Example sentences of "[adv] or [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A number of well-known and controversial incidents involving the security services — among them the Benjamin Greene affair , the Hess mission , and the Tyler Kent case — are either omitted altogether or merely mentioned in passing .
2 The project is complementary to work going forward in Wales and Northern Ireland and to a European programme , which is wholly or partly funded through JAEP .
3 The DES had laid down that diversified courses should be ‘ wholly or mainly constituted of elements common to existing or proposed courses of teacher education or to other advanced courses already approved and … no addItional staff is required ’ .
4 Unless otherwise expressly or implicitly provided by statute , illegality does not render a contract totally void only unenforceable .
5 the Distributor being compulsorily or voluntarily put into liquidation other than for the purposes of reconstruction and/or a Receiver being appointed to manage the Distributor 's business
6 the Distributor being compulsorily or voluntarily put into liquidation other than for the purposes of reconstruction
7 the Distributor being compulsorily or voluntarily put into liquidation other than for the purposes of reconstruction
8 the Distributor being compulsorily or voluntarily put into liquidation other than for the purposes of reconstruction
9 Once the body had been placed in the coffin and the fitted pillow positioned under the head , these ‘ sheets ’ were folded over the remains and either pinned together or roughly sewn into place .
10 And there are other references throughout to , what I reply is a clear direction that most developments should be in erm in or closely related to settlements and , of course , that will be a matter addressed through through local plans .
11 It has already been made clear that the definition of a ‘ professional ’ degree course being adopted here is an operational rather than conceptual one : it is a course which has a consistent and fairly exclusive relationship with a particular occupation , exclusive in that graduates from such courses tend not to go into other occupations , and in that entry to that occupation is largely or wholly restricted to graduates from such courses .
12 for proceeding to or returning from any garage , auction room or other place at which vehicles are usually stored or usually or periodically offered for sale and at which the vehicle is to be or has been stored or is to be or has been offered for sale as the case may be ;
13 Not all this legislation was quickly or completely put into force .
14 Moreover , the use by the courts of these common law devices of obstruction , breach of the peace and nuisance is difficult to legislate against as the essential purpose ( which before the 1960s had been more or less achieved with police co-operation ) is to permit ‘ reasonable ’ picketing , including the right to accost for a short period within which arguments can be advanced , without putting persons in fear or to immoderate inconvenience .
15 ARE non-American jazz players more or less doomed to imitation ?
16 It is more or less surrounded by Centaurus ; the only other common boundary is with Musca .
17 This frankness of approach applies particularly if the presenting problem is directly or closely connected with matters of sex and Sexual relationships .
18 If , as has been suggested above , insider evaluation is primarily associated with curriculum improvement , it comes as little surprise that proposals for particular approaches are directly or indirectly related to models of curriculum design and development .
19 In the mid 1980s approximately four hundred foreign banks were directly or indirectly represented in London with American , Japanese and Arab banks dominating the scene .
20 Taking advantage of this situation , Napoleon decided that the time had come to redraw the map of Italy , which , since 1815 , had been either directly or indirectly ruled by Austria .
21 His exact statement was that he ‘ had been assured by UPH that no profit of any description either directly or indirectly accrued to UPH from the transaction with Telecom ’ .
22 Much , though not all , of the Earth 's tectonic , volcanic and seismic activity is directly or indirectly associated with movement between neighbouring plates .
23 These ‘ non-people ’ are directly or indirectly associated with WACC 's Women 's Programme and will ultimately benefit from it .
24 The high rates of known opioid use in Wallasey Village and Bebington may be partly or wholly explained by microdiffusion processes .
25 Areas of crustal subsidence usually form topographic features with minimal local relief because they become partly or wholly filled by sediment transported from surrounding highlands ; examples include the Lake Eyre Basin in southern Australia , the Kalahari Basin in southern Africa and the Ob Basin in the USSR .
26 Yes , but there are quite a few partly or wholly centred around hotels .
27 These dilemmas involve what is given up or not done in order to care , or prioritisation of need in the family , or the sense of not caring well enough , or not doing enough to help .
28 In part these various proposals reflected the circumstances of the areas concerned , whether they were densely or sparsely populated for instance ; but in part they represented the different emphasis in the proposals on the objectives being pursued .
29 Evidently , experiences can not be appropriately or adequately described in terms of the categories that are applicable to public objects or events .
30 So the black youth 's progress in sport is partially or totally neglected by parents .
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