Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The third defendant denies the plaintiffs ' claim against him but if contrary to his contentions he is held liable to the plaintiffs , he claims against you to be indemnified against the plaintiffs ' claims and the costs of this action , alternatively contribution to such extent of the plaintiffs ' claims as the court may think fit , on the grounds that ( 1 ) at all material times , you were the accountants retained by and advising the plaintiffs and each of them in respect of the proposed transaction ( and in particular the financial aspects thereof ) in relation to which the said alleged liability of the plaintiffs and each of them to [ B.M.T. ] was incurred ; ( 2 ) in about the period from January to September 1983 , you acted in breach of contract and negligently towards the plaintiffs and each of them in that you failed to advise them properly or at all with regard to the said proposed transaction and the financial aspects thereof and in particular failed to explain the full nature and extent thereof to the plaintiffs and each of them and/or failed to advise the plaintiffs as to the commercial prudence of the same and/or the risks inherent in proceeding with the same and/or failed to warn them not to enter into the same ; ( 3 ) that in so far as any financial information was or may have been communicated by the third defendant he did so in reliance upon information supplied by you . |
| 2 | If you 're confronted on the phone by someone you 'd rather not speak to , or asked to name a price or give information you 're not ready to give , then always ask if you can call back later . |
| 3 | I argue that the alternative formulation situates jobs in a general theory of social structure , whereas the sociology of the professions has either been confined to ‘ middle range ’ theorising and ignored this problem or sought to bridge the gap between jobs and the social order by empirical statements based on implicit and ( therefore ) ill-formulated theories . |
| 4 | When Bovet won the prize it was noted that he had never taken out a patent in his own name or sought to make a penny from the commercial expoitation of his research . |
| 5 | James either ignored or failed to notice the undercurrent of mockery in Peter 's voice . |
| 6 | The punishers were determined on the basis that when Olwyn produced the PB or failed to produce the CB a disincentive must be provided . |
| 7 | It could however intervene if any of the following defects were present : if the agency relied on factors which Congress had not intended it to consider ; failed to consider an important aspect of the problem ; offered an explanation which ran counter to the evidence before the agency ; was so implausible that it could not be sustained ; or failed to provide a record which substantiated their findings . |
| 8 | The applicant sought relief on the grounds that ( 1 ) at the time the coroner took his original decision there was considerable evidence before him that the death would not have occurred but for delays experienced by the deceased 's family in contacting the ambulance service and later delays by the ambulance service in responding to repeated calls by the police for an ambulance to come to take the deceased to hospital as a matter of urgency ; ( 2 ) in reaching the conclusion that an inquest was unnecessary the coroner had misdirected himself in law for the reasons , inter alia , that ( i ) section 8(1) ( a ) of the Coroners Act 1988 required a coroner to hold an inquest where there was ‘ reasonable cause to suspect ’ that the deceased had died a ‘ violent or unnatural death ; ’ ( ii ) there had been clear and uncontradicted evidence before the coroner that avoidable and culpable delays by the ambulance service might have been the reason why the deceased 's asthma attack , which could have been treated in hospital , proved fatal , giving rise to a ‘ reasonable cause to suspect ’ that the cause of the deceased 's death was ‘ unnatural ; ’ and ( iii ) against that background , the coroner had erred in law in treating the pathologist 's conclusion as conclusive and had either misdirected himself as to the meaning of ‘ unnatural death ’ in section 8 of the Coroners Act 1988 or failed to apply the law properly to the facts of the case . |
| 9 | Adventures past , or planned filled the fireside chatter as Harry kept the fire roaring with bellows made from a converted siren , whose reed had fortunately been removed . |
| 10 | Such accommodation can often be let on a long lease or sold to raise a capital sum . |
| 11 | This rather convoluted question fits a particular pattern which it is useful to familiarise yourself with : ( a ) a quote captures a general perception ; then ( b ) you are asked about some other writer ( or invited to select a writer ) where it is plausible to think the quote may be relevant ; then ( c ) you are asked to discuss this second writer in the light of the quote . |
| 12 | Ward had not lied or misled anyone about the nature of the payment or tried to conceal the money he had received . |
| 13 | This did not mean that they were wholly resistant to new ideas — that was clearly not the case because many spoke of the helpful advice and information given on the farming , nutrition , health and child care programmes — but they seemed to resist anything which either conflicted with views they already held or seemed to have no relevance to their experience . |
| 14 | The resulting image is then either transferred to an OHP foil by photocopying or photographed using a rostrum camera to make a 35mm slide . |
| 15 | In no instance had any person recently vaccinated or re-vaccinated contracted the disease . |
| 16 | The village was almost deserted : only the old stayed behind — some were too sick or weak or crippled to climb the path to Jimale . |
| 17 | Possibly she had pulled her stitches , or had developed an infection in them . |
| 18 | If , therefore , the King had turned to Henderson after MacDonald had proffered his resignation , or had sought the views of Labour Privy Counsellors as suggested by Herbert Morrison , he could have been accused of wasting valuable time . |
| 19 | In each case quoted the patient was either dying , in pain , had fallen out of bed , was bleeding or had suffered a heart attack . ’ |
| 20 | Although the proceedings reinforced Castro 's dominance of the PCC , some decisions ratified by the congress , in particular accepting direct election of all delegates to the National Assembly of People 's Powers , were interpreted as signs that he had either made tactical concessions or had recognized the need for gradual change . |
| 21 | He emphatically denied that he had acted improperly or had manipulated the system to his advantage . |
| 22 | Once , there must have been a single core-vessel which had lost its way or had lost the use of its warp-vanes so that it could no longer jump back into truespace . |
| 23 | He treated all his passengers with the same cheerful courtesy ; if you had VD or had lost an ear in a knife-fight , it would all be the same to him . |
| 24 | In 1881 , the leader of the Blue Ribbon Mission came to town and it was estimated that a quarter of the 32,000 population were ‘ blue-ribboners ’ , or had taken the pledge . |
| 25 | It appeared from the poor showing of the pro-CPSU communists in the elections that a surprisingly large number of Russians had voted for Sajudis-backed candidates , or had boycotted the voting in overwhelmingly Russian-populated constituencies where only a pro-CPSU communist was standing . |
| 26 | No pupils refused to participate in the study , and as pupils were not warned about the administration of the survey we assumed that those registered pupils who did not complete the survey were either absent or had left the school . |
| 27 | Under the amended election law the president was provided with the power to appoint new deputies to replace those who had died or had left the Assembly since the last elections in 1972 . |
| 28 | As of July 1991 over 80 Assembly members , mostly from the NLD , had died , been imprisoned or had fled the country . |
| 29 | They were also content to leave the whole affair as far as they knew it , understood it or had allocated the blame for it . |
| 30 | Either the movie director was blind , or wanted to do a remake of ‘ the Albino Spud-U-Like From Hell ’ ! |