Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [adv] [conj] [verb] " 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 | The trend has been to increase differences between institutions rather than to treat them equally . |
| 3 | It should be stressed that the figures given are for manufactures only and do not include exports of primary products or raw materials . |
| 4 | The annual value of mergers more than trebled from a fairly stable trend in 1966 and 1967 . |
| 5 | just spend a couple of minutes now and jot down what it is you would like to get out of this course by tomorrow afternoon what you would like to say you 've achieved on this course . |
| 6 | Frear had entered the cafe a couple of minutes earlier and had recognized Schellenberg instantly . |
| 7 | Even if not in any way competitive , STACK membership is advantageous for the individual stunt flyer , not only for the informative manual , but also for its newsletter with a regular calendar of activities worldwide and tips on team flying . |
| 8 | To some extent , this must be a reflection on the methodology which we adopted , concentrating as we did on interviewing key actors and observing the development , processing , and implementation of proposals rather than focusing on , for example , the teaching methods of individual teachers or the reading habits of individual pupils . |
| 9 | Rory unscrewed the top from the bottle of Bells carefully and topped up Fergus 's little silver cup . |
| 10 | ‘ I noticed a man wandering around the garden a couple of hours ago and asked him what he wanted . |
| 11 | Take your time — I awakened a couple of hours ago and have already attended to my own needs . |
| 12 | Many fans drift into and out of groups rather than making a gradual progress . |
| 13 | Between 1985 and 1989 the dollar value of exports more than doubled ; planners excitedly began to talk about Korea becoming a creditor nation . |
| 14 | It will be seen that the dollar value of exports more than doubled between 1977 and 1981 , but remained fairly stable thereafter , at least until 1986 . |
| 15 | Panel surveys involve repeated observations of subjects so as to build up a longitudinal record of the events of interest . |
| 16 | Yeah , I 've got a design for a set of speakers upstairs and do , I think it 's three way like that |
| 17 | There has been a sharp escalation in the number of chartered accountants resorting to individual voluntary arrangements to try and resolve their financial crises and avoid bankruptcy the number of IVAs more than doubled last year . |
| 18 | Such conclusions were arrived at by studying the fossilized limb proportions and limb-joint morphology of dinosaurs rather than footprint tracks , although some of these tracks , as we shall see , show speeds a lot faster than those Beverly Halstead was talking about . |
| 19 | The couple had met just a couple of months ago and appeared completely devoted . |
| 20 | ‘ Did n't you say he had a wife and a couple of kids now and worked in Basingstoke ? |
| 21 | I turned into a gentle left hand bend , saw a queue of cars ahead and hit the brake . |
| 22 | In town centres , they decided to get rid of cars altogether and invent shopping precincts . |
| 23 | TEACHERS in east London are set to walk out of schools today if asked to take classes which they believe are too large . |
| 24 | Then suddenly a demoniacal light had entered his eyes and , since he seemed to be a man who would set about proving his own theories — in this case that it was inconceivable that she should be as innocent as she would appear — he took a couple of steps forward and reached for her . |
| 25 | Discretion will allow officials to exercise some autonomy in their work and may allow the official to respond to the individual needs of clients rather than applying a set of standard rules . |
| 26 | Roel Pieper says there 's room for both efforts , with USL more interested in the fault-tolerance and distributed computing aspects of microkernels rather than OSF 's emphasis on multiple personalities , especially attractive to OSF partners with numerous ‘ legacy ’ operating systems . |
| 27 | I left these agonizing streets of beggars behind and entered the Plaza Mayor , a magnificent example of eighteenth-century Spanish baroque , dominated by the superb façade of the Churrigueresque Town Hail or Ayuntamiento . |
| 28 | He gathered his bunch of limbs together and dropped off the bale . |
| 29 | Whilst the ambiguity and allusiveness of late 19th century sculpture was firmly rooted in the representation of the human figure the ( point of contact between the two exhibitions ) which acted as a metaphor for emotion , that of Chadwick or Wilding goes beyond that so that the human body is alluded to indirectly , as a train of associations rather than direct mimetic referent . |
| 30 | She peered at the tangle of brambles inside and shook with excitement : there was a perfect spider 's web today . |