Jack the Giant-Queller

The dining-room ceiling was hand-painted and the staircase gigantic, yet the royal family used porcelain washbowls and old-fashioned thundermugs.

In such extreme conditions, the Micawber Principle that “something will turn up” to save the system is the only reasonable basis for action by businesses and investors, even if no one can predict exactly what deus ex machina will appear to save the day.

In the noun phrase “noun phrase”, “noun” is the determinans and “phrase” is the determinatum.