Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dairyman Crick milked six or eight of the difficult ones with his own hands . |
| 2 | ( 2 ) Cases within the county court 's equity and probate jurisdiction ( ie those mentioned in s 23 , 24 or 32 of the 1984 Act ) fall outside the remainder of these rules , as do proceedings which , in accordance with the rules laid down in arts 9 and 10 , have no quantifiable value ( art 7(2) ) . |
| 3 | Or that of the poor themselves , for daring to bend their heads and stare ? |
| 4 | Pursuing this laissez-faire policy may have been in the national interest , but it did n't seem to be in John 's or that of the other hostages . |
| 5 | The stick-and-carrot approach to ‘ race relations ’ has done little to shift the moral economy of the street gang , or that of the rank-and-file police . |
| 6 | There is nothing fishy about simply admitting the reality of the difference , or that of the physical causes which — alongside cultural ones — help to produce it . |
| 7 | It is estimated that in south-east Asia , some third or two-thirds of the residual trees are damaged irreparably while up to a third of the area is left as bare ground , often compacted by the forestry machinery . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | Under the new format , that goal will be stepped up to seven of the top eight players in each of the nine tournaments or 12 of the top 14 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In this region the integration of the drainage pattern is so good that practically every point in the area can be assigned to one or another of the former drainage basins . |
| 12 | It is ‘ of course ’ unlikely that Callinicos ' criticism will cut much ice with those whose substantial career investments lie in one or another of the postmodern 's corners : movementist politics , the radical academy , post this-ism and that-ism , a variety of well-upholstered ‘ dissenting ’ niches from both the dominant culture and traditional opposition to it . |
| 13 | Problems are categorized in elaborate ways and rules devised to determine how the organization should respond to the arrival of any new problem falling into one or another of the existing categories . |
| 14 | Now and again there were diversions , when one or another of the remaining five would hold the stage and would have a few moments of limelight , or glory . |
| 15 | Since 1985 , not one year has passed without winning an award at one or another of the major trade exhibitions . |
| 16 | He use of it was scarcely unprecedented : ‘ jobs for the boys ’ , Tory MPs had cried as Harold Wilson infiltrated another trades union general secretary or a congenial academic on to the board of one or another of the great national institutions in his gift . |
| 17 | Thousands of miners are leaving their small terraced houses and tramping down the street to one or another of the 20 coal mines in the Rhondda valleys . |
| 18 | Even if Swapo fails to get the two-thirds of the vote it needs to write its own constitution , it will have little difficulty in persuading one or another of the smaller parties to work with it . |
| 19 | In each of these cases the behaviour falls short of some natural notion of full cooperation , because it violates one or another of the non-verbal analogues of the maxims of conversation . |
| 20 | And of course many candidates of seeming calibre failed one or another of the diagnostic tests … |
| 21 | Economists have worked with many different models , each marked with one form or another of the competitive label . |
| 22 | While we are on this subject , it may be remarked that even social workers sometimes give credence to one or another of the old wives ' tales which surround pregnancy and childbirth . |
| 23 | The rest of the book surveys the different scientific disciplines and highlights specific projects , mostly work done in the united States at one or another of the national computer centres sponsored by the National Science Foundation . |
| 24 | All or some of the following might apply to you : |
| 25 | All or some of the following might apply to you : |
| 26 | All or some of the following might apply to you : |
| 27 | All or some of the following might apply to you : |
| 28 | All or some of the following might apply to you : |
| 29 | My final stock will include shoals of all or some of the following — Zebra Danios , White Cloud Mountain Minnows , Black Widow Tetras , Red Eye Tetras , American Flagfish , Rosy Barbs , and Aurulius Barbs , with perhaps a bottom-lurking pair of Plecs or Callychthids . |
| 30 | Further detailed information about the specific companies would be gained by desk research methods using all or some of the following : |