Example sentences of "fact [coord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Hildyard and Olson put it : ‘ the authority of rhetorical conditions are collapsed onto the truth conditions so that if a statement is true to the facts or to the text itself , that is sufficient condition for its being interpersonally appropriate ’ ( ibid. p. 9 ) . |
| 2 | Between the 1st day of July 1987 and the 15th day of October 1987 conspired together and with other persons fraudulently to induce persons to enter into agreements for acquiring or subscribing for securities , namely shares in Blue Arrow plc , by making statements which they knew to be misleading , false or deceptive or by dishonestly concealing material facts or by recklessly making statements which were misleading , false or deceptive namely : 1.1 By failing to notify the Company Announcements Office of the Quotations Department of the International Stock Exchange by way of a Class 2 announcement ( as provided for by Section 6 of the Council of the Stock Exchange 's admission of securities to listing ) following the purchase of shares in Manpower Incorporated for a consideration in excess of 5 per cent of the consolidated net assets of Blue Arrow ; 1.2 By concealing the fact that the level of Acceptances of provisionally allotted new ordinary shares in Blue Arrow was 38.04 per cent at the expiry of the offer by way of rights issue at 3pm on September 28 , 1987 ; 1.3 By concealing the fact that 54,625,000 new ordinary shares in Blue Arrow were taken up after 3pm on September 28 , 1987 ; 1.4 By falsely stating that , in connection with the rights issue of 504.4 million new ordinary shares in Blue Arrow , acceptances had been received in respect of 246.5 million shares which represented 48.9 per cent of the rights issue . |
| 3 | Held , dismissing the appeal ( Lord Keith of Kinkel and Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle dissenting ) , that although the common law had previously only admitted recovery of money exacted under an unlawful demand by a public authority where the payment had been made under a mistake of fact or under limited categories of compulsion , which did not apply to the payments by the building society , the nature of a demand for tax or similar impost on the citizen by the state , with the perceived economic and social consequences of non-payment stemming from the inequality of the parties ' respective positions , and the unjust enrichment falling on the state where the citizen paid an unlawful demand to avoid those consequences , warranted a reformulation of the law of restitution so as to recognise a prima facie right of recovery based solely on payment of money pursuant to an ultra vires demand by a public authority ; and that , accordingly , since the building society 's claim fell outside the statutory framework governing repayment of overpaid tax , it was entitled at common law to repayment of the sums from the dates of payments and to interest in respect thereof pursuant to section 35A of the Supreme Court Act 1981 ( post , pp. 384H , 387D , F–G , 389B , 390F — 391C , E–F , 392E , 396C , 414B–C , F–G , 415E–F , 416A–B , 417B , 418A–C , E–F , 421D–F , G ) . |
| 4 | ( 3 ) Where a sum has been paid which is not due , but it has not been paid under a mistake of fact or under compulsion as explained under ( 2 ) above , it is generally not recoverable . |
| 5 | The cases cited , and referred to in depth by my noble and learned friends , have proceeded on the basis that on the one hand money paid under a mistake of fact or under duress or as it is said ‘ colore officii ’ can be recovered , whereas money paid under a mistake of law or voluntarily ‘ to close a transaction ’ or to avoid threatened litigation can not . |
| 6 | In addition , the ITVA has some criteria of its own , being stricter than either the Act or the Code in its judgement of the admissibility of some statements of apparent fact or of ‘ knocking ’ copy . |
| 7 | The argument for the suppliants was concerned only with whether the mistake under which they had paid the duty was one of fact or of law . |
| 8 | The Panel will not normally grant leave to appeal against a finding of fact or against a decision of the Panel on the interpretation of the Code . |
| 9 | A person 's domicile is the country which is in fact or in the eye of the law his permanent home for the time being . |
| 10 | Scenes of actual childbirth , in fact or in silhouette , are never to be presented . |
| 11 | This includes nudity in fact or in silhouette , or any licentious notice thereof by other characters in the pictures . |
| 12 | If a loyal client has no objective need of its Soviet protectors , then how long will it remain loyal in fact or in spirit ? |
| 13 | In this case I would think that , if the minister does not act in good faith , or if he acts on extraneous considerations which ought not to influence him , or if he plainly misdirects himself in fact or in law , it may well be that a court would interfere ; but when he honestly takes a view of the facts or the law which could reasonably be entertained , then his decision is not to be set aside simply because thereafter someone thinks that his view was wrong … |
| 14 | The Privy Council upheld the valuer 's determination in favour of the landlords , with the comment that there was no discernible mistake in the valuation either in fact or in law . |
| 15 | Before turning to consider the main authorities I should emphasise that Woolwich paid the principal sum under neither mistake of fact nor of law , rather did it pay under protest and take immediate action to challenge the validity of the demand . |
| 16 | Proponents of adversary politics and overload present themselves as providing new hard-edged perspectives at one with the facts and at odds with the model of responsible party government and pluralism . |
| 17 | As with most provincial newspapers , stories tend to be written in the reporters ' office with a minimum of telephone calls to check facts and with one eye on the deadline for going to press . |
| 18 | This ends the reporting of facts and of supporting evidence . |
| 19 | The hon. Gentleman is in danger of becoming like a vulture scavenging around every incident , irrespective of the facts and of the accusations that he makes against other people . |
| 20 | This is a well contested and discussed argument and to make a fair judgement , one must first hear a non-biased account of the facts and following that , hear both sides of the argument . |
| 21 | Judged on the facts and on comparison with the outside world it was not so . |
| 22 | Representing a reaction against the wish-dreams of the initial stage , realism is liable to assume a critical and somewhat cynical aspect … it places its emphasis on the acceptance of facts and on the analysis of their causes and consequences . |
| 23 | Looked at in this way theory then becomes the ordering of facts and findings in a meaningful way and this ordering and building up is of the very essence of scientific enquiry , since without ordering facts and without putting them into some systematic framework there can be no generalizations and no predictions . |
| 24 | These reports were made without checking the facts and without any consideration for the panic they could cause . |
| 25 | In particular , we have seen how the law can structure the decision-making process by insisting that decisions are made on the basis of a proper appreciation of the facts and by persons who are appropriately qualified . |
| 26 | He or she had taken trouble over the arrangement of the facts and in getting in as much relevant information as possible . |
| 27 | He scratched his tousled hair and went back again , taking in all the facts and like the lawyer he was , drawing up a summary bill of prosecution . |
| 28 | Herodotus 's Histories and Aeschylus 's Agamemnon serve as touchstones for Brooke-Rose 's novel , for in going back to the classical period , it is able to return to the point at which these distinctions began to be associated with different ways of talking and writing attributed to fact and to fiction . |
| 29 | Not all lawyers , of course , actually engage in advocacy but their work is predicated on the possibility that competing interpretations of fact and of law arising from competing interests will have to be represented and argued in court or tribunal . |
| 30 | It is presidential policy that , wherever practicable , claimants should be told the outcome of their appeals on the day , but in all cases the claimant and adjudication officer must be sent a written record of the decision which includes a note of the evidence and submissions of the parties , a statement of the tribunals findings of fact and of the reasons for the decision . |