Example sentences of "of [noun pl] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | Money paid by a citizen to a public authority in the form of taxes or other levies paid pursuant to an ultra vires demand by the authority was therefore held to be prima facie recoverable by the citizen as of right . |
| 2 | It was submitted by Mr. Glick that statutory provisions creating a discretionary régime for the repayment of taxes or charges presuppose that the common law principles give no right to recovery . |
| 3 | I would therefore hold that money paid by a citizen to a public authority in the form of taxes or other levies paid pursuant to an ultra vires demand by the authority is prima facie recoverable by the citizen as of right . |
| 4 | The raising of taxes or the dispensing of laws without the assent of Parliament was declared to be illegal . |
| 5 | That is a matter for the Inspector of Taxes or those responsible for the assessment to decide as to how they will deal with those matters . |
| 6 | there is as much stability in aesthetic judgements as in ethical or political or philosophical or scientific ; [ and ] the reputations of poets and artists are not less but more assured than those of biologists or statesmen or metaphysicians . |
| 7 | Response-cost procedures involve the forfeiture of rewards or privileges currently available — such as going out to play or staying up late on Friday evening . |
| 8 | Like we might buy , my sister is , she loves chocolate , my mother would buy her packet of of Secrets or something , she buy a |
| 9 | If by neutralisation is meant establishing Great Power guarantees for the neutrality of states or regions , then Soviet interest in this process or regime certainly was not confined to Europe in the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 10 | We have all experienced childhood , it therefore seems familiar , but do we necessarily understand this most transient of states or those images which attempt to capture its fragmentary differences ? |
| 11 | The fact that a growing proportion of diplomats were now laymen whose fluency in Latin was often limited helped to accelerate this process , as did the fact that different nations pronounced the same Latin words in markedly different ways ; but as the language of treaties , especially those which involved a large number of states or in which the German states were concerned , Latin survived longer than as the language of negotiation . |
| 12 | No judgment is ever made of values or goals . |
| 13 | Law and the legal system thus have to be seen in a differentiated way , no longer consistently structured by one uniform language and one common principle ( such as a hierarchy of values or a grundnorm ) , but as being to some extent split into a plurality of legal arenas ( Lowi , 1972 ) . |
| 14 | It can , however , help to identify aspects of family life where clashes of values or attitudes may raise difficulties — whether in child care practices or gender issues , arranged marriages or disagreements between parents and adolescents . |
| 15 | By seeking support for a set of values or beliefs , the social honour of the group(s) that adhere to them is symbolically affirmed . |
| 16 | We are used to thinking of ‘ femininity ’ as being something to do with women , when in fact it also represents a set of values or behaviour which are generally regarded with disapproval : to call a man ‘ effeminate ’ is generally to insult him ( rather more , perhaps , than it is to call a woman ‘ masculine ’ ) . |
| 17 | It is reported that Mrs Thatcher has been keen to ensure that those promoted are sympathetic to her scale of values or are not unwilling to break away from the style of middle-of-the-road consensus policies that have predominated in recent years . |
| 18 | According to a report in the Montreal Gazette the statues had been ‘ tampered with ’ in this way on several occasions , and the newspaper felt that they should be raised beyond the reach of pranksters or removed to an inside guarded site . |
| 19 | A herd of deer , a pride of lions or a pack of wolves has a certain rudimentary coherence and unity of purpose . |
| 20 | Oriental examples have heads of lions or eagles rather than griffins ; and while the sirens on Greek pieces are purely eastern in style , the griffins , often of superb quality , have a distinctive character of their own : Greek . |
| 21 | I remember as a child in Africa being more frightened of driver ants than of lions or crocodiles . |
| 22 | While English tends to modify by use of adjectives or adverbs , BSL tends to use inflection especially in relation to the verb and it is this which makes its story formation rather different . |
| 23 | Execution is a process involving signature and unconditional delivery of the instrument , delivery requiring the use of acts or words sufficient to show that the person intends it to bind him as a deed . |
| 24 | As long as they know what kinds of acts or events might be prosecutable , they take the view that the arcane business of the law is best left to senior staff . |
| 25 | There may also be effects on movement such as stereotypies ( persistent repetition of acts or words ) , a severe loss of coordination , and pronounced analgesia . |
| 26 | ( 8 ) In proceedings to enforce a liability arising by virtue of subsection ( 3 ) above , it shall be a defence for the defendant to prove that he believed , and had reasonable cause to believe — ( a ) that the residential occupier had ceased to reside in the premises in question at the time when he was deprived of occupation as mentioned in subsection ( 1 ) above or , as the case may be , when the attempt was made or the acts were done as a result of which he gave up his occupation of those premises ; or ( b ) that , where the liability would otherwise arise by virtue only of the doing of acts or the withdrawal or withholding of services , he had reasonable grounds for doing the acts or withdrawing or withholding the services in question . |
| 27 | Total exclusion of liability for failure to perform a contract at all is unlikely to be reasonable where it occurs because of acts or omissions within the control of the party in default , which are caused by negligence , incompetence or inadvertence but not wilful default ( " inadvertent default " ) . |
| 28 | It was agreed that a joint group of experts or deputy foreign ministers from Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland would prepare a joint stand at the next Helsinki conference in 1991 , while another group would work out a plan of action for " entering Europe " . |
| 29 | Both bodies publish application forms recommended for use when applying to them for the appointment of experts or arbitrators : copies of the forms are reproduced in Appendices G and H. The Law Society has also published its requested procedure : see [ 1986 ] Law Society 's Gazette 2542 , reprinted in Appendix B. It is important that applicants follow the procedure of applying on prescribed forms . |
| 30 | This may be a brief summary of reasons or a full decision dictated by the chairman . |