Example sentences of "[Wh adv] a [noun sg] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The process will take about half an hour , will require two reels of tape and will be initiated by the Computer Services Department operator at 08.00 , whenever a transfer to the Working-Set has taken place on the previous night . |
| 2 | Similarly , the chorus from the terraces whenever a member of the opposition was hit in the unmentionables and was being approached by the trainer with magic sponge and slopping bucket , was : ‘ Nay lad , do n't wash ‘ em . |
| 3 | Since 1869 imprisonment for debt has been rare , and by the Administration of justice Act 1970 it has been completely abolished , and replaced by the remedy of attachment of earnings , i.e. a procedure whereby a portion of the debtor 's earnings may be directed by the court to be paid direct to the creditor . |
| 4 | Mrs Beuys had invoked the German law regarding droit de suite whereby a percentage of the sum realised by the sale of a work of art goes to the artist or his heirs ( The Art Newspaper , No.12 , November 1991 ) . |
| 5 | An agreement whereby a shareholder of the target company binds himself irrevocably to accept a bidder 's offer . |
| 6 | For this , he was convicted of distributing insulting material whereby a breach of the peace was likely to be occasioned . |
| 7 | ‘ The Act does not make it criminal to use offensive or disgusting behaviour whereby a breach of the peace is likely to be occasioned . |
| 8 | In Parkin v. Norman , McCullogh J. said that ‘ it is to be noted that the words of the statute are ‘ whereby a breach of the peace is likely to be occasioned ’ and not ‘ whereby a breach of the peace is liable to be occasioned . ’ |
| 9 | In Parkin v. Norman , McCullogh J. said that ‘ it is to be noted that the words of the statute are ‘ whereby a breach of the peace is likely to be occasioned ’ and not ‘ whereby a breach of the peace is liable to be occasioned . ’ |
| 10 | Under the previous law , the offence was committed where the onlooker believed that violence was intended to be provoked or ‘ whereby a breach of the peace is likely to be occasioned . ’ |
| 11 | The issue of whereby a breach of the peace is likely to be occasioned is also a question of judgement , and it would be somewhat unusual for a court erm perhaps erm months later to go against the policeman 's view , a view formed in the heat of the moment , where he had a firsthand erm taste of what was going on . |
| 12 | Another witness described how a member of the Education Department attempted to play down Mr M 's contribution by strongly criticising his character at the Children 's Panel Hearing . |
| 13 | Miss Jeanette , who at the time was Nichol 's 16year-old girlfriend , told how a week after the attack they were stopped at a police road block . |
| 14 | I think speaking as another psychiatrist er the medical profession do have to look very carefully and perhaps how a lot of the damage has been done er with how women perceive whether they can ask for help or not because a lot of the women here have raised been giving tranquillizers and my colleague across there has pointed out that tranquillizers are not an appropriate way of treating depression . |
| 15 | Claims ( for what they may be worth ) for indemnity from a miscreant partner will more readily be encountered in the context of fraudulent activities in relation to the misapplication of money or property received for or in custody of the firm , to which s11 of the Partnership Act is directed : In the following cases ; namely — ( a ) Where one partner acting within the scope of his apparent authority receives the money or property of a third person and misapplies it ; and ( b ) Where a firm in the course of its business receives money or property of a third person , and the money or property so received is misapplied by one or more of the partners while it is in the custody of the firm ; the firm is liable to make good the loss . |
| 16 | This second point is illustrated by the decision in White v John Warwick & Co Ltd [ 1953 ] 1 WLR 1285 where a contract for the hire of a tricycle contained a clause which provided that " nothing in this agreement shall render the owners liable for any personal injuries to the riders of the machine hired " . |
| 17 | The leading case on the application of the reasonableness test to contractual limitations is Geo Mitchell ( Chesterhall ) Ltd v Finney Lock Seeds Ltd [ 1983 ] 2 AC 803 where a contract for the sale of winter white cabbage seed contained a clause limiting the seller 's liability to the contract price : £210.60 . |
| 18 | ( 4 ) Where a contact for the sale or other disposition of an interest in land satisfies the conditions of this section by reason only of the rectification of one or more documents in pursuance of an order of the court , the contract shall come into being , or be deemed to have come into being , at such time as may be specified in the order . |
| 19 | Above , I saw where a hole in the tin roof had been repaired with a flattened-out biscuit tin that had once contained Huntley and Palmer 's ginger nuts . |
| 20 | For desserts and digestifs where better than the Christ Church Picture Gallery , Canterbury Gate & Oriel Square where a selection of the College 's renowned collection of Old Master drawings will be on view . |
| 21 | ( 5 ) Where a determination of the adjudicator under a recognised scheme is binding on the building society or associated body , the adjudicator shall , at the request of the society or associated body , state a case for the opinion of the High Court on any question of law and the High Court may direct the adjudicator to reconsider the complaint . |
| 22 | The gate admits to a path , presumably made as a droveway for bringing sheep down from the fell ; this spirals up to the ridge where a turn to the right leads to the summit cairn . |
| 23 | This is a specimen of our dressing rooms , but not by far the worst , as I know of one in the North of England where a corner of the floor is submerged in filth and water . |
| 24 | He pointed across to where a corner of the room was stacked with coffers , cabin-trunks , packing cases , pile upon pile of what looked like shoe-boxes and other cardboard containers . |
| 25 | They assemble initially in their own chamber from where they are eventually summoned by the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod to attend at the Bar of the House of Lords where a Commission for the Opening of Parliament is read , usually by the Lord Chancellor , on behalf of the monarch . |
| 26 | That was where a lot of the hurt lay . |
| 27 | I think that 's where a lot of the pressure comes in now , I should think , on scientists . |
| 28 | Let's let's get rid of this is this is where a lot of the confusion is |
| 29 | The most likely area that will involve staff with the police in the context of violence is where a breach of the peace occurs . |
| 30 | A point should be certified only where the outcome of the appeal depends upon it — the prosecution to appeal where a defendant would be acquitted on the certified point alone if the Court of Appeal 's judgment were to stand ; the defendant to appeal where a reversal by the House of Lords of the Court of Appeal 's decision on the certified point would be his only means of acquittal . |