Example sentences of "a [noun] [vb mod] be [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wilberforce J held , among other things , firstly , that the retention provisions , which operated after the end of the employee 's employment , substantially interfered with his right to seek employment and therefore operated in restraint of trade ; secondly , that the transfer system and the retention system , when combined , were in restraint of trade and that , since the defendants had not discharged the onus of showing that the restraints were no more than was reasonable to protect their interests , they were in unjustifiable restraint of trade and ultra vires ; thirdly , that the court could examine a contract between employers only and declare it void on grounds on which such a contract would be declared void if it had been a contract between an employer and employee , and that it was open to an employee to bring an action for a declaration that such a contract was in restraint of trade , inasmuch as it threatened his liberty of action in seeking employment , which was a matter of public interest ; and , fourthly , that it was a case in which the court could and should grant the plaintiff the declarations sought . |
| 2 | It was a Benedict 's rule that the close relatives of a D.I.L. must be allowed unrestricted access to their ill relative . |
| 3 | The Select Committee on the Obscene Publications Act had stressed the importance of considering the " dominant effect " of the whole work : The contrary view , under which a work could be judged obscene by reference to isolated passages without considering the total effect , would , if taken to its logical conclusion , deprive the reading public of the works of Shakespeare , Chaucer , Fielding and Smollett , except in expurgated editions . |
| 4 | Since the amendment bans ‘ unreasonable searches and seizures , ’ the possibility remains that a test may be found unreasonable if the job is so non-critical that public needs fail to outweigh individual privacy interests . |
| 5 | If he is now giving us a commitment that the reasons for a refusal will be made available to the applicant , that is welcome . |
| 6 | Unwillingness to stand out has its roots in village life , where a community could be held accountable for the actions of one of its members . |
| 7 | 4.19 Full information relating to a placement should be made available to the officer in charge or delegated person . |
| 8 | A business must be kept profitable into the long-term future , but at the same time short-term profitability must be maintained to avoid the danger that the long term will never be reached , and the business liquidated or taken over . |
| 9 | Such a right should be made exercisable by notice given before the earliest date upon which an appointment may be made . |
| 10 | However where possible , eg. if there are several hours to wait before your return flight , and this is often the case in low season , a room will be made available for changing and storing hand luggage . |
| 11 | The provision in section 44(4) has been criticized on the ground that it is wrong in principle that a person should be found guilty of an offence which the jury find that he did not commit . |
| 12 | To support manslaughter liability in these cases one would have to espouse the draconian principle that a person should be held liable for all the consequences of any wrongful act . |
| 13 | The courts can express the same feeling by the creative choice as to whether a defect should be stamped jurisdictional or non-jurisdictional . |
| 14 | Semantic traits whose absence is regarded as a defect will be called canonical traits . |
| 15 | ( A frog can be boiled alive in water that is brought to boil slowly . ) |
| 16 | A lease may be granted subject to the " usual covenants " . |
| 17 | With leases quite often running for terms of 25 years and with rent reviews multiplying " manageable " rents , an individual who is joined as a guarantor at the commencement of a lease could be made bankrupt several years after the original tenant has parted with the lease . |
| 18 | The first Diocesan Day will be held at St Catherine 's School Hall , in Penrith , on Saturday , April 17th and the second will be at Canterbury Hall , Preston , on Saturday , May 1st , both from 10am until 4pm ( a creche will be made available if notification is given a week in advance ) . |
| 19 | It was an odd coincidence that a man should be found dead in the Thames near Stavanger 's office on the day that Stavanger had apparently disappeared , but that was now over four months ago , and in any case the police knew all about it , because the office cleaner had called the police . |
| 20 | We accepted the recommendation of the select committee that a subsidy would be made available . |
| 21 | Saw psychiatrist and was assured that a bed would be made available at Parkhead hospital as soon as possible . |
| 22 | The position appears to be beyond question as a result of the decision of the House of Lords in Geo Mitchell ( Chesterhall ) Ltd v Finney Lock Seeds Ltd [ 1983 ] 2 AC 803 , and in cases covered by the UCTA 1977 , s9 makes clear that a clause may be judged reasonable , and enforceable , even though the contract has been terminated either by the breach , or by the innocent party in response to the breach . |
| 23 | In addition , a clause may be held reasonable in relation to one claim and unreasonable in relation to another . |
| 24 | A word can be made prominent by ( 1 ) giving it height and length ; ( 2 ) being louder than words in the same phrase ; or ( 3 ) being stressed by its position in the rhythmic design . |
| 25 | There was ‘ in the English constitution an absence of those declarations or definitions of rights so dear to foreign constitutionalists ’ , but this was a strength rather than a weakness ; whereas ‘ general rights guaranteed by the constitution may be , and in foreign countries , constantly are , suspended ’ , the English emphasis on specific remedies protected by legislation and the courts meant that ‘ the suspension of the constitution , as far as such a thing can be conceived possible , would mean with us nothing less than a revolution ’ . |
| 26 | Unless this provision is satisfied , any yearly interest paid by a company must be paid subject to deduction of basic rate income tax , and Target will need to comply with paras 2 to 4 of Sch 16 to the Taxes Act 1988 and account to the Revenue for the tax it is liable to withhold ; the lender will suffer the cash-flow disadvantage of receiving interest payments with tax withheld at source ( although it would be entitled to offset the withholding tax suffered against its corporation tax liability for the same accounting period under s7(2) TA 1988 ) . |
| 27 | A failure to consult in accordance with a clear duty to do so before the decision to close a unit may be ruled unlawful , but may amount to little more than a Pyrrhic victory for the applicants for judicial review . |
| 28 | It was only in certain cases however that a non-trader could be adjudicated bankrupt . |
| 29 | Of course , a gun must be kept clean , but this erotic relationship confused me . |
| 30 | If a son or daughter married and no suitable home was in the offing , a house would be made available . |