Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Those extensive powers are conferred upon the court for the beneficial winding up of the company , for sometimes it happens that the liquidator is unable to obtain from unwilling persons the information which he requires . |
| 2 | These powers are : ( i ) to make any compromise with creditors or persons claiming to be creditors ; ( ii ) to bring or defend proceedings ; ( iii ) to carry on the business of the bankrupt so far as may be necessary for the beneficial winding up of the estate ; ( iv ) to accept payment in the future on the sale of any property comprised in the estate . |
| 3 | Indeed today in the High Court a petition is being presented for the compulsory winding up of the company . |
| 4 | Where the proceedings are in respect of a statutory nuisance within s.92(1) ( c ) , it is a defence under s.94(4) to prove , on a balance of probabilities , ( the burden being on the defendant ) that the accumulation or deposit was necessary for the effectual carrying on of a business or manufacture , was not kept longer than necessary , and that best practicable means were used to prevent them from being prejudicial to health or a nuisance . |
| 5 | JOANNE HOCKLEY from Felixstowe Ferry booked her place in the match-play stages of the British Women 's Amateur Championship when she handed in a 72 during the second qualifying round at Royal Lytham and St Annes . |
| 6 | Had the laundries been at the Riviera end all the detritus from the other businesses , the discarded vegetables and smashed fruit of the greengrocers , the scales and fish heads and guts deposited on the street by the two fishmongers , would have passed by and probably soiled some of the clothes as the intermittent hosing down of the street caused all this muck and filth to edge its way slowly down towards the Bay . |
| 7 | Some church leaders ( and lay people ) are already doing it regularly — guiding individuals in their praying , Bible reading , daily living — others , already over-busy , might well groan at the thought of the faithful queueing up for individual direction . |
| 8 | In view of the abrupt falling on in the numbers of husbandmen above £20 , plus the fact that this figure coincides roughly with the wealth of the average yeoman , farmers assessed at and above it can pragmatically be counted as yeomen . |
| 9 | Like the comedy films , these tales of the British winning through by skill and intelligence carry their propaganda messages lightly . |
| 10 | If we progress past the 2nd playing round in either — we tend to go a long way … otherwise we tendto get caught cold as it were … and in the FA cup draw the finalists/winners … |
| 11 | Wholesale changes took place within the management and trade union organisations , with the good going out with the bad . |
| 12 | This is in line with the world-wide phasing out of CFCs , found in industrial as well as domestic fridges . |
| 13 | When he let it go the ram trotted off , barging through the other sheep with the lukal bulging out on either side across its ribcage . |
| 14 | but that all took I think , when you 're older when you go grey it 's , it , you look softer and you get away with the grey coming through on white hair . |
| 15 | However , even those murders in real life that rise above the simple snatching up of the kitchen knife in the middle of a husband and wife row are much , much less cunningly contrived than that . |
| 16 | The question is in what circumstances the court may , on the application of the S.I.B. , order persons who were knowingly concerned in the unauthorised carrying on of investment business under section 3 of the Act to take steps to restore the parties to the transaction to the position in which they were before the transaction was entered into . |
| 17 | They may be hampered in the efficient winding up of your affairs by the limited powers Parliament gives to the next of kin in these circumstances . |
| 18 | Bernie would always have it that he had known Malcolm since he was a mod in the sixties hanging out at — among other places — Eel Pie Island , where The Who and The Stones used to play . |
| 19 | In the practical working out of UN policy the UN has to be regarded as a vehicle of American foreign policy ; this was not always the case and the Americans criticised aspects of the functioning of the UN in Korea and especially the attitudes of individual members of UN commissions . |
| 20 | This has resulted in the gradual piling up of the Himalayas . |
| 21 | Having disposed of Chertsey and Witney , they did much the same in the fourth qualifying round against Marlow , equalising at home in the 82nd minute and winning the replay 2-1 with a goal in the 90th . |
| 22 | Having disposed of Chertsey and Witney , they did much the same in the fourth qualifying round against Marlow , equalising at home in the 82nd minute and winning the replay 2-1 with a goal in the 90th . |
| 23 | ‘ The newspaper and television campaign in Germany over the imminent handing over of certain art treasures is gamesmanship to exert pressure on public opinion during the talks . |
| 24 | The Marquess of Salisbury had become Prime Minister in 1895 , and in 1889 his government introduced death duties which were to lead to the gradual breaking up of the wealthy estates , which previously had passed from father to son — or some other relative — without any loss . |
| 25 | What is more , any forecast about the way in which industry will develop within the United Kingdom and the European Community in the remainder of this century suggests that national prosperity will depend to an increasing extent on the successful skilling up of the national work force to meet the new demands that will be made by industry , technology , the professions and academia . |
| 26 | Its precise effect on the allocation of investment resources would depend on the detailed working out of the disciplines , and the Treasury certainly took no chances on a complete return to the free market in investment capital . |
| 27 | There are no spines on the first arm segment , one on the second , two on the third increasing up to 8 or 9 . |