Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [noun sg] [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is unfortunate since one of the most important facets of the use of data for scientific research , corporate management or political debate is the communication of the information contained therein to those who will say that they are ‘ no good at figures ’ ! |
| 2 | Whether or not political or administrative accountability is the more desirable depends upon one 's view about the relationships that should exist between State and society , but it is more likely that where decisions are made by political appointees there is greater uncertainty , for such decisions then embody both a political and an economic dimension . |
| 3 | But fiery activism or evasive quiescence are the poles of choice and the poles are notoriously uninhabitable . |
| 4 | The joint or extended family is the peasant economic unit essential for survival . |
| 5 | Perhaps the most central differences between the conventional literary artist and the journalist or social scientist is the very different nature of the truth which they claim to serve . |
| 6 | Yet another type of meter capable of registering either alternating or direct current is the electrodynamometer . |
| 7 | A common law or possessory lien is the right to retain goods , money , or documents which are in one 's possession until payment of some claim due from the owner . |
| 8 | But to use it with inadequate or mistaken information is the most dangerous of all . |
| 9 | POPULATION GROWTH — natural growth or natural increase is the difference between the number of live births and deaths . |
| 10 | I have used therefore the word ‘ Nature ’ in the sense of the German ‘ Bedeutung ’ , as signifying that essential character of a part which belongs to it in its relation to a predetermined pattern , answering to the ‘ idea ’ of the Archetypical World in the Platonic cosmogony , which archetypical or primal pattern is the basis supporting all the modifications of such part for specific powers and actions in all animals possessing it … |
| 11 | It is clear that whatever the primary or secondary chemoattractant is the neutrophils destined for it will respond in a predictable fashion . |
| 12 | Those students who did not have an instrumental or single-minded attitude towards studying physics or physical science were the least successful . |
| 13 | With emulsion and masonry paint , painting over a dusty , dirty or loose surface is the cause . |
| 14 | Internal or kinaesthetic feedback is the feeling obtained from the muscles when performing a skill . |
| 15 | ( c ) What theme or general issue is the passage concerned with ? |
| 16 | Second , private property rather than state , social or collective ownership is the Christian norm for society . |
| 17 | Or particular significance is the account by Winnicott ( 1971 ) of the role of the ‘ smelly blanket ’ in the development of the self . |
| 18 | Wet or damaged timber is the appetising food for the insect but apparently sound wood may be equally badly afflicted . |
| 19 | Paths and drives require a different approach , with hand weeding or chemical control being the only practical option . |
| 20 | I do n't know if prudent or reckless love is the better , moneyed or penniless love the surer , heterosexual or homosexual love the sexier , married or unmarried love the stronger . |
| 21 | Manifested light or solar energy is the vital component for the sustenance of life . |
| 22 | This suggests that considerable diversification of the vertebrate skeleton had already taken place by Lower Ordovician times and , furthermore , that it is not possible on the basis of antiquity alone to predict whether a micromeric or macromeric skeleton is the more primitive vertebrate condition . |
| 23 | In 1870 and still in 1900 support from agencies of either central or local government was the least sought and usually the last resort . |
| 24 | Which of the ideas of self-restraint or institutional restraint is the dominant one in the British system of government ? |
| 25 | I love to play Shadows and Ventures instrumental music , and , as you know , rhythmic and melodic expertise is the absolute essence of this type of playing . |
| 26 | The tricky economic and political question is the exchange rate at which the pound would join the ERM . |
| 27 | Moreover , if the state 's role results from a variety of subjectively perceived wants , as the structuralist perspective appears to argue , then it is open to question whether such an explanation is consistent with the basic axioms of Marxist theory which imply that social , economic and political development are the result of the largely impersonal unfolding of the objective laws of history . |
| 28 | Giving cautious backing to the Dengist campaign , Li nevertheless warned that the maintenance of social and political stability was the " prerequisite for reform " , and that the government had to " be on the watch for any ideological trend towards bourgeois liberalization , … otherwise there will be serious consequences " . |
| 29 | Most of them earn their bread and butter from market research , and political polling is the decorative jam on top . |
| 30 | The overall social and political project is the creation of a harmonious , democratic cultural pluralism , a healthy cultural diversity . |