Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has principally meant providing more access to consumer goods and services , such as education , while continuing to deny any section of the black population access to political decision-making , or fundamentally changing the economic order . |
| 2 | As you set about making your plans for next year let me leave you with this thought from Eglantine Jebb If children of any country are physically or morally abandoned the whole world loses by it and the whole world gains if children grow up healthy , capable and ready to work for the good of their neighbours . |
| 3 | There is evidence of a religious enthusiasm more acceptable to the establishment among the nobility , some of whom appear to have either anticipated or eagerly embraced the official establishment of new liturgical feasts in devotional offices in their private chapels . |
| 4 | You may be attracted by an advertisement in your local paper , or perhaps reading the nursing press has aroused your interest . |
| 5 | It was he who ended the war with Athens , or perhaps turned the hot war into a cold one ( because satraps continued to subvert Athenian-supported democracies in Anatolia ) : after the Persian recovery of Egypt in the 450s Athenian aggression against Persia was checked , except for a brief campaign in Cyprus at the end of the 450s . |
| 6 | ‘ Then I more or less let the whole thing drop , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Erm we more or less know the young the young thug element as such . |
| 8 | I believed at the time that I more or less grasped the metaphorical implications of this , but after I had put the phone down I found I was not as clear as I should have hoped to be about exactly what was required of me in concrete practical terms . |
| 9 | This is conceptually similar but not identical to the phenomena described by Matza ( 1964 : 33–68 ) as the subculture of delinquency : both consist of ‘ precepts and customs that are delicately balanced between convention and crime ’ ; both ‘ posit objectives that may be attained through ( crime ) but also other means ’ ; both ‘ allow ( crime ) but it is not demanded or necessarily considered the preferred path ’ ; and both consist of ‘ norms and sentiments ’ which are ‘ beliefs that function as the extenuating conditions under which ( crime ) is permissible ’ . |
| 10 | In 1935 the maximum production for Champagne was set at 50 hectolitres per hectare which could be annually modified by a special commission up or down to suit the specific conditions of the harvest . |
| 11 | If there is more information than can be displayed on the page at any one time , the lines can be ‘ scrolled ’ up or down to access the hidden information . |
| 12 | It depends , however , … entirely on the attitude which we as conquerors adopt towards the conquered , whether we stop the free circulation in the body politic by our institutions or so organise the dependent races as to leave open opportunities for a proper exercise of the social ambitious instinct [ defined previously as the desire to exercise power over others for their own good ] on the part of the individual native leaders so endowed . |
| 13 | Or so goes the conventional wisdom . |
| 14 | Thousands of miles of Midland and East Anglian hedges have been ripped out in the last thirty years or so to accommodate the new agricultural demands and techniques . |
| 15 | Female sexuality causes men to lose self-control so that they cease to be responsible for their actions — or so runs the accepted wisdom . |
| 16 | Or so runs the common accusation . |
| 17 | This undertaking shall not apply to any information which we are required by law to disclose or which is in or hereafter enters the public domain otherwise than through our default . |
| 18 | This undertaking shall not apply to any information which we are required by law to disclose or which is in or hereafter enters the public domain otherwise than through our default . |
| 19 | But this is only available where the council or inspector has either misinterpreted the law or not followed the proper procedures . |
| 20 | For example , in the various stages of pre-trial procedure the party who is ultimately successful may have caused undue delay or not followed the proper procedure and been penalised at that time by the award of costs against him or her in respect of a particular hearing . |
| 21 | The two-part referendum asked voters to choose whether or not to retain the existing electoral system , and to express a preference for one of four alternative systems . |
| 22 | All of this unavoidably suggested that the ‘ central question in the debates now under way in the country is the question of recognising or not recognising the leading role of the party and the working class in socialist construction , and hence in restructuring ’ . |
| 23 | So in relation to section 13(1) of the Acts of 1974 and 1976 , for a judge ( who is always dealing with an individual case ) to pose himself the question : ‘ Can Parliament really have intended that the acts that were done in this particular case should have the benefit of the immunity ? ’ is to risk straying beyond his constitutional role as interpreter of the enacted law and assuming a power to decide at his own discretion whether or not to apply the general law to a particular case . |
| 24 | A decision has to be made whether or not to launch the new product . |
| 25 | These powers were employed with telling effect on a series of ‘ H-block ’ marches , when hundreds of people were arrested and convicted for taking part in prohibited marches or not observing the 5-day rule . |
| 26 | For the reasons I have given , I am of the opinion that he was also correct to hold that it was a matter within his discretion to decide whether or not to require the local authority to give an undertaking in damages . |
| 27 | Although such will does not defeat the claim of the other spouse under the provisions of the Inheritance ( Provision for Family and Dependants ) Act 1975 , if reasonable provision is not made for that spouse , it might be of " persuasive " use to the court in proceedings under that Act in deciding whether or not to award the surviving spouse a limited interest ( eg until remarriage ) or an absolute interest in the deceased 's share of the matrimonial home . |
| 28 | The retired baker had been interviewed in the course of a tedious house-to-house enquiry and now it was a question of whether or not to believe the old man . |
| 29 | Making money on speculative stocks was a far more remote possibility than on British Telecom or TSB , although it might have taken them six months or longer to discover the bitter truth . |
| 30 | They were close to the canal , and there were several people about , inspecting the expensive fashion jewellery on sale in several shops , or just enjoying the peaceful atmosphere of the lock area . |