Example sentences of "[conj] a [noun sg] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DPP ( 1937 ) , where a driver had killed a pedestrian whilst overtaking another car . |
| 2 | Where a company incorporated outside Great Britain establishes a place of business in Great Britain it must deliver to the Registrar of Companies a list of names and addresses of one or more persons resident in Great Britain and authorised to accept on the company 's behalf service of process and any notices required to be served on it . |
| 3 | This concern could , however , be easily met if it were made clear that fines would only be recommended by the OFT as a matter of course where a company had evidently breached one of the prohibitions . |
| 4 | Arthur Machen describes in his autobiography how , walking in the hills above Caerleon , he came to a farm , once a Roman villa , where a stone had been found inscribed : ‘ Ave , Julia , carissima conjux ; in aeternum vale . |
| 5 | It seemed to Wetherfield to follow that where a creditor had proved his debtor 's means , he might have him committed to prison , and that he could then levy on those means , if tangible and available , to obtain payment of what was owed him . |
| 6 | Held , allowing the appeal , that , where a creditor knew that security was being taken for the benefit of a debtor from a surety who was likely to be influenced by and to have some degree of reliance on the debtor , the creditor should seek to ensure that unfair advantage was not taken of the surety ; that , if the creditor failed to do so and the surety 's consent to the transaction was procured by the debtor 's undue influence or material misrepresentation or the surety lacked an adequate understanding of the nature and effect of the transaction , the security would be unenforceable ; that the bank knew that the defendants were husband and wife and that the wife was being asked to provide security for the husband 's business and was likely to rely on his judgment , and they should have ensured that she understood the nature and effect of the document which she was asked to sign ; and that , since the bank had failed to do so and had left it to the husband to explain the transaction , so that as a result of the husband 's misrepresentation the wife entered into the charge on the misunderstanding that her liability was limited to £60,000 , they could not enforce the charge against the wife save to the extent of £60,000 ( post , pp. 620C–G , 622F — 623C , D–F , 635G — 636F ) . |
| 7 | Where a debt proved in a bankruptcy bears interest ( be it contractual or statutory ) , interest up to the date of the bankruptcy order can also be proved for ( r 6.113 ) . |
| 8 | They followed the Princesse into the dining room where a sideboard heaved with food — cereals , fruit , muffins of all description , hot rolls , a jug of freshly squeezed orange juice . |
| 9 | Sub-paragraph 13 of paragraph 12 provided that all written statements made under caution should be in accordance with Annex D , paragraph 2 of which provided that where a person wished to write his own statement , he should be asked to write out and sign before so doing : ‘ I make this statement of my own free will . |
| 10 | Held , that , in the opinion of the court , in section 1(1) ( a ) of the Act of 1990 the words ‘ causes a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer , ’ in their plain and ordinary meaning , were not confined to the use of one computer with intent to secure access into another computer ; so that section 1(1) was contravened where a person caused a computer to perform a function with intent to secure unauthorised access to any program or data held in the same computer ( post , pp. 437A–B , C–D , 438A , E–F ) . |
| 11 | Prior to the P. & C.E. Act applications were often made where a person had been arrested but not charged . |
| 12 | Section 142(2) provided that where a person had been convicted by the magistrates when he had pleaded not guilty or been convicted in his absence and it subsequently appeared that it would be in the interests of justice that the case be heard again by different justices the court might , subject to sub-section ( 4 ) so direct . |
| 13 | At common law , it was an affray where a person armed himself with ‘ dangerous and unusual weapons , ’ so that displays of force were technically affray . |
| 14 | Lord Wilberforce had said that where a person created a risk and injury occurred within that area of risk , the burden of proof was reversed and the defendant had to prove that his negligence was not a cause . |
| 15 | Lord Denning M.R. stated that the court could intervene if the Minister acted on no evidence , or reached a decision to which on the evidence he could not reasonably have come , equating the case to one where a court interfered with a decision of a tribunal which had erred in law . |
| 16 | The pavement had been much repaired , and it was difficult to synchronise his steps so that the middle of each foot fell exactly on the cracks between the paving stones , but with some concentration and a few judicious half-steps he managed it ; then he came to a long blue-grey line of asphalt where a pipe had obviously been repaired , and walked along that instead free from the worry of the paving stones between the cracks . |
| 17 | Private generation remained economic where a firm had complementary process steam requirements ( and could use back-pressure sets to produce both steam and electricity ) , where waste heat from another process could be used , or where investment incentives ( not available to nationalised industries ) or local property taxation ( for which the Electricity Boards were more highly rated ) gave an artificial subsidy to private firms . |
| 18 | She was delighted that the coffee was real and that I had used a glass jug on a silver stand , where a nightlight kept it steaming . |
| 19 | Thus , on the facts of the Dodds case , where a landlord gave notice of termination of a tenancy of business premises under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 on the 30 September 1978 , the ‘ four month ’ period during which the tenant had a right to apply for a new tenancy expired at midnight on 30 January , and so his application made on 31 January 1979 was invalid as being out of time . |
| 20 | Where a word used in a lease has multiple meanings , one of which is its ordinary meaning and the other of which is some technical meaning , there must be some objective evidence that the parties intended the technical meaning to be adopted , otherwise the word will be construed in its ordinary sense ( Holt & Co v Collyer ( 1881 ) 16 ChD 719 ) . |
| 21 | ‘ A country where a policeman smiled had to be a good place to settle . ’ |
| 22 | The US approach was criticised by Southern African countries at a meeting of the UN Environment Programme , where a split emerged between those countries wishing to stop the trade altogether and those seeking more radical measures to help conserve the rhino . |
| 23 | She cites one example of a man who spent several years living in his parents-in-law 's house but still had little to do with them afterwards ; another where a man had helped to nurse his father-in-law through an illness , but when that was over had as little contact with him as he had before ( Cornwell , 1984 , p. 89 ) . |
| 24 | Frowning , she made a mental note to ask his address , though where a man lived was not important . |
| 25 | ARMED policeman were last night playing a waiting game outside a country cottage where a man armed with a shotgun was defying all attempts for a negotiated end to the siege . |
| 26 | in a beautiful valley where a kloof gave abundant water . |
| 27 | All policies , where a contract had already been entered into , are exempt from the ‘ no commutation ’ rule . |
| 28 | This road to promotion was even more conspicuous in Germany and the Low Countries , where the feudal hierarchy was less organized than in England , and where a king depended on his domain servants for administrative and judicial services , and military aid , far more than in England or France . |
| 29 | Where a customer did not wish to purchase his own fleet of wagons , he was usually encouraged to hire or lease from firms such as Procor or Tiphook in preference to using railway-owned vehicles . |
| 30 | Where a trust had validly been set up ( which depended on the solvency of the settlor ) , the subsequent insolvency of trustees or beneficiaries was irrelevant to its continuance . |