Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Decisions may be reported locally and/or nationally .
2 A second line of argument advanced on behalf of the doctor to justify his failure to accede to the request of his patient is that the doctor must continue treatment because to do otherwise would render him criminally and/or civilly liable .
3 The mansion was , he said , ‘ elegantly & completely furnished-with 9 lodging rooms , three parlours & a Hall — in a most beautiful & romantic situation by the sea side ’ .
4 E coli and other enterobacteria were isolated on either Columbia horse blood or MacConkey agars ( Oxoid Ltd ) incubated aerobically or microaerobically at 37°C for between 18 and 48 hours .
5 A few treasure hunters are also acting illegally ( for example , by using a metal detector in Britain on a scheduled ancient monument ) and may therefore sometimes conceal the find spot altogether or even falsify one .
6 While the problem was recognised as early as the 1930s , when institutions and regulations were created to combat it , these have been either ignored altogether or simply not enforced .
7 Do you feel that that would have solved the situation on Piper Alpha altogether or how far would it have gone to perhaps lessening the the blow of the the occasion ?
8 The centre represented by UPNI and Alliance had 10,000 votes altogether or about 16% .
9 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 .
10 I 've tried it sometimes , never long enough to know whether I did it successfully or not , but I found there is absolutely no way of telling because even if it changes in a way one can predict , what one can predict is the way oneself changes or the world changes at the same time .
11 It is n't always straightforward to get , say , Frenchmen and Germans working together successfully or even people from southern Italy working well with those from the north .
12 After that , there being no predestination , it is up to the human being concerned to deal with the problems as they arise — successfully or otherwise .
13 For if all ontological claims are to be understood as forms of man 's own self-understanding , rather than conveying , successfully or otherwise , certain objective existential facts ' , then existentialism itself turns out to be a form of reductivism .
14 The infantile , unmet scream may be repressed , either successfully or partially , at times breaking out from a normally controlled and reasonable adult .
15 Are the answers at the back of the book or on the next page or are they in another book ( this would mean extra expense ) ? 16 Does the student learn inductively or solely deductively ? 17 Are the topics and stories interesting and appropriate or are they dull and irrelevant to your students ' needs ?
16 He must make decisions about what was historically important , not about , let us say , what was theologically or aesthetically important , significant though that might be to a believer or an artist .
17 Within Bield one survey showed that half of those tenants who moved on to further care from sheltered housing did so wholly or primarily for mental health reasons .
18 it is possible that the retrieval of records bearing such information might be wholly or partially unsuccessful .
19 Mozambique has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the world , approximately 200 per 1,000 live births.4 Those who depend on emergency support because of war and drought number about 1,690,000 and about half the population is wholly or partially dependent on food aid .
20 The following establishments have indicated that they are wholly or partially suitable for disabled visitors .
21 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 .
22 " The number … wholly or partially idle has not been excelled within the memories of most living printers , even the oldest " . "
23 Other accounting standards , such as SSAP 2 ( Disclosure of Accounting Policies ) and SSAP 17 ( Accounting for Post Balance Sheet Events ) are either wholly or partially relevant .
24 A public assembly is defined as a gathering of twenty or more people in a place which is wholly or partially open to the air ( e.g. a mass meeting , picket , demonstration or pop festival ) .
25 ( 1 ) Without prejudice to its other powers under this Act , a licensing board may make byelaws for any of the following purposes ( a ) for closing licensed premises wholly or partially on New Year 's Day , and on such other days not being more than four in any one year as the board may think expedient for special reasons ; ( b ) for prohibiting holders of licences from residing in their licensed premises , or for requiring the dwellinghouses of holders of licences to be separate from their licensed premises ; ( c ) for requiring all wines , made-wines and spirits sold by the holder of an off-sale licence to be sold in corked , stoppered or sealed vessels , cans , jars or casks ; ( d ) for requiring every holder of a hotel or public house licence to keep in his licensed premises and to renew from day to day a sufficient supply of drinking water , and such eatables as may be specified in the byelaw , and to display , offer and supply the same as may be required by the byelaw ; ( e ) for printing a list of all applications coming before any meeting of the licensing board , with such other information as may be considered necessary by the board ; ( f ) for the setting out of conditions which may be attached to licences for the improvement of standards of , and conduct in , licensed premises ; ( g ) for the granting of a licence of a type other than that applied for ; Provided that a byelaw made under paragraph ( c ) above shall not apply to licensed premises where no groceries are kept or sold and where a bona fide wholesale business in alcoholic liquor is carried on .
26 Judicial intervention which occurs only when the resultant agency decision is substantively arbitrary will be insufficient , because there may be many instances when it falls short of this , but still wholly or partially ignores the views of interested parties .
27 In 36 of these , the submissions were wholly or partially approved and the courses will commence in the autumn .
28 The Allaire report proposed that the province should have autonomy in 22 areas currently controlled wholly or partially by the federal government in Ottawa , and that federal government should be responsible only for defence , foreign policy , customs and some fiscal matters .
29 The Union 's decisions on defence could " be wholly or partially carried out through the WEU " but this could be reviewed in 1996 in a general revision of the treaty .
30 The correct way for approaching the actus reus in relation to cheating was laid down in Doukas and approved in Cooke : ( a ) was there an article for use in cheating ? ( b ) did the accused deceive another ? ( c ) did the accused obtain by that deception ? ( d ) was there dishonesty ? ( e ) was " the obtaining … , wholly or partially , by virtue of the deception " ?
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