Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that there was nothing in the policy of the Insolvency Act 1986 that indicated that Parliament intended to give the words ‘ carried on business ’ in section 265(1) ( c ) ( ii ) of that Act a meaning different from that which they had been held to bear in section 4(1) ( d ) of the Bankruptcy Act 1914 ; that a debtor did not cease to carry on business for the purposes of section 265(1) ( c ) ( ii ) until all the trading debts of the business had been paid ; and that , accordingly , the registrar had been right in holding that since the tax liability had not been discharged the debtor was still carrying on business and that he had jurisdiction to make the bankruptcy order ( post , pp. 122B–E , H — 123A ) . |
| 2 | These two requirements were first established by Greek playwrights and were later codified by the Académie Française ( 1635 ) when it laid down rules for the composition of any literary work . |
| 3 | This appears from the decision of the European Court of Justice in Zuckerfabrik Sûderdithmarschen A.G. v. Hauptzollamt Itzehoe ( Cases C 143/88 and C 92/89 ) , The Times , 27 March 1991 ( judgment delivered on 21 February 1991 ) where the court laid down conditions for the grant of a stay of execution of a national administrative Act based on a Community Regulation because of doubts on the part of the national court as to the validity of the Regulation ( see paragraphs 22–23 of the judgment of the court ) . |
| 4 | A meeting at the House of Commons between Maxton , Brockway , Campbell Stephen and McGovern of the ILP , and Pollitt , Gallacher , Kerrigan and Springhall of the Communist Party , laid down conditions for the continuance of the United Front . |
| 5 | More than 4,000 12 to 16year-old members of the Halifax Building Society Quest Club filled in questionnaires for the latest survey . |
| 6 | In any other case , bankruptcy proceedings must be begun in the county court for the insolvency district in which the debtor has resided or carried on business for the longest period during the six months immediately preceding the presentation of the bankruptcy petition ( r 6.9(2) ) . |
| 7 | Please send in copy for the summer issue of FYT News as soon as possible . |
| 8 | In 1628 , now established as chief minister , he drew up proposals for the systematic preservation of official papers of all kinds , including those relating to foreign affairs ; but nothing came of this . |
| 9 | The family drew up plans for the four-bedroom house after their previous home on the same site in the village of Meopham , Kent , was destroyed by fire . |
| 10 | As well as his authorship of many books he drew up plans for the House of Correction at Maidstone , was elected to the Rochester Bridge Corporation , a deputy Alienations officer , deputy Keeper of the Rolls , President of Cobham College and , a few months before his death , Keeper of the records in the Tower of London . |
| 11 | Even in his own troubled mind , Vologsky dredged up sympathy for the old man . |
| 12 | He never darkened its doors , but he thought it was the proper place for weddings and christenings and funerals , and he was always prepared to rig up lights for the annual parish nativity play , with a dimming spotlight to beam sentimentally on the Virgin Mary . |
| 13 | The reader interprets this as " the echo died away " , but is aware that the sound has conjured up birds for the people . |
| 14 | Suggestions have been made too that WEN and TV 's World In Action were somehow mistaken in their studies or misinterpreted their test results , even though World In Action 's tests were undertaken by RECHEM , researchers who have carried out tests for the industry itself . |
| 15 | The market system holds out opportunities for the peasant , but it also makes his situation more precarious . |
| 16 | We were sitting round the newsroom table , mulling over ideas for the next day 's programme . |
| 17 | Yes , yes Erm one once you 've done that if you could give in diaries for the day and then your time is your own . |
| 18 | We have also attempted to set down priorities for the Council . |
| 19 | For around £20 each we enjoyed the simple pleasures of being able to dance the Gay Gordons round a bonfire at midnight , vomit into a loch instead of on to a pavement , and stumble up hills for the remainder of the week walking off hangovers . |
| 20 | Former GB tourist Des Foy and fellow centre John Henderson are also on their way to Fartown , with Oldham picking up £10,000 for the pair . |
| 21 | As they are used single-handed , they make it easier to dead-head flowers , prune shrubs , cut up chicken for the barbecue , and shape materials like leather , canvas , etc , for craftwork . |
| 22 | The two boys then spent the rest of the day helping beaters send up birds for the guns . |
| 23 | It is simply not on to believe that those at the top will willingly give up power for the overall health of society . |
| 24 | First it 'll stop off at Brize Norton to pick up supplies for the Tornadoes operating the air exclusion zone . |
| 25 | They thought that it might be excusable to exploit situations to promote the individual MP 's career within his own party or to look after constituency interests , but it was quite inexcusable to open up opportunities for the Opposition to criticize the government . |
| 26 | With Sir John Leveson , he was ordered to set up provision for the poor and to enforce the order of Privy Council of 1598 , and by this order they were both assessed in the Parish of Halling , Sir John for 7s 4d and Lambarde 6s and the whole total for Halling being £4 5s 8d . |
| 27 | As time was short we walked briskly for 4 hours , before deciding that we would have to set up camp for the night . |
| 28 | The DUP says that Republican violence paid off in the disarming of the RUC , the disbanding of the B Specials , the banning of Orange , Black and Apprentice Boys ' parades resulting in the imprisonment of Loyalists , the overthrow of Ulster 's parliament , the plan for talks with Dublin to change the status of Northern Ireland within the United Kingdom , the abolishing of the Oath of Allegiance to the Queen in the new Assembly and Executive , the making of such oaths illegal for appointment to government boards , the removal of the Governor , the obliteration of ‘ On Her Majesty 's Service ’ from official paid envelopes , the attempt to destroy democracy by power-sharing which was a blow at the secrecy of the ballot box and an insult to British citizenship and standards , the proposal to set up machinery for the transfer of Northern Ireland 's powers to a body or bodies in or with the Irish Republic , and the continued existence of areas in Northern Ireland where the Queen 's writ did not effectually run . |
| 29 | The primary aim of the Convention is not to set up machinery for the chastisement of states which infringe human rights . |
| 30 | ‘ They were training up people for the university , teaching me Latin . |