Example sentences of "[subord] [art] [noun] given " in BNC.

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1 Where a rating authority had a statutory power , but no duty , to refund rates overpaid by mistake , the House of Lords granted judicial review and ordered repayment where the reasons given by the authority for its refusal to repay were held not to be valid .
2 No protection exists for men over 65 or women over 60 or for persons over normal retiring age in a particular employment whether that age is more or less than the ages given above .
3 ‘ Taxation ’ is no more than the name given to the quantification process whereby the amount of recoverable costs and disbursements is ascertained .
4 A new study by UN economists claims that farming contributes one-XXXX third less to national economies than the totals given by official figures , which do not take account of environmental losses such as soil erosion .
5 There was no such difference on a recognition memory task where , if anything , the control group did a little better than the group given distinctiveness training .
6 What they definitely do indicate are the extremes of weight problems ; where your weight falls higher than the amount given under the large-frame weight for your height , or lower than that given for the small-frame weight for your height , then you have problems .
7 Sommer and Zeger have estimated that if full compliance had been achieved in the Aceh study the reduction in mortality in months 4 to 12 would have been 72% rather than the 41% given by the intention to treat analysis .
8 Indeed , they may be considered to be much more practical than the visions given to us by politicians and hence may be more likely to have support .
9 He pointed out that Village school 's roll of nearly 20 pupils was considerably larger than the number given by the Council 's policy document as the minimum desirable size , and moved that the school remain open .
10 That is much narrower than the jurisdiction given to the Nuremberg tribunal after the Second World War , which was allowed also to consider crimes against peace and crimes against humanity such as planning and waging of aggressive war and genocide .
11 However , although the averages given in the last column of Table 4 are of some value they do not convey the reality of referral and investigative work .
12 Although the authority given for this proposition , Robinson v Mollet , concerned the effect of a trade custom rather than an exclusion clause , it highlighted the unacceptability of changing the substance of a relationship without the fully informed consent of the other party .
13 Although the information given here was correct at the time of preparing this guide it is essential to obtain up to date information to take account of any changes in official policy .
14 And although the names given of some of the boys arrested for these offences — David Stones and Arthur Gobbing , for example — suggest the possibility of a hoax , police reports repeatedly referred to ‘ this dangerous practice ’ and that ‘ the danger to the public seems sufficiently marked to warrant some special steps ’ .
15 The occasional or once-in-a-while reward ( intermittent reinforcement ) will consolidate an established bad habit more effectively than a reward given every time .
16 Until the consent given at marriage be revoked , how can it be said that the husband in exercising his marital right has assaulted his wife ?
17 If the interpretation given to the term unreasonable in Tameside is to mean that the Secretary of State must find behaviour akin to the ‘ red haired school teacher case , ’ then this emasculates the one control mechanism which he possesses .
18 This is so even if the interpretation given to an experience , or which stimulated the experience , is one not authentic to it , conditioned perhaps by the society of which the individual is a part .
19 In fact , if the answers given by 40 per cent of women quizzed for a new survey are anything to go by , the EC president might as well Jacques it in …
20 If the reasons given were genuine and clear , it would be easy for unscrupulous shoppers ( in a later application ) to apply in terms which avoided the pitfall .
21 If the reasons given by the chief officer of police are such that a court concludes that no reasonable officer could form the judgment that serious disruption would ensue , it is possible that the courts will prove readier to intervene than they ever were under the previous legislation , which referred to ‘ serious public disorder ’ only .
22 If the instructions given by Mr. Tucker to the Burnham sub-branch had been carried out , my answer would have been otherwise .
23 The farmers ' descendants , moving over the generations into commerce and trade , stuck to the old peasant form of succession , if the picture given by Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall of Family Fortunes in early nineteenth-century Birmingham and East Anglia is representative .
24 If the property given was excluded property then although it would reduce the value of the estate of Mr X that gift is ignored and the reduction in the value of the estate of Mr X caused by the gift of excluded property is not taken into account .
25 If the explanation given is correct , however ( and no other suggests itself ) then there is no reason to prevent the prosecutor who has elected in favour of the substantive offence from seeking to amend so as to substitute the conspiracy count instead : a straight exchange of counts based on the same facts can not be said to be over-burdensome .
26 There seem in fact , however , to be two exceptions to this general rule , namely Molla Yegan , who almost certainly resigned the office , and Abdulkerim , who must either have resigned or been removed from it if the facts given in the he was appointed Mufti in the time of Mehmed II and died in the time of Bayezid II — are correct .
27 It is essential that in exercising the very important jurisdiction to grant judicial review , the court should not intervene just because the reasons given , if strictly construed , may disclose an error of law .
28 " I was delayed to some extent because the address given to me was 626 Cheyne Walk , which I could not find , but eventually the river police directed me . "
29 The film avoided showing the strategy and the overall complexity and scope of the operation , possibly because the orders given by some senior officers were later subjected to considerable criticism .
30 The one search will serve if you act also for a mortgagee , in which case name the mortgagee rather than the buyer , because the priority given to the mortgagee extends to the buyer , but not vice versa .
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