Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [verb] [verb] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So it emerges from these authorities that the retention of moneys known to have been paid under a mistake at law , although it is a course permitted to an ordinary litigant , is not regarded by the courts as a ‘ high-minded thing ’ to do , but rather as a ‘ shabby thing ’ or a ‘ dirty trick ’ and hence is a course which the court will not allow one of its own officers , such as a trustee in bankruptcy , to take . |
| 2 | There are criticisms , but in fact the majority of criticisms seem to have been directed at the faults in the administrative procedures , as opposed to problems with the syllabus or assessment procedures . |
| 3 | The principal aim of this study will be to assess the extent to which police conduct and decision making in a number of areas appear to have been influenced by the Police and Criminal Evidence Act ( 1984 ) . |
| 4 | It was reported that by Aug. 19 , 75 per cent of vouchers purchased had been traded for company shares . |
| 5 | those where an unusual , unexpected or improper use of powers appears to have been made ; |
| 6 | The quick redemption of bonds seems to have been envisaged from the early days for this kind of comment recurs. that the repayment took over 75 years to accomplish is remarkable , but that it is so is attributable to three things , compounded by other factors such as two World Wars . |
| 7 | Originally the class of persons entitled to claim was limited to the wife , husband , parent and child of the deceased but over the years the classes have been extended to enable all those classes mentioned in the 1976 Act to claim . |
| 8 | Now that the inevitability of synonyms occurring has been made clear , we must consider how to deal with them . |
| 9 | Organ donation has not kept pace with the demands for transplantation , and a considerable minority of patients die having been accepted for , and while waiting for , transplantation . |
| 10 | The sacred tree cult mentioned earlier led to the building of enclosure walls round individual trees or groups of trees thought to have been visited by deities . |
| 11 | Certain industrial consumers of high voltage electricity claimed that tariffs applied by the electricity board resulted in undue discrimination against them as compared with consumers of low voltage electricity , and sought recovery of sums alleged to have been overcharged . |
| 12 | A few examples have been found where a number of graptoloids seem to have been associated together attached ( by the nema ) to a ‘ float ’ . |
| 13 | This approach is based on follow-up work to a project on protection of children thought to have been abused or neglected and on empirical studies of the effects of divorce on family income , published 1986 by OUP under the title of ‘ Maintenance after Divorce ’ and para-legal decision-making on divorce . |
| 14 | The evidence against them consisted of confessions said to have been extracted under torture . |
| 15 | The main issues before the Appeal Court were the authenticity of confessions said to have been made by the defendants while under detention , and the conduct of the police . |
| 16 | The decision followed reports that up to 250,000 hectares ( 2,500 sq km ) of subtropical forest in Mexico 's Yucatán peninsula had been destroyed by a series of fires believed to have been started by farmers and ranchers seeking to extend their land holdings . |
| 17 | It had eventually been decided to limit the statements to accounts of atrocities alleged to have been committed only between June and August 1944 , so that they could be tied precisely to Kesselring 's orders . |
| 18 | This objection could be countered by examples of churches known to have been built on pagan sites , such as Cascob , Radnorshire and Fimber , East Yorkshire , which were actually built on tumuli . |