legal - use in sentences

Modifies a noun

  • advice: Legal advice should be sought in cases of doubt.
  • requirement: The service is designed to comply with legal requirements covering the disposal of such waste.
  • obligation: Travel permits meet the legal obligation of the District Council to provide travel concessions.
  • aid: Legal aid plays a key part in helping the justice system work.
  • proceeding: Your client may not be eager to embark on legal proceedings in respect of any personal injury at an early stage.
  • profession: The legal profession should be barred from the process.

Modifying Another Word

  • perfectly: On querying this, he assured me it was perfectly legal.
  • strictly: Furthermore, on strictly legal grounds, the fairest thing to do would be to charge both of them for assault.
  • only: Currently abortion is only legal if it is performed by a doctor to save the life or health of the woman.
  • not: We will give you legal information, not legal advice.
  • now: And with the new rule changes from the R&A this product is now legal for you to use in all forms of golf competition.

Infinitive complement

  • drive: You may be concerned about driving following loss of sight in one eye, however it is legal to drive with sight like this.
  • use: It is legal to use in the US and most other countries as it is considered a food supplement.
  • do: We won't receive a warning or an error - technically it is legal to do this: it just doesn't make sense.
  • park: It is legal to park on yellow lines at traffic lights if you drive a white van. !

Used with adjective complement

  • remain: Reassuringly, all of these things will, at least in the meantime, remain legal in this aspiring Member State!
  • change: Prwora changed legal also eliminate the schip outreach and new york new.

Preposition: in

  • state: K&N stock replacement filters are backed by their Million Mile Limited Warranty and are emissions legal in all 50 states.
  • circumstance: A significant number of students who say they are pro-life think abortion should be legal in some circumstances.

Preposition: under

  • law: He said the company had acquired rights to it in a deal that was legal under the laws of a recognized sovereign state.

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