Example sentences of "[verb] on [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Diplock LJ said " A contract in restraint of trade is one in which a party ( the covenantor ) agrees with any other party ( the covenantee ) to restrict his liberty in the future to carry on trade with other persons not parties to the contract in such manner as he chooses " . |
| 2 | As UPSs go , the AccuCard is a modest example — there 's not enough battery for you to carry on computing without mains power . |
| 3 | The crystallisation of an earlier floating charge does not crystallise a subsequent floating charge since the subsequent chargee may pay off the earlier charge or agree to indemnify the company which continues to carry on business despite the crystallisation of the earlier charge with respect to any liability incurred towards the earlier chargee . |
| 4 | In general terms , any group of people wishing to carry on business under English law has to make a choice between three distinct legal forms of organisation , the company , the partnership and a hybrid known as the limited partnership . |
| 5 | The Bill would make it illegal to carry on business with tax havens . |
| 6 | the Distributor ceasing to carry on business for any reason whatsoever |
| 7 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that there was nothing in the policy of the Insolvency Act 1986 that indicated that Parliament intended to give the words ‘ carried on business ’ in section 265(1) ( c ) ( ii ) of that Act a meaning different from that which they had been held to bear in section 4(1) ( d ) of the Bankruptcy Act 1914 ; that a debtor did not cease to carry on business for the purposes of section 265(1) ( c ) ( ii ) until all the trading debts of the business had been paid ; and that , accordingly , the registrar had been right in holding that since the tax liability had not been discharged the debtor was still carrying on business and that he had jurisdiction to make the bankruptcy order ( post , pp. 122B–E , H — 123A ) . |
| 8 | A statement in its memorandum of association that the company 's object shall be to carry on business as a general commercial company shall mean that its object is to carry on any trade or business whatsoever , and in such a case the company has power to do all such things as are incidental or conducive to the carrying on of any trade or business by it . |
| 9 | A company is allowed to carry on business in the usual way until steps are taken to enforce the charge . |
| 10 | Even if your company 's main task is , for example , to carry on business in the chemical industry , this can probably be changed , if you wish to , merely by going to the annual general meeting . |
| 11 | A licensing board may grant a provisional licence to the holder of any licence to enable him to carry on business in temporary premises during the reconstruction of his premises . |
| 12 | A provisional licence may be granted to enable a licence-holder to carry on business in temporary premises during reconstruction of the licensed premises : s.27 . |
| 13 | Nothing arising out of UK membership of the EC , however , requires that the prohibition against the formation of partnerships with foreign lawyers to carry on business within England and Wales be relaxed . |
| 14 | Headaches are stupefying , benumbing and bring on confusion of mind . |
| 15 | The route crosses through agricultural land minimising land severance where possible , and is carried on embankment from Straiton over the Mineral Railway and Lasswade Road . |
| 16 | It remains true that we do not know when Marseilles became the main receiving point of the tin which was carried on horseback for thirty days from the British Channel . |
| 17 | In any other case , bankruptcy proceedings must be begun in the county court for the insolvency district in which the debtor has resided or carried on business for the longest period during the six months immediately preceding the presentation of the bankruptcy petition ( r 6.9(2) ) . |
| 18 | On the hearing of the petition he decided that the debtor had ‘ carried on business in England and Wales ’ within a period of three years ending with the presentation of the petition for the purposes of section 265(1) ( c ) ( ii ) of the Insolvency Act 1986and made the order sought . |
| 19 | By a notice of appeal dated 29 November 1991 the debtor appealed on the ground that the court had no jurisdiction to make the bankruptcy order because she had not carried on business in England or Wales within three years prior to the presentation of the petition . |
| 20 | That section sets out various grounds for jurisdiction , including the domicile , residence and physical presence of the debtor in England , but the sole ground relied on in this case is section 265(1) ( c ) ( ii ) , namely , that the debtor within a period of three years ending on the date of presentation , had ‘ carried on business in England and Wales . ’ |
| 21 | The debtor says that she has not carried on business in this country since 8 May 1987 , the date upon which the business was sold . |
| 22 | Section 4(1) ( d ) of the Act of 1914 also contained various grounds of jurisdiction , including when the debtor , ‘ has carried on business in England , personally or by means of an agent or manager ’ within a year before the presentation of the petition . |
| 23 | If the debtor resided in one district and carried on business in another , the petition must be presented in the latter ( r 6.9(3) ) and if he has carried on business in more than one district , the petition must be presented in the court for the district which was his principal place of business ( r 6.9(4) ) . |
| 24 | Neither the debtor himself nor a creditor can present a petition unless the debtor is domiciled in England and Wales ; is personally present in England and Wales on the day on which the petition is presented ; or at any time in the previous three years has been ordinarily resident , has had a place of residence , or has carried on business in England and Wales ( s 265(1) ) . |
| 25 | Bankruptcy proceedings must be commenced in the High Court ( in London ) if : ( i ) the petition is presented by a Government department , and either in the statutory demand an indication to petition in the High Court is stated or the petition is based upon an unsatisfied execution ; or ( ii ) the debtor by or against whom the petition is presented has resided or carried on business within the London insolvency district for the greater part of the six months immediately preceding the presentation of the petition or for a longer period during those six months than in any other insolvency district ; or ( iii ) the debtor is not resident in England and Wales ; or ( iv ) the petitioning creditor is unable to ascertain the residence of the debtor ( tr 6.9(1) and 6.40 ) . |
| 26 | By the early 1890s the NVA had begun to pass on evidence of cases to the Home Office , complaining of the difficulties of prosecuting under existing legislation . |
| 27 | This liability would only be avoided if careful records of the sources of drugs were kept so as to pass on liability to the manufacturer responsible for any defect . |
| 28 | They had these cab-drivers in Israel using taxi frequencies to pass on intelligence to Cyprus , and as it came in , so they 'd pass it up the line to the PLO office in Nicosia . |
| 29 | Drugs squad officers want doctors and hospitals to pass on information about any traces of crack found in patients during emergency treatments . |
| 30 | And if Melanie 's family had moved , would the new people be able , or willing , to pass on information about their whereabouts ? |