Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Challengers employ some or ill of the following behaviours . |
| 4 | A successful application of the described in situ methylation-protection assay is illustrated in Figure 1 , where probing of the Jun-DNA interaction detected one strong and two weaker protection positions ( in the core and the borders of the AP-1-binding site , respectively ) whose methylation has been previously shown by interference analysis to be destructive to the same extent for complex formation ( 6 ) . |
| 5 | The utilitarian approach , if it had been applied to the political life of India , would have led to the forcible ejection of the British on the grounds that the greatest happiness or good of the greatest number in India , namely the Indians themselves , would have resulted from it . |
| 6 | Now it may be quite legitimate to point out that this or that minority group has vested interests which run counter to the interest or good of the great majority . |
| 7 | Many instances of abnormality fall clearly into one or other of the four types ; but , equally , there are certain uncertainties of application . |
| 8 | From time to time as new services become to be administered by local authorities Parliament requires that the local authority shall submit a scheme of its proposals to one or other of the Central Government departments for approval . |
| 9 | Mr and Mrs Crump , who until that moment had reigned serene in their social supremacy at the Swan , moved swiftly from slight disgruntlement to genuine delight as details of the new arrival 's pedigree , accoutrements , speech and manner were relayed to them by one or other of the scampering servants . |
| 10 | However , there was a clear distinction between those schools which used TTT to achieve greater integration of SEN children into a class , and those in which there was segregation , with one or other of the participating teachers adopting the traditional ‘ remedial group ’ model of SEN provision . |
| 11 | Only a lonely rajah or two was to be seen now , solitary figures surrounded by servants , watching through elaborate brass telescopes acquired at one or other of the European stores in Calcutta . |
| 12 | The choice of optional lecture modules allows specialisation in one or other of the broad topic areas in contemporary physics . |
| 13 | Sometimes she sat in his room with him in the evenings when he practised , curled up on one or other of the narrow beds , with her sewing . |
| 14 | A , b , This classification assumes that the fossil groups are related to one or other of the Recent agnathans ( galeaspids were not known at this time ) . |
| 15 | Crystals in each class have one or other of the 14 crystal lattices referred to above . |
| 16 | Although in most cases the shares of a company will fall into one or other of the primary classes of preference or ordinary , it is , of course , possible for the company to create shares for particular purposes and containing terms which cut across the normal classifications . |
| 17 | Treaty should be considered only in so far as there are situations other than those covered by one or other of the specific provisions at issue here . |
| 18 | This pragmatism is under pressure from enthusiasts and commercial interests who want such development to very quickly go digital and , if possible , support one or other of the specific digital multimedia platforms . |
| 19 | Inactivation of the X chromosome is random so that the early embryo is made up of a mixture of cells in which one or other of the X chromosomes is inactivated . |
| 20 | They have been too ready to use one or other of the clashing theses as occasion served , without troubling to bring them into intelligible relation . |
| 21 | Usually we would be satisfied with the results of one or other of the first two techniques . |
| 22 | However , new academic journals are regularly launched , devoted to one or other of the many specialisms into which English is fragmenting , and in their earlier issues , at least , are likely to be looking for contributions . |
| 23 | Whatever the intrinsic properties of a form may be , its reception by our sensory equipment may be distorted by one or other of the many factors that we have considered . |
| 24 | Most readers of this book are likely to have grown up in one or other of the many contemporary versions of what are often lumped together under the general label " modern industrial societies " . |
| 25 | With the exception of the chromatic link in bar 16 , the other lines in this piece are all based on one or other of the above scales . |
| 26 | If you need to be absolutely sure that you really do have your money in your hand and not just a piece of paper which may or may not be paid , ask for one or other of the above . |
| 27 | Where by the order a party is first ordered to do the act , and there is then added a clause in the order that in default of so doing specific consequences will follow , the part that directs the act to be done must use one or other of the above forms of wording . |
| 28 | Burton-Roberts argues that it can not be the case in [ 7 ] either , since in the philosopher Locke " one or other of the juxtaposed elements is not a referend , but has an attributive function " ( 1975 : 395 ) . |
| 29 | Fossil agnathan groups , such as the heterostracans , anaspids and osteostracans were considered related to one or other of the modern types ( Fig. 2A , b ) . |
| 30 | popular name for one or other of the various court guides which are Mrs Pocket 's favourite reading , e.g. Debrett 's Peerage ( first published 1784 ) and Baronetage ( 1808 ) . |