Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [adj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Reg. v. Emmanuel ( 1981 ) 74 Cr.App.R. 135 where the defendant was charged in the indictment with alternative counts , the judge approved a proposal by the prosecutor to offer no evidence on the more serious charge and to accept a plea of guilty to the less serious . |
| 2 | Things came to a head on 30 January 1971 when a NICRA march in Derry , rendered illegal by Faulkner 's blanket banning of all marches the previous August , found its exit from the ghetto blocked by British soldiers , including the Parachute Regiment . |
| 3 | However , perhaps his best one , and the most important from the club 's point of view , was that of 12 January 1924 when the Palace met and beat the might of Tottenham Hotspur in the ( old ) 1st round of the FA Cup at The Nest . |
| 4 | R v Stanley ; CA ( Crim Div ) ( Bingham LJ , Ognall , McKinnon JJ ) ; 2 Oct 1989 Where a judge has it in mind to make a compensation order but the possibility has not been raised by counsel , it is the judge 's duty to raise the matter of his own motion so that it may be properly and fairly ventilated . |
| 5 | Fairburn died in London 12 October 1945 following a heart attack . |
| 6 | If the resolution is increased to 2048 x 2048 then the number of bits per second to be transmitted rises to 209 715 200 . |
| 7 | As to section 39(11) Mr. Langley relied on the decision of the Court of Appeal ( Dillon and Ralph Gibson L.JJ. ) in Bank of England v. Riley [ 1992 ] 2 W.L.R. 840 where the question was whether the defendant was entitled to refuse to answer interrogatories or disclose documents in reliance upon the privilege against self-incrimination , or whether that privilege was excluded by section 42 of the Act which entitles the Bank of England , inter alia , to require a person to attend and answer questions where the Bank has reasonable grounds for suspecting that a person is guilty of contravening various sections of the Act . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The events which led to this began on 30 June 1925 when the coal owners decided that they would abolish the national minimum wage , cut wages by about 10 per cent in order to compensate for the government 's return to the gold standard with a reflated pound , and to maintain standard profits no matter how low wages fell . |
| 10 | The law is illustrated by the pre-Theft Act case of Hassall ( 1861 ) 169 ER 1302 where the treasurer of a Christmas club did not spend the money on Christmas treats . |
| 11 | Is it thirteen foot wide then the room ? |
| 12 | The face will fill out , the limbs will unwind and the real Gemma will emerge , so that by the time she is six months old even a stranger will be able to tell her from Carla Marie . |
| 13 | We were told that Mr. Oyston 's action was settled on 7 October 1991 following a statement in open court , by an apology made to Mr. Oyston and the payment of damages and costs . |
| 14 | The accident at the graphite moderated , light-water-cooled pressure tube reactor at Chernobyl occurred on 26 April 1986 when an explosion produced an uncontrollable fire which lasted several days and led to vast quantities of radionuclides being lifted high into the atmosphere . |
| 15 | A similar decision was reached in re B — Court of Appeal , 10 June 1988 when the court found that the mother was not unreasonable in withholding her consent to adoption in order not to be deprived of contact with the child in spite of the fact that the twelve year old wanted to be adopted . |
| 16 | It was worn on 21 November 1673 when the Duke of York married Mary Beatrice d'Este , daughter of the Duke of Modena . |
| 17 | Susan Mayor , head of Christie 's Costume and Textiles department commented : ‘ Costume of this date is rare but seventeenth-century royal costume is surprisingly rare , and this piece can be dated exactly to a single day , 21 November 1673 when the history of England hung in balance . |
| 18 | This protracted crisis began on 17 March 1808 when a mob of soldiers , peasants , and palace grooms forced Charles IV to dismiss Godoy , found hiding in terror in a rolled-up carpet ; two days later another mob forced Charles IV to abdicate in favour of his son , the Prince of Asturias who became Ferdinand VII . |
| 19 | The market received added impetus on 11 January 1990 when the Bank made two further moves : the maximum maturity of paper was extended to five years ( it was previously one year ) , with paper of a maturity between one and five years designated " medium-term notes " ( MTNs ) ; and issues could be in any currency , not just sterling . |
| 20 | I wrote to the planning officer on 10 April 1991 enclosing a copy of my earlier letter , and again on 6 July 1991 when the matter was raised in the Minutes of the Land and Properties Sub-Committee , restating the Parish Council 's views and asking that they should be involved in the discussions of the future of the site . |
| 21 | I remember the long faces in the Tontine Coffee House at Glasgow Cross on the morning of 27 January 1783 when the news broke . |
| 22 | The ANNUAL DINNER was held on 13 July 1992 when the guest speaker was Dr Alan Leadbetter , the Director of the SERC Laboratory at Daresbury , Cheshire . |
| 23 | This had been the cause of the 1925 dispute , and the situation had altered little between 31 July 1925 , ‘ Red Friday ’ and 1 May 1926 when the coal lock-out began . |
| 24 | An example of the first type is found in Morris ( Herbert ) Ltd v Saxelby [ 1916 ] 1 AC 688 where the defendant was bound for seven years after employment not to work in the UK or Ireland in the sale or manufacture of pulley blocks , hand overhead runways , electric overhead runways or hand overhead travelling cranes . |
| 25 | He was rewarded on 16 April 1660 when the council of state outlawed all news-books except his pair . |
| 26 | Ocean Ranger lay at anchor east of Newfoundland on 15 February 1982 when the port bow chain locker and upper hull flooded during a storm . |
| 27 | See also Ginera v. City of Glasgow District Licensing Board , 1982 S.L.T. 136 where an application for Sunday opening in respect of a provisional grant of licence was held to be incompetent as the licence is not in force and only the holder of a public house licence can make application for Sunday opening . |
| 28 | It was going dark by the time the shepherd and his son shed their ragged leather milking jackets and carried two buckets each up the stone steps to the kitchen , followed by the two carabinieri . |
| 29 | Each celluloid window was two inches smaller all the way round than the gap it was supposed to fill and was held in place by fishing line . |
| 30 | This was ratified in an agreement of 20 Feb. 1691 wherein every pound of money in profit was to be shared as indicated in the table below : |