Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [that] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , it has been held that an arrangement void for contravention of the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1956 constitutes unlawful means but this is hard to reconcile with the clear decision in the Mogul case that an agreement in restraint of trade at common law did not . |
| 2 | In the event that no single party enjoys an overall majority in the Commons then the issue of sending for the Prime Minister and refusing a dissolution become matters so charged with political manoeuvring that the Crown would be drawn into politics in a public way that would be bound to invite a keener scrutiny as to what should be her proper role within the British constitution . |
| 3 | Thus , the NSC had before it the State Department 's political assessment that the area was , to repeat , ‘ the target of a co-ordinated offensive plainly directed by the Kremlin' . |
| 4 | In Western cooking such a mixture can add zing to almost anything from scrambled eggs to vegetables , soups , stews and sauces and poached or baked fruits , with the grateful advantage that the result will not taste as though you have succumbed to panic and thrown in a spoonful of curry powder . |
| 5 | All this reflected a recognition at the highest political level that the country 's foreign relations must include , at least for the time being and probably permanently , an unprecedented effort to shape and direct opinion abroad . |
| 6 | In contrast , the average tax rate is the percentage of total income that the government takes in income tax . |
| 7 | He was wearing a polonecked sweater of such advanced dilapidation that the hem hung in long woollen fronds almost to his knees , and as he tremblingly attempted to light his pipe he looked very vulnerable . |
| 8 | Now the Supreme Court declared that decision that the constitution gives the power to regulate interstate commerce to the national government , I E it was n't a matter for New York , it was n't a question of whether New York or New Jersey should control it , it was a matter for the federal government not for either of the states . |
| 9 | It is against that decision that the father now appeals . |
| 10 | Euphoria over the government 's commitment to Emancipation had created a short-lived hope that the Tsar might carry through a major redistribution of wealth ‘ from above ’ . |
| 11 | It is not just at the regional level that the geography of British manufacturing industry has been changing . |
| 12 | Specialisation can also result in blockage , with so many clients in a narrow field that the scope for search is limited ; this problem can be solved by specialising only in large sectors , and also widening the range of services on offer , such as management consultancy products , including manpower planning advice , executive assessment and salary surveys . |
| 13 | It is that fragmentation that the Forum has to strive to avoid . |
| 14 | He wanted to spend some time quietly in the church , ’ he added in a vain hope that a confidence so dangerously close to intimacy , to his job as priest , might flatter her , might even silence curiosity . |
| 15 | He always said that in the vain hope that the girl would respond to him differently from all the others who had so casually used her body . |
| 16 | I had finally resolved to stage a roof coup , to climb on to one of the forbidden roofs iii the probably vain hope that the prospect of being left behind might change Melinda 's views , when suddenly a metal door opened and arms reached down to pull us up . |
| 17 | This strange logic leaves little room for the subjective assessment that the ASB says will be necessary to determine whether derecognition is appropriate . |
| 18 | The broad support that the ECSC Treaty did receive was perhaps possible because , despite its complexity , it was rather inchoate : because it was couched in rather vague and ambiguous terms , it could be interpreted in different ways . |
| 19 | It was decided in that case that a court of summary jurisdiction had no power under sections 91 to 96 of the Public Health Act 1875 ( now replaced by ss.92–99 of the Public Health Act 1936 ) , on proof of a nuisance from a sewage disposal works , constructed under that Act , to make an order for its abatement . |
| 20 | It is however apparent from the judgment in that case that the Court of Appeal regarded information overheard as a result of accidents or imperfections in the telephone system as free from the obligation of confidence . |
| 21 | Sometimes the flash is near slit 2 with the conclusion in that case that the electron went through the second slit . |
| 22 | It was argued in that case that the taxpayer , however , could only be assessed on the income ( the gross income ) to the extent that he had power to enjoy it . |
| 23 | This statement by Lord Roskill , with whom all their Lordships agreed , was probably an obiter dictum since there was no doubt in that case that the act was done without the consent of the owner . |
| 24 | It will be noted in that case that the assignee , having obtained relief under the statute , was in the position of one who had the protection of the bankruptcy laws . |
| 25 | It was also held in that case that the settlor 's power to liquidate the company was not a power to terminate the settlement ; it was thus not a revocable settlement . |
| 26 | It is to be noted that the section only applies where overpayment of rates is not otherwise recoverable , and it plainly did not occur to the House in that case that the overpayment might be recoverable apart from the section . |
| 27 | The first was tackled in a way that was to set the pattern — a devastating technique that the Prince has used time and again : bringing people together who would not normally meet . |
| 28 | It contains a mechanism , perhaps a Quantum Mechanical mechanism or what is as fairly called a mystery-mechanism , such that everything might have gone on just the same up to some instant , let us say the instant when the bar appeared , and it might have happened instead at that instant that no bar appeared . |
| 29 | It was only with the greatest difficulty that the crew managed to carry out an emergency landing at Detroit . |
| 30 | It was an odd coincidence that a man should be found dead in the Thames near Stavanger 's office on the day that Stavanger had apparently disappeared , but that was now over four months ago , and in any case the police knew all about it , because the office cleaner had called the police . |