Example sentences of "[conj] a [noun sg] be [verb] " 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 | This often occurs where a company is paying significant dividends from profits earned overseas . |
| 14 | This provision overcomes the difficulty mentioned above that where a company is ceasing to trade there is no justifying rationale for such payments because there is no future flow of profits that present ‘ generosity ’ to employees might help increase . |
| 15 | Where a centre is submitting a proposal for a course in whose subject area the centre has proven experience , a more devolved form of validation will be appropriate . |
| 16 | In the 1960's , the American ’ Look and Say ’ method was introduced , where a child is taught to recognise the whole word . |
| 17 | But it is still against the spirit of the Act to impose restrictions on contact where a child is accommodated by a local authority . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | After that we embraced and , with tears pouring down our cheeks , we were made to go outside , where a lorry was waiting with other villagers in it . |
| 21 | The same problem arises where a person is wearing an insulting emblem on his clothing . |
| 22 | Where a person is injured it is normal practice to take a statement to the effect that ‘ the following injuries were sustained ’ . |
| 23 | This should be taken as referring to the office of head teacher , so that where a person is acting in place of the head teacher ( usually this will be the deputy head teacher ) , s/he will be able to exercise this power . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ( 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |