Example sentences of "be [vb pp] at [art] outset " in BNC.
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| 1 | These differing objectives can be balanced , but only if they are resolved at the outset , before money is committed or spent . |
| 2 | Despite the fact that the explanation or defence could , if true , have been disclosed at the outset and despite the advantage which the defendant has gained by these tactics , no comment may be made to the jury to that effect . |
| 3 | It was through their influence that Goodricke was appointed as minister-resident to Sweden in 1758 ; he had to wait in Copenhagen until 1764 before the Swedish government resumed diplomatic relations with Britain that had been severed at the outset of the Seven Years ' War . |
| 4 | At face value this passage asserts that in such a case the appellant/respondent is entitled to raise before the House of Lords any issue on which leave had been granted at the outset of the appeal and which was raised before but left unresolved by the Court of Appeal . |
| 5 | Officials of the ruling Socialist Party ( PSOE ) observed that central government had contributed just over 50 per cent to the cost of the Games , while the flying of the Catalan flag and the use of Catalan as one of the four official languages of the Games had been agreed at the outset . |
| 6 | It had been forged at the outset in a very cordial meeting that the two men had at Colombey in September 1958 . |
| 7 | But it must be recognized at the outset that as soon as sampling is carried out the statements made about the cases involved become probability statements . |
| 8 | One more important aspect of using LIFESPAN which should be explained at the outset is that every module must have a charge code associated with it . |
| 9 | Since no firm of solicitors can ever afford to retain the services of any employee or partner whose conduct tends to reflect ill on the reputation of the practice , and since the circumstances may rarely be so clear cut as to secure withdrawal from the firm by consent , thorough consideration must be given at the outset to the conditions for expelling partners . |
| 10 | As much information about charging as is practicable should be given at the outset . |
| 11 | It enabled a larger number of European countries to be included at the outset . |
| 12 | The inevitability of partners leaving the firm for one reason or another is a matter which must be addressed at the outset when considering the terms of the partnership agreement . |
| 13 | Yet two facts must be stressed at the outset with relation to this problem in inter-war Britain . |
| 14 | However , it must be stressed at the outset that we can do no more here than to indicate the basic principles involved , and give illustrations of a few of the almost innumerable variants of basic methods that exist . |
| 15 | It should be stressed at the outset that maintaining that large companies are social enterprises involves no necessary finding that the root principle beneath the current rules of company law , that companies exist to make profits for the benefit of shareholders , is unsatisfactory . |
| 16 | It must be stressed at the outset , lest the importance of this form of liability be exaggerated , that the plaintiffs lost their case because the predominant purpose of the embargo was to promote the interests of the union members rather than to injure the plaintiffs , but their Lordships made it clear that if the predominant purpose of a combination is to injure another in his trade or business or in his other legitimate interests then , if damage results , the tort of conspiracy exists . |
| 17 | It must be stressed at the outset that correct identification is the chief problem . |
| 18 | It has to be stressed at the outset that all sites provided some level of economic servicing , which will have originated in several ways . |
| 19 | Decisions should be made at the outset on what is to be covered in the programme . |
| 20 | Three points should be made at the outset . |
| 21 | It should be said at the outset that this is not the usual legal meaning of the word . |
| 22 | But it should be said at the outset that none of the terms ‘ check ’ , ‘ control ’ or ‘ render accountable ’ has a single clear meaning : there are several ways of checking and controlling and several types of accountability . |
| 23 | On the other hand , despite the tone of much of the political debate in the United Kingdom , it should be said at the outset that questions such as the transfer of powers ( or sovereignty ) to the Community , the direct application and direct effect of Community law , and the correlative theory of the primacy of such provisions of Community law when they conflict with provisions of national law , were all established aspects of Community law when we joined in 1973 , and are not new problems relating to Maastricht . |
| 24 | It should be said at the outset , however , that the terminological distinction is not always maintained : it is somewhat blurred in the context of citizenship of the Union , which is inserted into the Community Treaty in a new Article 8 and 8a to 8e . |
| 25 | It can not be said at the outset that it is impossible for the contract to be carried out . |
| 26 | Eighteenth-century politics have long had an unsavoury reputation , and although in the case of Scotland much of that reputation can be traced to the persuasive , but not strictly accurate , writings of Henry Cockburn and other Whig reformers of the early nineteenth century , it must be conceded at the outset that there is something to be said for the received account . |
| 27 | If you want one , we can do it at the same time as the valuation , at a reduced fee , but we must be told at the outset . |
| 28 | If you require payments on account of costs or in advance of disbursements , or you reserve the right to raise hourly rates during the lifetime of the case , the client must be told at the outset of the case . |
| 29 | There is an important distinction to be drawn at the outset in the support arrangements for students in further and higher education . |
| 30 | Whatever may be the position , the agreed capital shares must be agreed at the outset , for there is no presumption that capital entitlement is the precise reflection of capital contribution and , failing specific agreement , s24(1) of the Partnership Act imposes equal sharing . |