Example sentences of "[noun pl] i have [adv] " in BNC.

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1 It is also true that proceedings by way of injunction are not the only form of proceedings open to a local authority under the section ; but , unlike Mann L.J. , I am not impressed by that fact , because , in practice , for reasons I have previously given , the circumstances in which injunction proceedings may be successfully brought by a local authority are such that no other proceedings will be effective to enforce the law .
2 It was pointed out in argument that , pursuant to regulation 7 of the Income Tax ( Building Societies ) Regulations 1986 , tax which was due but not paid on or before the due date could have been the subject of an assessment on Woolwich under paragraph 4(2) or ( 3 ) of Schedule 20 to the Finance Act 1972 ; but for the reasons I have already given any such assessment would , in my opinion , have been a nullity in the circumstances of the present case .
3 Nor do I think it necessary to consider for the purposes of the present case to what extent the common law may provide the public authority with a defence to a claim for the repayment of money so paid ; though for the reasons I have already given , I do not consider that the principle of recovery should be inapplicable simply because the citizen has paid the money under a mistake of law .
4 A few examples will give something of the flavour of the times : Even sober-minded mathematical modellers fell under the spell , as witness the mathematician J. S. Griffith who had helped Watson and Crick solve DNA back in the early 1950s , writing jointly with one of the doyens of biochemistry , Henry Mahler , and offering what they called , for reasons I have never quite understood , a ‘ DNA ticketing theory of memory ’ .
5 For largely sentimental reasons I have usually voted Liberal .
6 Insp Best said : ‘ I have come here with a very open mind but what I want to do is to develop the skills I have already and I am hoping it will give me more confidence .
7 There are sundry procedural steps which immediately follow the deposit of the order , and a number which in fact precede it ( for example , the local authority resolution under the 1973 Act and the deposit of the plans I have just mentioned ) .
8 Last night a detective investigating the tragedy said : ‘ It is one of the most distressing cases I have ever come across .
9 In some cases I have deliberately not mentioned a particular plant because I consider it to be unsuitable for pressing , but I am sure that there are many plants not listed that will press very well .
10 ‘ They are the worst jamming ropes I have ever used ; there should be a public health warning on each one . ’
11 The strengths of the theory are , first that it explains the perceptual phenomena I have just described , second that the brain has a real need for the operation it postulates , and third that it gives a role to a prominent but hitherto unexplained anatomical characteristic of the neocortex .
12 From our package , we could readily cover not only the proposals I have just described but also our anti-recession measures to kick-start the recovery .
13 If unc is the wavefunction at a point on the detecting screen corresponding to the electron 's having traversed the first slit , and P , the associated probability , and if unc and P , are the similar quantities for slit 2 , the rules I have just stated imply unc Then , in the case when both slits are open , the probability unc let us call it ) is just given by unc The quantities unc and unc are what we called probability amplitudes ( p. 88 ) .
14 The first depends on the views I have already expressed .
15 We sat on its terrace overlooking the harbour , watching the sky blush rose-red and devouring plum oysters , crabs , and langoustines caught that same day — and the first snails I have ever had that did not taste like bits of black rubber boot fried in garlic and olive oil .
16 The few days I spent on that trip will stay in my mind as some of the most pleasant times I have ever spent .
17 He says ; They are some of the best times I have ever had .
18 Going ahead with Sizewell might then be a marginally attractive proposition on economic grounds though given the risks I have already referred to the case would hardly be overwhelming .
19 ‘ I 've got lots of favourite moments from those days but perhaps the best is the vision of Kenneth Williams singing one of the dirtiest songs I have ever heard to sunbathers on the beach at Rye — which was doubling for the desert in Carry On — Follow That Camel , ’ he recalls .
20 ( b ) I do not accept that quasi-contractual claims , even where a contract is involved , are properly to be treated as falling per se within article 5(1) , having regard both to the general considerations I have already advanced in my analysis of the cases such as Peters [ 1983 ] E.C.R. 987 , and also because it is difficult to locate a place of performance for a quasi-contractual obligation .
21 Q. For 15 months I have successfully kept Monos , a Silver Scat , a Bumble Bee Goby , and even a Golden Sucking Loach in my brackish tank .
22 ‘ Should you come to town , I am sorry that I can not offer you a home pro tempore — pro trumpery indeed it would be , if I did not make any such offer — for unless you occupied the grate as a seat — I see no probability of your finding any rest consonant with the safety of my parrots — seeing , that of the six chairs I possess — 5 are at present occupied with lithographic prints : — the whole of my exalted & delightful upper tenement in fact overflows with them , and for the last 12 months I have so moved — thought — looked at , — & existed among parrots — that should any transmigration take place at my decease I am sure my soul would be very uncomfortable in anything but one of the psittacidae . ’
23 It is one of the most interesting books I have ever read … not because Rorty is claiming to have discovered the Truth but because he has written a fine description of our confusion and of our capacity to create our own selves .
24 And as we seemed to be rather overweighted with gentlemen I have also invited Ingrid — it is her first time in a major role and the enchanting Miss Grimsilk . ’
25 Lord Wilberforce ( whose words I have also quoted ) had second thoughts in an extra-judicial capacity at a seminar in Canberra ( Symposium on Statutory Interpretation , Canberra , 1983 , p. 13 ) where he referred to a case in which the minister on two occasions during the passage of a Finance Bill stated expressly that the provision was not intended to tax a particular class of beneficiary .
26 After the brief words I have just exchanged with Stephanie , I promise she will trouble us no longer , cara . ’
27 We recognise that logically this demands a transfer of resources and effort from the former to the latter , that in the words I have so often quoted , some social services are ‘ excessive ’ and others ‘ inadequate ’ — that it was bound to be so and that it is so .
28 She had eyes as bright as buttons , a sharp wit and the most beautiful pair of shoulders I have ever clapped eyes on .
29 If you have persistence and courage , you ca n't fail to win and Oscar is one of the most convincing winners I have ever met .
30 I confess she was one of the merriest tumbles I have ever had .
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