Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [vb past] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By a notice of appeal dated 6 September 1991 the solicitors appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong in law in holding that ( a ) under section 6(2) of the Act of 1986 the court had jurisdiction to order any person other than the contravener who appeared to the court to have been knowingly concerned in the contravention of section 3 of the Act to repay to investors sums paid by them to Pantell and ( b ) under section 61(1) of the Act the court had jurisdiction to order any person other than the contravener who appeared to the court to have been knowingly concerned in the contravention of any rules , regulations or provisions referred to in that section to repay to investors sums paid by them to Pantell ; ( 2 ) the court had no jurisdiction under sections 6(2) and 61(1) to award claims for compensation for loss against persons knowingly concerned in such contraventions in contrast to sections 6(3) to ( 7 ) and sections 61(3) to ( 7 ) ; ( 3 ) the judge was wrong in law in holding that ( a ) the power of the court under section 6(2) to order a person knowingly concerned in the contravention to take such steps as the court might direct for restoring the parties to the transaction to the position in which they were before the transaction was entered into and ( b ) the power of the court under section 61(1) to order a person knowingly concerned in the contravention of the rules , regulations or provisions referred to in that section to take such steps as the court might direct to remedy it included power to make a financial award against such person directing payment by that person to individual investors of sums equivalent to the amounts paid by such investors pursuant to the said transaction , neither subsection empowering the court to order restitution by the repayment of moneys outside the possession or control of the person concerned ; and ( 4 ) the judge erred in law ( a ) in his construction of sections 6(2) and 61(1) in failing to have regard to the principle ‘ generalibus specialia derogant , ’ in particular in holding that there could exist within each of sections 6 and 61 two parallel powers to order financial redress at the suit of the plaintiff , one derived from sections 6(3) and 6(4) and sections 61(3) and 61(4) respectively , which was subject to the limitations set out in those and subsequent subsections , and the other derived from section 6(2) and section 61(1) , which was subject to no such limitations ; ( b ) in rejecting the submission that sections 6 and 61 were essentially procedural and did not create new substantive legal rights and remedies ; and ( c ) in failing to have regard to the fact that the orders sought under paragraphs 11 and 13 of the prayer to the amended statement of claim required payment to the plaintiff or alternatively into court of moneys recovered thereunder from the solicitors despite the absence of any provisions for such orders in the Act , his dismissal of the summons being inconsistent with his finding that there was no provision in sections 6(2) or 61(1) directing payment into court and that any order under the sections would have to direct repayment of the sum paid to each individual investor who had made the original payment . |
| 2 | By a notice of appeal dated 25 February 1992 the creditors appealed on the ground , inter alia , that the service of a statutory demand was not the bringing of an action and therefore did not contravene section 69 of the Solicitors Act 1974 . |
| 3 | The icicles froze on the end of his nose |
| 4 | In their studios the canvases stood on the floors , on the chairs and other pieces of furniture , or hung high on the walls . |
| 5 | However , the natives , who had known yasak , or alman , before the Russians arrived on the scene , and regarded it as a payment by a vanquished people to its conqueror , in the time-honoured manner would pay only as long as it suited them . |
| 6 | The Teleuts , however , had been sovereign in their own domains for a long period before the Russians arrived on the scene . |
| 7 | As the hours wore on the superstar actor became more and more exhausted . |
| 8 | The Puritans frowned on the adorning of wells and springs as much as they did on adorning maypoles , and the tradition of decorating wells with flowers and green branches at the spring festivals , or on the feast of the patron saint of the well , died out . |
| 9 | Then he said , ‘ If I was to advertise this job how likely would you be to apply for it ? ’ , and suddenly the hairs prickled on the back of my neck , because I knew he was serious . |
| 10 | I kept piling in crosses and luckily the lads got on the end of them . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ All my high points are related to the team effort , the commitment the lads showed on the field and to their ability to play for 80 minutes against top quality opposition . |
