Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [to-vb] the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The third defendant denies the plaintiffs ' claim against him but if contrary to his contentions he is held liable to the plaintiffs , he claims against you to be indemnified against the plaintiffs ' claims and the costs of this action , alternatively contribution to such extent of the plaintiffs ' claims as the court may think fit , on the grounds that ( 1 ) at all material times , you were the accountants retained by and advising the plaintiffs and each of them in respect of the proposed transaction ( and in particular the financial aspects thereof ) in relation to which the said alleged liability of the plaintiffs and each of them to [ B.M.T. ] was incurred ; ( 2 ) in about the period from January to September 1983 , you acted in breach of contract and negligently towards the plaintiffs and each of them in that you failed to advise them properly or at all with regard to the said proposed transaction and the financial aspects thereof and in particular failed to explain the full nature and extent thereof to the plaintiffs and each of them and/or failed to advise the plaintiffs as to the commercial prudence of the same and/or the risks inherent in proceeding with the same and/or failed to warn them not to enter into the same ; ( 3 ) that in so far as any financial information was or may have been communicated by the third defendant he did so in reliance upon information supplied by you .
2 I argue that the alternative formulation situates jobs in a general theory of social structure , whereas the sociology of the professions has either been confined to ‘ middle range ’ theorising and ignored this problem or sought to bridge the gap between jobs and the social order by empirical statements based on implicit and ( therefore ) ill-formulated theories .
3 James either ignored or failed to notice the undercurrent of mockery in Peter 's voice .
4 The punishers were determined on the basis that when Olwyn produced the PB or failed to produce the CB a disincentive must be provided .
5 The applicant sought relief on the grounds that ( 1 ) at the time the coroner took his original decision there was considerable evidence before him that the death would not have occurred but for delays experienced by the deceased 's family in contacting the ambulance service and later delays by the ambulance service in responding to repeated calls by the police for an ambulance to come to take the deceased to hospital as a matter of urgency ; ( 2 ) in reaching the conclusion that an inquest was unnecessary the coroner had misdirected himself in law for the reasons , inter alia , that ( i ) section 8(1) ( a ) of the Coroners Act 1988 required a coroner to hold an inquest where there was ‘ reasonable cause to suspect ’ that the deceased had died a ‘ violent or unnatural death ; ’ ( ii ) there had been clear and uncontradicted evidence before the coroner that avoidable and culpable delays by the ambulance service might have been the reason why the deceased 's asthma attack , which could have been treated in hospital , proved fatal , giving rise to a ‘ reasonable cause to suspect ’ that the cause of the deceased 's death was ‘ unnatural ; ’ and ( iii ) against that background , the coroner had erred in law in treating the pathologist 's conclusion as conclusive and had either misdirected himself as to the meaning of ‘ unnatural death ’ in section 8 of the Coroners Act 1988 or failed to apply the law properly to the facts of the case .
6 We assume that contractions were totally absent or failed to occlude the intestinal lumen .
7 Ward had not lied or misled anyone about the nature of the payment or tried to conceal the money he had received .
8 It is important for national courts to use all proper aids to the interpretation of Community legal texts ( such as the preamble ) even if they are not accustomed or allowed to do the same in relation to their own national texts .
9 Many no doubt sincere Christians continued to celebrate the first day of January in defiance of their clergy 's disapproval , or liked to greet the rising sun from the steps into the church , and , most of all , to attend the great festive games and shows .
10 The village was almost deserted : only the old stayed behind — some were too sick or weak or crippled to climb the path to Jimale .
11 Any earlier wheel-pit on this site could however , either have been demolished and rebuilt , or enlarged to take the new wheel .
12 Though there was never-ceasing change , each movement was not a chance occurrence in a hotch-potch of bewildered uncertainty , but part and parcel of a pre-conceived plan , trimmed down or adorned to suit the particular circumstances of the moment …
13 And when he felt he could n't walk another step , or wanted to question the wisdom of setting off down an unlit passage , he could always say Elaine 's so tired or Elaine 's a bit nervous .
14 Because of the association between ‘ peace ’ and ‘ quiet , ’ there is a natural tendency to suppose that a breach of the peace is ‘ any behaviour that disturbed or tended to disturb the tranquility of the citizenry . ’
15 The officer who investigated the accident said he found no tyre marks , suggesting that Rose Patterson , who was driving , had n't even braked or swerved to avoid the back of the lorry .
16 On four occasions the appellant accosted a woman in the street , threatened her with violence , on three occasions carrying a knife , and stole or attempted to steal the victim 's purse .
17 The American-born former wife of the Scottish peer denies three counts of doing acts tending or intended to pervert the course of justice .
18 Surveys showed that ninety-three per cent of Canterbury 's tourists visited or intended to visit the Cathedral .
19 If it can not be shown that the person uttering the remarks intended to induce his victim to believe that he was about to engage in violence himself , or intended to provoke the object of his remarks into using unlawful violence , what will be termed here the objective conditions come into operation .
20 The British Motor Industry Heritage Trust is appealing for drawings , sketches and artefacts relating to the companies that amalgamated to form the Rover Group .
21 The Harter Act voided any bill of lading clause that sought to relieve the carrier from the consequences of negligence in proper loading , stowage , custody , care , or proper delivery of the goods .
22 But while it would be wrong to minimize the hold of this movement , particularly in the south of France and in the Balkans , and especially between Bulgaria and Constantinople , the major threat to the future of the Church was not from the heretics but from the popular movements that sought to restore the laity 's role in the life of the Church .
23 It was also within the Special Commissioner 's discretion to exclude opinion evidence that sought to answer the question before him .
24 I remind the Minister of the take-up campaign that sought to improve the lot of mentally handicapped people attending adult training centres .
25 Thus in 1969 the Lords rejected a bill that sought to free the Home Secretary from a legal obligation to present to Parliament the report of a commission that had reviewed parliamentary constituencies : the more equitable redistribution of seats it proposed was likely to cost the Labour Government up to twenty seats at the forthcoming general election .
26 The Dorchester crowd that sought to rescue the Pretender 's effigy from being burnt by the Dissenters on George I 's coronation day were encouraged by a certain gentleman who gave them half a hogshead of beer .
27 Injections of 5nl of the antibody ( 40μgμl -1 ) generated embryos that failed to form the furrow between midbrain and hindbrain in 50–60% of cases , whereas injection of 2nl of antibody led to hypertrophy of the furrow region in 12–15% of cases .
28 Assemblyman Richard Brodsky , who introduced the disclosure requirement for house bids ( and other proposals that failed to win the support of his colleagues ) rejected the notion that the bill 's passage in the assembly was a hollow victory at the legislative eleventh hour .
29 After a career spanning Ipswich , Sunderland and Carlisle he now turns out ‘ only when they 've eight men ’ for the Oak , a love of the game that failed to prevent the pub team finishing bottom of their league .
30 His early work about the alleys of Gamalliyya was fundamentally on the side of the revolution-the one that failed to dislodge the British in 1919 , and that finally threw out Farouk and brought Neguib and later Nasser to rule Egypt .
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