Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [adj] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The plaintiff was en ventre sa mère at the time of her brother 's death , and consequently a person in rerum natura so that both by the rules of the common law and civil law she was to all intents and purposes a child . |
| 2 | Further , by wills and settlements , provision may be made for those who may come into existence at a future time , subject to the rule against perpetuities , which forbids any disposition which is not certain to take effect ( if it takes effect at all ) within lives in being and twenty-one years afterwards ; but a life in being includes a person en ventre sa mere at the time when the will or settlement takes effect . |
| 3 | Both flat glass and glass containers also came under threat from imported glass-made substantially cheaper to UK users by exchange rates prevailing at the time . |
| 4 | This will be shown on your Holiday Details Form and Final Invoice , and you pay the remainder in resort in local currency ( the £25 will be deducted at the exchange rates applicable at the time of payment in resort ) . |
| 5 | CP/M was emphatically not the best desktop operating system available at the time , indeed it was not originally even written as a production operating system . |
| 6 | Obviously all the customer and supplier agreements current at the time of completion must be transferred and future responsibility must pass to the acquirer . |
| 7 | Thirdly , there is the possibility that abnormalities judged by us to be psychotic in afunctional sense were actually due to organic brain diseases unrecognised at the time ; for reasons discussed previously this would rule them out of court for our purposes . |
| 8 | Example 4:3 Index-linked rent : upwards only YIELDING AND PAYING the annual sum of £ … ( " the basic rent " ) payable quarterly in advance on the 25th of March the 24th of June the 29th of September and the 25th of December in each year and in addition such sum payable on each of the above dates in advance ( " the index-linked rent " ) as bears the same proportion to one quarter of the basic rent as is borne by the figure shown in the General Index of Retail Prices ( " the index " ) for the month immediately preceding the months in which payment of any particular instalment of rent is due to the figure ( which is the figure shown in that index for the month of … ) minus one quarter of the basic rent PROVIDED THAT ( 1 ) if after the date of this lease the index is calculated by reference to a different base date or base figure then the index-linked rent shall be calculated as if that change had not taken place ( 2 ) if the index ceases to be published or if for any reason it becomes impossible or impracticable to calculate the index-linked rent then either the landlord or the tenant may by notice require the rent to be thenceforth reviewed at such times and in such manner as may be agreed between them or in default of agreement be determined by a single arbitrator to be appointed by the President for the time being of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors who shall have regard to market practice prevailing at the time of such notice in relation to new lettings of property of the same type as the demised property ( 3 ) in no circumstances shall the total rent payable under this lease be less than the basic rent |
| 9 | These restrictions on alienation will dictate , apart from the market circumstances prevailing at the time , how accommodation is packaged in the market for sub-letting . |
| 10 | In addition , the investors will be keen to obtain warranties in respect of the business plan and future financial forecasts along the following lines : ( a ) The Business Plan has been carefully prepared in good faith having regard to the information available and the market conditions prevailing at the time of its preparation and the figures contained therein have been carefully considered and are honestly believed to be reasonable and the Managers have made all reasonable enquiries so as to ascertain all such information and conditions which are relevant to the preparation of the forecasts contained therein . |
| 11 | Interest rates , defined simply as the cost of borrowing , reflect the market rates prevailing at the time of obtaining a loan . |
| 12 | Regard should be had , however , to the interest rates prevailing at the time , to the debtor 's age , experience , business capacity and state of health and ‘ the degree to which , at the time of making the credit bargain , he was under financial pressure and the nature of that pressure . ’ |
| 13 | My father-in-law had moved the money into the Pyramid Building Society in Melbourne , which was offering the best interest rates available at the time , and it had gone bust . |
| 14 | There were no street prices available at the time of going to press , but my guess would be about £270 . |