Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If none of the candidates is suitable or fulfils the basic requirements of the job/personnel description think twice before appointing the best of a bad bunch . |
| 2 | Have we seen the best of Rosa Mota , or has the sprightly Portuguese got something up her sleeve for Barcelona , the last major championships she plans to run ? |
| 3 | Did you break in here , too , or has the back door been unlocked the whole time ? ’ |
| 4 | The carrier will be liable , however for misdelivery , if he issues similar private keys or breaches the private key security safeguards . |
| 5 | What initiates or sustains the immune response against α subunit in MG is unknown . |
| 6 | So imagine how you would feel if someone breaks into your new home and destroys or steals the very things you are proud of , the things you have worked hard to buy . |
| 7 | The rotor oscillations increase in amplitude as successive steps are executed until the rotor lags or leads the demanded step position by more than half a rotor tooth pitch . |
| 8 | That court tells the executor or administrator what to do , or takes the whole estate under its charge and distributes it . |
| 9 | The pressure makes or breaks the appropriate microswitch contacts . |
| 10 | To the extent that agreement is reached which goes beyond the provisions of a pre-existing document or displaces the relevant provisions of the Partnership Act , the agreed terms should be reduced to writing to reduce the scope for subsequent dispute . |
| 11 | Gardiner usefully quotes or paraphrases the lively testimony of many sitters and visitors from a wide variety of sources and it is at these moments that the artist at his most affectionate , considerate , perceptive and even gently self-deprecating comes to life . |
| 12 | Such a definition takes a word with a certain valuational meaning , and rather vague descriptive meaning , and broadens , narrows or shifts the descriptive meaning so that the emotions expressed by the valuational meaning are directed at more or less substantially different targets . |
| 13 | The radial shields are visible , distinctly longer than wide the distal portion of the shield bulges and touches or overlaps the opposite shield , the distal ends are separated . |
| 14 | If the grounds for referral are denied , then the Hearing either refers the case to the Sheriff Court for proof , or discharges the disputed ground . |
| 15 | It is alleged by the plaintiff that the use of these roads by numerous heavy goods vehicles at night amounts to a public nuisance for which the defendants are responsible : the dock company because it controls the Gillingham Gate and by its operation of the gate and the port in general causes or permits the heavy goods vehicles to go in and out of it at all hours , and the fourth and fifth defendants , Crescent Wharves Ltd. and Ship Link Terminals Ltd. respectively , because as sublessees of the dock company they or their customers send heavy goods vehicles in and out of the port and cause or materially contribute to the alleged nuisance . |
| 16 | If that breach ‘ goes to the root of the contract ’ or deprives the other party of ‘ substantially the whole benefit of the contract , ’ then it entitles the latter to treat the contract as repudiated and himself as discharged from it . |
| 17 | But once again it overlooks or rejects the underlying philosophy and purpose of a Commission 's proposal . |
| 18 | Is it my imagination or does the tranquil state of mind the car encourages contribute to these things ? |
| 19 | " Or does the mere suggestion make you want to heave ? " |
| 20 | Or does the causal level contain factors of another sort which do the real work ? |
| 21 | Which is it — massive increases in normal basic income tax , or does the Labour party intend to reject all the spending plans with which it has conned the electorate by saying that it will engage in them ? |
| 22 | Do these differences arise from the local packing of cations and anions , or does the random network of chains and planes of silicate , for instance , impose the main constraint ? |
| 23 | Do you think of it in terms of a melody and then harmonise it , or does the whole thing come as a block concept ? |
| 24 | If the joint tenancy is severed by agreement then the notice of severance or declaration of trust which would have the same effect ( see precedent in Kelly 's Draftsman , 15th edn , Butterworths , 1986 , p673 ) should specify in what proportions or shares the equitable interests of the former beneficial joint tenants are to be held . |
| 25 | Similarly , we may find that a service is important symbolically or bolsters the social work profession . |
| 26 | They occur when an action by i directly affects j 's costs or the demand which it faces , or when R&D undertaken by firm i retards or blocks the innovative efforts of j . |
| 27 | Simply this that any government of any colour , at any level , central or local and any organization charged with the responsibility of meeting the needs of elderly people which proceeds on the tacit assumption or makes the blatant assertion that there is no longer any poverty in Scotland is requiring to be contradicted because it is not true . |
| 28 | Adoption — having gathered information and tested it out , the purchaser either continues to buy the product ( 'repeat purchase' ) in the case of less expensive goods , or makes the single purchase which the producer of the product intends . |
| 29 | Those concepts have not evolved from the old ones , for it is precisely their radical difference that constitutes the new science , the new ‘ positivity ’ , produced by what he termed an ‘ epistemological rupture ’ . |
| 30 | The stimulus that the experimenter regards as the CS might interact with features of the context in which training is given to form a unique cue that constitutes the effective CS ( see Rescorla 1972 , 1973 ) . |