Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] was [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Held , allowing the appeal , that it was a requirement of all leases and tenancy agreements that the term created was of certain duration ; that the lease purportedly created under the memorandum of agreement , being for an uncertain period , was void and the land was held on a yearly tenancy created by virtue of the tenant 's possession and payment of yearly rent , on such terms of the memorandum of agreement as were consistent with a yearly tenancy ; and that , accordingly , since the term preventing the landlord from determining the tenancy until the land was required for road widening purposes was inconsistent with the right of either party under a yearly tenancy to determine it on six months ' notice , the plaintiffs ' tenancy had been lawfully determined ( post , pp. 283B–C , F–G , 284G–H , 285E–F , 286E–F , H — 287B , G–H ) . |
| 2 | Similarly in Karsales ( Harrow ) Ltd v Wallis [ 1956 ] 2 All ER 266 the seller of a car was guilty of a total failure to perform where the car delivered was in such a poor condition that it was totally incapable of self-propulsion and could not properly be described as a " car " . |
| 3 | The range from the firing point to where the rounds impacted was between 35 metres ( the shot that hit Barling ) and 30 metres ( the ones that hit the pillar ) … ’ |
| 4 | The adjournment ordered was until 2 July 1991 . |
| 5 | In 1984 , the Court of Session in Edinburgh ( Hay/Briton against Central Regional Council ) refused a 53 year old grandmother custody or access to her six year old grandchild , though it was agreed that the ‘ most significant relationship ’ the child had was with this grandmother . |
| 6 | The largest flock noted was of 60 birds , but parties of up to 20 are much more usual and many records are of single birds . |
| 7 | According to Danas ( 9 September 1986 ) , in 1985 the number of persons subject to this tax was a little over 13,000 ( compared with about 9 million persons in employment or self-employment in that year ) , and the tax raised was about 1 3 billion dinars ( compared with a total gross public revenue in that year of 3,736 billion dinars ) . |
| 8 | The sample used was of large companies that were known to be at the leading edge in terms of corporate planning practices . |
| 9 | This seems a particularly harsh result where the person assaulted was in plain clothes , and it may be doubted whether it can be justified in principle . |
| 10 | Analysis of prehistoric artefacts has shown that the metal worked was of varying degrees of purity . |
| 11 | The lease negotiated was for twenty years at a rental of £20,000 subject to possible increases up to a maximum of £22,000 . |
| 12 | In Scotland the pattern followed was for Regional Councils and constituent Districts . |
| 13 | Whilst everything that Becker did was at white heat and lightning speed , with drastic simplifications , Squirrell delighted in working with extremely precise topographical accuracy . |
| 14 | This distinction is familiar enough to the jurist for whom the fairness and therefore the acceptability of a trial may be more a matter of the way in which the trial was conducted than whether or not the verdict reached was in some further sense the right one . |
| 15 | It was developed originally to promulgate priestly or legislative initiatives , and since these were collective and in some sense impersonal productions , what the writer meant was to all intents and purposes recoverable from what he wrote down . |
| 16 | The dream that the resort offered was of economic independence by being in business on one 's own . |
| 17 | During the entire movement , none of the aircraft were damaged and the only incident recorded was of one Spitfire performing a forced landing in a farmer 's field while en route to Prestwick . |
| 18 | The only consultation that the Government had was with civil servants . |
| 19 | It was not felt that the information produced was of sufficient quality to assist in planning services . |