Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [det] of [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Fallon said the Conservatives wanted to allow council tenants to convert their rents into mortgages for half or more of the value of their home . |
| 2 | In our study of the incidence of childhood leukaemia during 1972–85 the excess was concentrated in the 50 electoral wards in which half or more of the area was within 10 km of the atomic weapons establishments at Aldermaston and Burghfield . |
| 3 | Scientists only declare a " hole " in the layer when half or more of the ozone in the high-altitude atmosphere is destroyed . |
| 4 | The data so far accumulated suggests that half or more of the adult population of this country believe that they have had some sort of direct religious experience . |
| 5 | Although Big Blue has said that its interest lies in exploiting computer technology and developing digital film ‘ software ’ rather than creating movies , we can not imagine IBM buying half or more of an enterprise and then remaining a passive investor . |
| 6 | There are camping and hotel facilities throughout and paddlers are welcome to join in for some or all of the trip . |
| 7 | However , if the arbitrageur already holds a long position in those shares which can not be sold short , short selling these shares can be replaced by the liquidation of some or all of the arbitrageur 's existing long positions . |
| 8 | Those requiring residential accommodation were means tested and often they or their relatives paid some or all of the cost , while those needing nursing care received it under the NHS — naturally , free at the point of delivery — if private care was not requested . |
| 9 | Alternatively the purchaser and vendor may agree that some or all of the price is to be based on the net book value of the assets or by reference to earnings . |
| 10 | The contract will therefore seek : 1 to define the client 's obligations and , so far as possible , to minimise them ; 2 to define the scope of the contract by defining which statements form part of it ; 3 to minimise the scope for variation of the contract duties , by defining the authority of the client 's representatives to make statements binding on it , or to vary the contract ; 4 to minimise the likelihood of the client being in breach of contract , by defining the client 's obligations in flexible terms : for instance , the quantity of goods to be delivered may be subject to tolerances ; or the contract may provide for the time for delivery to be extended in certain situations ; 5 to minimise the extent of the client 's liability for any breach it commits : for instance , by excluding liability for certain kinds of loss , or by placing a financial ceiling on liability ; 6 to define the obligations of the client 's trading partners ; 7 to define the consequences of non-performance by the client 's trading partners ; 8 to provide machinery to encourage prompt performance by the client 's trading partners : for instance , a seller may require interest on late payments , or offer discounts for early payment ; a buyer may contract for the right to withhold payment until satisfactory performance ; 9 to allow the client to use procedurally simple enforcement methods : for instance , terms of sale should be drafted so as to allow the seller to bring a liquidated claim for the price of the goods ; 10 to provide the client with security against non-performance by its trading partners : thus terms of sale are likely to seek to provide the seller with security against non-payment , for instance by means of a retention of title clause ; terms of purchase will seek to minimise the buyer 's exposure by allowing some or all of the price to be retained against satisfactory performance . |
| 11 | If some or all of the payment is to be satisfied by the issue of shares , the purchaser must check whether it has sufficient authorised and issued share capital and whether the directors have adequate existing authority under CA 1985 , s80 . |
| 12 | The legal relationship between a company and its debentureholders is simply the contractual relationship of debtor and creditor , coupled , if the debt is secured on some or all of the company 's assets , with that of mortgagor and mortgagee . |
| 13 | The general nature of a floating charge has already been explained ; it is an equitable charge on some or all of the company 's present and future property which leaves the company free to deal with the property subject to the charge in the ordinary course of business . |
| 14 | ( i ) Preferential creditors As a matter of policy , insolvency law has to determine ( a ) what constitutes insolvency proceedings and ( b ) whether any particular class of creditors should be given protection in the insolvency of a company and accorded a statutory preference over some or all of the company 's creditors . |
| 15 | Indeed it might have-in a different situation where some or all of the rest of the causal circumstance for e was missing . |
| 16 | A Class 3 transaction will require an announcement to the Company Announcements office and the press and for a circular to be issued , but only if some or all of the consideration is to be satisfied by the issue of securities for which a listing is to be sought . |
| 17 | Candidates supported by the LDP ( either singly or in alliance with some or all of the opposition parties ) triumphed in 116 of the 128 mayoral contests . |
| 18 | ( Megarry V-C said that even if some or all of the owner 's rivals have the information as long as the owner believes it is confidential he is entitled to try to protect it . ) |
| 19 | An absolute conception of poverty thus alerts us to the fact that health — for some or all of the family — will be bartered in the struggle to meet basic needs . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , it would be possible for the landlord , when granting consent to the assignment , to impose a condition that the tenant will be liable to guarantee the performance of some or all of the lease covenants by his immediate successor . |
| 21 | You could have a family of maybe erm an older carer with a mentally handicapped son or daughter who receives various allowances , but whom the total income for that family is such that it is so low because of special circumstances , maybe the mother has to have special heating , or special diets , or whatever , as to be logical that we waive some or all of the charge . |
| 22 | In the case of a number of key senior men appointed by the Minister and the Central Authority , ‘ personal allowances ’ to make up some or all of the difference were thus necessary to attract them . |
| 23 | This histopathological review divided patients into three groups : ( a ) definite Crohn 's colitis ( n=10 ) because of the presence of non-causating epithelioid granulomas and microgranulomas ; ( b ) indeterminate colitis ( n=10 ) because of features suggestive of Crohn 's disease , but not sufficient to substantiate a firm diagnosis , such as transmural , focal or discontinuous disease , fissure ulcers , mural fibrosis or retention of goblet cell population ; ( c ) definite ulcerative colitis ( n=61 ) with diffuse mucosal inflammation without granulomas affecting the rectum and some or all of the colon in continuity with the rectum . |
| 24 | First , the presence of a context can speed up comprehension because it has prepared the listener or reader for some or all of the information contained in the sentence . |
| 25 | With the previous inheritance provisions , there was some encouragement for parent farmers to sort out inheritance tax provisions and maybe make over some or all of the business and take early retirement . |
| 26 | The colour of the head should be lighter than that of the body but mottled ( not wholly white ) and with dark ‘ eyebrows ’ and some brown colouring around the muzzle . |
| 27 | Their pathetic screams would be no different than those of the DEEP 's , their blood just as red . |
| 28 | In one demonstration my car was stopped at a hospital entrance but it soon became clear that much of the resentment was directed at what were seen as remote hospital authorities ‘ up there , . |
| 29 | In retrospect , it is clear that few of the Party 's officials really shared Ceauşescu 's enthusiasm for the demolition of almost everything that their country 's history had produced . |
| 30 | Dick and I are ordinary people , but I think we would make a great team and dream up something far more interesting than most of the claptrap stuffing up the biography departments of bookstores . |