Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] the [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | During negotiations , Newco should try to avoid any general qualification that the warranties are given to the best of the vendors ' knowledge , as this could be interpreted to the effect that a vendor giving a warranty subject to this qualification has relied on the information given to him by management , and again distances the vendor from the risk . |
| 2 | More controversial shots of a spoof wedding ceremony and a lesbian couple kissing , both featuring bare breasts , have been placed in the second of two rooms housing the exhibition . |
| 3 | British firms have been struggling with the first of these for the past 18 months , and for the past six or so have also suffered from the second . |
| 4 | The bank finally agreed to loan sixteen thousand pounds for the business plus overdraught facilities and a further nine thousand pounds secured on our client 's home repayable over five years , any further mortgage over a future was to be arranged elsewhere and my Lord er will hear that in fact the , having the sale of their home having been completed on the fifth of December the plaintiffs were then homeless for some three months living with their daughter until such times as they were able to arrange a mortgage on their present property with the Halifax . |
| 5 | The ten per cent addition assumed by the Eighth Schedule was , as in the 1947 Act , measured by the external cube , but it has since been modified to the smaller of cube or internal floor space , and only relates now to buildings in existence on 1 July 1948 . |
| 6 | The investments are reported at the lower of cost and net current value , the latter based on the enterprises ' most recent accounts . |
| 7 | Will it be possible to finish the 12 — 2 guinea plates the 2nd thirty small ones and the thirty of which the first ground has been done by the first of April next — or the end of March — give opinion on this … ? ’ |
| 8 | Well , all these things are done with the best of in intentions you know but erm that 's the only , that 's the only logical reason because they ca n't seem to find any other evidence as to the cause of it you see |
| 9 | Its good insulating properties mean that the young emerging plants in the spring are saved from the worst of the biting cold . |
| 10 | It can be quite painful , for the insider is studying his own social navel , with the potential always present that he will recognize this to be only one of a number of arbitrary possibilities and perhaps also find that many practices are built on the flimsiest of moral precepts . |
| 11 | and other relationships are subsumed under the second of these categories , for example : |
| 12 | You can take cuttings in summer of this kind of herb and keep them protected through the winter , or shield the parent plants in some way , so that they are sheltered from the worst of the cold and wind . |
| 13 | there 's hundreds of French , Germans they 're waiting until the first of July and they 'll be in this country in a flash . |
| 14 | But if you for example you 're born on the sixteenth of the month then that 's generally when it would be paid on the sixteenth . |
| 15 | By its nature , the argument of timing is subjective ; assertions can be and frequently are advanced on the scantest of evidence . |
| 16 | Current asset investments are valued at the lower of cost and net realisable value , although for transferable securities held as current assets the higher of cost and market value may be adopted . |
| 17 | Stocks are valued at the lower of cost and net realisable value . |
| 18 | Stocks are valued at the lower of cost and net realisable value . |
| 19 | Stocks are valued at the lower of cost and net realisable value . |
| 20 | In order to conform with SSAP9 , companies must include a note in their accounts to the effect that : ’ Stocks are valued at the lower of cost or net realisable value . |
| 21 | In order to conform with SSAP9 , most companies include a note in their annual accounts to the effect that : ’ The individual parcels of freehold land held for development are valued at the lower of cost or estimated net realisable value . |
| 22 | Alternatively an even briefer statement is sometimes included , such as : ’ Stocks and land , including development costs and construction thereon , are valued at the lower of cost and net realisable value . ’ |
| 23 | Other precious metal stocks owned by the group , which are unhedged , are valued at the lower of cost and net realisable value . |
| 24 | These are valued at the lower of cost , including attributable overheads , and net realisable value . |
| 25 | Stocks and work in progress are valued at the lower of cost , including appropriate manufacturing overheads , and net realisable value . |
| 26 | Peptic ulcers are produced by the self-destruction of the gut wall by pepsin and hydrochloric acid in gastric juice . |
| 27 | Applications are invited for the second of two new lecturer posts awarded by the UFC Review of Meteorology to the School of Environmental Sciences . |
| 28 | Manhattan District Court Judge Milton Pollack announced on March 9 that a single " global " settlement had been reached to the hundreds of civil litigation suits which had arisen from the 1990 collapse of the Drexel Burnham Lambert investment bank [ see pp. 37412-13 ; 37848 ] . |
| 29 | Recent scholarship suggests that the tactic of anonymity may have been employed for the best of reasons . |
| 30 | Substantial doubts had been raised by the difficultly of Coleman 's having committed the crime in the short space of time for which he had no alibi on the night of the murder , and by numerous statements gathered after the trial attesting that another resident of the small town of Grundy had boasted of having committed the crime . |