Example sentences of "the [adj] [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | This volume however is both unusual and welcome because it deals specifically with the work of Julia Kristeva ; it is informative in so far as it indicates the cross-disciplinary implications of her work , and it maintains a balance between the introductory and the complex . |
2 | A crucial first step in our account takes up again a theme , introduced in the previous chapter , about the continuity between the normal and the psychotic . |
3 | Once again the normal and the normative must be distinguished . |
4 | The difference between the normal and the schizophrenic is , then , solely a matter of degree , depending upon the extent to which the products of autism become fixed in place or , alternatively , remain under rational control . |
5 | The book is both an account of and an intervention in that process , veering between the descriptive and the prescriptive . |
6 | Norris may well be right that Derrida deserves such attention , but he is not often likely to receive it in the conditions of actual pedagogy , or in the random public exchanges of higher cultural life , which put a premium on the simplifying and the reductive . |
7 | But what has been said so far , that the flipping and the circumstance including it were required for the wipers ' starting to work , is consistent with the cause existing without that effect . |
8 | Given that we do indeed believe that the flipping and the starting each occurred , it is also true , and would certainly be more natural to say , that since the wipers started to work , the switch was flipped . |
9 | Secondly , however , we must also avoid the mistake of thinking that the conditional " If the switch was flipped , the wipers started " means more than it says : it is about the flipping and the starting . |
10 | It was a time when he was immensely drawn to panache , and he felt done with the prim and the hangdog for good . |
11 | Although mental illness should not be regarded as any different from physical illness , it is not always so viewed by the uninformed and the fact that in later life it might become known that a minor had been treated under the Acts might redound to his or her disadvantage . |
12 | We then find ourselves with these two approaches : the simultaneous and the bilingual . |
13 | You may have heard too much of Moby 's ‘ Go ’ by now , but there can be few complaints otherwise : Meat Beat Manifesto , DJ Carl Cox , Nightmares On Wax , Orbital etc , provide a mixture of the subtle and the hardcore in aid of peace . |
14 | The board of education is appointed — five members by the five borough presidents , two by the mayor — and it 's a wonderful place for politicians to win points by appointing the respectable and the conservative . |
15 | Critics have sniped that the dividing line between the political and the profit motive has never been too sharply defined on Hamnett 's agenda , a feeling provoked by such off-the-cuff comments as her enthusiasm for an idea that will ‘ make me rich and wo n't hurt animals ’ . |
16 | That 's right , if the sho if the top part of the shoe went that was the only you got a new pair or if or if it burst around the sole and the seam . |
17 | This social dislocation at both the depressed and the growth area is costly in economic terms too : schools are abandoned in the depressed areas and new schools are needed in the growth areas ; housing suffers in similar ways ; and so on . |
18 | It can help us explain why the entrenched and the familiar can suddenly appear conditional and temporary , and inject meaning into those long-forgotten disputes which are bubbling to the surface , especially within the Soviet bloc . |
19 | European powers claimed monopoly rights over the trade of their colonies for centuries to come , though other Europeans defied these claims whenever possible , but nobody launched such world-wide claims as the Spanish and the Portuguese , and the Spanish claims became even more all-embracing when Philip II of Spain secured the crown of Portugal for himself in 1580 . |
20 | We pointed out earlier that such a proposal can not be accepted for the prenominal case because the prenominal and the clause structures are far from equivalent ; they admit different ranges of adjective , and the relation of the adjective to the head noun is different in the two cases . |
21 | Their relationship in humanity is a dialectical one ; in the whole person the proper development of the subjective and the objective are equally neceSsary . |
22 | Its strengths — the stress on the subjective and the significance of individual meanings — have however been the obverse of its weakness , which is precisely the absence of any wider historical theory . |
23 | Symbolic interactionism , by stressing the subjective and the impact of particular labelling events , has almost invariably displayed an a historical bias . |
24 | New Right population ideology has two distinct components : the economic and the moral . |
25 | Here altars would be set up within the charnel and the priest would sing the mass in the company of a silent and skeletal congregation — or bits of them , depending on how much had been retrieved from the disturbed graves . |
26 | It is an unselective means of making conviction more likely for both the guilty and the innocent in about equal proportion . |
27 | For the past weeks Edouard had had to force himself to look at newspapers : all he saw there when he opened them was confirmation and repetition : accident , sickness , violence and sudden death , handed out evenly to the guilty and the innocent . |
28 | In the world of work , this is one of the distinctions between the professional and the technician . |
29 | But what of the relationship between the professional and the entrepreneur ? |
30 | But unfortunately , professionals are often deeply mistrustful of advocacy organizations and tend to see advocates as intruders creating a barrier to communication between the professional and the service-user . |