Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Détournement and dérive ( drifting ) are thus reclaimed in terms of their contemporary relevance , or rather for the extent to which they influenced punk and the camp and erudite artistic radicalism which exploited it . |
| 2 | ‘ But , one year or so for the Services to wind down is pretty drastic . ’ |
| 3 | Agfa 's P400PS runs at 18 original pages per minute but you pay £18,500 or so for the privilege . |
| 4 | Last year the economy in Penang province grew by 11% , compared with 8.5% or so for the country as a whole . |
| 5 | A successful tour is the priority — the icing on the cake would come if wife , Wendy , could hang on a week or so for the birth of their second child due a month before the end of the tour . ‘ |
| 6 | It took another week or so for the cat to start to ignore Dawn , and even longer for her to stop taking too much notice of him and actually watch TV . |
| 7 | well I have n't discussed this with my learned friend , but it seems to me a date sometime next term would be appropriate , er which would give another term , or so for the plaintiff side to investigate these matters |
| 8 | The experiment involves injecting 2-DG into methylanthranilate-trained and control chicks , waiting half an hour or so for the 2-DG6P to accumulate , killing the chicks , removing and freezing their brains , and subsequently counting the radioactivity present . |
| 9 | It was impossible to judge whether she was asking because she was interested or merely for the sake of politeness . |
| 10 | I now know for certain that Selina Street is n't tucking Alec Llewellyn , or not for the time being anyway . |
| 11 | Whether it be for family , friends or just for the occasion , appearance on the parade is viewed as a token for all the other skills learnt during the nineteen weeks of basic training . |
| 12 | It is unlikely to be possible easily or cheaply for the Purchaser to come to its own conclusions as to whether or not these Acts apply even if it has access to the contractual document . |
| 13 | If the CFTC wins its case , its charges could result in fines of $1m or more for the exchange . |
| 14 | In politics he is that which of all things least resembles a democrat — an aristocratic republican who thinks ‘ nothing more agreeable to the order of nature or more for the interest of mankind than that the less should yield to the greater , not in numbers but in wisdom and virtue ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ You 'd asked about your car , and I told you that it could take a week or more for the garage to locate the part they needed . ’ |
| 16 | In an exceptionally dry year ( when straw is already dried out at mowing time ) the corn may be carted without stooking , but normally it should be left in the field for a week or more for the straw to dry and the grain to harden . |
| 17 | It is doubtful whether in either of these situations the action taken is primarily concerned with punishment ; but the first example could fall within the definition of corporal punishment in the Act , which requires the action to have been taken wholly or partly for the purposes of punishment . |
| 18 | Advertisement means any word , letter , model , sign , placard , board , notice , device or representation , whether illuminated or not , in the nature of , and employed wholly or partly for the purposes of , advertisement , announcement or direction ( excluding any such thing employed wholly as a memorial or as a railway signal ) , and … includes any hoarding or similar structure or any balloon used , or adapted for use , for the display of advertisements … |
| 19 | Example 3:7 Landlord 's power to break ( 1 ) The landlord shall be entitled to determine this tenancy by not less than six months ' notice in writing expiring on or after [ date ] if he intends at the expiry of such notice either : ( a ) to demolish or reconstruct the demised property or a substantial part of it or to carry out substantial work of construction on the demised property or part of it ; or ( b ) to occupy the demised property for the purposes or partly for the purposes of a business to be carried on by him ( 2 ) The service of a notice under s25 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 shall be sufficient notice and good service for the purposes of the preceding subclause Example 3:8 Tenant 's power to break on refusal of planning permission The tenant shall be entitled to determine this tenancy by not less than three nor more than six months ' notice in writing served not more than one month after the happening of any of the following events : ( 1 ) the refusal or deemed refusal by the local planning authority to renew the planning permission dated [ date ] permitting the use of the demised property for ; ( 2 ) the dismissal by the Secretary of State or an appointed person of any appeal against any such refusal ; ( 3 ) the expiry of the said planning permission Example 3:9 Tenant 's right to break preventing exercise of rights under Landlord and Tenant Act The tenant shall be entitled to determine this tenancy on … by giving not less than thirteen months ' previous notice to that effect Example 3:10 Tenant 's conditional right to break The tenant shall be entitled to determine this tenancy on … if : ( 1 ) he gives thirteen months ' written notice to that effect ; and ( 2 ) both at the date of the notice and at the date of its expiry there are neither any outstanding arrears of rent nor any subsisting breach of covenant by the tenant for which the landlord would be entitled to recover damages of more than a nominal amount |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ( 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 . |
| 22 | ( 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 . |
| 23 | ( 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 . |
| 24 | ( 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ; |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | 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 " . |
| 28 | Whether at work , at home or out for the evening , always keep them close at hand . |
| 29 | Individuals begin training in a martial art for many different reasons , for fitness , for self-defence or purely for the discipline that it offers . |
| 30 | Their use is also envisaged to evaluate a particular teaching approach , or even for the appraisal of individual teachers . |