Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ ( 1 ) Where the seller wrongfully neglects or refuses to deliver the goods to the buyer , the buyer may maintain an action against the seller for damages for non-delivery. ( 2 ) The measure of damages is the estimated loss directly and naturally resulting , in the ordinary course of events , from the seller 's breach of contract . |
| 2 | If the seller can not maintain an action under section 49 , he may still have a claim for damages which he can bring under section 50 ‘ where the buyer wrongfully neglects or refuses to accept and pay for the goods . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ ( 1 ) Where the buyer wrongfully neglects or refuses to accept and pay for the goods , the seller may maintain an action against him for damages for non-acceptance. ( 2 ) The measure of damages is the estimated loss directly and naturally resulting , in the ordinary course of events , from the buyer 's breach of contract . |
| 4 | Though participants have said that they find these quizzes enjoyable , they have not been well supported by comparison with the more usual lectures and no further quiz is planned for the moment , though I shall try to keep a few questions in hand in case a speaker is delayed or fails to arrive for some reason . |
| 5 | Numbers increased slightly in March ( to around 14,500 ) , but Kleiner was concerned that job shortages had caused up to 1,000,000 Soviet Jews to cancel or postpone emigrating to Israel . |
| 6 | Furthermore , all the professionals at Ashdown are able-bodied ( including the researchers ) and no representative from a local group of disabled people has been consulted or invited to contribute to the school development programme in any capacity . |
| 7 | Given the national publicity surrounding that school and the instability and chaos there , what procedure exists for schools that lose or have removed from them their grant-maintained status ? |
| 8 | ( 3 ) On an application for an order being made under subsection ( 1 ) above by any club , the sheriff clerk shall forthwith give notice thereof to the chief constable who may , within 21 days of the date of the receipt by him of such notice , lodge with the sheriff clerk objections to the making of such order on the ground that one or more of the conditions set out in subsection ( 2 ) above has not or have not been satisfied in relation to the club , and shall , on lodging any such objections , send a copy thereof to the secretary of the club ; and if any such objections are lodged and not withdrawn , the sheriff shall , as soon as may be , hear parties upon the application and objections and may order such enquiry as he thinks fit , and shall thereafter make or refuse to make the order applied for , and may award expenses against the unsuccessful party . |
| 9 | Clearly if users present for treatment in ‘ bad faith ’ , that is , they do not really want to try to come off but are being either coerced or attempting to deceive ‘ authority ’ , then it is unlikely treatment will succeed . |
| 10 | In some cases they may explode or manage to throw off enough matter to reduce their mass below the limit and so avoid catastrophic gravitational collapse , but it was difficult to believe that this always happened , no matter how big the star . |
| 11 | Under the Acts it is a criminal offence for a dealer to offer or agree to give an inducement or reward to another for abstaining or having abstained from bidding . |
| 12 | In his view , the court could intervene only if the minister ( a ) failed or refused to apply his mind to or to consider the question whether to refer a complaint to the committee or ( b ) misinterpreted the law or proceeded on an erroneous view of the law or ( c ) based his decision on some wholly extraneous consideration or ( d ) failed to have regard to matters which he should have taken into account . |
| 13 | The best way of disguising the gaps is with lengths of slim quadrant beading , pinned to the skirting and painted or stained to match . |
| 14 | Wooden poles suit an informal , unsophisticated atmosphere , and the untreated type could be painted or stained to suit your decor . |
| 15 | ‘ It shall be the duty of any person who erects or installs any article for use at work in any premises where that article is to be used by persons at work to ensure , so far as is reasonably practicable , that nothing about the way in which it is erected or installed makes it unsafe or a risk to health when properly used . ’ |
| 16 | ( In the police and civil service an estimated 80 per cent of Albanian employees had been dismissed or had resigned . ) |
| 17 | But if permanent secretaries were dismissed or persuaded to retire en masse , then the cry would go up that the new ministers were engaging in a new and improper extension of patronage . |
| 18 | Where the petitioner is found not to be entitled to have presented a petition or wished to withdraw his petition or allow it to be dismissed or fails to attend on the hearing , the court may substitute as petitioner any creditor who has given notice of intention to appear , wishes to prosecute the petition and is a creditor who would at the date of presentation of the petition have been in a position himself to present a petition against the debtor ( ie is presently owed more than £750 ) ( r 6.30 ) . |
| 19 | Mr. Whitaker relied upon the wording of section 6(1) of the Act of 1978 , which says that a party is liable in respect of any damage , and so potentially in the position of being able to claim or having to make contribution , ‘ whatever the legal basis of his liability , whether tort , breach of contract , breach of trust or otherwise . ’ |
| 20 | It will also be unlawful to seek to give effect to , to enforce or purport to enforce restrictions in an unregistered agreement . |
| 21 | Where the employee leaves his employment in circumstances which amount to unfair dismissal — whether because the employee is sacked or forced to resign — this will not constitute ‘ retirement ’ for the purposes of SP 13/91 . |
| 22 | On October 19 1988 the Home Secretary issued directives to the BBC and IBA ‘ to refrain from broadcasting any matter which consists of or includes — any spoken words , whether in the course of an interview or discussion or otherwise by a person who appears or is heard … where ( a ) the person speaking … represents or purports to represent [ any organisation proscribed under the Prevention of Terrorism ( Temporary Provisions ) Act 1984 or the Northern Ireland ( Emergency Provisions ) Act 1978 and Sinn Fein , Republican Sinn Fein and the Ulster Defence Association ] or ( b ) the words support or solicit or invite support for such an organisation ’ . |
| 23 | Many other Jews had been enslaved or had run away . |
| 24 | Throughout the main growing season vegetables , fruit and flowers are gathered or cut according to need , often before they are fully ripe . |
| 25 | Many users modify existing style sheets but this can bring along huge amounts of excess styling information that you either do n't want or had forgotten was in there . |
| 26 | If a person is prevented from doing what they would otherwise intend or desire to do , or if they are coerced into doing what they would not otherwise want or desire to do , they are not acting autonomously . |
| 27 | And why does the thief want or need to take the " keys " ? |
| 28 | In bibliographic databases , it is important to consider whether pupils will want or need to search for a particular author , a particular location or a particular format such as " book " or " video " . |
| 29 | More significant for domestic purposes is s10(4) ( b ) and ( c ) which give the retailer a defence provided : ( i ) that he supplied the goods , offered or agreed to supply them or , as the case may be , exposed or possessed them for supply in the course of carrying on a retail business ; and ( ii ) that , at the time he supplied the goods or offered or agreed to supply them or exposed or possessed them for supply , he neither knew nor had reasonable grounds for believing that the goods failed to comply with the general safety requirement ; or ( c ) that the terms on which he supplied the goods or agreed or offered to supply them or , in the case of goods which he exposed or possessed for supply , the terms on which he intended to supply them ( i ) indicated that the goods were not supplied or to be supplied as new goods ; and ( ii ) provided for , or contemplated , the acquisition of an interest in the goods by the persons supplied or to be supplied . |
| 30 | Ethics have been downgraded or diluted or made to fit into narrow understandings . |