Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You ca n't walk anywhere here without finding something to astound you , whether it be something sad or cruel on the one hand or quite beautiful on the other . |
| 2 | One result of this difference of reference is that it is possible to construct sentences which will be analytic or contradictory on the one interpretation but not on the other : ( 11 ) Nikolai offered us the message decoded but it was not decoded when he offered it to us 4.2 One curious feature about these adjectives is that they somehow seem to modify not only the noun which they accompany but simultaneously the verb as well ; if this is a genuine observation it will be surprising on general grounds , since it would be decidedly abnormal in syntax for one element to simultaneously qualify two different items . |
| 3 | Ukrainians tended to be less troublesome than Poles because most of their gentry had been Polonized or Russified in the two centuries prior to 1800 . |
| 4 | Changes in diabetes treatment categories — for example , diet to oral hypoglycaemics or insulin — the number of patients admitted to hospital for diabetes related reasons , and mortality were similar or identical in the two groups ( table VI ) . |
| 5 | Many instances of abnormality fall clearly into one or other of the four types ; but , equally , there are certain uncertainties of application . |
| 6 | Crystals in each class have one or other of the 14 crystal lattices referred to above . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | By subjecting voters to a combination of bribery , economic pressure and downright coercion , the Ministry of the Interior and , at local level , caciques — bigwigs and political ‘ bosses ’ — constructed pre-arranged governmental majorities for one or other of the two main ‘ oligarchic ’ parties , the Liberals and the Conservatives . |
| 9 | It is accepted by Mr. Potts , for the defendants , that the quantification of litigation costs must be by means of a taxation carried out by a taxing master and that the taxation must be conducted on one or other of the two bases prescribed by Ord. 62 , r. 12 . |
| 10 | Hence when I went to the Lords in 1965 I sat as a cross-bencher , although periodically , according to my attitude at the time , I was supporting one or other of the two parties and rarely took a cross-bench approach . |
| 11 | These two types are directly associated by Pareto with one or other of the two main types of ‘ residue ’ or basic sentiment — Class 1 . |
| 12 | There are , additionally , seven other quarto editions of the play published between 1604 and 1631 , all with minor variations on one or other of the two main versions , as well as records which indicate there was a 1601 quarto which is not now extant . |
| 13 | On completion of this second GIMMS job we are in a position to begin the final task , that of producing maps based on the digitized map of the 42 countries of Africa , using one or other of the two statistical variables entered into the file PMMLIB.GIMMSPOLYDAT . |
| 14 | In practice , most seats are considered to be safe seats for one or other of the two main parties — that is , the winning candidate has been returned with a majority that represents 10% or more of the votes cast . |
| 15 | In the 1951 election , almost 97% of those who voted cast their ballots for one or other of the two main parties . |
| 16 | Under attack on all sides , not least from the infant population which was itself unwittingly helping to spread disease through the narrow streets and alleys of the town , some Frome people found a temporary escape in one or other of the forty or more pubs which vied with each other for custom ; drunkenness was commonplace , and many of those who did n't go to an early grave with some infection or other departed this life with a putrid liver . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , this is not quite true , we can — and it is possible to overfeed one or other of the three main elements and so cause what is called an ‘ induced deficiency , of the other two . |
| 18 | It would be perfectly possible to recast the system of democratic supervision so as to restore a considerable part of the power of the Commons and to provide a devolved system of regional and local elected councils , which would mean that every important administrative body was subject to checks and examination at one or other of the three levels — national , regional or local . |
| 19 | Whether Henry Eliot 's letter is still on some Home Office file or other among the seventeen miles of paper which Toynbee ( if I remember right ) calculated to comprise the total government documentation of the war , I do not know ; but some research worker may conceivably yet come upon it , and it would be interesting to learn whether it contained any apt comments . |
| 20 | She helped the teachers , was kind to the younger girls , respectful to the older ones and friendly to the two daughters of a Rajput textile millionaire who , as the school 's sole representatives of a race other than Anglo-Saxon , were not sought-after companions . |
| 21 | You see it in the set of his face and the obdurate , awkward dignity with which he carries his body — thick set and strong above the two prostheses — aluminium under the trouser-legs , steel behind the smile , pained concentration in the eyes . |
| 22 | Darwin was aware that many ‘ secondary ’ sex differences were evident at birth ( or hatching ) and distinguished between the two categories on functional rather than on ontogenetic grounds . |
| 23 | As the more doggedly political of the two , Reid in particular despised Richard Branson as an ‘ entrepreneur hippie ’ who had sold out everything that was exciting and subversive about the Sixties and turned it into big business . |
| 24 | Currently , Melody Maker , written by a verbose array of excitable young ideologues , is the most dissenting and innotative of the four general titles and the one most inclined to put some avant garde confection like the sugar Cubes on the front page before anyone else has heard of them . |
| 25 | Always a big , fleshy animal , it retained its large frame when many other British cattle became fashionably short-legged and stocky in the 1940s . |
| 26 | There is a clear distinction here between the private and domestic on the one hand and the public and the political on the other . |
| 27 | Obviously the proposer and seconder of this motion do not remember what this scheme meant to people in the forties when it was demeaning and degrading and a great intrusion into their private lives and I do feel Mr Mayor that as it was a a it was demeaning and degrading in the forties it will be no less demeaning and degrading in the nineties . |
| 28 | Obviously the proposer and seconder of this motion do not remember what this scheme meant to people in the forties when it was demeaning and degrading and a great intrusion into their private lives and I do feel Mr Mayor that as it was a a it was demeaning and degrading in the forties it will be no less demeaning and degrading in the nineties . |
| 29 | A chiral species rotates the plane of polarization of plane polarized light that is passed through it ; the direction of rotation depends on which enantiomer is present , for the rotation is equal and opposite for the two enantiomers . |
| 30 | Hungarian chess players say that Judit is the most aggressive and inspirational of the three , and the most like her father , with a will of iron . |