Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In subsequent correspondence Technical Division were asked to confirm that the timing of the provision of the benefit to the non-resident or non-domiciled beneficiary was irrelevant , ie that it did not matter whether the income in question was paid to him in the year of assessment in which it arose or in a subsequent year , but Technical Division refused to confirm that this was the case on the grounds that the actual circumstances of particular cases tended to vary so widely that they felt unable to answer the question without more details . |
| 2 | Most of them are concerned with admissibility of evidence , which is not in issue here ; and none , aside from those already mentioned , arose where in the face of clear and general language it was contended that Parliament must nevertheless have intended the words of the statute to have only a limited effect . |
| 3 | A person domiciled in a part of the United Kingdom may , in another part of the United Kingdom , be sued : ( 1 ) in matters relating to a contract , in the courts for the place of performance of the obligation in question ; … ( 3 ) in matters relating to tort , delict or quasi-delict , in the courts for the place where the harmful event occurred or in the case of a threatened wrong is likely to occur ; … ( 8 ) in proceedings — ( a ) concerning a debt secured on immovable property ; or ( b ) which are brought to assert , declare or determine proprietary or possessory rights , or rights of security , in or over movable property , or to obtain authority to dispose of movable property , in the courts of the part of the United Kingdom in which the property is situated . |
| 4 | It later transpired that in the days immediately preceding the budget he had found time to eat only once — a poached egg at the Lyons Corner House which was then opposite the House of Commons . |
| 5 | Disturbed that the English were at odds with a nation that should have been one of its natural religious allies , Cromwell brought about a rapid end to the Dutch War , and during the peace negotiations he even proposed that in the interests of their common religion the English and Dutch republics should merge to form one united Protestant state . |
| 6 | This was a formidable catalogue of sins , but many of the ideas became generally accepted and to some extent underlay Mr Wilson 's thinking in 1963 when he talked of the Conservatives ' period in power since 1951 as ‘ thirteen wasted years ’ and promised that in the first hundred days of dynamic government after a Labour victory at the polls a new atmosphere would pervade Whitehall . |
| 7 | On Jan. 6 , as part of a televised speech , he had described the liberation of Palestine as the main objective in the struggle , while reaffirming nevertheless that " the return of Kuwait to the motherland is a reality " , that the Iraqi army should prepare for " the mother of battles " , and that the war would reach " every struggler and fighter whose hand can reach out to harm aggressors in the whole world " ; on Jan. 9 , when an International Islamic Popular Conference opened in Baghdad , he promised that in the event of war the Americans would " swim in their own blood " . |
| 8 | Essentially the Post charged that in a 1984 report , Mike Hoover , a freelance news cameraman with a reputation for providing theatrical footage , recreated scenes of Afghan rebels sabotaging electricity pylons — days after the real action had taken place . |
| 9 | Ramsey never doubted that in the formation of his mind Hoskyns was influential , and ever afterwards he was grateful . |
| 10 | I say in interesting , if you built that in a model , people would n't believe you . |
| 11 | I have a slow heartbeat , about 67 or 68 , but we found that in a quiet passage of music before a climax the heartbeat could rise to 170 . |
| 12 | Nicola Woods found that in a business setting , gender was a better predictor than status of who would interrupt whom . |
| 13 | Research carried out at Queen Mary and Westfield College , London found that in a major incident at a plant of the type proposed a radius of nine miles could be affected , that is from Bolton in the north to Hale in the south , and from Leigh in the west to the easternmost boundary of Greater Manchester . |
| 14 | Hewitt and Burton ( 1971 ) analysed the record for southwestern Ontario and found that in a 50-year period there would be 1 severe drought , 2 major windstorms , 5 severe snowstorms , 8 severe hurricanes , 10 severe glaze storms , 16 severe floods , 25 severe hailstorms and 39 tornadoes . |
| 15 | Further , one of my students , Raymond Laflamme , found that in a slightly more complicated model , the collapse of the universe was very different from the expansion . |
| 16 | Contrary to these expectations , Rose found that in a group of 36211 men followed from 5 to 23 years , two thirds of those who developed colon cancer had initial serum cholesterol values below the age sex specific values for each respective cohort . |
| 17 | Similarly , in obese patients receiving weight reduction , Broomfield and colleagues found that in a dose of 1300 mg/day , aspirin inhibited ( albeit to a non-significant extent ) the development of microcrystals , microstones , and gall stones — which developed with high frequency in untreated patients . |
| 18 | And although my initial work was with the individual child , I found that in a large number of cases , the parental interest was of a high order and , and the children 's willingness to involve parents in their behavioural difficulties was also of a high order , so I found myself working not just within the school , not just with the child , but in a parent-child situation . |
| 19 | In particular , he found that in an organisation committed to consultative management , a superior may become more and more reluctant to exercise his authority . |
| 20 | Fisher wrote a kind letter to Ramsey , who found that in the circumstances it showed a generous spirit . |
| 21 | A Home Office Research Study published in 1989 found that in the 111 cases in the survey which the police judged to involve serious arrestable offences , the suspect was detained over twenty-four and under thirty-six hours in 44 of them . |
| 22 | They ignored temporary conversions from roughland to grass leys ( and vice versa ) and found that in the 30 years to 1980 in their 6 study areas , 15,000 hectares of rough pasture had reverted to roughland but 23,900 hectares of roughland had been converted to grass leys . |
| 23 | She found that in the time allowed four-fifths of the adult pairs conversed , looked or smiled at each other . |
| 24 | They found that in the hybrids the germ cells apparently migrated into the fetal gonads normally , and their early cell divisions proceeded normally . |
| 25 | They found that in the United states , Belgium , Thailand and Japan , the decline in the rate of sexual intercourse in marriage is more closely associated with the wife 's age than that of the husband . |
| 26 | She found that in the boys ' peer group , powerful members used direct imperatives like ‘ gim me ’ and ‘ get off ’ . |
| 27 | We also found that in the South East of England ( including Greater London ) , where the density of IT employers is very high , DP staff turnover levels as high as 40 per cent were being recorded in 1986,6 compared to ( only ! ) 25 per cent in the previous year ( quoted in Computing , 30/10/86 ) . |
| 28 | Buxton and Klein 's study found that in the early 1970s local variations within a region were greater than between regions . |
| 29 | We found that in the long term a little under a third of the participating teachers had been significantly influenced by what they had heard and seen and had made major changes in their classroom practice as a result . |
| 30 | Not according to Downes and Young ( 1987 ) , who found that in the post-war period , the rate of increase of crime under the Conservatives was , on average , twice that under Labour . |