Example sentences of "of the sale [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the highlights of the sale at Christie 's on December 8 and 9 are a number of unmounted diamonds . |
| 2 | If the purchaser has actual knowledge that the asset sale carried out by the directors is in breach of their fiduciary duty , the transaction is voidable at the instance of the vendor and the purchaser will hold the proceeds of the sale as a constructive trustee . |
| 3 | Had she , as he 'd instructed if he were listed as dead , divided the proceeds of the sale between his three sisters — Sal , now in Canada , Grace , still somewhere in France , and Kitty , God knows where ? |
| 4 | Sales of reserves were offset by an inflow of $260m of foreign currency receipts from the final instalment of the sale of British Steel shares . |
| 5 | Britain 's Civil Aviation Authority had just recommended approval of the sale of Pan Am 's routes out of London 's Heathrow airport to United Airlines . |
| 6 | Sir Basil Brooke of Madeley , an ironmaster , and George Mynne , a London merchant , who held the monopoly of the sale of wood to make iron , were sentenced to pay £59,039. |
| 7 | Although the principle tenet of the Sale of Goods Act — that goods should be ‘ of merchantable quality ’ or ‘ fit for their purpose ’ — does not automatically apply when the seller is an individual or club , all second-hand goods must ‘ fit their description ’ . |
| 8 | In Cilicia , a massacre of 7,000 Armenians and Turks , took place in 1920 and in the United States of America the ‘ Prohibition ’ of the sale of alcoholic drinks , came into effect . |
| 9 | It had originally been built from the proceeds of the sale of indulgences and originally had on it a chapel to St. Anne . |
| 10 | The reserves are shown to increase by £1m that year , but only because of the sale of some farms and houses . |
| 11 | Where an instrument transfers property in contemplation of the sale of the property at a later date , its treatment will depend on whether it falls within the terms of s 90 , FA 1963 . |
| 12 | Nevertheless in most cases the right of possession and the right to the proceeds of the sale of your goods can only be helpful . |
| 13 | In addition , employees with company mortgages may keep up to £1300 of the proceeds of the sale of their property when they move at the company 's request . |
| 14 | Payment of the disturbance allowance at the Yorkshire Bank is also made in two equal instalments ; one is given on the first available salary pay day after the move to the new house , the other is paid when the bank receives the proceeds of the sale of the employee 's old house . |
| 15 | ( Merrill Lynch 's 1984 Study , based on a sample of 149 major UK organisations , found that 90 per cent of these firms transferred employees ' personal and household effects , 21 per cent covered the cost of the sale of the UK home , 14 per cent managed and/or let the UK home on behalf of the employee and 6 per cent bought the employee 's UK home . ) |
| 16 | One couched in the form of an account of the sale of the deceased 's effects says , ‘ Of Mr Marshall for the fine of the yeares to come of the lease of the house ’ |
| 17 | In Britain this shift most obviously took the form of the sale of ( shares in ) state-owned industries and the sale of council houses ; but other manifestations of the shift included provision for the ‘ contracting out ’ by local authorities of various functions to private contractors and moves towards the ‘ privatization ’ of certain types of prison facilities . |
| 18 | On 31 March part I of the sale of Japanese swords and sword fittings from the collection of Dr Walter A. Compton ( see The Art Newspaper No.16 , March 1992 , p.17 ) proved a major success with 92% lots sold or 96% value sold , realizing $7,998,375 ( £4,623,338 ) ( including premium ) a world record total for any sale of Japanese art . |
| 19 | Sotheby 's were extremely well satisfied with the results of the sale of the Bachofen von Echt collection of Indian Miniatures held on 29 April . |
| 20 | The issue of smuggling and of the sale of items of national significance is central to the present scheme . |
| 21 | Indeed , pre-existing opportunities have contracted as a result of the sale of council houses , which has proceeded at faster rates in more attractive suburban-type locations ( Forrest and Murie , 1983 ; Kleinman and Whitehead , 1987 ) , while the prices in the owner-occupied sector have risen so far that first-time buyers appear increasingly to be excluded from the housing market ( NBS , 1986 ) . |
| 22 | Thus the writer became a participant in the direct market process of the sale of his work . |
| 23 | These problems have been compounded in the 1980s by the government 's encouragement of the sale of council houses and by the rise in house prices in the owner-occupied sector , so that the acceleration in the urban-rural shift in the mid 1980s is not likely to have been caused by the lower paid . |
| 24 | If you choose the second alternative , the result usually ends up as an unhealthy hybrid of the Sale Of The Century theme and a Mick Talbot solo album . |
| 25 | Mere membership of a temperance society , or the taking of a pledge of total abstinence , or an expression of sympathy with the prohibition of the sale of intoxicating liquor ( McGeehan v. Knox , 1913 S.C . |
| 26 | ( 4 ) 5.68 is concerned with the prohibition of the sale of liquor to persons under 18 years of age . |
| 27 | The sheriff or bailiff must not account to the execution creditor for fourteen days after sale if the judgment exceeds the prescribed sum ( currently £500 ) because under s 346(3) the sheriff or bailiff is obliged to hand over the proceeds to the official receiver or trustee if a bankruptcy petition is presented within fourteen days of the sale of the goods and a bankruptcy order is subsequently made on that petition . |
| 28 | The Act was needed to make up for the shortcomings of the Sale of Goods Act , 1979 , which applied only to the transfer of goods from a seller to a buyer and not to a situation where goods were being provided as part of a service , such as building work and car repairs , for example . |
| 29 | As she did not want to reveal how much Shildon had reported , she had to sit again through the complicated story of the sale of the lease . |
| 30 | Again , we discussed this with Ann who made permission dependent on completion of the sale of the Berriew cottages . |