Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] a [unc] [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Murphy 's Law invariably applies : if you do n't want anybody to knock on your door — because you 're putting the kids to bed/washing your hair/making love/cooking something impossible like a souffl é/late; for just about anything/working to a deadline/just secretly reclining on the sofa with a packet of your favourite chocolate biscuits , watching Coronation Street — somebody always will . |
| 2 | These properties are characteristic of a Na + /H + exchange mechanism . |
| 3 | These properties are characteristic of a Na + -HCO 3 - co-transport system . |
| 4 | They do n't realize it 's an investment in our economy , in individuals and developing erm our ability to create wealth , so twelve billion cost in their mind , I could tell you from someone who 's directly involved in a s er obtained training for my er staff members at work . |
| 5 | Jeu de Cartes , in particular , is nothing short of a tour de force or orchestral wizardry , superb engineering , and interpretative control . |
| 6 | Money paid by a citizen to a public authority in the form of taxes or other levies paid pursuant to an ultra vires demand by the authority was therefore held to be prima facie recoverable by the citizen as of right . |
| 7 | Held , dismissing the appeal ( Lord Keith of Kinkel and Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle dissenting ) , that although the common law had previously only admitted recovery of money exacted under an unlawful demand by a public authority where the payment had been made under a mistake of fact or under limited categories of compulsion , which did not apply to the payments by the building society , the nature of a demand for tax or similar impost on the citizen by the state , with the perceived economic and social consequences of non-payment stemming from the inequality of the parties ' respective positions , and the unjust enrichment falling on the state where the citizen paid an unlawful demand to avoid those consequences , warranted a reformulation of the law of restitution so as to recognise a prima facie right of recovery based solely on payment of money pursuant to an ultra vires demand by a public authority ; and that , accordingly , since the building society 's claim fell outside the statutory framework governing repayment of overpaid tax , it was entitled at common law to repayment of the sums from the dates of payments and to interest in respect thereof pursuant to section 35A of the Supreme Court Act 1981 ( post , pp. 384H , 387D , F–G , 389B , 390F — 391C , E–F , 392E , 396C , 414B–C , F–G , 415E–F , 416A–B , 417B , 418A–C , E–F , 421D–F , G ) . |
| 8 | But a formidable argument has been developed in recent years by leading academic lawyers that this stream of authority should be the subject of reinterpretation to reveal a different line of thought pointing to the conclusion that money paid to a public authority pursuant to an ultra vires demand should be repayable , without the necessity of establishing compulsion , on the simple ground that there was no consideration for the payment . |
| 9 | 52 shows that , in circumstances similar to those of the Wilts United Dairies case , recovery could be , and indeed there was , founded upon compulsion and not upon the simple fact that the money was paid pursuant to an ultra vires demand : see [ 1925 ] 1 K.B . |
| 10 | I agree that there appears to be a widely held view that some limit has to be placed upon the recovery of taxes paid pursuant to an ultra vires demand . |
| 11 | I would therefore hold that money paid by a citizen to a public authority in the form of taxes or other levies paid pursuant to an ultra vires demand by the authority is prima facie recoverable by the citizen as of right . |
| 12 | The machine was fitted with a generous 16Mb of RAM and 256Kb of secondary cache RAM , which is necessary on a 66MHz DX2 . |
| 13 | This was the most impressive accomplishment of the Reagan administration and was made possible by a modus vivendi worked out between the Governor and Robert Moretti , the Democratic Speaker of the Assembly . |
| 14 | Anyone booking a six-day or longer package is entitled to an A la Carte discount booklet that covers Hong Kong shopping , restaurants , nightlife and sightseeing trips . |