Example sentences of "done by one " in BNC.
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| 1 | Common Law would treat a provision in a contract as to time as being ‘ of the essence of the contract ’ , meaning that if a certain act was not done by one party within a certain stipulated time , he should lose all rights under the contract ; Equity treated such a provision in general as not being of the essence of the contract , but as giving a right only to damages . |
| 2 | Not only in law , but in ordinary life , we look upon an act done by one man in pursuance of another 's orders as done by the person who gives the order . |
| 3 | Steering is largely done by one of the sailors sheeting out , for instance , if the back sail is depowered the board will bear away with all the power still on at the front . |
| 4 | Discussion between the team leader and his surveyor must take place as the monitoring process should not be done by one person in isolation . |
| 5 | More repairs have been carried out over the years — the most recent and probably most rewarding is the cleaning , repointing and replacing of stonework — all done by one of the parishioners . |
| 6 | ‘ I got there at ten a.m. and was done by one p. m . |
| 7 | And what , too , of the work done by one half of the human race ever since the species emerged : the work of the housewife ? |
| 8 | A project was almost invariably done by one pupil alone . |
| 9 | It argued that government control should be ‘ strategic guidance ’ and should be exercised as far as possible in the same way for all the industries by the use of economic and financial criteria , and that this should be done by one minister and one department . |
| 10 | The central issue has been why the ‘ magic of plurality ’ should make something unlawful if it is not unlawful when done by one person alone . |
| 11 | The argument from numbers continues to have some appeal in the criminal law but there are now few situations in which there may be an indictment for conspiracy in respect of acts which would not be criminal if done by one person . |
| 12 | The scope of ‘ unlawful means ’ conspiracy is also restricted by the requirement that the act should be one which would be actionable in tort if done by one person . |
| 13 | And he had all these pictures of himself and his friends at university with oars crossed above them , and a coloured one of the Highlands with hairy cattle paddling in a lake , and one of his father with his dogs , and such a lovely picture of his wife — dead she was , poor soul — and another big picture of Venice with gondolas and a lot of foreigners in fancy dress , and a cartoon of Dr. Mac done by one of his friends , showing the friend lying dead , and Dr. Mac in his deerstalker hat looking for clues with his magnifying glass . |
| 14 | And when I 've done a a spot on photograph for them , when somebody else is mentioning a photograph , you know , er to go up in the Town Hall or whatever , er they the local mayor has just had one done by one of the guys in the workshop , and I know for a fact I could do one that 's ten times better than that . |
| 15 | Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography was performed with an Olympus TJF duodenoscope and all examinations were done by one investigator ( JRBG ) . |
| 16 | Erm , nor I think are there any proposals to change the grading or pay honorarium to P As to reflect there work on these files , er , I 'm not sure whether the assumption that this would n't be taken into account by the W R is sound , because I think one of the principles that I recall was that he were meant to ensure that that each of these job evaluation panels had somebody from each office so that an account could be taken of the different practices , I mean I 'm sure that , I 'm sure that each of the three offices in the er deal with things in a different way , so that er what gets done by one person here is not necessarily done by people in Coventry and York , and that in fa in London , and that also holds good in the other way , I think . |