Example sentences of "[subord] [noun sg] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( b ) The payer has the opportunity of contesting his liability in proceedings , but instead gives way and pays : see e.g. , Henderson v. Folkestone Waterworks Co. ( 1885 ) 1 T.L.R. 329 , and Sargood Brothers v. The Commonwealth , 11 C.L.R. 258 , especially at p. 301 , per Isaacs J. So where money has been paid under pressure of actual or threatened legal proceedings for its recovery , the payer can not say that for that reason the money has been paid under compulsion and is therefore recoverable by him . |
| 2 | Where money has been paid over to the debtor before the end of the " cooling-off " period , the CCA 1974 gives the debtor the choice : firstly , to take a month 's free credit before repaying the credit already advanced ( s71(2) ( a ) ) ; or secondly , with regard to money already spent , he can repay the money with interest , as provided for in the credit agreement , so that the effect of the cancellation only relates to the linked supply transaction ( s71(3) ) . |
| 3 | Where inability to pay is based upon the failure to comply with a statutory demand , the date and manner of service of the demand must be stated and that to the best of the petitioner 's knowledge , the demand has neither been complied with nor set aside nor is any application to set aside outstanding ( r 6.8(2) ) . |
| 4 | Where inability to pay is based upon an unsatisfied execution , the court from which the execution or other process was issued must be specified together with particulars of the return , for example , the bailiff 's return to a warrant of execution or the sheriff 's return to a writ of fieri facias that there were no goods to levy upon . |
| 5 | Where responsibility has been spread to more than 1,000 in-bureau tutors , the supervisory task of one solitary area training officer becomes very hard . |
| 6 | Where prayer has been valid . |
| 7 | A new mood of optimism prevails at Grace Road , where fundraising has been successfully completed for an indoor cricket school , building work on which will start in September . |
| 8 | Where damage has been done , particularly in gouging out a shopfront and leaving fine brick or stone upper storeys suspended over a vast area of plate glass , it may be worth seeking reinstatement . |
| 9 | They claimed to have killed up to 200 government soldiers , especially in the provinces of Chalatenango , Morazan and Usulutan where fighting had been fiercest , and to have " neutralized " the main Ilopango air base near the capital , San Salvador . |
| 10 | There are a number of instances in China , however , where oases have been created out of the desert and where desertification has been halted . |
| 11 | The Chinese definitions are complex : there are new entrants to the job market who are ‘ waiting for employment ’ ; those who have become unemployed because of new reforms which include a bankruptcy law ; those who refuse job assignment ; concealed unemployment where labour has been assigned to enterprises to maintain a fiction of full employment ; and surplus labour — peasants with little or nothing to do — in the rural areas . |
| 12 | He began to say all the prayers to the Blessed Virgin and the saints which he had been taught at his mother 's knee , and all the while , as he prayed , he was aware that under a mile to the west lay Gribbin Head , where murder had been done eleven months before : murder he had been witness to and had profited by ; murder he had known full well was mortal sin for which , at the Judgement Seat , he would have to give account to God . |
| 13 | Our new semantic understanding was therefore linked to the changing epiphenomena of dress , hair , clothing , and the other symbols of the body I have mentioned ; but it was also manifest in an irrepressible need to reinterpret and question the social condition , for I had journeyed beyond the norms of the police system , where action to control is preferably a simple matter of enforcing the rules and regulations as they stand . |
| 14 | He was not conscious of having had any contact with a clergyman since school , where religion had been regarded as an unavoidable mixed dose of discipline , cissiness and mild buffoonery . |
| 15 | Where loss has been caused by an act or omission which is of a comparatively mechanical character , rather than involving an exercise of business discretion , the courts have , in contrast , shown themselves to be more willing to impose liability . |
| 16 | In New South Wales , Australia , where rape has been abolished and replaced by four new offences of sexual assault , gender neutrality is clearly appropriate . |
| 17 | Where ownership has been transferred without continuity of management the levels of inefficiency experienced have often been disastrous , setting up a vicious spiral of underperformance . |
| 18 | Mr Robertson suggested the possible end of timber-cutting in 62 out of 156 national forests , covering 24m hectares ( 59m acres ) of land , where cutting has been costing more to administer than the Forest Service has been able to recoup from sales . |
| 19 | Income where tax has been deducted at source and on which you will therefore not be required to pay further tax is as follows : |
| 20 | All types of labour have been affected , but among arable workers , where mechanization has been most extensive , it has been disproportionately rapid . |
| 21 | These included the abolition of absolute covenants by translating them into fully qualified covenants ; the elimination of qualified covenants such that they would take effect as a fully qualified covenant ; and the placing of the burden of proof for proving " reasonableness " where consent has been withheld , together with a restriction upon landlords seeking to delay their decisions regarding consent . |
| 22 | Where desire has been returned to us , it is in the shape of a ‘ masculine ’ libido which fits us very badly , and even then we have no vocabulary with which to express it . |
| 23 | As Hornung et al. ( 1987 ) point out , most concern has been voiced about increasing acidity and aluminium concentrations , which mainly occur where afforestation has been undertaken on areas underlain by acidic bedrock , because of their impact on invertebrate and fish populations . |
| 24 | In Pakistan , salinisation and waterlogging are particularly acute in the Indus Valley where irrigation has been practised since 5 kyr BP ; currently some 15 x 10 6 ha are irrigated by a system that includes the Indus River and its tributaries , 3 storage reservoirs , 19 barrages , 43 canals and 90 000 watercourse systems ( Shanan 1987 ) . |
| 25 | Where the share in goodwill has been purchased from the outgoing partner ( sed quaere where goodwill has been excluded from the purchased share or been valued at nil ) , even in the absence of a specific agreement , the law offers limited protection particularly as regards the solicitation of existing clients ( see Trego v Hunt [ 1896 ] AC 7 and Churton v Douglas ( 1859 ) Johns 174 ) . |
| 26 | To my mind , evidence of conflict already exists : the deafening silence from Moorgate Place on Caparo is an example where self-interest has been allowed to be paramount : the decision suits the practising firms ( as their legal liability is narrowly defined ) , notwithstanding that in the public interest , would-be investors , existing individual shareholders and creditors who lose because they have relied on audited accounts which subsequently turn out to be defective , should , on any basis of equity , have recourse to those parties who are responsible , whether management or auditors . |
| 27 | In rural areas , especially where education has been hardest hit , they will be very hard to implement . |
| 28 | More recently , in many primitive societies , where animism has been practised , it would have been considered sacrilege to bring nature under control . |
| 29 | These companies have given Wehmiller a useful exposure to the US , where demand has been buoyant . |
| 30 | Many asylum seekers live in overcrowded , temporary accommodation , including hostels , where access to mail is not necessarily foolproof . |