Example sentences of "agreed with the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A dividend is usually paid as a percentage of the consolidated profits of Newco , but a number of points require consideration in determining how " profit " should be interpreted : ( i ) should the dividend be based on pre- or post-tax profits ( ii ) should the calculation of profit take into account any transfer or proposed transfer to reserves or to general provisions ? ( iii ) should profit include pre- or post-extraordinary items ? ( iv ) how should goodwill be treated ? ( v ) should directors ' emoluments in excess of an amount agreed with the investors be added back ? ( vi ) should profit be defined before payment or the provision for payment of dividends ? |
| 2 | Nourse J in the Chancery Division agreed with the finding of the Special Commissioners and felt that the Inland Revenue had failed to see the wood for the trees ( p457e ) . |
| 3 | For example , a person offering a service must carry it out in a proper and workmanlike way , or to a standard agreed with the customer . |
| 4 | The trustees of the settlement lend £100,000 to X with X having agreed with the settlor that he would lend the £100,000 on to the settlor . |
| 5 | Another way in which governors will be able to understand their school is through a series of visits ; these should always be agreed with the head in advance and on a planned basis . |
| 6 | She 'd agreed with the head lad that there was no need for him to get up extra early , but he 'd insisted on leaving Shine On 's feed already made up . |
| 7 | The final version of the report , as agreed with the Head of Department , was then presented to the whole Art department at a formal meeting and discussed a paragraph at a time . |
| 8 | The United Nations , having agreed with the Baghdad government that some 500 UN security men can be stationed in Iraq , sent ten guards in five white Land-Rovers from its Geneva office . |
| 9 | The gift of the Lanx satisfies £1,832,000 inheritance tax in a ‘ hybrid ’ offer whereby the British Museum has agreed to pay the Trustees of the Duke of Northumberland 's Family Settlements the difference between the tax liability and the special price agreed with the Treasury . |
| 10 | This meant that the men on each farm , with the addition of certain seasonal workers like the company of sheep-shearers , agreed with the farmer to bring in the harvest on ‘ piecework ’ — so much per acre of crops ; or perhaps they would contract to get the harvest in during the period of a month from the time they started ; or instead of a month some agreements would state Twenty Four Fine Days . |
| 11 | Others agreed with the idea of a sanctuary , but suggested that it should be situated somewhere else where there would be no conflicts with recreational fishing , prompting Steve Dawson to draw the analogy of ‘ putting a plaster on your bum to treat a boil on your forehead . ’ |
| 12 | While I agree with the importance that this test places on friendship , I 've never agreed with the idea that the more friends the merrier . |
| 13 | In the survey by the Infas polling institute of 3,000 Germans , 32pc agreed with the idea that Hitler 's 1933-45 Nazi regime had its good aspects before launching World War II . |
| 14 | When considering whether a parent was unreasonably withholding consent to a child 's adoption , the test was not whether the court agreed with the parent 's reasons for withholding consent but whether a reasonable parent would withhold consent in the circumstances of the case . |
| 15 | A year earlier , at Erfurt , Napoleon had agreed with the tsar to accept the right of Russia to Wallachia and Moldavia , but to leave Serbia within the Ottoman empire . |
| 16 | It was agreed with the Prince that the interview would take place at Broadlands where he would be staying with the Brabournes in a few weeks ' time . |
| 17 | In the Treaty of Taif of 1934 Yemen had agreed with the Saudis that the provinces of Assir , Najrane and Jizzane belonged to Saudi Arabia . |
| 18 | However , the court agreed with the views expressed obiter by another division of the court in the case of Emerson ( 1990 ) 92 Cr.App.R. 284 ; where a transcript was provided it was merely a means of presenting the exhibit , which was the tape itself , to the court : if the jury wished to hear the tape rather than rely on the written transcript , there was no proper reason why they should not be allowed to do so . |
| 19 | The former Maxwell company was taken over by the management in a £32.5 million deal , agreed with the administrators , Arthur Andersen . |
| 20 | Placing her confidence and trust in him she was guided by the trader and signed the form in blank and agreed with the trader that , if he succeeded in obtaining terms acceptable to her , he would then be able to fill in the details on the form and send it to the finance company . |
| 21 | On the figures , the company says that it should achieve double digit profit growth in the year to March 1994 but will fall short of the 13.3% figure achieved in 1992-93 , because of cuts in international tariffs agreed with the government last year and expected to be implemented on July 1 this year . |
| 22 | On March 7 , Radio Cadena Nacional reported that the Quintín Lame guerrilla movement would lay down its arms on May 31 , as agreed with the government 's peace adviser , following the reported signing of a peace agreement on March 6 . |
| 23 | This was used in 1955 to enforce the ‘ Fourteen-Days rule ’ , which the BBC wanted to abandon , about broadcasting matters due for debate in Par-liament ; and it was the authority for the general ban on BBC ‘ editorializing ’ and on party political broadcasts outside the annual series agreed with the BBC . |
| 24 | The expert agreed with the landlords , and the tenants applied to the court to have the decision declared a nullity . |
| 25 | Theoretically the sub-contractor should make provision for these on-costs in the rates or daywork rate agreed with the builder , but frequently the provision is inadequate . |
| 26 | It was unlikely that anyone knowing Jennie would have agreed with the description of her occupation on the death certificate — widow of John Tiller . |
| 27 | Montini agreed with the students that such an alliance could only prove disastrous for the Church , and Rossi resigned as a protest . |
| 28 | A protocol agreed with the students ' union provides the structure for permitting disclosure of student-based data . |
| 29 | I had agreed with the necessity of BAC and Hawker Siddeley being put together in one company , but having a nationalised company that involved a lot of civil servants and politicians was a ghastly inefficient way of doing things . |
| 30 | However , an even larger number agreed with the discussion paper that the conventional accounting for convertible debt should be retained , especially in view of the complexity and subjectivity of the other methods . |