Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] be that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defence is that the defendant took all reasonable steps and exercised all due diligence to avoid committing the offence , section 39 . |
| 2 | The effect of the defence is that the plaintiff consents to exempt the defendant from a duty of care which would otherwise have been owed . |
| 3 | The defendant accepted as a fact that he was holding the revolver when the fatal shot was discharged , but the case for the defence was that the revolver went off accidentally in the course of a struggle during which the defendant forcibly placed Paulette in the driver 's seat . |
| 4 | The argument for the defence was that the defendant , being inside , was not ‘ in the vicinity of ’ the place , which meant outside . |
| 5 | The defence was that the action was time barred . |
| 6 | The essence of the change is that the intermediating function between social and economic forces is no longer one that a government can renounce or let go by default . |
| 7 | The basic problem with this aspect of the technique is that the movement occurs very quickly , so you could be excused for being unsure quite what has happened . |
| 8 | A condition of the donation was that the university chair in Chinese art and archaeology should again be filled . |
| 9 | The interesting feature of the case is that the corporation exacted the payments under a mistake of fact — they did not know that the limestone was to be burnt into lime , while the plaintiff made the payments under a mistake of law — he did not know of the exemption . |
| 10 | A feature of the case is that the trial judge held the bank liable to the wife in damages for its failure to explain the effect of the charge to her . |
| 11 | The allegation in the case was that the respondent had obtained a 70 per cent . |
| 12 | Held , dismissing the appeal , ( 1 ) that either the mother as donee of the power of attorney had possessed sufficient general understanding and capability to have satisfied herself regarding the purport and effect of the transfer document and had failed to do so , or she had lacked ordinary competence and capacity , in which case the defendant , as donor , could not be allowed to repudiate the transfer to an innocent third party ; that , if the case was that the defendant had failed to inform the donee of the power of attorney , that lack of care also precluded him from relying on her ignorance of the power ; and that , therefore , the fact that the mother had been tricked into signing the transfer document without reading it , was not sufficient to sustain a plea of non est factum ( post , p. 679A–F ) . |
| 13 | ( 2 ) Granting the application , that the central objective of the category of public interest immunity involved was the maintenance of an honourable , disciplined , law-abiding and uncorrupt police force ; that therefore , in view of the public disquiet understandably aroused by proven malpractice of some members of the disbanded West Midlands Serious Crime Squad , and of the extensive publicity already attaching to the authority 's documents following B. 's successful appeal , it could not be said that those who had co-operated in the authority 's investigation would regret that co-operation , or that future generations of potential witnesses would withhold it , if the court were to release the documents to the applicants to enable them to defeat if they could an allegedly corrupt claim in damages ; that the imperative public interest in the case was that the applicants had a proper opportunity of obtaining the evidence they sought so that the grave allegations which they made , and were the same allegations that had troubled the Court of Appeal sufficiently to allow B. 's appeal , could be properly tested in the courts ; and that , accordingly , B. 's undertaking would be varied to allow him to hand over to the applicants those of the authority 's documents which were incorporated in his appeal bundle , the applicants for their part undertaking to use those documents only for the purposes of defending the present libel proceedings pursued against them ( post , pp. 927G — 928A , B ) . |
| 14 | Lord Osborne told the accused that it was a very serious offence and the happy feature of the case was that the baby had apparently not suffered very much at all in the long term — and this could only be seen as a miracle . |
| 15 | The implication at the beginning of the text is that the lord feels his worldly duty and his love for God to be pulling against each other and unbalancing him : The state to which Hilton hopes to point him is one of discretion in which self-knowledge and the love of God are the means of integrating what seem like opposites in equilibrium . |
| 16 | The advantage is that the cover can be pushed to one side with a net handle or broomstick , then slid back again , while the pondkeeper remains dry and in full possession of his sanity . |
| 17 | The advantage is that the kite itself is free of the high frequency vibrations which occur naturally in all kite flying lines ; but a fast shutter speed takes care of this problem in most instances . |
| 18 | Bagi concedes opting for Transvik software was a risk , given the company 's small size , but argues the advantage is that the firm is dependent on the success of the contract and is more willing to share its expertise than Logica might have been . |
| 19 | For civil servants , the advantage is that the doctrine leaves them utterly free of any repercussions arising from their advice and thus greatly adds to their freedom and power . |
| 20 | The advantage of using the computer is that the answers are confirmed immediately rather than after the whole passage has been completed . |
| 21 | ( Remember the hypothesis is that the treatment is successful because it adjusts the clock . ) |
| 22 | As Joel Barnett , Wilson 's Chief Secretary to the Treasury , later described ‘ the quaintly titled social contract ’ , ‘ the only give and take in the contract was that the government gave and the unions took ’ . |
| 23 | One of the arguments raised by the taxpayer was that the payments were voluntary and therefore there was no source . |
| 24 | The decision is that the heir should , especially in the event that ( i ) the testator knew the land was pledged or ( ii ) he would have left something else had he known . |
| 25 | Even if the decision is that the partnership structure continues to be more appropriate , the management processes and incentives exercised by large companies are well worth examining . |
| 26 | The political consequence of the decision is that the EC Industry Commissioner and the EC Transport Commissioner have suggested to the Commission President that , in future , the Competition Directorate should obtain the approval of the relevant industrial policy department of the Commission before submitting a merger to the full five months ' scrutiny allowed under the Regulation . |
| 27 | Treitel ( 8th ed. ) , p. 87 says of Ward v. Byham : ‘ One basis of the decision is that the mother had provided consideration by showing that she had made the child happy , etc. : in this way she can be said to have conferred a factual benefit on the father , even though she may not have suffered any detriment . ’ |
| 28 | The word ‘ accident ’ was being interpreted in the context of the Workmen 's Compensation Act , and the result of the decision was that the widow of the deceased workman was entitled to compensation from the employer , because the murder in question arose out of and in the course of the employment . |
| 29 | Now the decision was that the money promised by the dairy company could not be recovered by the Crown , for the reason that ( a ) any prerogative power to tax had been taken away by the Bill of Rights 1689 , and that ( b ) as for the statutory powers of DORA , the Regulations under which the food Controller was acting did not on their wording enable him to impose a tax . |
| 30 | The reason for the decision was that the burden of proof lay on the defendants to prove that they had not been negligent and they had failed to discharge this burden . |