Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] or [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The rest of the known world was mainly dominated directly or indirectly by a few European states . |
| 3 | Thus shared use of computer , library and training facilities can be organised regionally or nationwide to a level which individual firms could never hope to attain on their own . |
| 4 | 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 " . |
| 5 | It will grow into a shrubby bush 3′–4′ tall and looks equally beautiful grown alone or companionably in a border where it will flower away to your heart 's content . |
| 6 | Eight others connected directly or indirectly with the dig later died in mysterious circumstances . |
| 7 | The front pair point slightly forward from the forehead and are positioned more or less between the eyes . |
| 8 | And so the multifaceted style of Elgar 's own readings was absorbed directly or indirectly by a new generation of interpreters — many of them non-British — and the way they painted the music in all its aspects struck a new chord with modern listeners . |
| 9 | All those rules which constitute natural justice are related directly or indirectly to the idea of presenting proofs and reasoned argument . |
| 10 | Areas of the economy in which formerly goods and services such as medicine , education , transport and energy were supplied by the private sector , have been taken over by the public sector and the key issues as to how much should be supplied and at what price , have been decided directly or indirectly by the ballot box rather than the market place . |
| 11 | The income and property of the Society shall be applied solely towards the promotion of the Object of the Society and no portion thereof shall be paid or transferred directly or indirectly to the members of the Society , provided that nothing herein shall prevent the payment in good faith of remuneration to any officer , servant or member of the Society in return for Services actually rendered to the Society and proper rent for any premises let by any member to the Society . |
| 12 | Foucault has even been accused of returning , in this work , to the concept of a totality in the episteme ; it has certainly been somewhat hastily assumed that the latter can be appropriated more or less as a new way of describing a historical ‘ period ’ . |
| 13 | She needed a backing guitarist and asked Kieran , who she had met once or twice on the road , would he help out . |
| 14 | Among others there was the Scottish advocate ( and future QC and Conservative MP ) Nicholas Fairbairn , a sartorial dandy with a razor-sharp mind whom I had met once or twice in the Borders . |
| 15 | A selection is being made of these authorities which are revealed to have diverged upwards or downwards by a statistically significant amount from the others in their class and a detailed investigation made in the authorities concerned to discover the causes . |
| 16 | The majority of parents reported being presented covertly or overtly with an opt-out clause when the diagnosis was first made , often couched in terms of : ‘ Leave the baby here for a couple of days , go home and think about it ’ ( ‘ it ’ being unspecified ) . |
| 17 | This conclusion should not be seen to reflect callous indifference to individuals who have suffered miserably or fatally at the hands of persons committing ‘ conventional ’ crimes ; their agony is real and should never be ignored . |
| 18 | I suppose that this is a small matter to mention , but allowing for a slight extension to the 24 hours of the second day , the negotiation was completed more or less in the time allotted — a remarkable feat and a testimony to the profound drafting and negotiating skills of many of the member states and many of the governmental teams . |
| 19 | Police warn that there could be more waiting to be opened tonight or still in the post . |
| 20 | Again this contrasts with other research which has examined the labour market status of older workers , but which has sampled directly or indirectly among the unemployed ( Hill et al. |
| 21 | Perhaps the most technically outstanding examples of this are Milhaud 's string quartets Nos. 8 and 9 , which can be played separately or together as an octet , with each instrument in a different key . |
| 22 | If the Department of Energy believes that 17,000 people are employed directly or indirectly in the opencast coal sector , why did the Secretary of State for Employment recently say that 40,000 people were employed there ? |
| 23 | Dennis Canavan ( Lab , Falkirk W ) said that 70,000 were employed directly or indirectly in the whisky industry and 700 redundancies and eight plant closures had been proposed by United Distillers . |
| 24 | We wish to thank everyone who has contributed directly or indirectly to the preparation of this document . |
| 25 | There is however a considerable literature recognizing that your utility will be affected positively or negatively by the utility achieved by others around you . |
| 26 | These are rehearsals , and performances given solely or primarily for the purpose of making a recording or to enable the performance to he broadcast or included in a cable programme , unless it was attended by persons other than those participating for such purposes . |
| 27 | Instead , communities were always approached initially through persons encountered directly or indirectly in the course of everyday living who had no institutional status in the communities , but were members of them . |
| 28 | You might think of it like the clock in your hall being set forwards or backwards at the beginning and end of Summer Time , so that it registers nightfall as coming first later and then earlier … ’ |
| 29 | The basic principle of the Act is in s. 2(1) : " Where any damage is caused wholly or partly by a defect in a product , every person to whom subsection ( 2 ) … applies shall be liable for the damage . " |
| 30 | Where any damage is caused wholly or partly by a defect in a product , any person to whom subsection ( 2 ) applies shall be liable . |