Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is difficult to tell whether this is the fault of the Act , or due to the public backlash against young offenders . |
| 2 | There was never anything sophisticated or subtle about the doleful northerner but boy , could he make you laugh . |
| 3 | — Have you been sad or depressed during the past month ? |
| 4 | These links were weak or nonexistent in the Low Country , where most villages were identified with only one caste . |
| 5 | Unlike its plainer cousin , it will not bring shame to the wearer by wilting or drooping on the crucial day . |
| 6 | The West has simply ‘ rediscovered ’ in Africa ( despite the diversity and complexity of that continent 's cultures ) fundamental values that we imagine were lost or repressed in the high noon of civilization and progress : values like ‘ natural ’ well-being , spontaneity , conviviality , uninhibitedness , everything we long for and want to relearn in the 1980s . |
| 7 | In all the postwar crises in Anglo-American relations , none was so emotive or humiliating to the British as Suez . |
| 8 | It would not be sustainable or stable in the long term . |
| 9 | It is no longer wise or practicable for the odd senior local politician to ‘ pop-in ’ en route from one meeting to the next and ‘ have a look around ’ . |
| 10 | No variable in x or free in the whole program may be in any bound unc unc where unc but x is not a component of x . |
| 11 | As Neil MacCormick has observed : ‘ It remains a contested issue whether an aspiration to justice is to be treated as essential to or definitive of the legal enterprise in all its manifestations , or is to be distinguished as a specially urgent demand issued in the name of critical morality . ’ |
| 12 | Two more quotations of many hundreds serve to make the point that the distance between the two views is so large that they are probably not going to be reconciled by proof or disproof of the physical evidence . |
| 13 | Though because perhaps we feel guilty or embarrassed about the whole area of mental health we 're not tackling the problems when they come up nearly as well we might . |
| 14 | I 've yet to meet one who is n't engrossed in comparing his talent with other guitarists or who is n't frustrated or embarrassed by the fiscal constraints on the equipment he uses . |
| 15 | Neither general practice has a reputation for being outstanding or different from the normal run of practices . |
| 16 | The term is brought in whenever there is anything supernatural or different from the ordinary course of nature . |
| 17 | If the hon. Gentleman can give examples of IFAs who have failed to give good independent advice , he should refer them to me , or direct to the regulatory body , which will take them up as a matter of urgency . |
| 18 | 16.1 No amendment or variation of this Agreement the schedules to this Agreement or any of the rights and obligations of the Parties hereunder shall be effective unless expressed in writing signed by all the Parties hereto and shall be subject where appropriate to the prior consent in writing of the Secretary of State . |
| 19 | Rule 74 of the Land Registration Rules 1925 ( SR & O 1925 No 1093 ) ( set out in full in Ruoff and Roper , Registered Conveyancing , Looseleaf edn , Sweet and Maxwell , 1991 ) specifies that the forms set out in the Schedule to those Rules shall be used where appropriate to the particular transaction concerned . |
| 20 | However , in the nineteenth century we do see much more clearly the rise of a concept equivalent or similar to the modern one , although the definition itself was not fully developed until the work of the American G. Stanley Hall and his colleagues in the 1890s , and first popularised in his massive book published in 1904 . |
| 21 | Complimentary tickets to a Vivaldi concert or similar in the nearby church for guests arriving on Sunday staying 7 nights or more . |
| 22 | And if he feels that the French have an unfair advantage in that to them the words " whisky " and " scotch " are good selling points whereas to us they are just rather blunt or evocative in the wrong way then he can invent some totally new name . |
| 23 | In the agreement , the government pledges to provide such infrastructure " as necessary or appropriate for the efficient management of Stone 's business in Honduras " . |
| 24 | Chapter 12 on school worship will take up this point , and discuss the possibility of overcoming the unfortunate dichotomy between Christian or multi-faith at the practical point of assemblies . |
| 25 | use any facility for any chargeable or funded purpose or for the direct or indirect commercial benefit of another organisation or individual without the written approval of the Director ; |
| 26 | During 1933 Ian Hope Dundas , Alexander Raven Thomson , A.K. Chesterton and William Joyce all joined either as a result of Mosley 's charismatic personality or convinced by the fascist creed . |
| 27 | There is nothing to prevent eleven ( or fewer ) Member States entering into a treaty between themselves on matters outside or additional to the existing treaties — indeed the Maastricht Treaty itself , as is well known , envisages less than twelve Member States acting together in the ‘ new ’ areas of Monetary Union and Social policy — and in that sense can hardly be regarded as deepening the Community as previously defined . |
| 28 | The unit automatically controls the injections of the various constituents into 5ml test-tubes , agitates them with a magnetic stirrer , and detects whether they are clear , cloudy or opaque in the near infra-red region over the whole length of the test-tube . |
| 29 | The neo-Renaissance palazzo designed in 1902 by McKim , Mead & White for the legendary financier , philanthropist and collector J. Pierpont Morgan ( 1837–1913 ) is one of the city 's most treasured landmarks . |
| 30 | We have to note , first , an increasing generalization and development of the idea that the practice and values of art are neglected by , or have to be distinguished from , or are superior or hostile to the dominant values of ‘ modern ’ society . |