Example sentences of "[prep] the time for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The contract will therefore seek : 1 to define the client 's obligations and , so far as possible , to minimise them ; 2 to define the scope of the contract by defining which statements form part of it ; 3 to minimise the scope for variation of the contract duties , by defining the authority of the client 's representatives to make statements binding on it , or to vary the contract ; 4 to minimise the likelihood of the client being in breach of contract , by defining the client 's obligations in flexible terms : for instance , the quantity of goods to be delivered may be subject to tolerances ; or the contract may provide for the time for delivery to be extended in certain situations ; 5 to minimise the extent of the client 's liability for any breach it commits : for instance , by excluding liability for certain kinds of loss , or by placing a financial ceiling on liability ; 6 to define the obligations of the client 's trading partners ; 7 to define the consequences of non-performance by the client 's trading partners ; 8 to provide machinery to encourage prompt performance by the client 's trading partners : for instance , a seller may require interest on late payments , or offer discounts for early payment ; a buyer may contract for the right to withhold payment until satisfactory performance ; 9 to allow the client to use procedurally simple enforcement methods : for instance , terms of sale should be drafted so as to allow the seller to bring a liquidated claim for the price of the goods ; 10 to provide the client with security against non-performance by its trading partners : thus terms of sale are likely to seek to provide the seller with security against non-payment , for instance by means of a retention of title clause ; terms of purchase will seek to minimise the buyer 's exposure by allowing some or all of the price to be retained against satisfactory performance . |
| 2 | As the time for the funeral approached , so the RUC began to arrive to take over on point duty from the UDR , who then merged into the background but nevertheless maintained a discreet but ever-watchful presence . |
| 3 | True , there may yet be the possibility of repentance as the time for using the explosives draws near , but the very step of taking explosives into one 's Possession with this intent is culpable . |
| 4 | As the time for the sermon came , the camera moved to reveal that the prayer-leader and preacher was Colonel Qaddafi ( in mufti ) . |
| 5 | The nomination of a specific cargo is made as the time for delivery approaches and the right to obtain delivery of this cargo may have to be transferred to buyers in different parts of the globe . |
| 6 | IMC employees — risk analysts and financial assessors like clones in their sharp plastic business suits and laced necklines — moved busily from one station to another , checking systems as the time for launch approached . |
| 7 | A highlight of the evening was the presentation of a cheque for £25,000 from the Master of the Merchant Venturers to support the Campaign for Resource , although those in the know nearly had heart failure when the Master could not be found in the crowded room as the time for the presentation approached . |
| 8 | On March 23 a rally was held by 12 parties in central Niamey to protest against the MNSD 's unilateral choice of May as the time for a national conference . |
| 9 | Provisions which will probably be conditions from the beginning deal with aspects such as the time for delivery and the description of the actual computer concerned . |
| 10 | Where a defendant or respondent under disability has no guardian ad litem acting for him under rr 5 or 8(2) , the plaintiff ( or applicant ) shall , after the time for delivering a defence ( or answer ) has expired and before taking any further steps , apply to the court without fee on not less than three days ' notice to the person on whom the summons was served under Ord 10 , r 4 for the appointment of a guardian ad litem ( Ord 10 , r 6 ) . |
| 11 | Money paid into court to abide the event , whether in satisfaction under Ord 11 , r 1(1) or as a condition of obtaining relief , is placed by the court in a deposit account ( in case of payment in satisfaction after the time for acceptance expires ) . |
| 12 | The direction only applies to evidence which a party " intends to place reliance on " and so can not apply to new evidence which only comes to light after the time for serving statements has passed . |
| 13 | These grounds reflect some of the reasons some of the time for compiling records . |
| 14 | When a writ of summons or an equivalent document had to be transmitted abroad for the purpose of service , under the provisions of the present Convention , and a judgment has been entered against a defendant who has not appeared , the judge shall have the power to relieve the defendant from the effects of the expiration of the time for appeal from the judgment if the following conditions are fulfilled — |
| 15 | And these three are in effect but one matter , showing the certainty of the time for which the lessee shall have the land , and if any of these fail , it is not a good lease , for then there wants certainty . |
| 16 | So important a part of our story does Macmillan 's visit to the north become that we must deal with it in some detail , and our main contemporary source for what happened is Macmillan 's own diary entries of the time for 12 and 13 May . |
| 17 | At " low " speeds ( less than 100 steps per second in the example of Fig. 4.1 ) the current is quickly established in the windings when a phase is turned on and stays near its rated value for a substantial part of the time for which the phase is excited . |
| 18 | The latter , a somewhat shadowy figure in the biographical sources , is chiefly noted in the history of the time for having authorized with a fetva the execution of Seyh Bedreddin Simavi in 823/1420 ( ? ) . |
| 19 | Ordered , That , at the sitting on Tuesday 4th February , notwithstanding the provisions of Standing Order No. 14 ( Exempted business ) , Mr. Speaker shall put the questions necessary to dispose of proceedings on the Motions in the name of Mr. Secretary Heseltine relating to Local Government Finance not later than Ten o'clock ; and those Questions may be decided after the expiry of the time for opposed business . |
| 20 | Ordered , That , at the sitting on Wednesday 5th February , notwithstanding the provisions of Standing Order No. 14 ( Exempted business ) , the Motions in the name of Mr. Secretary Hunt relating to Local Government Finance ( Wales ) may be proceeded with , though opposed , until half-past Eleven o'clock or the end of a period of one and a half hours after the first of them has been entered upon , whichever is the later , at which time Mr. Speaker shall put the Question necessary to dispose of them ; and those Questions may be decided after the expiry of the time for opposed business . |
| 21 | For our answer we have made an arbitrary assumption that he uses his car for 80% of the time for business and that half the repairs etc. relate to that car . |
| 22 | She tried to imagine what John would be doing ; it would be past the time for office tea but not yet time to go home . |
| 23 | This time is small compared with the time for a signal at the speed of light to travel from the detectors at one side of the experiment to those , 6 metres away , at the other side . |
| 24 | Provided that the sound travel time h/c ( c is the sound speed in the object ) is short compared with the time for the impactor to fall through a scale height , stresses parallel to the axis should roughly be in hydrostatic equilibrium , with the axial stress at any point within the object being that required to decelerate the trailing mass . |
| 25 | It is not unusual therefore for the contract expressly to deal with the time for payment and the time for delivery but to be silent about the time of the transfer of property . |
| 26 | ( d ) Special problems Provisions relating to time The terms may contain a number of provisions concerned with periods of time : for example , they may set limits on the time for action to be taken , including the time for delivery , the service of notices , notification of claims and payment of the price . |
| 27 | In such a case it is possible for either the seller or the buyer to commit an anticipatory breach of contract , i.e. to repudiate the contract before the time for performance . |
| 28 | It was held that no claim could be brought against the defendant for failing to load because the contract had been frustrated by illegality before the time for loading . |
| 29 | You are asked to complete and return it to the Company 's Registrars in accordance with the instructions printed thereon and , in any event , so that it is returned not later than 48 hours before the time for holding the meeting . |
| 30 | If the Crown does not consider the particulars of claim give sufficient information as to the government department and officers concerned under Ord 42 , r 4 , it may , before the time for filing a defence has expired , file with the court two copies of a request for such information , one of which is sent to the plaintiff . |