Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | In 36 of these , the submissions were wholly or partially approved and the courses will commence in the autumn . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Dependants are defined in the 1975 Act as a wife or husband ; a former spouse who has not remarried ; a child of the deceased ( including an illegitimate or adopted child ) ; a person who was treated by the deceased as a child of the family in relation to any marriage of the deceased ( e.g. a child of the deceased 's wife by a former marriage ) ; and any other person who was being wholly or partly maintained by the deceased immediately before his death . |
| 8 | If the guarantee or deposit is wholly or partly forfeited , or taken for the payment of fines or costs , you must repay the corresponding amount to us without delay . |
| 9 | Some radiometer readings became corrupted after writing them down and are wholly or partly lost . |
| 10 | It also struggled , rather fruitlessly , to find ways wholly or partly to replace the system of local taxation , the rates assessed on property . |
| 11 | IPC Magazines is undoubtedly at the top of the list with its ‘ across the board ’ implementation plans ; several titles are already wholly or partly created in this way . |
| 12 | Sometimes this knowledge is supplemented by some familiarity with theoretical linguistics illustrated by examples from the language in question , or more rarely the knowledge of literature is wholly or partly replaced and supplemented by knowledge of the contemporary history , sociology and economics of a country where the language is spoken . |
| 13 | The contract for construction of a residential development wholly or partly funded by the Housing Corporation may be awarded to a builder only if he submits the most favourable tender in competition . |
| 14 | The project is complementary to work going forward in Wales and Northern Ireland and to a European programme , which is wholly or partly funded through JAEP . |
| 15 | In possibly solving a problem in relation to stamp duty or SDRT the arrangement may throw up problems in other areas : ( 1 ) Section 89(4) of CA 1985 ( statutory pre-emption rights ) provides that the statutory pre-emption rights do not apply to a particular allotment of equity shares if these are , or are to be , wholly or partly paid up otherwise than in cash . |
| 16 | Almost 40 per cent of such problems were attributed in whole or part to the pupils ' characteristics whilst in about 65 per cent of cases the home was thought to be wholly or partly to blame . |
| 17 | Given the certainty that freebooters were among the raiding armies , it is clearly possible that the contingents contributed by Swegen and Cnut were wholly or partly comprised of such men too , rather than exclusively of Danish levies . |
| 18 | The Public Order Act defines a public assembly as an assembly of 20 or more persons in a public place which is wholly or partly open to the air . |
| 19 | An assembly is defined as being a gathering of ‘ 20 or more persons in a public place which is wholly or partly open to the air . ’ |
| 20 | As so often , one sees the survival of a social custom long after its original purpose has been wholly or partly superseded . |
| 21 | But crucially , although oppressive confessions may be ruled out , the Act goes on to provide that the fact ‘ that a confession is wholly or partly excluded … shall not affect the admissibility in evidence of any facts discovered as a result of the confession ’ . |
| 22 | For example , Vernon ( 1971 ) defined a multinational to be a firm with wholly or partly owned production facilities in a minimum of six foreign countries . |
| 23 | If , therefore , the lexical meaning of the verb has any negative or hypothetical value then by that very fact the speaker wholly or conditionally withdraws any assurance that the adjectival property will hold factually . |
| 24 | The DES had laid down that diversified courses should be ‘ wholly or mainly constituted of elements common to existing or proposed courses of teacher education or to other advanced courses already approved and … no addItional staff is required ’ . |
| 25 | Intermediate between this and full governmental institutions are bodies wholly or significantly financed from the public revenue ( as in Great Britain the Arts Council ) which fund certain arts . |
| 26 | Choice occurs chiefly in the areas of popularizations , introductions to a subject field and textbooks , where badly or unsuitably written texts may be rejected because there are alternatives available . |
| 27 | Whether you use templates because you are not sure of yourself artistically or just to make the piping and cutting easier on the cake , the technique involved is soon mastered . |
| 28 | This links itself to the three previous parts because it displays a process which metaphorically or symbolically represents change . |
| 29 | Had you broken them in properly or carefully plastered any sore areas beforehand ? |
| 30 | Or do some represent a kind of verbal hijacking — an attempt to appropriate a term which does not properly or honestly belong in that context at all ? |