Example sentences of "[conj] a [noun sg] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 As compared with a ‘ profit maximisation within the law ’ regime , this may in some areas lead to outcomes which are more efficient from a social point of view , as where a company takes voluntary action to internalise external costs .
2 Where a company supplies estimated figures which prove to be unreasonable , this will not invalidate the return for the purposes of s 11 , but may render the company liable to penalties under s 96 for submitting an incorrect return .
3 He also wants recommendations on what action should be taken in future to investigate serious complaints properly ; whether auditors should have a duty placed on them to report to the DTI separately where a company has critical financial problems ; and whether compensation should be paid to Land Travel 's victims .
4 Unions in Japan are , with a few exceptions , organized separately by enterprise or where a company has several plants through a federation of plant branches .
5 Where a child has sufficient understanding to make an informed decision , a court can not include a requirement for examination unless satisfied that he consents ( para 4(4) ( a ) ) .
6 Accordingly he disappeared into the upward-travelling lift , while she waited for one to take her down a floor where a corridor linked this building to the next one , in which the twenty-four-hour blood bank was located .
7 Contrary to some popular images , normally this does not seem to be reversed in a significant way during the last years of life of the older generation , except perhaps where a person receives substantial personal care , but is not in a position to repay it through bequests after their death .
8 In Malone , Sir Robert Megarry held that an action for breach of confidence does not lie where a person utters confidential information which is overheard by a third party .
9 Private generation remained economic where a firm had complementary process steam requirements ( and could use back-pressure sets to produce both steam and electricity ) , where waste heat from another process could be used , or where investment incentives ( not available to nationalised industries ) or local property taxation ( for which the Electricity Boards were more highly rated ) gave an artificial subsidy to private firms .
10 in a beautiful valley where a kloof gave abundant water .
11 Where a resident needs practical help , this should be given discreetly .
12 Where a licence-holder became bankrupt , and thereafter , with the approval of his trustee under the Bankruptcy Acts , applied for , and obtained , an hotel licence from the licensing court , and the goodwill of the business was thereupon sold by the trustee , the bankrupt was ordered to deliver to the trustee his hotel certificate as an accessory to the hotel .
13 Where a country espouses outward-looking policies , it may continue to behave in many important respects as though it were still domestically focused .
14 Where a teacher feels this is likely to happen it becomes her responsibility to see that the danger is avoided .
15 Thus where a business sells another business something which is a taxable supply , the VAT which that business charges on it is known as output tax .
16 However , the matter is less clear cut where a party uses typed precedents drawn up by its lawyers as a basis for starting negotiations .
17 Well there are ways are n't there I mean even in traditionally , I mean what of wet-nursing I mean that 's an example is n't it where a woman gets another woman to do the job for her .
18 It has been suggested so far that many academic lawyers and policemen share the view that where a woman has sexual intercourse with a man , she should be regarded in law as having consented to it save in exceptional circumstances as where violence or the threat of it is used .
19 Where a report finds that injustice has been caused to the complainant by maladministration , a local authority if responsible must consider the report and inform the Local Commissioner what action it proposes to take , but it is not legally bound to follow any particular course of action .
20 ( S. ) 460 , which established that where a juvenile pleaded guilty to an offence for which he could be ordered to be detained under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , s.53(2) , it was open to the sentencer to impose a term of 12 months detention in a young offender institution , if he considered that apart from the plea of guilty a sentence of detention under section 53(2) would have been warranted .
21 A blowlamp ( or blowtorch ) is also useful where a nut seems impossible to dislodge from its fitting , due usually to dried-up jointing compound .
22 Those who subscribe to this view would disagree with the proposal of the FRED that where a warrant lapses unexercised the amount previously recognised should be reported in the statement of total recognised gains and losses , since they do not consider that it represents a gain to the company .
23 We should however be prepared to provide detailed drafting assistance on financial or similar aspects of a contract where a client requires expert' financial or accounting knowledge .
24 Where a project requires technical expertise it may also be necessary for the company to recruit suitably qualified personnel or seek outside advice if the expertise is lacking , both at the outset and during the course of the project .
25 Where a grandparent stopped visiting , the children were left with feelings of loss .
26 However , it could be that , in some transactions , where economic loss is suffered because of a breach caused by wilful default ( or perhaps even inadvertent default ) , such clauses would not be regarded as reasonable where a consumer suffered economic loss .
27 Where a consumer has multiple relationships with a credit grantor ( eg a mortgage , personal loan , cheque account and/or investment account ) this risk can become significantly more accurately assessed if the status of different accounts can be consolidated on a single data record at consumer or address level and the customer evaluated from the entirety of his relationships .
28 Where a court , or another authority or person makes an order for detention of a Member as being of unsound mind , or where a doctor recommends such detention , or where a Member is so detained , that court , authority , person , doctor or the head of the hospital , etc. where the Member is detained , must notify the Speaker .
29 An admiralty action is one which falls within the County Courts ' Admiralty jurisdiction , that is any action where a plaintiff brings one or more of the claims set out in CCA 1984 , s 27 .
30 Old churches without this rich mix of gargoyles would appear muted and reinvented , like a present minus its past , a belief without its moments of uproar and despair , or a locality stripped clean of its ghosts .
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