Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those of us who want the Scottish people to stay in the UK can see nothing logically wrong or abhorrent in the UK developing its constitutional relationship with its community partners . |
| 2 | There is a great deal of high quality equipment on the market at the moment , but there is probably more which is either inferior or unsuitable for the purpose it is sold for . |
| 3 | These were not of the best quality ; lighting in the first instance was oil , then gas , but on the introduction of electrically lit stock , the batteries were always run down or low in the winter , and described by one wag , a regular user of the service , as reminiscent of ‘ a red hot hairpit ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ Perhaps she hopes people will see what they want to , ’ Benjamin replied , ‘ any change detected being dismissed as fanciful or due to the work of the embalmers . ’ |
| 5 | Brain dysfunction - due to uncontrolled electrical discharges as in epilepsy or due to the effects of drugs or toxins damping down electrical activity — will lead to disturbance or loss of consciousness . |
| 6 | One commonly held idea is that the healing response is a placebo effect , simply the power of suggestion , or due to the charisma of an individual healer . |
| 7 | Many wc cisterns are noisy in operation — either because of the type of cistern installed , or due to the ball valve . |
| 8 | Externalisation or blaming — admitting that there are problems but saying that the causes are due to pressures at work or unemployment or due to social , financial or other stresses or due to doctors or " pushers " or due to the inadequacy of the police , customs officials or the Government . |
| 9 | Even for open questions , there will perhaps be loss of information if the interviewer does not use a tape recorder or due to the crudeness of coding required or the need to pool categories during analysis . |
| 10 | One can think of companies like Hanson Trust which , though still present in transport , its original roots , is now a mighty conglomerate in two continents , or companies like W. R. Grace , far away from shipping now , or Allied in the States where chemical activities are now only a small part of the whole . |
| 11 | The network of ditches was in many cases originally designed to take advantage of the winter flooding of the rivers and enabled these areas to be managed as water meadows , a particular form of management which produced good quality hay crops , but is no longer practised or possible with the improvement of drainage and flood prevention . |
| 12 | As I indicated earlier , not all writers think it advisable or possible for the West to import Japanese practices . |
| 13 | There are variations in the public services deemed necessary , desirable or possible in the circumstances obtaining in different countries at different times . |
| 14 | In the old town of Leigh , part of Southend West constituency , the cockle boats with their huge punts lie at anchor with small vessels that fish for plaice or sole on the Maplin Sands . |
| 15 | ( x ) To do all such other things as may be deemed incidental or conducive to the attainment of the Company 's objects or any of them . |
| 16 | ( x ) To do all such other things as may be deemed incidental or conducive to the attainment of the Company 's objects or any of them . |
| 17 | To subtract , we move backward in time , or anti-clockwise around the numbers . |
| 18 | There was nothing remotely sensible or well-balanced about the turmoil of emotions his touch was arousing , Luce thought distractedly . |
| 19 | So our care and management of the young horse will affect not only how the horse relates to people , but whether the horse relates to its environment in a way that is constructive or destructive to the horse itself . |
| 20 | In one particular case we find progressive assimilation of manner , when a word-initial follows a plosive or nasal at the end of a preceding word : it is very common to find that the C i becomes identical in manner to the C f but with dental place of articulation . |
| 21 | The arbitration system was principally concerned with settling disputes over wages and working conditions , narrowly defined , rather than with matters internal or specific to the enterprise . |
| 22 | Products which are capable of sterilising are either so noxious or corrosive in the concentration required that they can not be used . |
| 23 | The dialectic of apparent antitheses has been suppressed in favour of a one-dimensional model of what design is ; depending on the format of precise models one of the antitheses has been subsumed or repressed under the aegis of the other . |
| 24 | The enumeration of isolates should be exhaustive or complete for the subject area . |
| 25 | Also , the process of pre-censorship by what Thorold Dickinson called ‘ ex-colonels and maiden aunts in long flowered frocks ’ made filmmakers complicit with the censors in keeping everything a touch daring , challenging or controversial from the screen . |
| 26 | The aim was to make use of all available resources whether labelled public or private for the benefit of the patient who wanted treatment . |
| 27 | If an infertility problem is diagnosed , then spermatogenesis may well be depressed or arrested , and in these cases , the later germ cell stages will be absent or deficient on the slides . |
| 28 | An important canvas of the autumn or early winter of 1906 , Two Nudes , now in the Museum of Modern Art , New York , could equally well be seen as two studies of a single figure viewed from diametrically opposed positions , an indication that Picasso was not only attempting to produce images of almost unprecedented weight and girth , but that he was also becoming impatient or dissatisfied with the idea of viewing his subjects from a single , stationary point of view . |
| 29 | In this way they assured that those among us who were anally lax or maladroit in the use of the hard , crunchy loo paper we used , would take care not to dirty their underpants . |
| 30 | well my Lord certain believers well certainly that may give rise to problems , erm , and then one may have to resolve those on the basis of the ostensible authority or even claims against the member of state under article ten of the directive , but , however , erm , on , on satisfactory or confusing to the market that might be |