Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [art] term " in BNC.

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1 They report that , like the transracially adopted children , none of this sub-group used the term ‘ black ’ when referring to racial background .
2 Under s8 of UCTA 1977 , s3 of the Misrepresentation Act 1967 is replaced by the following : 3 — If a contract contains a term which would exclude or restrict ( a ) any liability to which a party to a contract may be subject by reason of any misrepresentation made by him before the contract was made ; or ( b ) any remedy available to another party to the contract by reason of such a misrepresentation , that term shall be of no effect except in so far as it satisfies the requirement of reasonableness as stated in s11(1) of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 ; and it is for those claiming that the term satisfies that requirement to show that it does .
3 Those schemes which included " practical test " among their modes of assessment used the term to mean either a task using manipulative materials or one-to-one interactive interviews of the Assessment of Performance Unit type .
4 Or do some represent a kind of verbal hijacking — an attempt to appropriate a term which does not properly or honestly belong in that context at all ?
5 On May 9 the Council ruled the term " Corsican people " unconstitutional on the grounds that the Constitution recognized only the " French people comprising all French citizens without distinction as to their origin , race or religion " .
6 There has also been a proposal to increase the term of copyright to the life of the author plus 70 years , although this had been subject to some controversy within the EC .
7 The 1973 Act uses the term " employment agency " to refer to a " business … providing services … for the purpose of finding workers employment with employers or of supplying employers with workers for employment by them " ( 5.13(2) ) , in other words , to refer to private placement bureaux .
8 Much of the misunderstanding surrounding the term and the subject , and the people who lay claim to its mystique , arises From this imprecision .
9 Theorists of the social proletariat extend the term to include reproduction of capitalism 's industrial reserve armies of benefit dependents ( see Byrne and Parson , 1983 ) , which provides a much more satisfactory account than notions of a residuum or underclass ( this issue will be developed in Chapter 6 ) .
10 A second argument which Gordon might use would be to say that the content of the bracket constituting the term furnished tenancy or employee or assault should , itself , be for the relative opinion of the tribunal .
11 If nothing is agreed about notice , the common law implies a term into the contract that it can be brought to an end if ‘ reasonable notice ’ is given .
12 We 've always in the West used the term Russian nationalist as one of abuse , er and that it seems to me as , because it 's always in the past been associated with empire , Russian nationalists in practice have oppressed other people , but after all why should the Russians not be patriotic just as the British as er a citizen or a Frenchman can be patriotic , er provided that that does n't go with oppressing other people .
13 In fact , the software requires the coder to input a term before it can produce a list of possible codes from the database .
14 Mont Blanc has a heterogeneity of structure not possessed by a blancmange , but it is still not complex in the sense in which a biologist uses the term .
15 For a zero-coupon bond , duration equals the term to maturity .
16 Seemingly the first German to use the term ‘ cantata ’ was another pupil of Schutz , Kaspar Kittel , who had lived in Venice during 1624–9 .
17 This being the case , there is no need to qualify the term , ‘ information industry ’ .
18 The term natural justice is used for that part of the spectrum which requires a relatively wide range of procedural checks , while fairness is used in those areas either where the nature of the decision-maker renders the term natural justice inappropriate or the set of safeguards tends towards the lower end of the spectrum .
19 It is also structured by the biographical situation of the person using the term and the definitions they give to their work role .
20 ( S. ) 460 , which established that where a juvenile pleaded guilty to an offence for which he could be ordered to be detained under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , s.53(2) , it was open to the sentencer to impose a term of 12 months detention in a young offender institution , if he considered that apart from the plea of guilty a sentence of detention under section 53(2) would have been warranted .
21 Decision : it would have been open to the sentencer to impose a term of detention under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , S.53(2) , but he had made no reference to the section and it was clear that the sentence was unlawful .
22 ‘ at any time if he thinks fit release on licence a person serving a term of imprisonment for life subject to compliance with such conditions , if any , as the Secretary of State may from time to time determine .
23 It is interesting too to note that the Epitome uses the term voluntas to describe intention as the source of the legal authority of a disposition .
24 8.8.2 Would the court imply the term ?
25 People who study human behaviour use the term body language for such activity .
26 On the other hand , other exercises on the concept of ratio use the term ‘ profit ’ in quite a different way .
27 This may , in fact , already be the position as far as executive directors are concerned , in that they are employees and it is usual for the court to imply a term in employment contracts to the effect that employees will carry out their duties with reasonable care and skill .
28 That term is sometimes used loosely to refer to travellers and persons of nomadic habits , and in Mills v. Cooper a Divisional Court accorded the term such a meaning for the purposes of the Highways Act , which made it an offence for a gypsy to encamp on a highway .
29 The questionnaire used the term ‘ mild ’ to describe all self treated episodes and ‘ severe ’ to describe all episodes where help was needed from a second person .
30 Mosca uses the term ‘ ruling class ’ to denote the permanent group of organised rulers in society , but his use of the term ‘ class ’ introduces an element of confusion in that his ‘ ruling class ’ is very different in its functions and internal characteristics from those of the Marxist usage .
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