Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A late election will not be admitted outside the statutory time limit if the delay is due to : oversight or negligence on the part of a partner or his agent ; because one of the parties to the election temporarily refuses to sign it ; or because the delay is deliberate to give the parties the opportunity to determine its effect on their tax liabilities . |
| 2 | A late claim will not be accepted where the delay is due to : oversight or negligence on the part of the claimant company or its agent ; failure without good reason to compute the necessary figure ; and a desire to avoid establishing the claim pending clarification of the effects of making a claim on other tax liabilities . |
| 3 | In both these cases the alleged negligence was that of the medical staff at a hospital , but , as the decided cases show , it could have arisen from a range of other contexts , for instance from negligent driving of a motor vehicle or negligence on the part of a railway company or tramway company in respect of a train or tram in which the mother of the child was travelling as a passenger while pregnant . |
| 4 | The small ones were allowed a mat or blanket on the floor where they curled up if they felt sleepy . |
| 5 | Where badgers have shouldered their way under sheep-fencing , look for dried earth or polishing on the wire , and for the odd loose guard hair . |
| 6 | ( 3 ) While the employee remains in the employment of the employer the obligations are included in the implied term which imposes a duty of good faith or fidelity on the employee . |
| 7 | ‘ In considering the first issue , the court of [ England ] should approach the matter by giving the fullest force to the policy which clearly underlies the Convention and the Act , namely that wrongful removal or retention shall not confer any benefit or advantage on the person ( usually a parent ) who has committed the wrongful act . |
| 8 | ‘ In considering the first issue , the court of country B should approach the matter by giving the fullest force to the policy which clearly underlies the Convention and the Act , namely that wrongful removal or retention shall not confer any benefit or advantage on the person ( usually a parent ) who has committed the wrongful act . |
| 9 | technical skill or experience on the part of the manager . |
| 10 | The programme alleged that the living conditions and communal facilities at the resort , built by Billy Butlin in the 1960s to offer a week 's holiday for a week 's pay , were ‘ so squalid and dangerous ’ that no sensible person would spend time or money on a holiday there . |
| 11 | In this book she reviews , first the paucity of research or literature on the subject , and then the various ways in which their education , or lack of it , affects the lives of children in care , not only in their childhood , but influencing their life chances as adults . |
| 12 | It is not enough , he argued , to defend the study of the arts in school or university on the ground that it is a vaguely civilizing luxury , agreeable for some people to have ( like , he suggests , a leather blotter from Harrods ) . |
| 13 | The balance of debt left ( after the cost of the zero-coupon ) , being irredeemable , counts as equity or near-equity on the issuer 's balance sheet . |
| 14 | An up-to-date Michelin or other detailed road-map ( number 85 is the Michelin sheet you need ) is absolutely necessary , and the smaller your car the happier you may well feel , when trying , let us say , to squeeze past an opposing motorist or an unyielding sheep or cow on a track designed obviously for one . |
| 15 | Should there be any sand or gravel on the bottom of the pond for plants to root in ? |
| 16 | B&Q 's five-year-old DIY superstore was almost totally destroyed and scarcely a shop , office or warehouse on the Staples Corner trading estate escaped undamaged , writes Gerald Bartlett |
| 17 | Some hostility or distress on the part of the dementia sufferers to some of the memory testing or depression questions , and to the performance tests , had been anticipated ; but on the whole this was not found to be the case . |
| 18 | A standard database application ( eg SMART on the IBM PC , WORKS or JAZZ on the Macintosh etc ) is then used to record and code each information need by type ( eg Financial Information — FI , Personnel Information — PI , and so on ) . |
| 19 | We also occasionally observed some ambivalence or uncertainty on the part of the person initiating the divorce . |
| 20 | Brand loyalty is also said by marketers to make the process of evaluation and choice less difficult , particularly where this process gives rise to anxiety or uncertainty on the part of the consumer . |
| 21 | Disclose separately extraordinary income or charges and the extraordinary profit or loss and tax on the extraordinary profit or loss on the face of the profit and loss account or in a note . |
| 22 | Disclose separately extraordinary income or charges and the net extraordinary profit or loss and tax on the extraordinary profit or loss on the face of the profit and loss account or in a note . |
| 23 | Under FRS 3 , the profit or loss on the disposal of an asset should be shown in the p&l account as the difference between the proceeds and the carrying amount , whether carried at a valuation or cost ( para 21 ) . |
| 24 | The profit or loss on the disposal of an asset should be accounted for in the profit and loss account of the period in which the disposal occurs as the difference between the net sale proceeds and the net carrying amount . |
| 25 | By a notice of appeal dated 12 December 1990 the plaintiffs appealed on the grounds , inter alia , ( 1 ) that the judge erred in law in holding that the first defendant was entitled to add to any security , all the costs charges and expenses , however unreasonable they were ; ( 2 ) the judge failed to follow the decision in In re Adelphi Hotel ( Brighton ) Ltd. [ 1953 ] 1 W.L.R. 955 ; ( 3 ) the judge erred in law in construing the charging covenants of the legal mortgage which were all in similar terms that all costs charges and expenses howsoever incurred by the first defendant or any receiver under or in relation to the mortgage or such indebtedness or liabilities on a full indemnity basis as allowing the first defendant to charge as it pleased however unreasonable such a charge might be ; and ( 4 ) the judge erred in law in not construing that provision as a provision providing for taxation or computation on an indemnity basis of the first defendant 's costs , charges and expenses . |
| 26 | If the glider leaves the ground in a very tail-low attitude , with the tail-skid or wheel on the ground , it has the minimum of flying speed . |
| 27 | A sleeping bag , strip of foam rubber , thick blankets , a soft rug or duvet on the floor will provide padding under your partner . |
| 28 | ( ii ) When the actor coerces the victim to submit by threatening to use force or violence on the victim , and the victim believes that the actor has the present ability to execute these threats . |
| 29 | This can be done by providing a storage device in the control unit , called the index register ( or B-line on the Manchester computer ) . |
| 30 | Even where the government pays for the mechanical means of conservation entirely ( and thus avoids the problems of a lack of capital or labour on the part of the farmer , his inability to forgo food crops for a season , and the reduction of his perception of the risks involved even if his private resources are sufficient ) , such an act engenders apathy on the part of the farmer , who regards the work as belonging to the state ( FAO 1966 : 172 , for a project in Morocco ) . |