Example sentences of "[noun] or a part [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Section 11(1) of the 1968 Theft Act provides : … where the public have access to a building in order to view the building or a part of it , or collection or part of a collection housed in it , any person who without lawful authority removes from the building or its grounds the whole or part of any article displayed or kept for display to the public in the building or that part of it or in its grounds shall be guilty of an offence . |
| 2 | Under CONTEXT ( see the discussion of discourse situation , 8.1 ) we consider the external relations of a text or a part of a text , seeing it as a discourse presupposing a social relation between its participants ( author and reader ; character and character , etc ) , and a sharing by participants of knowledge and assumptions . |
| 3 | ‘ to proceed beyond the stop line of a ‘ Pelican ’ crossing when the vehicular traffic signal was showing a red light' 'Proceed beyond' means to pass the prohibited place either with the whole vehicle or a part of the vehicle . |
| 4 | PER CENT ( PERCENTAGE ) — A proportion or a part in a hundred ; i.e. the number of cases of a part divided by the number of total cases and multiplied by 100 . |
| 5 | Bugging to the hatter , cabbage to the tailor , blue-pigeon flying to the plumbers and glaziers , chippings to shipwrights , sweepings to porters , red sail docking to navy yard workers , flints and thrums to weavers , vails to servants , privileges to west country clothiers , bontages to Scottish agricultural workers , scrapings and naxers to coopers , wastages to framework knitters , in all these the eighteenth-century labourer appropriated a part of his product or a part of the material of his labour . |
| 6 | Subject to the important exceptions below , the Transfer Regulations apply to the " transfer from one person to another of an undertaking situated immediately before the transfer in the United Kingdom or a part of one which is so situated " . |
| 7 | The essence of the matter was stated in the first sentence of Article 613 : ‘ when an enterprise or a part of an enterprise is transferred to another owner ( sic ) as a result of a legal transaction , the latter shall succeed to the rights and obligations under the contracts of employment existing at the date of the transfer ’ ( my translation ) . |
| 8 | Further , a third of those liable for rates are excused the whole or a part of their liability under the rate rebate scheme to help those with low incomes . |
| 9 | For this purpose a ‘ ship ’ is defined as ‘ Any structure , whether completed or in the course of completion , launched and intended for use in navigation as a ship or a part of a ship ’ — Section 12 Merchant Shipping Act 1979 . |
| 10 | ‘ The assumption … that you might know before you looked at cultural relations in general what , at any particular time , was a part of elite culture or a part of popular culture is untenable ’ ( Hall 1978 : 6–7 ) . |