Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [adj] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not much use arriving somewhere at ten in the morning clutching the collected works under your arm and wishing you had a wig and been born thirty years earlier in order to play Lear — or for that matter the Duke of Gloucester . |
| 2 | What was he thinking now , or for that matter the parents of any youngsters in the vicinity ? |
| 3 | To believe the brochures , or for that matter the cover of the South American Handbook with its exotic bright orange cock of the rock ( Rupicola rupicola ) , is to be disappointed . |
| 4 | Schubert and Schumann could whimsically be described as poets , but calling Horowitz a poet is as silly as calling Lawrence Olivier a poet , or for that matter the builders who followed Wren 's drawings and erected St. Paul 's Cathedral . |
| 5 | The feet being wide apart means that he can not move his feet properly to the short , or for that matter the full-length , delivery . |
| 6 | If the shampoo-swilling celebrants of the City , or for that matter the likes of true-blue Sheppard , think for a moment that this man is likely to preside over unfettered mergers and acquisitions activity in the recalcitrant manner of his 12 predecessors since 1979 , they are hopelessly wide of the mark . |
| 7 | Gandhi and Nehru , Mandela and Mugabe , or for that matter the late Zulfikhar Bhutto , who complained about the absence of a sense of Pakistani nationhood , are or were not nationalists in the sense of Landsbergis or Tudjman . |
| 8 | As are considerations that go a step beyond them , such as a policeman 's attitude to his wife and family ( he is stopped from going off duty at the time his wife expects : what will be her reaction ? ) or an unmarried policeman 's love life , or for that matter the love life of a policeman who is cheating on his wife . |
| 9 | Erm you have n't had the the figures of the local authorities erm on that or for that matter the public at large which I think is important . |
| 10 | As is unhappily all too apparent to the student of human nature , purely conscious intentions , even when whole-heartedly adhered to , are ready subject matter for forgetting , for mistakes , or for plain abandonment the moment something more interesting or more desirable comes along . |
| 11 | The idea that stories should always show the ideal would soon , one feels , convince young readers that literature is not about life , or about any life the reader knows . |
| 12 | Turning from or onto northerly headings the compass will give an indication of a turn in the opposite direction . |
| 13 | This is one field of higher education where in some cases the fees from the overseas student are no higher than they are for British nationals . |
| 14 | The sharpest contrast is with migrants who have brought with them the expectation that sons will bring their wives into the homes of their parents , where in some sense the wives will be under the authority of their mothers-in-law . |
| 15 | This use of dots with slurs is so consistent that I have not found a single instance where in this combination the dots were not clearly identifiable as such . |
| 16 | A list of Cornish saints recently studied in an early tenth-century manuscript , where in several cases the saints are listed according to geographical contiguousness of parochial dedications , suggests that the parochial structure of Cornwall , as we know it today , was already in existence at that time . |
| 17 | This has not prevented their use in Europe and North America , where in any case the risk of infection is confined to relatively small groups , such as medical personnel ; but it rules out widespread use where a vaccine is most needed , in the Third World . |
| 18 | France persisted in operating a policy of cross-subsidisation where profitable coal mines subsidised those making losses , and where in any case the profitability of the whole industry depended upon generous governmental support — both policies which directly infringed the conditions of the ECSC treaty . |
| 19 | Individually these are small matters but collectively they are important in the way we present ourselves to the outside world , or in modern jargon the way we market the profession . |
| 20 | The main point of Engels 's and Morgan 's argument is that , once again , the State has the same origin as the family , private property , and class division , or in other words the overthrow of the gens . |
| 21 | Bars 1–2 of this part rely on the intervals of thirds , sixths and flat fifths — or in other words the interval structure of the B7 and Bb7 dominant chord structures that are used . |
| 22 | So the whole crystal structure tries to contract or in other words the material is under pressure ( see Example 3.2 ) . |
| 23 | There must also be a place for ‘ commodity-money relations ’ , or in other words the market , which was an ‘ irreplaceable means for the flexible economic coordination of production with growing and constantly changing public requirements and an important instrument of public control over the quality of goods and the costs of their production ’ . |
| 24 | For those on the margins or in casual labour the extra mouths to feed in infancy was more than compensated for by the potentially increased sources of income and domestic help in childhood and adolescence . |
| 25 | The female deals with the young without the help of the male , or in certain cases the male rears the young without the help of the female . |
| 26 | In this respect it would appear that the preferences and relative power of the parties are especially important in shaping structure — that either unions or employers , or in some cases the government , want ( and if necessary can make ) it that way . |
| 27 | In the interests of ease of application , the schedule order of facets is usually the combination order of the facets defined in stage 3 above , or in some cases the reverse of the combination order . |
| 28 | Many constituents write to me regularly , expressing themselves strongly and loudly of the opinion , or in some cases the fact , that there has been serious abuse of the immigration laws . |
| 29 | I think in any marriage or in any family the father and the mother both play different parts , and in my own life I can remember things my mother did and things my father did and together it made for a happy home . |
| 30 | From Orwell Isabella and her forces reached London on 6 October , but by then the king was fleeing westwards to Wales , through Gloucester and Chepstow to Neath ; pursuing him , Isabella 's forces reached Bristol , where on 26 October the Prince of Wales was proclaimed the keeper of the realm . |