Example sentences of "he have acquired " in BNC.
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| 1 | Salim leaves them , takes off on the first of a series of ‘ flights ’ , and treks to the interior , to a country which appears to be compounded of the Congo and of Uganda , in order to earn a living from a store which he has acquired from a man whose daughter he is expected to marry one day . |
| 2 | He has acquired an autonomy and influence staggering even by the standards of a country where anomalies are institutionalised . |
| 3 | Finally , the 1987 Act provides that where a minor has acquired property under a contract which is unenforceable against him , or which he has repudiated on the grounds of minority , he may be required by the court , when it thinks it ‘ just and equitable ’ to do so , to return the property , or else property representing that which he has acquired ( without prejudice to any other remedy available to the plaintiff ) . |
| 4 | And , of course , in the same way a student going on to university or polytechnic may immediately make use of some of the Wissenschaft , the actual knowledge , he has acquired at school . |
| 5 | And he says he has acquired some skill in communicating technical ideas that he uses in presentations for Lucas . |
| 6 | He has acquired two UK trailer rental businesses : Central Trailer Rental in 1982 and Rentco International in 1988 . |
| 7 | He thought : He has acquired the mystique of the story-teller and , glancing at the ring of fire-lit and intent faces , he was suddenly reminded of his first village school , of the children clustered round Miss Douglas at three o'clock on a Friday afternoon for the half hour of story-time , and felt a pang of pain and regret for those lost days of innocence and love . |
| 8 | He has acquired the Cork Street premises vacated three years ago by Bernard Jacobson . |
| 9 | She defines the practice as ’ … the use by an insider of price sensitive information ( known to him but not generally and which he has acquired by virtue of his position ) to trade to his advantage in the shares of a company . ’ |
| 10 | Also , what of the situation where the insider sells shares on the basis of unpublished price sensitive information which he has acquired by virtue of his position in order to avoid a loss ? |
| 11 | It is almost as if he has acquired something of John 's own tempestuous wrath , John 's own dire , apocalyptic menace , John 's own threatening ultimata . |
| 12 | He will be no more able to give an explicit account of the methods and skills he has acquired than a master-carpenter will be able to fully describe what lies behind his skills . |
| 13 | The consequence of this may be , and in some cases will be , to divest a third party of title to property which since the commencement of the bankruptcy he has acquired from the bankrupt . |
| 14 | He has acquired a taste for alcohol and tobacco . |
| 15 | Howard is wearing a very pale grey suit , with a pale blue shirt and a white silk tie , to set off the suntan he has acquired in the country . |
| 16 | He has acquired a new chief . |
| 17 | Section 3 of the Minors ' Contracts Act 1987 empowers the court , where it would be ‘ just and equitable ’ ( i.e. fair ) to do so , to require the minor to return property which he has acquired under a contract which is unenforceable against him . |
| 18 | There is then a risk that the buyer , before he has paid and therefore before he has acquired title , sells and delivers the goods to a sub-purchaser who is unaware that he is buying from someone who has no title . |
| 19 | This includes an unmarried father whether or not he has acquired parental responsibility for the child by court order or agreement . |
| 20 | ( This perhaps indicates that it was tactically inept in this case for the plaintiffs to seek to persuade the court that the whole package of information was confidential. ) 5 Whether additional protection should be afforded to an employer where the former employee is not seeking to earn his living by making use of the body of skill , knowledge and experience which he has acquired in the course of his career , but is merely selling to a third party information which he acquired in confidence in the course of his former employment Goulding J drew no such distinction . |
| 21 | Butler-Sloss LJ said that the meaning of the words " trade secrets " had developed since Herbert Morris v Saxelby and was now interpreted in the wider context of " highly confidential information of a non-technical or non-scientific nature … " . 1.4 The employee 's skill and knowledge Although the courts are anxious to uphold the employer 's right to have his business secrets protected they have ensured that the employee is not prevented from using , once he has left his employer , the general skill and knowledge which he has acquired during employment even though this may have been acquired at some cost to the employer . |
| 22 | The only doubt about this was raised by the Court of Appeal in Faccenda Chicken Ltd v Fowler [ 1985 ] 1 All ER 724 where the court specifically left open the question whether additional protection should be afforded to an employer where the former employee is not seeking to earn his living by making use of the body of skill , knowledge and experience which he has acquired but is merely selling the knowledge to a third party ( see p79 above ) . |
| 23 | ( 4 ) An offeror will not know whether there is any opposition to the compulsory acquisition of the minority ( minority shareholders have the right to object to the court under CA 1985 , s430C ) until he has acquired 90 per cent of the shares to which the offer relates and served the compulsory sale notices . |
| 24 | He has acquired a King Midas in reverse touch . |
| 25 | He has acquired a boat . |
| 26 | ‘ Steady , Bessie , ’ said Joe , who did n't intend to ask the ultimate of any woman until he 'd acquired enough savings to put an end to his career as a forger . |
| 27 | He himself was only a little shy — and obviously very proud of the English words he 'd acquired in the few months since his arrival . |
| 28 | I think it was his grandfather 's name that he 'd er , he 'd acquired at at that at that time . |
| 29 | He 'd acquired a gasoline kicker engine from somewhere with an exhaust that run and he had made during picked up from scraps and stuff and made it , so where he had a tub right on top of this gasoline engine . |
| 30 | Struck by the young man 's suntan , he asked where he had acquired it , and when . |