Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Diplock LJ said " A contract in restraint of trade is one in which a party ( the covenantor ) agrees with any other party ( the covenantee ) to restrict his liberty in the future to carry on trade with other persons not parties to the contract in such manner as he chooses " . |
| 2 | In general terms , any group of people wishing to carry on business under English law has to make a choice between three distinct legal forms of organisation , the company , the partnership and a hybrid known as the limited partnership . |
| 3 | the Distributor ceasing to carry on business for any reason whatsoever |
| 4 | A licensing board may grant a provisional licence to the holder of any licence to enable him to carry on business in temporary premises during the reconstruction of his premises . |
| 5 | A provisional licence may be granted to enable a licence-holder to carry on business in temporary premises during reconstruction of the licensed premises : s.27 . |
| 6 | In Walford v Miles the House of Lords maintained the long established principle that a mere agreement to negotiate is unenforceable because it lacks the certainty necessary for a binding contract and held that any concept of a duty to carry on negotiations in good faith is inherently repugnant to the adversarial position of the parties when involved in negotiations . |
| 7 | You ca n't , you could n't say right we 'll do a function for hundred and fifty and two hundred , and really to do , you 've got to be looking to do a , a sit down function for two hundred |
| 8 | Invariably jet-black and headless ( though sometimes having the heads of human beings ) Black Dogs have been reported for centuries as loping along lanes by ancient churchyards . |
| 9 | Mark McNally followed for bringing down Kiwomya in full flight and then Slater left referee Morrison no option after tripping Wieghorst , having been previously warned for a similar offence . |
| 10 | Mark McNally followed for bringing down Kiwomya in full flight and then Slater left referee Morrison no option after tripping Wieghorst , having been previously warned for a similar offence . |
| 11 | Any bias will slow down movement in one or more directions and produce a tell-tale lurch of the shoulders as the body-weight is shifted . |
| 12 | The team , as usual lacking expertise in the particular field , agreed , and laid down criteria for positive discrimination to fight back . |
| 13 | The convention laid down provisions for Third World states to benefit from technology transfer and financial aid to help them preserve key areas , and , most controversially , it provided for compensation payments to Third World states in return for extraction of genetic resources ( seen as referring in particular to the exploitation of the gene bank of tropical forests by biotechnology companies ) . |
| 14 | It laid down provisions for third world states to benefit from technology transfer and financial aid to help them preserve key areas , and for compensation payments in return for extraction of their genetic resources ( seen as referring in particular to the exploitation of the gene bank of tropical forests by biotechnology companies ) . |
| 15 | when the members of the newly founded french academies laid down rules for all artists at the court of Louis XIV , they had to conform whether they were painters , sculptors or designers of scenery , props and tapestries . |
| 16 | It laid down guidelines for religious instruction . |
| 17 | Suspicious of the ‘ two-tier ’ contracts used by some American carriers to drive down pay for all , strikes are threatened over the holiday weekend of May 28th . |
| 18 | Health authorities complained that they could not afford expensive drugs , but failed to use their buying power to drive down prices from all their suppliers . |
| 19 | Labour turns down move towards electoral reform |
| 20 | I was surprised that he should sound so definite : it was usually I who pinned down occasions with that sort of fact . |
| 21 | Russia plays down scale of Tomsk-7 blast |
| 22 | Even the Sioux Indians immortalised in Dances With Wolves are angry because it will divert money from their bingo halls which bring in revenue to poor reservations . |
| 23 | ‘ These workshops bring in people of mixed physical and mental disabilities , who are usually excluded from these sort of things . |
| 24 | During this operation the housing joints were filled in flush with soft wood blocks to make an uninterrupted inside curve . |
| 25 | Through Samara passed the chief railway lines from Siberia and Central Asia , bringing in diseases of all kinds from the east . |
| 26 | Their academic work has led to the formation of a specialist team bringing in colleagues from other disciplines including archaeologists and experts in dendrochronology ( dating by tree ring thickness ) . |
| 27 | The Welsh also believed the cyoeraeth was wont to amble along beaches on lonely , stormy nights , carrying a small inextinguishable candle and crying into the wind . |
| 28 | In turn , these two characteristics permit hierarchy to meet four of any organization 's fundamental needs : to add real value to work as it moves through the organization , to identify and nail down accountability at each stage of the value-adding process , to place people with the necessary competence at each organizational layer , and to build a general consensus and acceptance of the managerial structure that achieves these ends . |
| 29 | It remains true that we do not know when Marseilles became the main receiving point of the tin which was carried on horseback for thirty days from the British Channel . |
| 30 | The debtor says that she has not carried on business in this country since 8 May 1987 , the date upon which the business was sold . |