Example sentences of "the [noun] of goods " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could follow the lines of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 and the Race Relations Act 1976 in making age discrimination ‘ unlawful in employment , training and related matters , in education , in the provision of goods , facilities and services and in the disposal and management of premises . |
| 2 | The provision of goods and services by the private sector , which were Previously supplied by the public sector |
| 3 | Some have a substantial occupational pension , and possible capital accumulation which might allow for the provision of goods and services in a period of dependency . |
| 4 | Production management , in particular , is concerned with the provision of goods . |
| 5 | The study focused in three central issues : what is known about the introduction of competition into the provision of goods previously supplied publicly ; whether competition improves efficiency — and the relative contributions of competition and ownership ; and the scope for extending competition tendering in the UK public sector . |
| 6 | Franchising has long been recognised by economists as a method of improving efficiency in the provision of goods and services in situations where ( for a variety of reasons ) it is not possible to establish a competitive market . |
| 7 | The provision of goods and services costs less , and their quality is improved : staff are highly motivated , leading to greater loyalty and job satisfaction and lower staff turnover ; the staff are respected and rewarded for using their initiative and suggesting improvements , and customer complaints are reduced . |
| 8 | The government 's strategy led to policies to control public expenditure and to reduce the provision of goods and services by the state . |
| 9 | Linking the Midlands manufacturers to London by canal undoubtedly assisted the sending of goods to the capital , but conversely the canals which linked them to other major ports sometimes removed their need to send as many goods through London . |
| 10 | This will be so particularly in the case of goods which are of a very low price , so that there is little income barrier to their purchase . |
| 11 | If the company 's business involves dealing in goods the records must also contain a statement of stock held at the end of the financial year and statements of stocktakings from which that was prepared , and , except in the case of goods sold in the ordinary course of retail trade , statements of all goods sold or purchased , in sufficient detail to enable the other party to be identified . |
| 12 | It is agreed that in the case of goods we may exercise the aforesaid rights of rejection notwithstanding any provision contained in s 11 or 35 of the Sale of Goods Act 1979 . |
| 13 | Section 5(1) of UCTA 1977 states : 5- ( 1 ) In the case of goods of a type ordinarily supplied for private use or consumption , where loss or damage ( a ) arises from the goods proving defective while in consumer use ; and ( b ) results from the negligence of a person concerned in the manufacture or distribution of the goods , liability for the loss or damage can not be excluded or restricted by reference to any contract term or notice contained in or operating by reference to a guarantee of the goods . |
| 14 | As already mentioned , s5 of UCTA 1977 restricts the ability of a manufacturer , in the case of goods ordinarily supplied for private use or consumption , to exclude liability for negligence . |
| 15 | More significant for domestic purposes is s10(4) ( b ) and ( c ) which give the retailer a defence provided : ( i ) that he supplied the goods , offered or agreed to supply them or , as the case may be , exposed or possessed them for supply in the course of carrying on a retail business ; and ( ii ) that , at the time he supplied the goods or offered or agreed to supply them or exposed or possessed them for supply , he neither knew nor had reasonable grounds for believing that the goods failed to comply with the general safety requirement ; or ( c ) that the terms on which he supplied the goods or agreed or offered to supply them or , in the case of goods which he exposed or possessed for supply , the terms on which he intended to supply them ( i ) indicated that the goods were not supplied or to be supplied as new goods ; and ( ii ) provided for , or contemplated , the acquisition of an interest in the goods by the persons supplied or to be supplied . |
| 16 | Plumb ( 1983 : 289–315 ) and Forty ( 1986 : 63–91 ) document the rise of goods aimed at specific consumer groups such as children , later developed as youth groups demanding particular age-based products . |
| 17 | However , it was well established in the field of goods vehicles operators licensing that if an operator relied upon an agent to perform functions for him , whether it be for the maintenance of vehicles , the checking of tachograph charts , or whatever , the operator must accept full responsibility for employing an efficient agent . |
| 18 | In neither case does the category of goods seem likely to affect the reasonableness of any exclusions of liability to be agreed as between the two parties to the relevant contract . |
| 19 | Those restrictions relate to : ( a ) prices to be charged for goods or services ; or ( b ) the terms or conditions on or subject to which goods or services are to be supplied ; or ( c ) the quantities or descriptions of goods to be produced , supplied or acquired or the extent to which , or the scale on which services are to be made available supplied or obtained ; or ( d ) the manufacturing process to be used , or the quantities or the description of goods to which such a process is to be applied ; or ( e ) the form or manner in which services are to be made available , supplied or obtained ; or ( f ) the persons to , for or from whom or the areas or places in or from which goods or services are to be supplied or acquired . |
| 20 | Indeed , strictly , agreement is not necessary on price or delivery date : if no price is agreed , it will be implied that the buyer of goods will pay a reasonable price ( Sale of Goods Act 1979 ( SGA 1979 ) , s8(2) ) and , if no date is agreed for delivery of the goods , that they will be delivered within a reasonable time , and at a reasonable hour ( SGA 1979 , s29(3) , ( 5 ) ; strictly s29(3) only applies where the seller is bound to send the goods to the buyer , but a similar , more general rule applies at common law : see below Chapter 7 ) . |
| 21 | Many faced heavy fines and the distraint of goods . |
| 22 | Although the development officers ’ budget was almost entirely used for the payment of support workers it could also be used for the purchase of goods ( for example a single bed for a client coming out of hospital ) but not for the purchase of other services . |
| 23 | This figure reveals that around 49% of general government expenditure involves public sector pay plus the purchase of goods and services for consumption by the public . |
| 24 | Typical transactions are the purchase of goods , reservations of travel or hotel arrangements , and requests for further information — perhaps brochures and catalogues — about goods or services . |
| 25 | Under these altered conditions , emulation is increasingly significant as a strategy by means of which people lower in a given social hierarchy attempt to realize their aspirations towards higher status by modifying their behaviour , their dress and the kind of goods they purchase , since it now becomes possible to mistake a poor nobleman for a wealthy trader . |
| 26 | It would appear from paragraph ( a ) that a seller who has a monopoly over the supply of the kind of goods in question is unlikely to convince the court of the reasonableness of a wide exemption clause , especially if it was a large demand for the product which enabled him to insist on the clause being in the contract . |
| 27 | As Lord Diplock said in Ashington Piggeries : The " description " by which unascertained goods are sold is , in my view , confined to those words in the contract which were intended by the parties to identify the kind of goods which were to be supplied . |
| 28 | One must look to the contract as a whole to identify the kind of goods that the seller was agreeing to sell and the buyer to buy … where , as in the instant case , the sale ( to use the words of s13 ) is " by sample as well as by description " , characteristics of the goods which would be apparent on reasonable examination of the sample are unlikely to have been intended by the parties to form part of the " description " by which the goods were sold , even though such characteristics are mentioned in references in the contract to the goods that are its subject matter . |
| 29 | Apart from explorers and travellers , one of the first Englishmen to settle in Madeira was William Bolton , in 1695 , when he took advantage of the Act of Charles 11 which prohibited the export of goods grown or manufactured in Europe to the West Indies and American Colonies , unless shipped from British ports in British ships , with Madeira specifically excluded from its terms . |
| 30 | After that , it would be renewed only if the president indicated that China had adhered to human-rights commitments , stopped the export of goods made with prison labour and made ‘ overall significant progress ’ on a set of other matters , which range from ceasing religious persecution in Tibet to prohibiting the transfer of missile technology to Syria , Pakistan and Iran . |