Example sentences of "[prep] fact [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having read the transcript of evidence and having reviewed the findings of fact made by the deputy judge , I can find nothing the matter with his conclusion that the onus of establishing testamentary capacity had not been discharged . |
| 2 | ‘ But the question whether the gross profit resulting from a particular transaction arose in or derived from one place or another is always in the last analysis a question of fact depending on the nature of the transaction . |
| 3 | It is suggested that the reaction would be sufficient to alert the defendant to the fact that others may regard his conduct as insulting ; that is , he was aware of all the facts by virtue of which the tribunal of fact comes to the conclusion that his conduct was insulting , and that is sufficient . |
| 4 | If the creditor knew that the surety , whilst understanding the nature of the liability he or she was accepting , was in fact acting under the influence of the debtor , then it would not be safe for the creditor to rely upon a document executed in these circumstances , unless it believed on reasonable grounds that the surety had in fact received independent advice . |
| 5 | The new offence will in fact consist of the present offence of fraudulent conversion without the requirement that the offender should , at the time of the conversion , be in possession of the property either in the circumstances mentioned in section 20(1) ( iv ) or at all . |
| 6 | It seems that this passage led Barnett J. ( and indeed the Court of Appeal ) to conclude that the district judge should have approached the inquiry on the footing that ( i ) the burden of showing that the continuance of the prosecution would be a misuse of the process of the court rested upon the applicant , but ( ii ) this burden could prima facie be discharged by demonstrating an inexcusably long delay , unless the prosecution could in turn discharge the burden of showing that prejudice did not in fact follow from the delay . |
| 7 | He puts great emphasis on the difficulties of prediction , and urges that where there are rules to which people do in fact adhere for the most part , and which help maintain the social stability required for any kind of good to flourish , we are likely to come nearest to doing what is objectively right ( in terms of its actual consequences ) if we also stick to the rules , but that where the rules , however useful they would be if generally obeyed , are widely flouted we should make a direct judgement of what will have the best consequences . |
| 8 | What on the surface appeared a relatively minor issue in fact went to the heart of a fundamental question facing the Social Democrats : that of the relationship between the Party and the rank and file of the proletariat , the class for whom it was designed . |
| 9 | The gap between mortality rates for the two groups has in fact widened since the 1930s , when the rates were 10 per cent below the average for professional and managerial workers , and 11 per cent above for unskilled workers . |
| 10 | These beliefs can in fact contribute to the motivation of their struggle . |
| 11 | You say that Brighton could in fact contribute to the other parts of the region . |
| 12 | Although commonly known as the Founder 's Jewel , it is doubtful whether it was in fact bequeathed to the College by William of Wykeham . |
| 13 | It is sensible for the term to be stated to be from and including a specific date to avoid the uncertainty caused by the general law that a term which is to commence " from " a certain date in fact commences at the beginning of the following day , with the term lasting during the whole anniversary of the day from which it is granted , unless there is some contra-indication in the lease . |
| 14 | Most growth in fact derives from the creation of new bureaus to perform new functions and programmes which the political process brings into being : ‘ the budget maximizing bureaucrat is not the source of this impetus ’ ( Wade 1979 , p. 359 ) . |
| 15 | Confused data on peasant landownership and family size made it virtually impossible to make accurate assessments , so that for many provinces only half of the taxable land per head was in fact recorded in the tax lists . |
| 16 | It is a matter for serious consideration whether the legal authority should be required to do anything more than establish identity and ascertain that the person was in fact killed as the result of an aircraft accident rather than deliberate sabotage . |
| 17 | The houses were in fact built in the eighteen hundreds to a design by Sydney Smirke for Bethlem Hospital . |
| 18 | Any plate tectonics model of the Andes must in fact account for the uplift essentially in terms of vertical tectonics . |
| 19 | It has put in it 's place , a , er a general purposes and finance sub- committee , this is this one referred to , it has not made allowances for who shall serve on it per county , all it did , it called it together very quickly , and to cut costs to authorities , it 's based the meetings in Bristol instead of Exeter , and it was suggested by the chairman of W R A D , that perhaps any volunteers coming onto it , erm , would in fact come from the surrounding counties . |
| 20 | If the form of such relations is in fact reordered at the level of consciousness to appear as an exploitation of things , then the effect is to reduce the sensation of the violence of exploitation and also to legitimize the relations of dominance . |
| 21 | So there was some basis for supposing that the appellants had been informed in writing , that their obligation was only not to sell the property , rather than the wider terms which in fact applied to the injunction . |
| 22 | If , however , the motor trader defendant is not responsible for turning back the mileometer and covers up the reading , the motor trader should be able to escape from liability on the basis that no false description was in fact applied to the goods ( s1(1) ( b ) ) . |
| 23 | As chairman of the ASB , he is not in fact involved in the Review Panel 's work . |
| 24 | ( The poll-tax was in fact extended in the same year to Esthonia and Livonia for these reasons . ) |
| 25 | A commission of enquiry confirmed this assessment , and the Governor was withdrawn , though his period of service had in fact ended in the winter of 60/61 , so Tacitus would appear to magnify a grievance to make a political point in favour of his hero whose memoirs he may have used for his Annals . |
| 26 | Now a different scientific process has shown that , instead of being an early fifteenth-century painting , it in fact dates from the end of the century , which calls into question all the assumptions about artistic development on which traditional art history has been based . |
| 27 | The provisions as described on p. 38314 , however , were in fact adopted for the ( separate ) emergency mechanism of the Prague-based CSCE committee of senior officials . |
| 28 | The Tales of the Genii , a favourite book of CD 's childhood , purporting to be a translation from the Persian by ‘ Sir Charles Morell ’ , in fact written by the Revd James Ridley ( 1736–65 ) . |
| 29 | It was in fact written by the Prime Minister . |
| 30 | Then o on page five I found a quote that there was nothing particularly in the consultation document for merger referring to finance apart from the increase coming from the changes and that question er , the , I take your points er , in fact referring to the and provider unit . |