feel with its sandstone dressings , and is rendered in rough cast , a common practice in areas like this where the Silurian stone was weak . |
| 27 | That way you can always tell when an album has been made — like there 's the DX7 sound from around 1985 or the Ensoniq sound . |
| 28 | In the light of that , I am not clear where the Labour party will stand on this aspect of the Bill when we debate its Second Reading next Tuesday . |
| 29 | There are three possibilities ; people can be lost through death ( which may be a high proportion in an elderly congregation located in a retirement area ) , transfer out ( high in an old community due for demolition , or where people move in search of employment or as they are relocated or promoted ) , or reversion ( may be high where the social pressure is hostile to the church , or where church morale is at a low ebb ) . |
| 30 | That is , the duodenal mucosa became more resistant to acid after a mild acid challenge , indicating that adaptive cytoprotection occurred in rats fed the linoleic or the eicosapentaenoic acid diet as observed in the oleic diet group . |