Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By s 9(1) of the Housing Act 1988 , the court may adjourn for such period as it thinks fit , proceedings for possession of assured tenancies , and may stay , suspend , or postpone a claim for possession — but an order for possession must not in general be postponed to a date later than fourteen days from judgment , unless this would cause exceptional hardship , when up to six weeks may be allowed ( s 89(1) of the Houseing Act 1980 ) ; the maximum of 14 days is subject to important qualifications ( s 89(2) ) examples of which are those cases under the Rent Act 1977 where the court may only order possession if reasonable , possession actions by mortgagees when the period is 28 days , and by lessors for forfeiture for non-payment of rent , when any order for possession must be for not less than four weeks ( s 138(3) of the 1984 Act ) . |
| 2 | These arts they must already in considerable measure have mastered . |
| 3 | ‘ By the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 , the defendants are placed in the same position as the ordinary subjects of the Crown ( see section 21 of the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 ) and I see no reason why they should not in appropriate cases refuse to refund money paid to them voluntarily under a mistake of law , as the revenue authorities were held to be entitled to do in the case of William Whiteley Ltd. v. The King and National Pari-Mutuel Association Ltd. v. The King . |
| 4 | Throughout he fiercely defended his own actions and was at pains to explain why he did not quit as many had said he should immediately after Black Wednesday . |
| 5 | ‘ The Act of 1833 publicly affirmed that the precepts of common humanity were not so alien to the logic of industrial capitalism that checks could only by imposed from without . |
| 6 | ‘ … it shall be defence for the person charged to prove that he did not know , and could not with reasonable diligence have ascertained , that the goods did not conform to the description or that the description had been applied to the goods . ’ |
| 7 | In any proceedings for an offence under this Act of supplying or offering to supply goods to which a false trade description is applied it shall be a defence for the person charged to prove that he did not know and could not with reasonable diligence have ascertained , that the goods did not conform to the description or that the description had been applied to the goods . |
| 8 | Under the special defence , the issue is whether the defendant did not know and could not with reasonable diligence have discovered , the false trade description . |
| 9 | Yes , well , I have had a recent case , erm of within the ward that I visited , so I am aware of having the number of problems in the past , I am aware of the problems , but I could not for personal circumstances do the afternoon that day . |
| 10 | ‘ I could not in good conscience tell people to buy disposable diapers . ’ |
| 11 | According to one senior management informant in RENFE , ‘ the company could not in general make an offer for increased wages and salaries without first getting very direct approval from the government ’ ; labour relations managers recalled urgent telephone calls from the minister in the early hours of the morning to determine the wage offer . |
| 12 | " The Independent " argued that it could not in natural justice be bound by an order made against another newspaper , on different facts , and which it had been given no opportunity to oppose . |
| 13 | They said it was like a box you know , and they could up to tremendous heights , putting I do n't know how many layers . |
| 14 | I , I can remember bits of it now , but I could n't on fucking Thursday , I mean , there 's this bloke in er , they 're they 're doing a banking job , while doing a bank job and he still does n't believe he 's the main |
| 15 | You could n't through thick smoke , however much you wanted to . |
| 16 | 'T IS fashion 'd too with ev'ry little Art : |
| 17 | and we may now at long . |
| 18 | If it is accepted that what motivates interest in redistributive impacts is a desire to be ‘ fair ’ , then the studies that are carried out using current measures of economic status may often by misleading . |
| 19 | That is why selection for housing is based on housing need not on financial need , that 's the point , that 's why you do it according to housing need , not for money because the money side has been neutralised . |
| 20 | There is no artist with whom I am more frank , because I admire the man tremendously and need not by sycophantic . |
| 21 | A transformation of type ( 2 ) , in which A , C need not in general be symmetric , but in which B is square and non-singular , is described as a congruent transformation and is of particular importance in dynamics . |
| 22 | Going to M.I.T. taught me a great deal about linguistics in many areas ; but one of the things one easily learned at MIT at that time was a sense of conviction — the assumption that MIT led the world , and that other people 's opinions need not in general be treated seriously . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , the existence of these changes strongly suggests that Falkowski and Wilson 's inference that open ocean phytoplankton productivity has remained roughly constant since the industrial revolution is premature , and may even by false . |
| 24 | Breach of the provisions of the Act involves the commission of an offence punishable by fine and may even in certain circumstances disqualify the firm from bringing proceedings to enforce its contractual rights — where by reason of the breach the defendant is unable to pursue his own claims against the firm or has otherwise suffered financial loss and the court does not consider that justice and equity require that the firm 's action should be allowed to proceed . |
| 25 | Provided we give a narrow meaning to ‘ intention ’ the law may well for practical purposes come close to the proposition that it is tortious intentionally to cause damage by any unlawful act , but it has developed by way of distinct , nominate torts and it is necessary to retain that division for the purposes of exposition . |
| 26 | An officer who spent his career patrolling a middle-class suburb would only in extreme circumstances be involved in a physical encounter . |
| 27 | Yet nearby landowners had little option other than to tolerate the threat to law and order which the existence of open villages implied because the closed parishes to some extent relied upon the open ones to provide a pool of reserve labour which could be used during periods of peak demand like harvest , but which would not at other times become a charge on the poor rate . |
| 28 | remarked that one would not in ordinary parlance say that Desdemona died by accident , because ‘ the horror of the crime dominates the imagination and compels the expression of the situation in terms related to the crime and the criminal alone . ’ |
| 29 | Confrontation of issues and attitudes will be polite and respectful in a professional manner but it may nonetheless be a very painful process that would not in customary terms be considered friendly , although in truth it is a most fundamental act of friendship from one human being to another . |
| 30 | Even if a wife were expressly to agree to sexual intercourse on demand , such a promise would not in English law be contractually binding upon her . |