Example sentences of "in the [noun sg] [prep] [pron] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attempting to execute a difficult move , paralysed in the core of his muscles by nervousness , Lucien lost his footing and ruined the sequence . |
| 2 | The chances of Eubank ending up a punch-drunk boxing casualty are remote , and , likewise , he 's sparing in the abuse of his victims . |
| 3 | The general data presented by Cox are undeniable , but interpretation of the data rests on certain assumptions , principally that people act on an individualistic basis rather than as groups , and according to attitudes expressed in the quiet of their homes rather than in response to major events . |
| 4 | This would help domestic industry to maintain both its market share and its profitability , as European and Japanese firms would be obliged to increase their dollar prices to compensate for a fall in the dollar against their currencies . |
| 5 | In his view Tom was being used as a pawn in the relationship between his parents and unless his parents did come to an arrangement whereby ‘ a more stable home situation ’ was provided , Tom would benefit from a residential school placement . |
| 6 | Section 309(1) of the Companies Act 1985 provides that ‘ [ t ] he matters to which the directors of the company are to have regard in the performance of their functions include the interests of the company 's employees in general , as well as the interests of its members ’ . |
| 7 | Sections of the population assist the police in the performance of their duties not just by taking on gunmen or robbers but also by making telephone calls to the police . |
| 8 | Employees have a duty to take reasonable care in the performance of their duties . |
| 9 | The International Tin Agreement also provided for executive staff who in the performance of their duties were prohibited from receiving instructions from any source other than the Council . |
| 10 | There is an implied duty upon partners to exercise reasonable care in the performance of their duties under the agreement . |
| 11 | ‘ For my part I do not think that the House of Lords in that case had in mind the special position in the administration of justice of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Crown Prosecution Service or would have been prepared to extend the effect of the orders of a civil court in such a way as indirectly to bind them in the performance of their duties in relation to the criminal law and before the criminal courts in circumstances in which they had not sought and may not have wished for an order for discovery . |
| 12 | ‘ [ the appellants ' ] ordered documents may show not only what inquiries the appellants made or did not make in the performance of their duties as auditors , but what they were told and by whom , |
| 13 | They act as agents of the company and must exercise reasonable skill and care in the performance of their duties consistent with the level of their knowledge and experience . |
| 14 | The legislation stipulated that in the performance of their duties KGB officials were " not bound by decisions of political parties and mass public movements pursuing political objectives " . |
| 15 | But the whole drift of events was towards a widening and consolidation of the immunities claimed by diplomats in the performance of their duties . |
| 16 | Unsurprisingly , judges are not neutral in their interpretation of the public interest ( Griffith , 1985 , p. 235 ) , but are biased in the performance of their roles , both by their origins and by their location in a state structured in the interests of external business elites ; and where the law is implemented , in each case ‘ it will be found that an organized group had an informed interest in effective administration ’ ( Edelman , 1964 , p. 41 ) . |
| 17 | 1.6.5 immediately to bring to the attention of any improper or wrongful use of 's trade marks , designs , models or other similar industrial , intellectual or commercial property rights which come to the notice of and in the performance of its duties under this Agreement , and to use every effort to safeguard the property rights and interests of and and at the request and cost of , take all steps required by to defend such rights ; |
| 18 | Admission to a partnership is no longer looked upon so frequently as in the past as a job for life either by the individual solicitor whose loyalty to the firm may well be strained by the availability elsewhere of fresh challenges for greater rewards or by the firm which will be reluctant to tolerate any falling off in the performance of its partners which may affect overall profit levels . |
| 19 | I undertake to be guided by the National Code of Local Government Conduct in the performance of my functions in that office |
| 20 | ‘ The member shall ensure that a person is not appointed as a company representative of that member except on terms which impose on him a duty to act in the performance of his functions as a company representative in such a way as to comply with the code of conduct ; … |
| 21 | This is , for example , stated negatively in Romer J 's dictum in Re City Equitable Fire Insurance Co Ltd to the effect that a director need not ‘ exhibit in the performance of his duties a greater degree of skill than may reasonably be expected from a person of his knowledge and experience . |
| 22 | Buying a commission for one of its members , it must be remembered , could impoverish a poor noble family for decades ; and if the holder died in the performance of his duties the sum paid was lost to it . |
| 23 | A suggested clause to be included in either the Articles or the subscription and shareholders ' agreement is : A director of the company who has been appointed to the board by a member or class of members pursuant to the Articles of Association to represent the interests of that member or class of members shall , notwithstanding any rule of law or equity to the contrary , not be considered in breach of his fiduciary duty to act in the best interests of the company by reason only that in the performance of his duties and the exercise of his powers , he has regard to the interests and acts upon the wishes of that member or class of members when no honest and reasonable director could have formed the view that in so doing , the director was also promoting the interests of the company as a whole . |
| 24 | It could be seen , also , in the localized life of the masses , in the residue of superstition in their thinking , in the size of their families , and in their health . |
| 25 | ‘ Never mind what Brian Everthorpe says , he 's only interested in the size of her tits . |
| 26 | This decision has been reached amicably , and they will both continue to participate fully in the upbringing of their children . |
| 27 | Because of this , the Second Chance for Women courses in Southampton have been continually investigated by local politicians , LEA advisers , university professors and HMI for signs of bias , indoctrination and extremism in ways which other courses sponsored by the university department have never been ; and despite the lip-service paid to experimental learning and Freirian praxis in the rhetoric of our leaders this does not extend any encouragement or enlightenment about attempts to make space for feminist ideas in adult education . |
| 28 | It offers not a concrete image of history but an abstract schema of men making history of such a kind that it can manifest itself in the trend of their lives as a synchronic totality . |
| 29 | This coincided with an earthquake — for a superstitious Spartan , a sign of divine disapproval , which might well make the helots , who were surely experts in the psychology of their oppressors , hope that Spartan nerve might give . |
| 30 | João went off hunting in the Alentejo with his friends for the last three days before the wedding , so Sara had little opportunity to get to know him better . |