Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Since many of these services and facilities are , or were , wholly or partially within the remit of local government , it was only a matter of time before we focused our attention on local government for enhancement of such provision .
2 The Employer 's Liability ( Defective Equipment ) Act 1969 , s. 1(1) now provides : Where … an employee suffers personal injury in the course of his employment in consequence of a defect in equipment provided by his employer for the purposes of the employer 's business and the defect is attributable wholly or partly to the fault of a third party ( whether identified or not ) the injury shall be deemed to be also attributable to negligence on the part of the employer .
3 Where the premium is paid wholly or partly by the employer benefits should be paid directly to the employer .
4 Bred by Exhibitor For dogs who are not champions , and are owned wholly or partly by the breeder and shown by him or his family .
5 Is the writer seriously suggesting that changing from a system where fees are paid in full by the state to a system where they are paid wholly or partly by the student is likely to be encouraging ?
6 ( 2 ) The conditions referred to in subsection ( 1 ) above are : ( a ) that the premises of the club are structurally adapted and bona ride used , or intended to be used , wholly or mainly for the purpose of providing facilities in connection with the carrying on by members of the club and their guests of athletic sports or athletic games ; ( b ) that one or more of such sports or games is or are usually carried on out of doors and , when so carried on , can ( unless artificial lighting is used ) only be carried on during hours of daylight ; ( c ) that the said premises are regularly used , or are intended regularly to be used , during the winter period , for providing facilities in connection with the carrying on by members of the club and their guests , during the hours of daylight , of such a sport or game as is mentioned in paragraph ( ii ) above ; ( d ) that having regard to the time at which the said sport or game is usually carried on by members of the club and their guests , the permitted hours set out in section 53(3) of this Act are not suitable for the supply of alcoholic liquor in the said premises to persons who participate in that sport or game .
7 ( b ) the student has not been resident therein , during any part of that three-year period , wholly or mainly for the purpose of receiving full-time education .
8 ( ii ) he/she has not been resident therein , during any part of that three-year period , wholly or mainly for the purpose of receiving full-time education .
9 ( b ) the student has not been resident therein , during any part of that three-year period , wholly or mainly for the purpose of receiving full-time education .
10 he/she has not been resident therein , during any part of that three-year period , wholly or mainly for the purpose of receiving full-time education ;
11 To obtain interest relief on loans to subscribe shares in a Newco which is to purchase the business of , rather than shares in , Target , it appears that management no longer has the difficulty of persuading the Revenue that Newco " exists wholly or mainly for the purpose of carrying on a trade … " , as required by s13A(2) ( a ) .
12 The Act applies notwithstanding such a choice of law clause if either ( a ) such clause " appears to the court or arbitrator or arbiter to have been imposed wholly or mainly for the purpose of enabling the party imposing it to evade the operation of " the Act or ( b ) one of the parties when making the contract dealt as a consumer , was habitually resident in the UK and " the essential steps necessary for the making of the contract were taken there " .
13 The alternative regime in ss219 to 229 applies if : ( a ) Target is an unquoted trading company or the holding company of a trading group ( an unquoted company will include one whose shares are traded on the Unlisted Securities Market ) ; ( b ) the purchase of own shares is wholly or mainly for the benefit of Target 's trade or any of its 75% subsidiaries ; ( c ) the purchase does not form part of a scheme or arrangement the main purpose of which is to avoid tax or enable shareholders to participate in the company 's profits without being taxed on dividends ( there is a clearance procedure under s225 ) ; ( d ) the vendor shareholders are resident and ordinarily resident in the UK in the tax year in which the buy-in occurs ; any nominee shareholder must also be so resident , so if the distribution treatment is desirable it can be achieved by interposing non-UK-resident nominees ; ( e ) the shareholder has held his shares for at least five years ; ( f ) the shareholder 's shareholding immediately after the buy-in has been substantially reduced ( ie , by 25% or more , and his entitlement to profits must be similarly reduced ) ; for these purposes the shareholder must include the shareholdings of his " associates " as determined in accordance with s227 ; ( g ) the shareholder must not be connected with the company following the buy-in , and for these purposes he will be connected if he is entitled to acquire more than 30% of the share capital or voting rights in the company or assets on a winding up .
14 We can make , first , an important general distinction , with continuing social and sociological effects , between ( i ) that class of material means which depends wholly or mainly on inherent , constituted physical resources , and ( ii ) that other class which depends wholly or mainly on the use or transformation of non-human material objects and forces .
15 According to the most recent Green Paper ( DES 1985b ) there were at that time 184 institutions engaged wholly or mainly in the provision of higher education courses , and another 372 in which some provision was at this level — a total of 556 ( 10 fewer than given in Annex A of that document ) .
16 If a lexicon contains many words which occur rarely or never in the input material , this will introduce costs of storage and search , although if a lexicon is too small , words will be rejected .
17 5.14.1 any act omission or negligence of the Tenant or any persons at the Premises expressly or impliedly with the Tenant 's authority [ and under the Tenant 's control ] or
18 We have already suggested that along with the use of child labour there was little uniformity either chronologically or geographically about the employment of women in coal mines .
19 First , chattels personal can be owned , while real property is held mediately or immediately of the Queen .
20 Perhaps her husband and Worsdale had agreed a certain meeting place inside or even outside the gallery .
21 ( 2 ) Both of these two framings are acceptable : the body is cut either just below or just above the elbow joint .
22 ( 4 ) Right : Framing to cut the body just below or just above the knee-joint is much better .
23 In contrast , other Romano-Celtic temples lay within larger enclosures set alongside or apart from the centre of the settlement , as for example at Harlow , where the temple and its associated precinct lay in the middle of a ditched enclosure 4.2 ha ( 10 acres ) in extent .
24 What those figures certainly reveal is that the real gains in investment in British business since 1979 have been sustained , so that even at the depth of this present recession investment is 40 per cent .
25 So that even in the dark of your broken spirit
26 This is the image , the picture , the memory I shall fold away , so that somewhere in the future , somewhere on the other side of the pain I know awaits , I shall be able to unfold the memory and I shall never quite lose her .
27 These spines are covered in small backward-directed barbs , so that once in the flesh they are almost impossible to dislodge .
28 Provision for the Teaching of Community Languages It is evident from the surveys alone that apart from the growth over the years of supplementary schools , the provision in the mainstream is appallingly minuscule .
29 Surprise does n't register , instead , Devito plunges an eight-inch carving knife purposefully and repeatedly into the victim 's stomach .
30 Surprise does n't register , instead , Devito plunges an eight-inch carving knife purposefully and repeatedly into the victim 's stomach .
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