Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | That is only possible where the signer can establish ( a ) that he/she signed the document without negligence and ( b ) that he/she mistakenly thought he/she was signing a document of a fundamentally different type from that actually signed ( Saunders v Anglia BS [ 1971 ] AC 1004 ) . |
| 32 | In this context , dominant means prevailing or the majority view . |
| 33 | oh no , that 's right or an I would of helped coach |
| 34 | Similarly , if parents are able to have their views upheld ( as might occur on an appeal against a decision not to reinstate a permanently excluded pupil ) , ‘ it may not be clear whether it is primarily the child 's right or the parents ' rights over upbringing which is being upheld ’ . |
| 35 | If the chips are n't right or the batter mix is n't quite what it should be , he lets us know , ’ he said . |
| 36 | Is it the one of the right or the left or one that 's got his finger in . |
| 37 | Is that on the right or the left ? |
| 38 | Now it 's one thing to say well , you know , perhaps these are women who take more exception than other women would do , but there comes a point where you have to accept , I think , that there 's going to be a shift of perspective , that what women have customarily put up with is no longer what they wish to put up and that I think we ought to be , as it were , acknowledged to have the right or the scope to say we want things to change , and to define or to set out in a process of defining what should be sexual appropriate sexual behaviour in future . |
| 39 | VAT will not be due if the vessel is a pleasure craft over eight years old on 1 January 1993 , or when the VAT due is negligible ( for UK purposes it will not be due where the vessel is worth less than £4,000 ) . |
| 40 | The Conservatives won an overall majority of ninety , with the opposition split into three factions , but the Labour Party much stronger than either the Asquithian or the Lloyd George Liberals . |
| 41 | I was feeling a bit pissed off : I was sore where the fickle Shelly had left her mark and I was distinctly peckish . |
| 42 | There was no one in the stable or the yard , but when she came close to the back door she could hear voices from the kitchen . |
| 43 | The formal social care providing agencies are divided into various categories either by the type of agency involved , public or private or the location of care , institution or domiciliary . |
| 44 | The 10th , 14th and 27th are departure points , whether this means leaving the past behind in a literal or a figurative way . |
| 45 | They disagreed whether they were obligated by the correct theory of legislation to enforce the most literal or the most sensible reading of the statute in the absence of any reliable evidence about what Congress actually intended . |
| 46 | It will consider the conditions under which government policies have been conducive or a constraint to NGO activity . |
| 47 | Every person , whether at the most junior or the most senior level , has someone to whom he or she is accountable for doing the job properly . |
| 48 | Whether you 're a sales assistant or a customer , it 's important to find out as much as possible about the product on sale . |
| 49 | Administration of bFGF ( 3–300 µg/kg/day ) by an intragastric or an intraperitoneal route or sucralfate ( 400 mg/kg/day ) orally to rats with acetic acid induced gastric ulcers , enhanced the healing rate of these ulcers during seven day treatment in a dose dependent manner . |
| 50 | I think the cut-out must have no plant form then , it should be earthy or an old withered tree trunk or some such — because the dancers personify Spring so much that the stage should represent the earth . |
| 51 | Thus the examples of ( 9 ) are acceptable : ( 9 ) your behaviour was barbaric this device is expensive his plan was inspired but impractical Where a prenominal adjective fits equally well with either relationship — ascriptive or associative — to its noun , we find that its occurrence in predicative position is acceptable , but only provided that the relation is taken as being ascriptive ; thus ( 10 ) mentions an individual who either has Greek nationality ( but the nature and region of the business which he or she deals with remain unspecified ) , or is a person who handles affairs connected with Greece ( but who may well be of some quite different nationality , Belgian for example ) ; ( 11 ) however unambiguously tells us that there is someone who falls into the former category : ( 10 ) the Greek representative ( 11 ) the representative is Greek |
| 52 | The characteristic stylistic tic ‘ tout se passe comme si ’ puts their discourse technically into the mode of the hypothetical or the fictional , reflecting ‘ this curious paradox , the ardent desire for a system and the basic scepticism about all systems ’ ( 614 ) . |
| 53 | His life so far had been crowded with people , familiar but not friends , guardians like Fiery or the nurserymaids , boys at school or companions chosen for him . |
| 54 | It is proposed to take the seven functions of budgets on pages 49/50 as the first dimension of a matrix structure to which either the rational economic or a political model can be applied in order to form the second dimension . |
| 55 | In judging this record there has been a strong tendency among commentators , from either an economic or a political viewpoint , to award the Labour government good marks for achievement [ Morgan , 1984 ; Cairncross , 1985 ] . |
| 56 | … by far the most powerful weapon at the command of the League of Nations is not the economic or the military weapon or any other weapons of material force . |
| 57 | The notions of men and women as economic beings , or political beings , are discarded by global capitalism , quite logically , as the system does not even pretend to satisfy everyone in the economic or the political spheres . |
| 58 | Unlike Mr I have always found fox hunting distasteful , I have never participated in it , I have never followed it and I do n't think that I I ever want to and er , I have I am not convinced by either economic or the put forward in its favour . |
| 59 | The Micronet service , organised by the publishing houses EMAP and ECC with Prestel , will adapt a set for £50 plus a low quarterly charge , and provide programs for microcomputers at low or no cost . |
| 60 | There is nothing in it for the participants except the opportunity to work for low or no wages . |