Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] or [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( iv ) Although the claims in these actions are not made for the performance of the obligations under the contracts or as a result of their breach , they do concern matters relating to a contract , since the court is determining the consequences of the nullity of the contracts , particularly with regard to the contractual matters of total failure of consideration and payments under a mistake . |
| 2 | Yes , the cost will most probably kill off some of the clubs or at least make them less successful , but surely that is a price we will have to pay . |
| 3 | He also suggested that quite apart from the accountant 's employer or client , he owed a duty to any third person to whom he shows the accounts or to whom he knows the employer will show the accounts with a view to persuading that person to invest or take some other action . |
| 4 | Such notes may be included in the accounts or in separate documents annexed thereto . |
| 5 | The Committee even considered the possibility that the occupant of the Chair be given a cut-off button or that other devices be employed to override demonstrations or disturbance in the galleries or on the floor of the House , but it rejected such innovations . |
| 6 | Family size is shrinking as mothers no longer need large numbers of children to work either down the mines or in the factories ( the machine would take anybody to work for it at first ) or to ensure that a few would survive ; high infant mortality rates are now becoming a thing of the past . |
| 7 | conclude that the data from the studies of internal validity show that the test does not adequately integrate the eleven subtests , nor does it explain the relationship between the subtests or between subtest performance and other relevant behaviour . |
| 8 | One problem here is that now , if pre-emptive provisions other than those prescribed in the Act are to apply , they must be in the memorandum or articles whereas previously they could have been provided in other ways , for example in an agreement between the shareholders or as part of the terms of issue of the shares . |
| 9 | The internal organization of the company does not provide an adequate safeguard against the power of the managers being used for their own ends ; and the imposition of fiduciary duties does not ensure that the discretion of the managers is only exercised either in accordance with the wishes of the shareholders or in accordance only with the expertise of the managers , since both these concepts prove impossibly difficult to define . |
| 10 | Again , the police ( who had only a marginal role in enforcing the new order , and who sometimes perhaps accepted it with less than utter enthusiasm ) were more likely to have diverse tribal allegiances in the larger settlements nearer the cities or in strategically more significant places . |
| 11 | In 1799 he settled as a barrister in Newcastle upon Tyne , rapidly acquiring an enviable reputation as a man of strict integrity and sound judgement , whether in the courts or as an arbitrator in industrial disputes . |
| 12 | I shall not refer to wider policy matters , or to matters that are currently subject to argument in the courts or on appeal , but I condemn the Government for running away from their responsibilities on Sunday trading . |
| 13 | Employees aggrieved by the actions of their employers may seek redress through the courts or at an industrial tribunal . |
| 14 | ( a ) Conventions are non-legal rules of constitutional behaviour which are considered to be binding upon those who operate the constitution but which are not enforced by the courts or by the presiding officers in Parliament . |
| 15 | The reason is that such clauses are not looked upon with favour either by the courts or by Parliament . |
| 16 | If it will not be possible to substitute hard copy for electronic mail , will this premise eventually be extended to all electronic information/data either by the courts or by legislation . |
| 17 | Conventions of the Constitution are most aptly described as rules that are considered binding by and upon those who are responsible for making the Constitution work , but rules that are not enforced by the courts or by the presiding officers in either house of Parliament . |
| 18 | His main aim in these months was to reconcile and renew the nation : hence no revolution , but most of the reforms that the CNR had wanted ; hence a purge , but not the wholesale purge of all who had had dealings with the Germans or with Vichy ; hence a referendum and free elections , but no plebiscite ( whatever his opponents alleged , the referendum of October 1945 was not a true plebiscite ) ; hence the presidency but no Gaullist party . |
| 19 | It was revolting to see these half-starved creatures snuffling around behind the houses or along the river-bank in search of excrement . |
| 20 | But it is unlikely to happen at the hustings or in the run up to the election . |
| 21 | In prison it leaks out in anger and displays of violence either between the prisoners or against the staff . |
| 22 | During the sixteenth century Myddle was essentially a society consisting of numerous smallholders and a few large farmers , but from the second half of Elizabeth 's reign onwards poor immigrants came into the parish in search of labouring work and the opportunity to erect a cottage in the woods or on the manorial wastes . |
| 23 | He may also drop his ball back into play , though no nearer the hole , when given relief by the rules or under penalty of one shot if he thinks the ball is unplayable . |
| 24 | This power can be exercised whether or not there has been a contravention of the rules or for any other reason . |
| 25 | The common property , if it is more than mere cash in hand or at the bank , will be vested in trustees who must deal with it in accordance with the rules or with any trust expressly declared , and it can be made liable for obligations incurred by , or on behalf of , the society . |
| 26 | Parish poorhouses and workhouses were established for the destitute and if there was no work available , the unemployed were put to paid work on the roads or on local farms . |
| 27 | Questions about adequate levels of safety on the roads or in factories , or about purity in foods are of this kind . |
| 28 | Look every time we 've done it that 's what we also do it goes out on the manager 's report w with the minutes or with the agenda . |
| 29 | By developing a better understanding of the processes of investment decision making the results will then , through direct intervention by the researchers or by teaching , enable organisations to improve their investment decisions . |
| 30 | In the normal gastrointestinal tract , HLA-DR is constitutively expressed on small intestinal villus cells but not in the crypts or on gastric or colonic epithelial cells . |