Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [vb past] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These disturbances must have been minimized , however , where the defences ran through the fringes of the main settlement , as they appear to have done at Kenchester . |
| 2 | As successful as the works on paper were , the crowds came for the paintings , particularly the late Braque ‘ Atelier VIII ’ , ( 1952–55 ) conceived by the artist as the summation of his career , and which he had fervently hoped would never leave France . |
| 3 | By a notice of appeal dated 6 September 1991 the solicitors appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong in law in holding that ( a ) under section 6(2) of the Act of 1986 the court had jurisdiction to order any person other than the contravener who appeared to the court to have been knowingly concerned in the contravention of section 3 of the Act to repay to investors sums paid by them to Pantell and ( b ) under section 61(1) of the Act the court had jurisdiction to order any person other than the contravener who appeared to the court to have been knowingly concerned in the contravention of any rules , regulations or provisions referred to in that section to repay to investors sums paid by them to Pantell ; ( 2 ) the court had no jurisdiction under sections 6(2) and 61(1) to award claims for compensation for loss against persons knowingly concerned in such contraventions in contrast to sections 6(3) to ( 7 ) and sections 61(3) to ( 7 ) ; ( 3 ) the judge was wrong in law in holding that ( a ) the power of the court under section 6(2) to order a person knowingly concerned in the contravention to take such steps as the court might direct for restoring the parties to the transaction to the position in which they were before the transaction was entered into and ( b ) the power of the court under section 61(1) to order a person knowingly concerned in the contravention of the rules , regulations or provisions referred to in that section to take such steps as the court might direct to remedy it included power to make a financial award against such person directing payment by that person to individual investors of sums equivalent to the amounts paid by such investors pursuant to the said transaction , neither subsection empowering the court to order restitution by the repayment of moneys outside the possession or control of the person concerned ; and ( 4 ) the judge erred in law ( a ) in his construction of sections 6(2) and 61(1) in failing to have regard to the principle ‘ generalibus specialia derogant , ’ in particular in holding that there could exist within each of sections 6 and 61 two parallel powers to order financial redress at the suit of the plaintiff , one derived from sections 6(3) and 6(4) and sections 61(3) and 61(4) respectively , which was subject to the limitations set out in those and subsequent subsections , and the other derived from section 6(2) and section 61(1) , which was subject to no such limitations ; ( b ) in rejecting the submission that sections 6 and 61 were essentially procedural and did not create new substantive legal rights and remedies ; and ( c ) in failing to have regard to the fact that the orders sought under paragraphs 11 and 13 of the prayer to the amended statement of claim required payment to the plaintiff or alternatively into court of moneys recovered thereunder from the solicitors despite the absence of any provisions for such orders in the Act , his dismissal of the summons being inconsistent with his finding that there was no provision in sections 6(2) or 61(1) directing payment into court and that any order under the sections would have to direct repayment of the sum paid to each individual investor who had made the original payment . |
| 4 | It was like a German bloodbath — what the Germans did to the Jews . ’ |
| 5 | The coins sank between the bananas , apples and mushrooms . |
| 6 | Mother would cook on an open fire , the birds sang in the trees , and there was a bush in the corner which had white blossom , and roses grew wild everywhere . |
| 7 | In their studios the canvases stood on the floors , on the chairs and other pieces of furniture , or hung high on the walls . |
| 8 | We do not know who were the owners , nor what the objects meant to the owners . |
| 9 | The sequences cloned from the marsupials are the only Y-located sequences detected either with the human SRY probe or with the marsupial sequences themselves . |
| 10 | Also , the boat was so small that when I rowed , the waves came over the sides of the boat . |
| 11 | As the waves crashed round the hilltops the wizards ' palaces broke free and floated on the surface of the waves . |
| 12 | He felt that on the final day of their three-day visit the inspectors went through the files with the respective partners too quickly . |
