Example sentences of "[coord] were [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ ( 1 ) On a taxation of costs on a standard basis there shall be allowed a reasonable amount in respect of all costs reasonably incurred and any doubts which the taxing officer may have as to whether the costs were reasonably incurred or were reasonable in amount shall be resolved in favour of the paying party ; and in these rules the term ‘ the standard basis ' in relation to the taxation of costs shall be construed accordingly . |
| 2 | ( 2 ) On a taxation on the indemnity basis all costs shall be allowed except in so far as they are of an unreasonable amount or have been unreasonably incurred and any doubts which the taxing officer may have as to whether the costs were reasonably incurred or were reasonable in amount shall be resolved in favour of the receiving party ; and in these rules the term ‘ the indemnity basis ' in relation to the taxation of costs shall be construed accordingly . |
| 3 | Tina had no moral sense about this question , no feeling that children ought to know who their fathers were or should be fathered by the men their mothers lived with or were married to . |
| 4 | Early local press coverage brought forward more local people who either knew Mr Burns and saw the original or were involved in the building of other examples and wanted to see the recreation . |
| 5 | Held , allowing the appeal and the cross-appeal , that under the terms of the mortgage and other deeds the defendants were entitled to recover their actual costs , charges and expenses except for any costs that had not been reasonably incurred or were unreasonable in amount ; that both litigation and non-litigation costs could be referred to a taxing for quantification ; that the defendants were contractually entitled to payment on an indemnity basis as defined by R.S.C. , Ord. 62 , r. 12(2) ; that the court 's discretion as to the basis of taxation of a mortgagee 's costs , charges and expenses should normally be exercised so as to correspond with the contractual entitlement ; and that , accordingly , the master had power to order that the contractual costs , charges and expenses and the costs incurred in the litigation be taxed on an indemnity basis including those costs ordered to be taxed on a standard basis ( post , pp. 735E–F , 736B–C , 737E–F , 739A–C , 741H — 742D , E–H ) . |
| 6 | The language used does , in our opinion , justify an approach that would hold the mortgagee prima facie entitled to recover or retain the full amount of its actual costs , charges and expenses ; but the language leaves open , in our opinion , the right of the mortgagor to have excluded any costs , charges and expenses that were incurred in bad faith or were unreasonably incurred or were unreasonable in amount . |
| 7 | This was followed soon after by penicillin and then a host of other antibiotics , very many of which are or were effective in the treatment of gonorrhoea . |
| 8 | Several of the other known members of such groups had Arab connections or were opposed to Zionist ambitions in Palestine . |
| 9 | Friends of the family discovered their coupons returned or were relieved of the duty of delivering them . |
| 10 | One question : did she con Lil too , and all the rest of the team , or were all of them in on her little plot ? |
| 11 | and if they were disproportion or , or were excess in that regard they would fall within eighty five , one . |
| 12 | Investors who had watched the company 's share price climb often wanted to increase their own stakes , or were amenable to the suggestion that they should . |
| 13 | His submission was that where the words of a statute were ambiguous or obscure or were capable of giving rise to an absurd conclusion it should be legitimate to look at the Parliamentary history , including the debates in Parliament , for the purpose of identifying the intention of Parliament in using the words it did use . |
| 14 | Was William a love child , kept in the background because of the embarrassment , or were most of the records of his existence obliterated after his untimely death , to give solace to a stern and autocratic murderess ? |
| 15 | Although most respondents praised , or were satisfied with , this care the study identified a number of inadequacies . |
| 16 | It was not suggested that either the solicitors , who were simply carrying out a straightforward conveyancing transaction , or Mrs G herself , had any criminal or quasi-criminal intent or were aware of the suspected intent of the alleged drug trafficker . |
| 17 | A substance is necessarily such that all its properties are " essential " properties , in the sense that they all together define its " nature " , and if any of them were missing or were different from what they happen to be , the substance itself would be different . |
| 18 | Were the other senior nursing staff like her in their attitudes to prim primness and correctness or were some of them laxer than that ? |
| 19 | The study shows that men who had a small head circumference or were thin at birth , or both , had higher rates of cardiovascular death than those who had a large head circumference or were fat . |
| 20 | Elsewhere , condoms mysteriously appeared in pigeon holes , or were stuck to doors . |
| 21 | At the end of the financial year , the Institute 's membership register contained , in addition to the eight Honorary Fellows , the names of 103,415 members who had paid their subscriptions for 1992 or were eligible for free membership . |
| 22 | Inevitably this meant that the tax-credit system proposed by the Heath Government was not on the agenda and nor were some of the more ambitious income-guarantee schemes which inevitably required reform of taxation and social security being taken together . |
| 23 | Nor were some of the earlier beach reconnaissances the most encouraging of precedents , although Clogstoun-Willmott did not know this at the time . |
| 24 | We were not filling the marina with the steel band jollity of Yellow Bird , nor were any of us in our matching blue and white uniforms , for this was not a usual charter , and none of us were at Rickie or Robin-Anne Crowninshield 's beck and call . |
| 25 | As part of the customer realignment all BT 's existing managers were reassessed for their suitability to the new structure and were obliged to reapply for posts in the new organisation . |
| 26 | Disappointed , we retraced our footprints and were obliged to camp on the same patch of ice as the night before . |
| 27 | Both of the options put forward by the Democrats were rejected by Bush on the grounds that they involved too much structural reform and were contrary to the principles of the free market . |
| 28 | Characters were always white , middle to upper class and were representative of the British ‘ stiff upper lip ’ and ‘ playing the game ’ attitudes . |
| 29 | These animals were noted for the white finching along their backs and were prominent throughout the English Midlands early in the eighteenth century , soon spreading southwards and westwards and also into Ireland 's central plain . |
| 30 | Cami knickers and french knickers became popular because they did n't take much material and were economic in coupons . |