Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] by an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where damage is caused to a visitor by a danger due to the faulty execution of any work of construction , maintenance or repair by an independent contractor employed by the occupier , the occupier is not to be treated without more as answerable for the danger if in all the circumstances he had acted reasonably in entrusting the work to an independent contractor and had taken such steps ( if any ) as he reasonably ought in order to satisfy himself that the contractor was competent and that the work had been properly done . |
| 2 | ( c ) Independent contractors Section 2(4) ( b ) states : Where damage is caused to a visitor by a danger due to the faulty execution of any work of construction , maintenance or repair by an independent contractor employed by the occupier , the occupier is not to be treated without more as answerable for the danger if in all the circumstances he had acted reasonably in entrusting the work to an independent contractor and had taken such steps ( if any ) as he reasonably ought in order to satisfy himself that the contractor was competent and that the work had been properly done . |
| 3 | In personal injury cases that element of damage which is common to all , physical injury , can not as such be eliminated or ameliorated by an award of money . |
| 4 | There was also " … a considerable quantity of small ore which was got at the beginning of the work and can not be weighed until stamped or broken by an Engine and washed for which purpose they are going to erect one to go be water with all speed and were disstressed for some sycamore wood for the water wheel . " |
| 5 | Furthermore , where either depression or schizophrenia are provoked or triggered by an event , disorder typically follows so rapidly that intervention after the event and before the emergence of disorder is unlikely to be a practical possibility . |
| 6 | However once employment had ended it could be used or disclosed by an employee in competition with his former employer . |
| 7 | Her hearers found it difficult to believe that this screaming was involuntary ; some thought she was drunk , or ill , or possessed by an evil spirit , but most of them just wanted her out of the way : ‘ some wished she was on the sea in a bottomless boat ’ . |
| 8 | These can be seen dotted about the vineyards , either lit manually by the vigneron when the temperature drops to freezing setting off noisy alarms in the middle of the night , or fed by an automatic system which fires the burners by thermostatic control . |
| 9 | Every order made in such a cause or matter by an English court , is an order in a criminal cause or matter , even though the order , taken by itself , is neutral in character and might equally have been made in a cause or matter which is not criminal . |
| 10 | Subject to certain exemptions , s 57 of the FSA provides that investment advertisements must be issued or approved by an authorised person . |
| 11 | If the exemption does apply , the parties will be able to conclude the acquisition by private contract in the usual way without any need for the documents to be issued or approved by an authorised person . |
| 12 | If art 4 does not apply to the offer , it will be necessary for it to be issued or approved by an authorised person . |
| 13 | ( 5 ) The offer documents will be investment advertisements for the purposes of FSA 1986 , s57 and will need to be issued by or approved by an authorised person , usually the offeror 's merchant bank or stockbroker ( see para 11.4.2 below ) . |
| 14 | Moreover , it may at any time be varied or revoked by an ordinary resolution even if that involves an alteration of the articles . |
| 15 | For repairs , improvements or adaptations to properties owned or tenanted by an elderly person over 60 . |
| 16 | The one difference is that in a hire contract the terms as to title and quiet possession can be excluded or restricted by an exemption clause provided that exemption clause satisfies the requirement of reasonableness . |
| 17 | Police say the dog could have been used in a fight or dumped by an uncaring owner who could not afford to have the animal registered under dangerous dog legislation . |
| 18 | Most are caused by cuts and lacerations , burns and scalds , accidental poisoning , falls or struck by an object or a person . |
| 19 | the invitation must not be associated with or followed by an immediate application for listing on The Stock Exchange or some other trading facility . |
| 20 | I experienced my hands being numb and slightly swollen , then being pressed or clasped by an unseen force . |
| 21 | If the following clause is included ( which is stated in the precedent possibly to be inappropriate where the premises form part of a larger building or centre ) , the following comments will apply : [ 7.7.9 if and whenever during the Term the Premises or any part of them are damaged or destroyed by an Insured Risk and the insurance money under the policy of insurance effected by the Landlord pursuant to [ its ] obligations contained in this Lease is by reason of any act or default of the Tenant or anyone at the Premises expressly or by implication with the Tenant 's authority [ and under the Tenant 's control ] wholly or partially irrecoverable immediately in every such case ( at the option of the Landlord ) either : |
| 22 | Land might also be vested in a feoffee to uses ( i.e. trustee ) or managed by an attorney . |
| 23 | " People are more likely to be struck by lightning than bitten by an adder . |
| 24 | While Special Branch sent along junior officers to transcribe proceedings at NL meetings in 1939 , the most important information we have on its activities is that procured by an intelligence agent working for the Board of Deputies of British Jews . |
| 25 | In spite of Caroline Tisdall 's marvellous study of his art which was held at the Guggenheim Museum in 1979 , this complex man has never been widely known nor understood by an American audience . |
| 26 | It rests upon ‘ acritical ’ observations and inferences , which are not subject to self-control nor guided by an understanding of the concept of reality . |
| 27 | True , it is the people at the bottom of the ladder and below it who benefit from Mr Smith 's thin tax cuts but £100 a year helps little — and the saving would be more than eliminated by an upward move in mortgage rates . |
| 28 | In 1914 Bramah began an entirely different set of stories with Max Carrados who , on the dust jacket of the first edition , is described as ‘ a detective of a totally new and unexpected type , for he is blind ; but the alluring peculiarity of his case is that his blindness is more than counterbalanced by an enormously enhanced perception of the other senses ’ . |
| 29 | Around Chalamont the soil was very difficult to work ( a 10 inch heavy loam over an impermeable clay layer ) and compounded by an extremely high water table . |
| 30 | This was a study of life in Muncie , Indiana , and typified by an eclecticism of data sources . |