Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a government department is preparing fresh legislation it will frequently consult with outside agencies with a particular interest in and/or specialized knowledge of the subject . |
| 2 | It is not capable of being answered by linguistic or textual analysis of the statute alone however assiduously that is performed . |
| 3 | The disorder is sometimes seen as serving a homoeostatic or stabilising role in the family . |
| 4 | While translating a treatise by the Scottish physician Dr William Cullen on the use of cinchona or Peruvian bark in the treatment of intermittent fever ( malaria ) , he was struck by Cullen 's assertion that the therapeutic effects of cinchona were due to its tonic , bitter and astringent qualities . |
| 5 | At first trawl , and , of course , that is not impeccable as an approach , there seems to be no reference to a direct and discrete book , chapter or article on age discrimination in the membership of or allied involvement in the voluntary and community sector . |
| 6 | As most reflectance data were obtained from coal seams or coaly matter of the Westphalian , extrapolations of the measured values to the top Carboniferous were necessary , sometimes over vertical distances of several hundred meters . |
| 7 | Anything that alters the rewarding or punishing effect of the learning task ( if you are less hungry , thirsty or fearful , you are less likely to work hard to learn a task which provides food , drink or avoidance of electric shock as a prize for success ) will also affect the study of learning and memory . |
| 8 | This encourages a teleological or hierarchical view of the relation between the elements of the structure on the one hand , and its existence as a closed totality on the other : the parts are subordinated to the whole in a manner that conflicts with the principle of différance . |
| 9 | Kugel 's emphasis is on the additive or emphatic aspect of the B-line : " A is so , and what 's more , B is so " . |
| 10 | The FRG and the USSR reaffirm that they will refrain from threats of the use of force which are directed against the territorial integrity or political independence of the other side … |
| 11 | We have been arguing that changing concepts is a political activity ; that it is not value-free , but arises out of a particular ethical or political interpretation of the word , and that one of the aims of the dialogue between feminism and philosophy should precisely be to reconceptualise the world that is offered by philosophy as it is at present . |
| 12 | Culturally deprived and still closely tied to the village , the latter did nothing to raise the level of sophistication or political consciousness of the proto-bourgeoisie . |
| 13 | Police have ruled out any sectarian or political motive behind the murder bid . |
| 14 | ( 2 ) Where under an agreement an officer of a regional council is placed at the disposal of a district council for the purposes of this section , that officer may perform the duties of clerk or assistant clerk of the aforementioned boards . |
| 15 | Barra was probably the fifth or sixth-century founder of the statelet . |
| 16 | The guidelines make it clear it is council policy not to permit golf development if it involves new buildings or associated development in the open countryside , and is unrelated to existing settlements . |
| 17 | Crone found that the yellow spots on the leaves and pebbles were pollen from the tropical or subtropical bush of the genus Rapanea and of a tree of the genus Harpullia , common to rainforests . |
| 18 | Obsessional neurosis is characterised , Freud argued , by the fact that the symptoms are not only debilitating , but are experienced by the person as alien ; they do not seem ‘ part ’ of him or her , and they seem discrepant with an everyday or normal sense of the self . |
| 19 | Maureen Roberts , the late Director of the Edinburgh Breast Screening Project , observed that screening ‘ is not offering any certainty of cure or normal life to the women who attend , merely a prolongation of years for a few . |
| 20 | To return to our primeval replicators , while most miscopyings probably resulted in diminished copying effectiveness , or total loss of the self-copying property , a few might actually have turned out to be better at self-replication than the parent replicator that gave rise to them . |
| 21 | When thesis subjects as broad as juvenile delinquency in the South or differential fertility in the U.S.A. are chosen — subjects which transcend any bounds of accomplishment during graduate work and which are not definitely formulated — they are likely to bring the young research person to a state of despair when he realizes that the masses of material he has assembled answer no questions , neither confirm nor refute any hypothesis , and yield nothing toward developing a scientific sociology . |
| 22 | If a group claiming to speak on behalf of elderly people had failed to deliver because its own interests were at variance with those of its wider public , the absence of any promotional or representative body during the following decade rendered the pensioners ' position still more hazardous . |
| 23 | In a further effort to tackle the chronic air pollution of its capital , [ see EDs passim ] , the Mexican government has announced that all public transport and cargo vehicles in the city must convert to natural gas or liquid petroleum over the next three years . |
| 24 | Keep the overall silhouette slim with a tailored or belted jacket and soften up the whole effect with a feminine frilled blouse or floaty scarf around the neck . |
| 25 | Keep the overall silhouette slim with a tailored or belted jacket and soften up the whole effect with a feminine frilled blouse or floaty scarf around the neck . |
| 26 | The chapters in this book deliberately provide a balance between experts with direct political or administrative experience of the areas they describe ( such as Nick Raynsford and David Mallen ) and academic observers . |
| 27 | ‘ Where a child has been wrongfully removed or retained in terms of article 3 and , at the date of the commencement of the proceedings before the judicial or administrative authority of the contracting state where the child is , a period of less than one year has elapsed from the date of the wrongful removal or retention , the authority concerned shall order the return of the child forthwith . |
| 28 | ‘ Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding article , the judicial or administrative authority of the requested state is not bound to order the return of the child if the person , institution or other body which opposes its return establishes that — ( a ) the person , institution or other body having the care of the person of the child was not actually exercising the custody rights at the time of removal or retention , or had consented to or subsequently acquiesced in the removal or retention ; or ( b ) there is a grave risk that his or her return would expose the child to physical or psychological harm or otherwise place the child in an intolerable situation . … |
| 29 | ‘ Where a child has been wrongfully removed or retained in terms of article 3 and , at the date of the commencement of the proceedings before the judicial or administrative authority of the contracting state where the child is , a period of less than one year has elapsed from the date of the wrongful removal or retention , the authority concerned shall order the return of the child forthwith . |
| 30 | ‘ Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding article , the judicial or administrative authority of the requested state is not bound to order the return of the child if the person , institution or other body which opposes its return establishes that — … ( b ) there is a grave risk that his or her return would expose the child to physical or psychological harm or otherwise place the child in an intolerable situation . |