Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [adj] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Draftsmen often use the word " independent " , as in phrases like " an independent valuer " or " an independent accountant " : the latter is used in the precedents in Appendix A. Sometimes this wording seems to have been intended to draw a distinction between expert determination and arbitration , as in the clause in the lease which was disputed in North Eastern Cooperative Society Ltd v Newcastle Upon Tyne City Council [ 1987 ] 1 EGLR 142 , where the parties were supposed to agree on " an independent surveyor " , and if they could not agree , the RICS was to appoint an arbitrator . |
| 2 | He was offered little support as he walked the edge between the endowment , its critics , the art world and Congress , where even supporters of the arts were reluctant to go on record as voting ‘ for tax-funded pornography ’ . |
| 3 | Ireland took the view that , in the absence of Community rules concerning the registration of shipping , the member states retained jurisdiction to determine which vessels were entitled to register on their respective national registers . |
| 4 | Whilst acknowledging that qualified undertakings would be given in certain circumstances , most undertakings , it was argued , were in standard form , and recipients were entitled to rely on them . |
| 5 | Z's action for conversion failed : Y Bank was agent for an undisclosed principal , Z Bank , and the defendants were entitled to act on Y's consent . |
| 6 | MERCHANDISERS were quick to jump on the popularity of Home Alone 2 . |
| 7 | Many dealers were content to stay on the sidelines until the publication of April trade figures later in the day . |
| 8 | No palace officials were available to comment on behalf of Princess Michael . |
| 9 | At first some of the monks were loath to enter on a long and expensive case before the pope , but they had among their number a man of mature years , called Thomas of Marlborough , who had been at the schools of Paris and who had taught at Oxford . |
| 10 | As Mr. Ron Lord , Wakefield 's assistant chief financial officer , points out in the Municipal Journal , they could at least introduce the poll tax ’ against a background of a stable rating system which managers were able to put on automatic pilot while diverting their attention to the multitude of practical problems that were to arise with the new system . |
| 11 | Overall , the amounts which these groups of families were able to spend on food were , in three cases out of four , well below the minimum considered necessary by the British Medical Association Nutrition Committee . |
| 12 | Quite a lot of white-collar workers and farmers were ready to wait on unity a bit , as Social Democrats and other leftist parties proposed . |
| 13 | The new measures supplemented and renewed the first , interim austerity package introduced in December 1989 [ see p. 37194 ] , most of whose provisions were due to expire on July 1 . |
| 14 | Certainly MacArthur 's economic advisors were horrified to find on their arrival from the US , that the need for liberal competition was being used to justify a purge of thousands of business leaders , and they viewed the dissolution of the zaibatsu as a threat to the whole fabric of Japanese capitalism . |
| 15 | Western leaders were content to rest on their laurels , convinced that Nato 's ‘ steadfastness ’ had been crucial in bringing the Communist bloc in from the cold , that Western prosperity had been enough to convince the East of the hollowness of Marxism . |
| 16 | Councillors were due to meet on 25 April to consider the matter — no easy task when hundreds of letters , suggesting numerous solutions , have been sent . |
| 17 | NACC members were ready to contribute on a case-by-case basis to peacekeeping operations under the authority of the UN or of the CSCE . |
| 18 | US authorities were unable to agree on a process for testing rival drugs . |
| 19 | But whereas Futurism had been to a large extent aimed at and against Paris and Parisian painting , the Germans were content to remain on the receiving end of things and their work , in the pre-war years at least , had little or no influence back on French art . |
| 20 | Canadians long used to seeing environmental campaigners arguing with corporate polluters were stunned to turn on their TV sets and see Isaacs rubbing shoulders with Loblaws ' gnome-like marketing genius , David Nichols . |
| 21 | There were limits , however , to what the Whigs were prepared to do on behalf of Protestant Dissenters . |
| 22 | It would therefore be unhelpful , not to say intolerable , if the controllers were able to report on their performance in any terms that they chose . |
| 23 | In a romantic , rather cloying story of an English family , the authoress Jan Struther ( Joyce Anstruther ) showed how things had changed : A new community feeling was being expressed and those keen to work for the development of State initiatives were quick to feed on it ( Marwick , 1968 ) . |
| 24 | Services were due to start on the Bury-Manchester Victoria line at 6am . |
| 25 | But while the absence of additional tax on spirits yesterday was welcomed , it was also generally described as only the first step on a long road before Scotch and other spirits were able to operate on a level playing field against other alcoholic drinks , in particular , wine . |