Example sentences of "the [adj] or [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Conservatives won an overall majority of ninety , with the opposition split into three factions , but the Labour Party much stronger than either the Asquithian or the Lloyd George Liberals . |
| 2 | The characteristic stylistic tic ‘ tout se passe comme si ’ puts their discourse technically into the mode of the hypothetical or the fictional , reflecting ‘ this curious paradox , the ardent desire for a system and the basic scepticism about all systems ’ ( 614 ) . |
| 3 | In all cases , then , whether the infinitive evokes the possible or the real actualization of its event , the person of the to infinitive is referred to two positions in time , one before , one coinciding with this event 's place in time . |
| 4 | The time has come when the fact ought to be generally admitted that the amount of government … which is necessary to the welfare or even to the existence of a civilised community , can not permanently co-exist with the effective belief that deference to public opinion is in all cases the sole or the necessary basis of a democracy . |
| 5 | However , what does seem to me to be both dangerous and impermissible is the judicial superimposition , under the guise of statutory construction , of a principle , supposedly based on some parliamentary intention nowhere expressed , that genuine transactions carried out in conformity with unequivocal statutory provisions are to be annulled or rendered ineffective because undertaken with either the sole or the predominant motive of obtaining the fiscal benefits which those provisions confer . |
| 6 | … by far the most powerful weapon at the command of the League of Nations is not the economic or the military weapon or any other weapons of material force . |
| 7 | The notions of men and women as economic beings , or political beings , are discarded by global capitalism , quite logically , as the system does not even pretend to satisfy everyone in the economic or the political spheres . |
| 8 | If the system is used to derive advice for a professional to use in the execution of his duties , the ultimate recipient of the advice may find that he has a right of action against the professional or the system developer ( or even the independent experts and knowledge engineers engaged by the system developer ) . |
| 9 | forced mergers of sole practitioners are not in the interest of the professional or the public ; |
| 10 | Is it the one of the right or the left or one that 's got his finger in . |
| 11 | Is that on the right or the left ? |
| 12 | Now it 's one thing to say well , you know , perhaps these are women who take more exception than other women would do , but there comes a point where you have to accept , I think , that there 's going to be a shift of perspective , that what women have customarily put up with is no longer what they wish to put up and that I think we ought to be , as it were , acknowledged to have the right or the scope to say we want things to change , and to define or to set out in a process of defining what should be sexual appropriate sexual behaviour in future . |
| 13 | There was no one in the stable or the yard , but when she came close to the back door she could hear voices from the kitchen . |
| 14 | Ever since its first exhibition in 1948 , which brought works by De Chirico , Man Ray , Picasso , Francis Bacon and others to the public attention , the ICA has risen to the challenge of supporting the innovative or the unfamiliar with considerable energy . |
| 15 | The transnational capitalist class is a bridge between the nation-state and the global system and the more assiduously it brings transnational practices into what were once the realm of the regional or the national , then the more faithfully it serves the interests of the system . |
| 16 | Individually , judges may support the Conservative or the Labour or the Liberal parties . |
| 17 | ‘ Whether under the Labour or the Conservative Government , links with the Commonwealth were regarded as precluding too close links with the countries of Europe ’ ( Kitzinger , 1961 , ) . |
| 18 | Do these utterances refer to the illocutionary or the perlocutionary force ? |
| 19 | Finally abandoning M3 , the medium-term financial strategy , and other totems , he strongly urged major cuts in public expenditure and extensive cuts in personal taxation to offer incentives for the rich or the would-be rich . |
| 20 | In Britain , where the top 10 house-builders dominate the output of new private houses , it has traditionally been either the rich or the enthusiastic DIY brigade who forged ahead with their own individual home building . |
| 21 | For this reason , poverty is closer to our true condition than the much-admired qualities of the rich or the powerful . |
| 22 | These results also show that the overexpression of bcl-2 does not significantly alter the levels of mitochondrial respiratory chain activity in either the parental or the cells . |
| 23 | But the 700,000 refugees perched on either the Iraqi or the Turkish side of the mountain frontier are slow to be tempted down . |
| 24 | That is , the duodenal mucosa became more resistant to acid after a mild acid challenge , indicating that adaptive cytoprotection occurred in rats fed the linoleic or the eicosapentaenoic acid diet as observed in the oleic diet group . |
| 25 | By this he meant that authentic observation and insight will always trump the polemical or the politically correct . |
| 26 | The analysts who expressed a preference for the cash flow statement did not indicate whether they preferred the direct or the indirect method . |
| 27 | His market was the world , and he was n't particularly concerned to toady either to the British or the Americans . |
| 28 | Whether Nadirpur liked it or not , it would be impossible to keep either the British or the French police out of the affair . |
| 29 | The Japanese concept of structure is different from , say , the British or the Swedish . |
| 30 | Now that 's the kind of information that is absolutely vital for them to understand , in fact for us — I mean I myself am from the Third World — to understand what the problems are , but which can only be achieved with centres in the developed countries that are prepared to make this into a working programme erm for the benefit of both , because in very many cases improving erm the lot of the Third World on the question of revenue from commodities will also improve their position , or the British or the American , or the European consumer , by eliminating intermediaries and so on and so forth . |