Example sentences of "which was [adj] [prep] the [noun pl] " 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 | Furthermore , he was attempting to construct a discourse which was impervious to the kinds of attack then being launched from inside and outside the discipline . |
| 3 | Without hearing the depth of argument which was available to the visitors in In re S. ( A Barrister ) [ 1970 ] 1 Q.B . |
| 4 | It involved the co-ordination of a number of government departments which was extensive by the standards of nineteenth-century administration . |
| 5 | Hepatic bile was supersaturated in a similar way in patients with cholesterol gall stones and gall stone free patients , which was consistent with the findings of Carey et al and Gallinger et al . |
| 6 | Part of the deal with the management buy-out team was an option on ten per cent of the new company when it came to the market , no equivalent of which was possible under the terms of any of the outside bids . |
| 7 | He worked hard , which was rare among the undergraduates of Magdalene College in those days , and came out with a high degree in mathematics . |
| 8 | Despite the passing of the Children Act 1989 , the inherent jurisdiction of the court could still be invoked in such a case to prevent an abortion which was contrary to the interests of the minor . |
| 9 | It is understood that a key factor in the failure of the Channel 4-IMG bid was that it would have required games to be played at certain times , a condition which was unacceptable to the players and FIDE . |
| 10 | The NMIU , often referred to as the ‘ Spencer Union ’ , led to the Dukeries being characterized as a ‘ blackleg district ’ ( in that same New Statesman article which was lyrical about the conditions there — p. 121 ) . |
| 11 | Secondly , in the Fearon case it was not the right to exercise an economic activity which was conditional on the shareholders ' satisfying the residence requirement , but merely immunity from compulsory acquisition measures adopted under legislation governing the ownership of rural land designed to ensure as far as possible that the land belonged to those who worked it . |
| 12 | ‘ Finally , a letter came which was different from the others . |
| 13 | That afternoon we watched television , which was full of the anglers ’ strike at Lough Corrib . |
| 14 | We had a freezing spell which was exceptional for the islands . |
| 15 | They had large capacity halls — maybe three or four thousand people there , which was funny for the boys because they were n't used to that . |
| 16 | Andrewes was chairman of the committee which was responsible for the books from Genesis to Kings . |
| 17 | The hospital already had a tank installed , which was popular with the children , but it was now rather dilapidated and the stand was n't very safe . |
| 18 | We laboured for her because we liked her , but she tolerated no lazy work : she was a perfectionist and she had taste , insisting on only the best materials , which was unusual in the suburbs , where Victorian or Edwardian houses were generally smashed open and stripped bare , only to be filled with chipboard and Formica . |
| 19 | That which was sufficient for the needs of the people was permitted , but innovation for its own sake , or for the purposes of profit , was contrary to the law . |
| 20 | This is quite different from the original control theory , which was concerned with the differences between individuals in their general dispositions towards offending ( based on the strength of their bonds to conformity ) and how those differences come about . |
| 21 | In particular , the European Court did not answer the second question posed for its consideration by this House , which was concerned with the criteria to be applied by the national court in deciding whether or not to grant interim protection of the rights claimed . |
| 22 | Dingwall , in another context , calls these stories ‘ atrocity stories ’ ( 1977 ) , and Richman shows how they feature prominently in the discourse of traffic wardens , in an attempt to socialize new recruits into what they can expect , as well as being a means of stressing the moral worth of traffic wardens : a concern which was high on the priorities of such a stigmatized occupational group ( Richman 1983 : 115 ) . |
| 23 | Here , apart from reliance on the rigours of a large-scale examination system , new areas of modern knowledge were set up as autonomous academic disciplines with a related German style system of professoriate , administrative hierarchy , and departmental structure , and a commitment to research — none of which was characteristic of the operations of the traditional classical curriculum . |