Example sentences of "[conj] a [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where a presentation is necessarily complicated and lengthy , the salesperson would be well advised to pause at various points and simply ask if there are any questions . |
| 2 | Where a landscape is dominated by yang forms , perhaps high in the mountains , the most desirable spot would be one that had yin characteristics . |
| 3 | This is additional to the report the guardian ad litem is obliged to prepare although it would be unusual to request a report from a court welfare officer where a guardian is already involved . |
| 4 | Where a panel is composed of just two people a direct rivalry may spring up about who is in charge . |
| 5 | Where a character is obviously working class , such as in ‘ It Takes Two to Tango ’ , where the heiress ' dancing partner is a bit of ‘ rough ’ , the dialogue is written as Cockney ! |
| 6 | Whether or not any address is within the district of any particular county court can usually only be reliably ascertained by inquiry at the court office where a directory is held . |
| 7 | Held , allowing the appeal , that where a driver was required to provide a specimen of blood or urine for one of the reasons set out in section 7(3) of the Act of 1988 , or claimed the right to provide such a specimen under section 8(2) , the constable was required by section 7(4) to inform him that the specimen was to be of blood or urine and that it was for the constable to decide which ; but that there was no requirement to invite the driver to express his preference for giving blood or urine ; that if the constable intended to require a specimen of blood , the driver was to be given the right to object on medical grounds to be determined by a medical practitioner or , if the requirement had been made under section 7(3) , for some other reason affording a ‘ reasonable excuse ’ within section 7(6) of the Act ; and that , accordingly , the requirement for the defendant to provide a specimen of blood had complied with section 7(4) ( post , pp. 885G–H , 890D–G , 891A–D , 895B–E , H — 896A ) . |
| 8 | This was at the Apollo 17 site where a sample was chipped from a boulder several metres across . |
| 9 | It is not necessary because section 6(3) ( b ) is capable of being given full effect without any such implication : it applies where a school is under-subscribed and yet seeks to refuse certain applicants who have expressed a preference for that school : Parliament has indicated that if spaces are to remain unfilled because of admission criteria such criteria have to be agreed with the local education authority . |
| 10 | Held , dismissing the appeals , ( 1 ) that , on its true construction , section 6(3) ( a ) of the Act of 1980 had to be given a literal meaning ; that where a school was over-subscribed compliance with the preference of all the applicants would necessarily prejudice efficient education , and in such circumstances the school had to have an admissions policy , which would inevitably result in defeating the preference of some applicants , whatever criteria were adopted ; and that , accordingly , since the school was over-subscribed , there was no duty on the governors to give effect to the applicants ' preferences ( post , pp. 100H — 101B , 106H , 107G–H , 108A , G–H ) . |
| 11 | ‘ The black and white approach used in this country , where a company is either wholly in the public sector or wholly in the private sector , is not mirrored on the Continent . |
| 12 | This often occurs where a company is paying significant dividends from profits earned overseas . |
| 13 | Where a company is limited by guarantee , the extent of the member 's liability is the amount which he or she has pledged to guarantee the company in the event of liquidation . |
| 14 | Section 188(1) of the Insolvency Act 1986 requires that where a company is in liquidation , every business document on which the name of the company appears must state that the company is being wound up . |
| 15 | ‘ Where a company is accused of a crime the acts and intentions of those who are the directing minds and will of the company are to be attributed to the company . |
| 16 | Where a company is accused of a crime the acts and intentions of those who are the directing minds and will of the company are to be attributed to the company . |
| 17 | This provision overcomes the difficulty mentioned above that where a company is ceasing to trade there is no justifying rationale for such payments because there is no future flow of profits that present ‘ generosity ’ to employees might help increase . |
| 18 | However , where a company is involved in small works or renovation of existing buildings , it may be essential . |
| 19 | It has long been the case that where a company is would up by the court , the liquidation is deemed to commence at the date of presentation of the petition . |
| 20 | These require that where a company is charged , the mental state ( i.e. of knowledge or recklessness ) must be proved to have existed in the mind of a person who was or formed part of the directing mind of the company . |
| 21 | Where a company is engaged in more than one kind of business , it is not unusual for significant differences to arise from year to year between the separate segments . |
| 22 | Dillon LJ quoted in West Mercia Safetywear Ltd ( in liq ) v Dodd [ 1988 ] BCLC 250 the following passage from Kinsela v Russell Kinsela Pty Ltd ( in liq ) ( 1986 ) 4 NSWLR 722 : where a company is insolvent the interests of the creditors intrude . |
| 23 | Where a company is registered in Scotland a summons may be served on it by leaving it at , or by sending it by post to , its principal place of business in England or Wales addressed to the manager or head officer and by further posting a copy to the registered office ( s 725(2) and ( 3 ) Companies Act 1985 ) . |
| 24 | Where a company is controlled by its directors , its expansion strategy may outgrow the resources of its directors so that they can not maintain their percentage holding through a series of costly rights issues or placings , with a consequential dilution of that holding . |
| 25 | Where a centre is submitting a proposal for a course in whose subject area the centre has proven experience , a more devolved form of validation will be appropriate . |
| 26 | But it is still against the spirit of the Act to impose restrictions on contact where a child is accommodated by a local authority . |
| 27 | Dual assessments will be most common where the local authority is assessing a child 's special educational needs under the Education Act 1981 or where a child is disabled and the assessment is for the purposes of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970 or associated legislation . |
| 28 | Where a child is a party to proceedings and required to serve a document , service must be effected by the child 's solicitor or by the guardian ad litem where the child has no solicitor . |
| 29 | Thus , a care order may be made for the " appeal period " where a child is the subject of an interim care order at the time the application is dismissed . |
| 30 | In the 1960's , the American ’ Look and Say ’ method was introduced , where a child is taught to recognise the whole word . |