Example sentences of "[conj] a [noun sg] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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1 | Where a landscape is dominated by yang forms , perhaps high in the mountains , the most desirable spot would be one that had yin characteristics . |
2 | Where a panel is composed of just two people a direct rivalry may spring up about who is in charge . |
3 | Whether or not any address is within the district of any particular county court can usually only be reliably ascertained by inquiry at the court office where a directory is held . |
4 | Held , allowing the appeal , that where a driver was required to provide a specimen of blood or urine for one of the reasons set out in section 7(3) of the Act of 1988 , or claimed the right to provide such a specimen under section 8(2) , the constable was required by section 7(4) to inform him that the specimen was to be of blood or urine and that it was for the constable to decide which ; but that there was no requirement to invite the driver to express his preference for giving blood or urine ; that if the constable intended to require a specimen of blood , the driver was to be given the right to object on medical grounds to be determined by a medical practitioner or , if the requirement had been made under section 7(3) , for some other reason affording a ‘ reasonable excuse ’ within section 7(6) of the Act ; and that , accordingly , the requirement for the defendant to provide a specimen of blood had complied with section 7(4) ( post , pp. 885G–H , 890D–G , 891A–D , 895B–E , H — 896A ) . |
5 | This was at the Apollo 17 site where a sample was chipped from a boulder several metres across . |
6 | These require that where a company is charged , the mental state ( i.e. of knowledge or recklessness ) must be proved to have existed in the mind of a person who was or formed part of the directing mind of the company . |
7 | Where a company is limited by guarantee , the extent of the member 's liability is the amount which he or she has pledged to guarantee the company in the event of liquidation . |
8 | Where a company is engaged in more than one kind of business , it is not unusual for significant differences to arise from year to year between the separate segments . |
9 | Where a company is registered in Scotland a summons may be served on it by leaving it at , or by sending it by post to , its principal place of business in England or Wales addressed to the manager or head officer and by further posting a copy to the registered office ( s 725(2) and ( 3 ) Companies Act 1985 ) . |
10 | Where a company is controlled by its directors , its expansion strategy may outgrow the resources of its directors so that they can not maintain their percentage holding through a series of costly rights issues or placings , with a consequential dilution of that holding . |
11 | ‘ Where a company is accused of a crime the acts and intentions of those who are the directing minds and will of the company are to be attributed to the company . |
12 | Where a company is accused of a crime the acts and intentions of those who are the directing minds and will of the company are to be attributed to the company . |
13 | In the 1960's , the American ’ Look and Say ’ method was introduced , where a child is taught to recognise the whole word . |
14 | But it is still against the spirit of the Act to impose restrictions on contact where a child is accommodated by a local authority . |
15 | Elected ministers need assistants to project their ideological flanks , as in the French system of cabinets , where a minister is surrounded by a policy staff of politically chosen personnel . |
16 | But , as with any archaeological object , such interpretations can be made only when we have a secure idea of when and where a coin was made , and the methods of dating coins and attributing them to mints is therefore discussed first in Chapter 2 , where it will also be seen that the same techniques for dating and attributing coins can sometimes be turned round , using coins to date other objects or to identify places . |
17 | Where a person is injured it is normal practice to take a statement to the effect that ‘ the following injuries were sustained ’ . |
18 | Where a person is deprived of some status as a result of allegations , the courts have applied the rules on the basis that there is a legitimate expectation of a hearing . |
19 | ( 2 ) The recognition of a recognised body shall expire where a winding-up order or an administration order under Part II of the Insolvency Act 1986 is made with respect to the body or where a resolution for voluntary winding-up is passed with respect to the body or where a person is appointed administrative receiver of the body . |
20 | By s. 2 of the 1986 Act the court may make a disqualification order where a person is convicted of an indictable offence in connection with the promotion , formation , management or liquidation of a company . |
21 | Where a person is convicted of an offence relating to the display of material under section 18 , or of one of the offences contrary to sections 19 , 21 or 23 , forfeiture of the material is mandatory . |
22 | Where a person is authorised by s 375 of the Companies Act 1985 to represent a corporation or company at any meeting of creditors , he must produce to the official receiver a copy of the resolution so authorising him . |
23 | S 284 states that where a person is adjudged bankrupt , any disposition of property made by that person , between the presentation of the petition and the vesting of the bankrupt 's estate in his trustee in bankruptcy , is void unless it was made with the consent of the court or was subsequently ratified by the court . |
24 | This still exists in a limited form in relation both to companies and to individuals , in that where a person is adjudged bankrupt or a company is wound up by the court , dispositions of property made by the debtor or the company after a prescribed date , usually the date of the presentation of the petition for a bankruptcy order or a winding up order , are void unless the court otherwise orders : sections 127 and 284 . |
25 | However , where a person is induced to make a contract by a false statement this may give rise to a civil action brought by the party to whom the statement was addressed for misrepresentation under the Misrepresentation Act 1967 . |
26 | Where a person is found in possession of recently stolen property it can be presumed by the court that he stole it , in the absence of a satisfactory explanation . |
27 | The Health and Safety Inspectorate may ultimately prosecute the party concerned in the courts , and where a person is found guilty , substantial fines may be imposed . |
28 | Where a person was adjudged bankrupt before the new law came into force , he was entitled to an automatic discharge on 29 December 1989 or , if he was adjudged bankrupt after 29 December 1986 on a petition presented under the old law , three years after his adjudication . |
29 | Where a problem is set in a tort paper or in a contract paper involving both a possible tort and a possible breach of contract , both aspects of the matter should be discussed . |
30 | Moreover , it is permissible to make objects multi-functional , for example where a speed-bump is designed also to attract children 's play . |