Example sentences of "of the [noun] or [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another used sweet saffron leaves , baked to dry and fed in the same way : ‘ Only you had to be some careful not to give the horse too much of the powder or else the sweat would bring it out and you could smell the herb on his coat . ’ |
| 2 | Since ‘ acceptance ’ , for Hart , involves a critical , hostile attitude , his concept of law comes very close to being the morality of the legal officials of the society or even the morality of the ‘ ruling class ’ . |
| 3 | Our visitor had little knowledge of the passions or indeed the psychology of small boys , for he casually admitted after a day or two that he had inscribed the Master 's name on the bat himself ! |
| 4 | By failing to take this holistic stance and by the adoption of a narrow perspective ( the curriculum ) within a managerial approach dedicated to control , standardisation and output evaluation , the ‘ Great Debate ’ has not arrived at the promised land but has been confined to endless wanderings in the wilderness of the present or indeed the past . |
| 5 | Tickling in the pit of the throat or down the centre of the chest to the stomach , causes coughing and may be with a congested head and wrenching pains in the right of the chest . |
| 6 | Such subject elements include : small things passing for large ( models , miniature sets ) ; large passing for small or normal sized ( eg an oversized set if normal people are supposed to be miniaturized ) ; animate for animate ( stuntman ; stand-in ; actor or child or dwarf inside animal or creature ) ; inanimate for animate ( from the cel of the animator to the monster or creature constructed in miniature or full scale and made to move by electrical/mechanical/hydraulic means or by stop-motion animation ) ; animate for inanimate ( pseudomechanical effects operated by muscle power ; the androids , played by normal actors , in Blade Runner ) ; composite for single images ( rear or front projection of the setting or alternatively the action , or one person playing two roles on screen simultaneously ) ; 2-D for 3-D ( glass paintings , painted backdrops ) . |
| 7 | And sis he do it for the whole of the island or just the was did the sort of parish have their own chap ? |
| 8 | If the same dimension of each item is measured and a graph drawn of the number of times each value of that dimension appears , as in Figure 7.4 , the result is called the frequency distribution of the variable or just the distribution . |
| 9 | If the same dimension of each item is measured and a graph drawn of the number of times each value of that dimension appears , as in Figure 7.4 , the result is called the frequency distribution of the variable or just the distribution . |
| 10 | Perhaps it is the habitual leader of the group or perhaps the leader has arisen for that meeting on that topic . |
| 11 | Given a large corpse of anything on the bottom of the Amazon or even the Thames , most fish will ‘ attack ’ and gnaw off the odd bit . |
| 12 | As you are all probably aware , Death Trap , originally planned for February , had to be scrapped despite valiant efforts by the casting committee and John the directors get around the problem of the men or rather the lack of them . |
| 13 | would be in or erm you know , maybe in the course of the evening or just the afternoon , we 'd have had two or three people called . |