Example sentences of "is [adj] or [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scare quotes sound the alarm , and so alert readers to the idea that something is deficient or inappropriate about the word being used . |
| 2 | At the same time , we have seen , they stressed that meaning was not a purely subjective phenomenon ; as Wimsatt put it ( 1958 : 10 and 24 ) one can distinguish between what is public and what is private or idiosyncratic about a poem , or between its meaning , which is an objective fact about it , and its ‘ import ’ , the reader 's subjective response . |
| 3 | He never doubts that it is possible or desirable for the critic to recreate in himself the mental condition of the author ; he only recognizes that it is difficult . |
| 4 | We simply can not form a clear and distinct idea of the fact that something is conducive or inimical to the actualisation of our essences without this influencing our behaviour towards or away from it . |
| 5 | It could be behaviour that is different or unusual in a way that is disapproved of , such as stealing or children-battering . |
| 6 | It will be apparent from the earlier discussion that a simple assertion about helping old people maintain their independence does not do justice to the subtleties of achieving a balance between independence and dependence which is acceptable or tolerable to the old people concerned . |
| 7 | Since the poetic structure includes only those elements which evoke a response in the reader , it is this response that must be taken as the analyst 's starting point ; the linguist as such can not tell us what is interesting or important about a work ( ‘ No grammatical analysis of a poem can give us more than the grammar of the poem ’ ( p. 213 ) ) . |
| 8 | Of course , there are many occasions when the product is similar or identical with the competition . |
| 9 | It is in the pages of these magazines that I think we can see most clearly how editorial policy , whether it is conscious or unconscious on the part of the editors , operates . |
| 10 | No statement which you make during the interview may be given in evidence against you unless : ( a ) you are prosecuted for making a statement which is false or misleading in a material particular ; or ( b ) you are prosecuted for some other offence and when giving evidence , you make a statement which is inconsistent with a statement made during the interview . |
| 11 | Truth is a complete defence to any defamatory statement of fact , whatever the motives for its publication , and however much its revelation is unjustified or contrary to the public interest . |
| 12 | It was assumed that when we talk of " a style " or " the style of X " we refer to what is pervasive or recurrent in a text . |
| 13 | Given that the ideal of a completely objective description of style is a myth , we can only aim at RELATIVELY reliable statements about what is frequent or infrequent in a text . |
| 14 | Some further criterion of selection is required , which in practice must mean the analyst 's own preconceptions , or his overall impression , as to what is important or interesting about the text he is dealing with . |
| 15 | Most researchers have focused on Creole use in Britain as an adolescent phenomenon , and there seems to be a general belief that use of Creole is negligible or non-existent before the age of 14 or so . |
| 16 | The third edition , to be published in 1991 contains much that is new or refined from the second , but it is written wholly within the plate tectonic theoretical framework , and reveals no paradigm change from the second edition . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In biological writing it has often been said that a character is advantageous or detrimental to a species . |