Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [art] [adj] cases " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 2 ) A person can not steal land , or things forming part of land and severed from it by him or by his directions , except in the following cases , that is to say — ( a ) when he is a trustee or personal representative , or is authorised by power of attorney , or as liquidator of a company , or otherwise , to sell or dispose of land belonging to another , and he appropriates the land or anything forming part of it by dealing with it in breach of the confidence reposed in him ; or ( b ) when he is not in possession of the land and appropriates anything forming part of the land by severing it or causing it to be severed , or after it has been severed ; or ( c ) when , being in possession of the land under a tenancy , he appropriates the whole or part of any fixture or structure let to be used with the land . |
| 2 | The Court of Appeal has , however , subsequently held that in the exceptional cases in which a Mareva injunction might be granted in support of a foreign judgment or arbitration award ( enforcement of which is being sought in England ) the injunction will normally be limited to assets in England . |
| 3 | Before moving on to the next section , it is perhaps worth pointing out that the analysis just presented also allows us to handle certain uses related to the infinitive of reaction where the nexus between the infinitive and the main clause is much looser than in the canonical cases discussed above in ( 11 ) — ( 16 ) : ( 28 ) I was stunned , to see him lose . |
| 4 | TIPSS may also become the treatment of choice for bleeding from portal hypertensive gastropathy in patients intolerant of propranolol and in the uncommon cases of patients bleeding from varices at ectopic sites . |
| 5 | The important point , however , is that the two " likes " must be treated as like in some respect ; and in the linguistic cases this does not merely mean that the two items co-ordinated must be on the same level in terms of specific syntactic classifications , as has often been remarked ; more importantly , it is clear that they must be alike in both bearing one of the other relations , already introduced , to some third element ; thus , in : ( 38 ) Nora is Irish and beautiful the structure is such that Irish and beautiful are both related to Nora by assignment , while in : ( 39 ) bed and board is going to take half his wages the relation of instantiation links both bed and board to the single entity in the subject position . |
| 6 | The delivery of more than nine out of every ten items ( 95% ) was straightforward , but in the remaining cases delivery was , for a number of reasons , less than straightforward . |
| 7 | After or , syllabic is more common than ( except , as with the other cases described , in word-initial syllables ) . |
| 8 | The Dickens study reported that 55 per cent of applicants and 67 per cent of respondents were represented , though in the remaining cases the companies ' representatives ' status could not be readily identified ( Dickens et al. , 1985 ) . |
| 9 | The genuinely alternative groups go beyond this , since their critique of the available established institutions , usually in the same general kind of cultural activity , is at least implicit , and is often , as in the typical cases of the secessions , explicit and direct . |
| 10 | Less systematic evidence is provided in the observations of doctors and other professionals , as well as by the well-publicised cases of suicide and mental breakdown following job loss . |