Example sentences of "of a trade [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Save as provided in regulation 36 of these regulations , no person , being a motor trader and the holder of a trade vehicle , shall use any mechanically propelled vehicle on a public road by virtue of that licence unless it is a vehicle which is temporarily in his possession in the course of his business as a motor trader or a recovery vehicle kept by him for the purpose of dealing with disabled vehicles in the course of that business .
2 PATIENTS on life-saving drugs could be taking ineffective or dangerous counterfeit products without realising it , as victims of a trade ruse , manufacturers said today .
3 Clearly , there is an element of political value judgment in such decisions : in 1921 a judge held that reasonable citizens would not think less of a trade unionist if it were claimed that he had worked during a strike : some juries might reach a different decision today .
4 It used to form part of a trade route in Neolithic times ( 4,000–2,000 years BC ) , providing access between the Norfolk Coast and the downlands of South Central England .
5 But in some cases a person of the age of 16 can make what is in effect equivalent to a disposition by will : a member of a Trade Union or Friendly Society may , for instance , at that age nominate in writing a person to receive moneys payable on his death by the Union or Society .
6 Differentiating between obligations and loyalties is difficult , and many would argue that membership of a trade union implies obligations rather than just loyalties .
7 Rather than seeing labourism within the narrow confines of a trade union dominated political intervention at the level of the state , I wish to consider it as a political culture within working-class experience at all levels , which can not be reduced to a bourgeois ethos , and which has as a major component ( but only a component ) the Labour Party .
8 As Oliver Wright has remarked , ‘ to be the president of a trade union is to gain an apprenticeship in negotiating , to develop an instinct for when to ‘ hang tough ’ and when to ‘ cut a deal ’ . ’
9 Francis Chandler , Secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners , was added belatedly in December 1905 after protests at the omission of a trade union representative .
10 The Grand Moral Union of the Productive Classes reverted to an organisation having the characteristic objectives of a trade union : the Grand National Consolidated Trade Union .
11 The change from the propagandist playing his derivative educational theme throughout A New View of Society to the leader , however temporary , of a trade union movement already inspirationally Owenite and now ready on his prompting to aspire to the control of the means of production and provision , was profound .
12 There is no escaping the fact that a trade union will , in pursuit of its purposes as they are commonly understood , have its own corporate policies ; and that the authority of members of a trade union appointed in that capacity to boards of directors of joint stock companies will derive from the trade union .
13 It is not self-evident that membership of a trade union should be a condition of participation in industrial democracy ; nor enough for the majority Report to assert , simply as a statement of belief , that ‘ if employees wish to be represented on the board , they must be prepared to organise ’ — that is , to join trade unions — ‘ to make representation on the board effective ’ .
14 Mr. Cheall was the secretary of the local branch of a trade union .
15 But in Lyons v. Wilkins the Court of Appeal had decided against the officers of a trade union who , having ordered a strike against the plaintiffs and against S ( who made goods for the plaintiffs only ) , organized pickets to seek to persuade work-people not to work for the plaintiffs .
16 If the object is to increase the effective strength of a trade union , it is lawful .
17 It means a dispute between workers and their employer which relates wholly or mainly to one or more of the following : terms and conditions ( including physical conditions ) of employment : engagement , non-engagement , termination or suspension of employment or of duties of employment ; matters of discipline ; membership or non-membership of a trade union ; facilities for union officials ; machinery for negotiation or consultation and other procedures , including recognition of unions .
18 It is important to be aware that trade unions are organisations in their own right , and we must not assume too hastily or too readily that the goals of a trade union organisation are the same as those of its members or full-time officials .
19 An employee works for an organisation , but may also be a member of a trade union .
20 Another feature of a trade union is the nature of authority of its leaders .
21 In Breen v. Amalgamated Engineering Union a majority of the Court of Appeal held that a disciplinary committee of a trade union did not have to tell a shop steward why they had refused to endorse his election , and in McInnes v. Onslow-Fane it was held that the council of the Boxing Board of Control did not have to give an applicant for a manager 's licence an outline of their objections to him .
22 Compulsory membership of a trade union , in force since 1936 with only a brief interlude , was to be abolished , and employers were to be released from their obligation to recognize or negotiate with unions or to be bound by pay awards negotiated at a national level .
23 The judgement found that the trade unionists had been penalized for being members of a trade union .
24 They 're infringing on our basic right to be a member of a trade union .
25 And it was mentioned by the member of motion twenty three , they 're actually now starting to look at membership of a trade union being illegal .
26 Membership of a Trade Union
27 It is equally sensible for you , too , to be in membership of a trade union representing you on the appropriate negotiating body , and you are encouraged so to do .
28 The client should be asked whether they are a member of a trade union which may have a legal assistance scheme or whether they have any form of legal fees insurance .
29 A communication is protected if it is made to further a common interest — a circular published to shareholders in a company , or to fellow members of a trade union , or an inter-office memorandum .
30 ( 2 ) An oral statement may amount to the use of a trade description .
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