| 13 | By a notice of appeal dated 22 March 1991 the defendants appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that the judge erred ( 1 ) in following the decision of Browne J. in Bognor Regis Urban District Council v. Campion [ 1972 ] 2 Q.B. 169 even though he was rightly unable to accept the basis on which Browne J. had distinguished the decision of the Divisional Court in Manchester Corporation v. Williams [ 1891 ] 1 Q.B. 94 ; ( 2 ) in holding that Metropolitan Saloon Omnibus Co . |
| 14 | The mixture of religious vocabulary with philosophical ‘ idea/ reality ’ , and sexual vocabulary ( ‘ desire/ spasm ’ ) hopelessly rearrange the elements discovered at the roots of religion . |
| 15 | By a notice of appeal dated 22 July 1991 the administrators appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the judge had erred in law in holding that the court had no jurisdiction to make any order under section 238 of the Act of 1986 against the bank ; ( 2 ) the judge should have held that the words ‘ any person ’ in section 238 meant ( in the case of a company ) any company , whether or not registered in England and Wales , or having a place of business in England and Wales , or carrying on business in England and Wales at the time of the transaction complained of ; alternatively , that those words ( in the case of a company ) meant any company with a sufficient connection with England and Wales : and that , on the facts of the case , there was a sufficient connection ; and in either case the court accordingly had jurisdiction to entertain the originating application against the bank , and to grant leave under rule 12.12 of the Insolvency Rules 1986 to serve the bank in Jersey ; and ( 3 ) in construing section 238 of the Act of 1986 the judge had erred in failing ( i ) to hold that the bank , even though a Jersey company , was within the class of persons with respect to whom Parliament was to be presumed to be legislating in section 238 ; ( ii ) to give any or any sufficient weight to the mischief which the section was intended to remedy , and/or to the disastrous practical consequences for all insolvencies with any international element if the operation of the section were limited to those within England and Wales at the time of the transaction complained of ; ( iii ) to give any or any sufficient weight to the legislative context of the section and related sections ; and ( iv ) to give any or any sufficient weight to the fact that the transactions dealt with by the sections necessarily had a connection with England and Wales in that they involved a disposition of the property of a person or company the subject of insolvency proceedings before the courts of England and Wales . |
| 16 | ‘ And the refugees fled to the mountains ? ’ |
| 17 | She nodded , disappointed that he was being so matter-of-fact , and , pulling herself together , she stared out of the window as the headlights shone on the hedges and fields of the countryside they were passing through . |
| 18 | She walked by the tiny marina , where the halyards jingled on the masts of the half dozen boats that were berthed there . |
| 19 | … The judges deputed to the benchers of the societies the task of giving lectures , and examining into the sufficiency of the candidates , and of calling them to the Bar , but they are still mere voluntary societies ; and they act by the authority which the judges have delegated to them . |
| 20 | All turned to look back at the door as the footsteps approached on the flagstones . |
| 21 | The marines chatted with the vigilantees for a time and exchanged cigarettes with them . |
| 22 | Under military pressure on all sides ( in the main , as it turned out , from revivified Austrian forces under General Haynau ) , the Hungarians capitulated to the Russians on 13 August . |
| 23 | They were mounted on long wheelbase trucks fitted with Lycett & Conaty radial gear in which the axles pivoted about the motors and there were no motor support springs , but there were very large protruding axle-boxes . |
| 24 | Defeated , the rebels fled to the mountains overlooking the Lhasa valley . |
| 25 | The guests fell upon the centaurs and drove them out of the country , so they are now a rare sight indeed . |
| 26 | But when in the early summer the Palestinians appeared on the slopes of Mount Sannine and the Christians found themselves in danger of total defeat , a Syrian military intervention in Lebanon became certain . |
| 27 | The decorations shone on the walls and I loosened the buttons of my tunic and slipped my tie down a few inches . |
| 28 | Sunlight beat down on them , now the tall mahogany and fig trees were thinned around ; the ferns shrivelled in the shafts ; animals which had wandered in and out of Sycorax 's compound now watered in the creek further upstream , and avoided the company of men . |
| 29 | The taxpayers appealed against the assessments , contending that the two offices constituted separate trades carried on by B and W. B's trade had continued after the dissolution of the partnership . |
| 30 | Ted convinced himself that the sounds came from the birds nesting in the eaves or the rafters and banged the walls nth a brush . |