| 12 | But the provinces reneged on the promise ( prompting a spate of civil law suits ) and in 1991 made a silent compact to leave all matters of compensation to Ottawa . |
| 13 | ‘ A lot of the kids stood on the fringe and would have like to join in , but their friends would have called them puffs . |
| 14 | The Dragoons arrived on the battlefield and sent a party forward under a flag of truce . |
| 15 | The unions were initially caught on the hop , because the disputes arose on the shop floor where few if any formal union representatives worked . |
| 16 | When the losses incurred on the call are exactly matched by the profits received from the shares . |
| 17 | When the bronzes appeared on the market , museums and collectors moved in , buying either single items or acquiring complete sets through the generosity of patrons . |
| 18 | The words hovered on the edge of Folly 's consciousness for the rest of the day as she plodded with increasing grimness from one unsuitable or unaffordable flat to another . |
| 19 | The words quivered on the page : ‘ You will probably be surprised at this letter , ’ Leslie wrote . |
| 20 | By a notice of appeal dated 22 March 1991 the defendants appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that the judge erred ( 1 ) in following the decision of Browne J. in Bognor Regis Urban District Council v. Campion [ 1972 ] 2 Q.B. 169 even though he was rightly unable to accept the basis on which Browne J. had distinguished the decision of the Divisional Court in Manchester Corporation v. Williams [ 1891 ] 1 Q.B. 94 ; ( 2 ) in holding that Metropolitan Saloon Omnibus Co . |
| 21 | The kennels went on the market for £80,000 and it 's thought a builder was interested in developing the site . |
| 22 | By a notice of appeal dated 22 July 1991 the administrators appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the judge had erred in law in holding that the court had no jurisdiction to make any order under section 238 of the Act of 1986 against the bank ; ( 2 ) the judge should have held that the words ‘ any person ’ in section 238 meant ( in the case of a company ) any company , whether or not registered in England and Wales , or having a place of business in England and Wales , or carrying on business in England and Wales at the time of the transaction complained of ; alternatively , that those words ( in the case of a company ) meant any company with a sufficient connection with England and Wales : and that , on the facts of the case , there was a sufficient connection ; and in either case the court accordingly had jurisdiction to entertain the originating application against the bank , and to grant leave under rule 12.12 of the Insolvency Rules 1986 to serve the bank in Jersey ; and ( 3 ) in construing section 238 of the Act of 1986 the judge had erred in failing ( i ) to hold that the bank , even though a Jersey company , was within the class of persons with respect to whom Parliament was to be presumed to be legislating in section 238 ; ( ii ) to give any or any sufficient weight to the mischief which the section was intended to remedy , and/or to the disastrous practical consequences for all insolvencies with any international element if the operation of the section were limited to those within England and Wales at the time of the transaction complained of ; ( iii ) to give any or any sufficient weight to the legislative context of the section and related sections ; and ( iv ) to give any or any sufficient weight to the fact that the transactions dealt with by the sections necessarily had a connection with England and Wales in that they involved a disposition of the property of a person or company the subject of insolvency proceedings before the courts of England and Wales . |
| 23 | She nodded , disappointed that he was being so matter-of-fact , and , pulling herself together , she stared out of the window as the headlights shone on the hedges and fields of the countryside they were passing through . |
| 24 | She walked by the tiny marina , where the halyards jingled on the masts of the half dozen boats that were berthed there . |
| 25 | All turned to look back at the door as the footsteps approached on the flagstones . |
| 26 | The bills came on the morning of the burial , and he suddenly drew them from his pocket during the service , opening them without knowing what he was doing . |
| 27 | As the days dragged on the strain of continually living in front-line positions began to show in the faces of some of the Commandos . |
| 28 | But as the days went on the truth became less difficult to live with than it had threatened to be , and she knew that she would never leave her husband because she , too , was to blame . |
| 29 | One of the attendants rapped on the door , then they all scampered off , a display of multi-coloured boots flashing along the wooden gantry until they vanished into the mist . |
| 30 | The troubles began on the morning of the match when Gavin Hastings , probably the best fullback in the world , pulled out of the team with a back injury . |