Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If none of the candidates is suitable or fulfils the basic requirements of the job/personnel description think twice before appointing the best of a bad bunch . |
| 2 | As Ania Loomba puts it , in relation to colonialist studies , ‘ the neglect of histories surrounding native insubordination either devalues or romanticises the latter , or worse , tends to read colonised subjects through linguistic or psychoanalytic theories which , for some of us at least , remain suspiciously and problematically shot through with ethnocentric assumptions whose transfer to all subalterns is unacceptable ’ ( ‘ Overworlding ’ , cited from manuscript ) . |
| 3 | His own view of the way this field is structured posits two contradictory tendencies — on the one hand , music which affirms or accepts the social status quo ; on the other , music ( of the avant garde ) which refuses such affirmation . |
| 4 | moved and seconded must be accepted by the Chairman , unless it is frivolous or illegal , or covers the same ground as a motion on which a decision has already been taken in the same meeting . |
| 5 | Or has the right hon. Gentleman changed his mind again because he wants the key to No. 10 ? |
| 6 | Has this 72 per cent devaluation of the pound helped British exports to Switzerland or has the strong Swiss franc crippled Swiss manufacturing ? |
| 7 | Have we seen the best of Rosa Mota , or has the sprightly Portuguese got something up her sleeve for Barcelona , the last major championships she plans to run ? |
| 8 | Assume the dividend and divisor are integral , in two 's complement representation , For definiteness , assume that the remainder is zero or has the same sign as the dividend ( see Stein and Munro 1971 , Chapter 6 for more details ) . |
| 9 | Did you break in here , too , or has the back door been unlocked the whole time ? ’ |
| 10 | The carrier will be liable , however for misdelivery , if he issues similar private keys or breaches the private key security safeguards . |
| 11 | What initiates or sustains the immune response against α subunit in MG is unknown . |
| 12 | So imagine how you would feel if someone breaks into your new home and destroys or steals the very things you are proud of , the things you have worked hard to buy . |
| 13 | A clause which defines or clarifies the antecedent and is essential to the meaning of the complete sentence . |
| 14 | The rotor oscillations increase in amplitude as successive steps are executed until the rotor lags or leads the demanded step position by more than half a rotor tooth pitch . |
| 15 | Prodded for details of his own guitar tunings , Cooder reveals that he mostly sticks to DGDGBD , a plain open G , or DADF&sharp ; AD , an open D , although he sometimes changes the open G to an open C , or tunes the second string up to make open D into a D6 tuning . |
| 16 | The programme of many modern philosophers , therefore , has been to develop a conception of man and his mind which either disposes of or downgrades the inner , private arena , making the function of mind essentially a part of the public and physical world . |
| 17 | Accordingly , within s.3 it is not enough that the victim expects or requires the accused to pay . |
| 18 | That court tells the executor or administrator what to do , or takes the whole estate under its charge and distributes it . |
| 19 | The pressure makes or breaks the appropriate microswitch contacts . |
| 20 | The cash that buys the unwanted computed tomographic scanner , or furnishes the nice new empty waiting room , on the other hand , is money lost for ever from an already inadequate central pool . |
| 21 | constitute a demonstration that an aversive CS will interfere with further ( appetitive ) conditioning , whether the context is changed or stays the same . |
| 22 | To the extent that agreement is reached which goes beyond the provisions of a pre-existing document or displaces the relevant provisions of the Partnership Act , the agreed terms should be reduced to writing to reduce the scope for subsequent dispute . |
| 23 | Gardiner usefully quotes or paraphrases the lively testimony of many sitters and visitors from a wide variety of sources and it is at these moments that the artist at his most affectionate , considerate , perceptive and even gently self-deprecating comes to life . |
| 24 | In this context , it should be noted that best execution would not apply , unless one of the SFA members is acting as intermediary for or advises the other and the client firm does not waive it . |
| 25 | Such a definition takes a word with a certain valuational meaning , and rather vague descriptive meaning , and broadens , narrows or shifts the descriptive meaning so that the emotions expressed by the valuational meaning are directed at more or less substantially different targets . |
| 26 | No one else in the world has had your experience of life , sees the world through your eyes or treads the same path through life ‘ towards the light of your particular guiding star ’ ( this is described in a rather dull way as ‘ motivation ’ ) . |
| 27 | The radial shields are visible , distinctly longer than wide the distal portion of the shield bulges and touches or overlaps the opposite shield , the distal ends are separated . |
| 28 | Lastly the best man or the toastmaster reads the telegrams in full if there are only a few , or reads the wittiest in full and then just gives the names of the senders of the others if there are many . |
| 29 | If the grounds for referral are denied , then the Hearing either refers the case to the Sheriff Court for proof , or discharges the disputed ground . |
| 30 | It is alleged by the plaintiff that the use of these roads by numerous heavy goods vehicles at night amounts to a public nuisance for which the defendants are responsible : the dock company because it controls the Gillingham Gate and by its operation of the gate and the port in general causes or permits the heavy goods vehicles to go in and out of it at all hours , and the fourth and fifth defendants , Crescent Wharves Ltd. and Ship Link Terminals Ltd. respectively , because as sublessees of the dock company they or their customers send heavy goods vehicles in and out of the port and cause or materially contribute to the alleged nuisance . |