Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [be] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If a social and political decision is taken against tobacco products and cigarettes , clearly there is a social and political responsibility to find other forms of employment for those people .
2 Each caste was subdivided into jatis or subcastes , which in total number many thousands .
3 Reliance was apparently placed — I say ‘ apparently ’ because there is nothing in the papers which indicates clearly one way or the other what the view of the justices ' clerk was on this subject — I am told that reliance was placed on section 8(3) which provides : ‘ For the purposes of this Act ‘ family proceedings ’ means any proceedings … ( b ) under the enactments mentioned in subsection ( 4 ) . ’
4 While some would be used as breeding earths , others would in due course be used as hideaways as vixens brought their young from areas where they had been disturbed .
5 When the Poles finally repulsed the Russian counter-attack , they sponsored an independent bourgeois republic , which in due course was recognized by Moscow .
6 Three petitions containing more than 2,200 signatures were received in opposition to the proposals for Dixon 's Bank , Marton .
7 The ANC later described the de Klerk timetable as unacceptable and , rejecting his view that at least nine months of administrative preparation were required for elections , continued to press for elections to be held before the end of 1993 .
8 Cheery tombola social nights at local Labour Clubs were replaced by showings of Peter Watkins 's brilliant but heart-stopping antinuclear film , The War Game , which the BBC had commissioned in the 1960s but still wimpishly refused to screen .
9 These may shape the activities of unions , so that their political manoeuvring is based on clientelist relationships , rather than class relationships .
10 It said that a local education authority ‘ shall , in particular , have regard to the need for securing that provision is made for pupils who have not attained the age of five years by the provision of nursery school . ’
11 IN A normal year Franco Kasper , the International Ski Federation 's secretary , would be at Saalbach in the Austrian mountain heartland today , running a critical eye over the brand new downhill course being tested in World Cup before next season 's World Championships .
12 Just as a tall building is constructed in layers , so our personalities , emotional characteristics and complexities are built up with the present as the top storey .
13 A unit-linked endowment is linked to units in a fund of stocks and shares .
14 Most of that money is spent on research .
15 A solicitor acting for another trustee has discovered that that money was withdrawn in cash .
16 Each strip is viewed in turn , starting at the end where the light test card is positioned .
17 The same low rating was given to standards by academics who rated research at 80% .
18 As to section 39(11) Mr. Langley relied on the decision of the Court of Appeal ( Dillon and Ralph Gibson L.JJ. ) in Bank of England v. Riley [ 1992 ] 2 W.L.R. 840 where the question was whether the defendant was entitled to refuse to answer interrogatories or disclose documents in reliance upon the privilege against self-incrimination , or whether that privilege was excluded by section 42 of the Act which entitles the Bank of England , inter alia , to require a person to attend and answer questions where the Bank has reasonable grounds for suspecting that a person is guilty of contravening various sections of the Act .
19 This pleasant perk was gained from Zev Bufman because the Broadway company had not been given Dustin 's permission to use certain material on him in the programme .
20 Some firms , such as Prudential Assurance , insist that employees indicate that payment is made on behalf of the company .
21 To recover this tax ( VAT ) it is essential that any invoices or bills which exceed £50 indicate that payment is made on behalf of ‘ The Prudential Assurance Company Limited ’ and show separately the amount of VAT included in the gross total .
22 The Inland Revenue Technical Division were asked in correspondence whether they adhered to this view where the income in question was paid to a beneficiary who was neither resident nor ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom or , alternatively , where foreign source income was concerned , was paid outside the United Kingdom to a beneficiary who was not domiciled in the United Kingdom .
23 Amongst the employed families living on the Mount Pleasant Estate , 51.2 per cent of their total income was claimed by rent and ‘ other necessary expenditure ’ ; in unemployed families the figure rose to 60.6 per cent .
24 The first dated coin was issued by Valdemar II of Denmark in 1234 , but this is an isolated and untypical example , and dates became a frequent part of the design only from the sixteenth century .
25 His strong defence was supported by authority members , convened in a small working party to investigate the allegations .
26 However , attached lean-to garages are treated as home extensions , and must have full Building Regulations approval , especially as far as fire precautions are concerned .
27 The first claim insists that once a crisp decision has been made by a body sanctioned by convention , and the content of that decision is fixed by conventions about how such decisions should be understood , judges must respect that decision , even if they think a different one would have been fairer or wiser .
28 Implied terms underpin the law of challenge to experts ' decisions , because some basic terms are not spelled out : namely , that the parties would not accept a final decision intended to have binding effect when that decision was vitiated by dishonesty , partiality or mistake .
29 The basis of that decision was stated by Lord Greene MR , at p. 370 : " A term created by a leasehold tenancy agreement must be expressed either with certainty and specifically or by reference to something which can , at the time when the lease takes effect be looked to as a certain ascertainment of what the term is meant to be .
30 DPP v K [ 1990 ] 1 WLR 1067 applied Caldwell to assault occasioning actual bodily harm , but that decision was overruled in Spratt [ 1990 ] 1 WLR 1118 ( CA ) .
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