Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] by [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where damage is caused to a visitor by a danger due to the faulty execution of any work of construction , maintenance or repair by an independent contractor employed by the occupier , the occupier is not to be treated without more as answerable for the danger if in all the circumstances he had acted reasonably in entrusting the work to an independent contractor and had taken such steps ( if any ) as he reasonably ought in order to satisfy himself that the contractor was competent and that the work had been properly done . |
| 2 | ( c ) Independent contractors Section 2(4) ( b ) states : Where damage is caused to a visitor by a danger due to the faulty execution of any work of construction , maintenance or repair by an independent contractor employed by the occupier , the occupier is not to be treated without more as answerable for the danger if in all the circumstances he had acted reasonably in entrusting the work to an independent contractor and had taken such steps ( if any ) as he reasonably ought in order to satisfy himself that the contractor was competent and that the work had been properly done . |
| 3 | The Empire army includes many devices invented or developed by the Imperial Engineers , including such strange machines as the Steam Tank and Helblaster volley gun . |
| 4 | To the fields brought in by IPC had been added others , discovered or developed by the national oil company INOC , under new-style arrangements , notably the Brazilian discovery Majnun , prominent in the fighting near Basrah in the 1980s . |
| 5 | It signals the transformation of the large , lucid Great Sinner into the man who is beyond definition and self-definition , beyond calling himself bored , and whose actions — whether he is biting an ear or enduring a punch in the face or hanging by a well-soaped rope — explain nothing and nobody . |
| 6 | ( 1 ) Premises shall be disqualified for receiving a licence if they are situated on land acquired or appropriated by a special road authority , and for the time being used , for the provision of facilities to be used in connection with the use of a special road provided for the use of traffic of class 1 ( with or without other classes ) . |
| 7 | The following description of Consideration was given by the Exchequer Chamber in 1875 : ‘ A valuable consideration , in the sense of the law , may consist either in some right , interest , profit , or benefit accruing to the one party , or some forbearance , detriment , loss , or responsibility , given , suffered , or undertaken by the other ’ : Currie v. Misa ( 1875 ) L.R. 10 Ex. at 162 . |
| 8 | The essential difference here is that an arbitration award is subject to appeal to or review by the High Court . |
| 9 | Thus ‘ abstract ’ is opposed to ‘ concrete ’ , ‘ explicit ’ to ‘ implicit ’ , ‘ elaborated code ’ to ‘ restricted code ’ , ‘ extensional structure ’ to ‘ in tensional structure ’ , and these types are taken to be related to differing kinds of social experience mediated or formed by a literate organization of reality , on the one hand , and an oral organization of reality , on the other . |
| 10 | These restrictive measures , sponsored by Ramsay MacDonald , which are never to be forgotten or forgiven by the Labour party , were defended as the inevitable product of the continuing economic crises of the 1930s . |
| 11 | The ideological approach to the problem of soil erosion in the international aid and academic communities can not be ‘ read off ’ or predetermined by the relative strength of direct economic interests , as there is often a degree of autonomy of these ideas from economic determinants . |
| 12 | By a respondent 's notice dated 20 February 1991 the plaintiffs gave notice of their intention to contend that the judgment should be affirmed on the additional grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) leave to appeal from the order of 4 November 1988 should have been refused ; ( 2 ) there was no ground for interfering with the judge 's finding that the first defendant was not the agent of the plaintiffs ; ( 3 ) there was no evidence that the second defendant was at any material time under the influence of or dominated by the first defendant so as to be prevented from exercising independent judgment ; ( 4 ) in so far as the first defendant repeated his over-optimistic expectations to the second defendant it was not a misrepresentation , fraudulent or otherwise ; and ( 5 ) as to whether there was manifest disadvantage , the charge was required as a condition of further increased overdraft facility to Heathrow Fabrications Ltd. , without which that company , whose success would have been of benefit to the second defendant , would have been in financial difficulties . |
| 13 | But we 're not dictated to or dominated by the latest fashionable sample or the current BPM . |
| 14 | One wonders , for example , to what extent the original distinction between theory and practice was reinforced or modified by the later Christian one between the contemplative and the active , or when and why the word ‘ pure ’ came to be used of certain types of knowledge . |
| 15 | In this chapter , we intend briefly to survey some of the cultural and technological correlates of a society 's attitudes towards child upbringing generally ; and , more specifically , to examine a few of the ways in which the individual methods which parents adopt in the handling of their small children are defined or modified by the intricate pattern of cultural pressures to which they find themselves subject . |
| 16 | We mentioned earlier in this chapter that some people feel uncomfortable or trapped by the public contract of marriage , yet still allow themselves to be married . |
| 17 | These were followed or interspersed by a windswept Starmer-Smith standing on the touchline , microphone in hand , sporting a selection from his extensive wardrobe of scarves and neckties , and promising delights which were sure to come next week but which had unaccountably failed to materialise this week . |
| 18 | ‘ It is an accepted practice in dire situations such as this that the board is replaced or supplemented by a new board charged with the function of restoring the fortunes of the company and the confidence of customers , ’ the letter says . |
| 19 | Her hearers found it difficult to believe that this screaming was involuntary ; some thought she was drunk , or ill , or possessed by an evil spirit , but most of them just wanted her out of the way : ‘ some wished she was on the sea in a bottomless boat ’ . |
| 20 | Looking at the particular issue of derelict areas erm within this area , er Hambledon does n't erm believe that there are any areas which could be reclaimed or enhanced by a new settlement . |
| 21 | £86 million of tax is paid to , or collected by the Inland Revenue in error . |
| 22 | The extra three month interval often helps as the initial model or release is nearly always modified or upgraded by the following Spring . |
| 23 | This figure shows the drivechart for the program JANEPLUS , which aims to introduce pupils to the idea of mathematical functions by displaying named figures , each of which either adds or multiplies by a particular small whole number which number the pupils must discover by trial , hypothesis and check . |
| 24 | Flattered for a little while , they soon begin to feel embarrassed or threatened by the powerful nature of the feeling that surrounds them . |
| 25 | These can be seen dotted about the vineyards , either lit manually by the vigneron when the temperature drops to freezing setting off noisy alarms in the middle of the night , or fed by an automatic system which fires the burners by thermostatic control . |
| 26 | Having ‘ failed ’ to find the curriculum or examination version of the Holy Grail for themselves during the sixties and seventies ( and having exhausted themselves in the process ) the schools are , at the moment , resigned to accepting a string of panaceas from without — the YTS/TVEI initiatives are now being superseded or subsumed by the National Curriculum cure-all . |
| 27 | If the new issue is for cash , shareholders ' statutory pre-emption rights ( CA 1985 , s89 ) must be honoured or disapplied by a special resolution . |
| 28 | Open complexes formed at P A3 were resistant to the heparin challenge at superhelical densities as low as -0.006 , although became sensitive when the plasmid was either relaxed by topoisomerase I or nicked by a mild treatment with DNase I ( Figure 6 ) . |
| 29 | Every order made in such a cause or matter by an English court , is an order in a criminal cause or matter , even though the order , taken by itself , is neutral in character and might equally have been made in a cause or matter which is not criminal . |
| 30 | Eliot once said that all poets would like their work to be said or sung by the common people ( which was realized in his case by Cats ) . |