Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It made her eyes water but she stayed where she was until the saucepan was full , then tried to douse the flames . |
| 2 | The research consisted of four stages — the first to show us where we were before the campaign went on air , the second ( half way through the 8-week TV campaign ) and the third ( immediately after the campaign had finished ) to show what impact the advertising had . |
| 3 | And I fear therefore that we 're in precisely the same position as we were when the presbytery of Hamilton brought their overture to us . |
| 4 | Well er I was saying er we , we went to the the cottage by the Sir Robert Peel and that , that was our final headquarters , that was where we was until the Home Guard was stood down . |
| 5 | By a notice of appeal dated 6 September 1991 the solicitors appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong in law in holding that ( a ) under section 6(2) of the Act of 1986 the court had jurisdiction to order any person other than the contravener who appeared to the court to have been knowingly concerned in the contravention of section 3 of the Act to repay to investors sums paid by them to Pantell and ( b ) under section 61(1) of the Act the court had jurisdiction to order any person other than the contravener who appeared to the court to have been knowingly concerned in the contravention of any rules , regulations or provisions referred to in that section to repay to investors sums paid by them to Pantell ; ( 2 ) the court had no jurisdiction under sections 6(2) and 61(1) to award claims for compensation for loss against persons knowingly concerned in such contraventions in contrast to sections 6(3) to ( 7 ) and sections 61(3) to ( 7 ) ; ( 3 ) the judge was wrong in law in holding that ( a ) the power of the court under section 6(2) to order a person knowingly concerned in the contravention to take such steps as the court might direct for restoring the parties to the transaction to the position in which they were before the transaction was entered into and ( b ) the power of the court under section 61(1) to order a person knowingly concerned in the contravention of the rules , regulations or provisions referred to in that section to take such steps as the court might direct to remedy it included power to make a financial award against such person directing payment by that person to individual investors of sums equivalent to the amounts paid by such investors pursuant to the said transaction , neither subsection empowering the court to order restitution by the repayment of moneys outside the possession or control of the person concerned ; and ( 4 ) the judge erred in law ( a ) in his construction of sections 6(2) and 61(1) in failing to have regard to the principle ‘ generalibus specialia derogant , ’ in particular in holding that there could exist within each of sections 6 and 61 two parallel powers to order financial redress at the suit of the plaintiff , one derived from sections 6(3) and 6(4) and sections 61(3) and 61(4) respectively , which was subject to the limitations set out in those and subsequent subsections , and the other derived from section 6(2) and section 61(1) , which was subject to no such limitations ; ( b ) in rejecting the submission that sections 6 and 61 were essentially procedural and did not create new substantive legal rights and remedies ; and ( c ) in failing to have regard to the fact that the orders sought under paragraphs 11 and 13 of the prayer to the amended statement of claim required payment to the plaintiff or alternatively into court of moneys recovered thereunder from the solicitors despite the absence of any provisions for such orders in the Act , his dismissal of the summons being inconsistent with his finding that there was no provision in sections 6(2) or 61(1) directing payment into court and that any order under the sections would have to direct repayment of the sum paid to each individual investor who had made the original payment . |
| 6 | ‘ If , on the application of the Secretary of State , the court is satisfied that a person has entered into any transaction in contravention of section 3 above the court may order that person and any other person who appears to the court to have been knowingly concerned in the contravention to take such steps as the court may direct for restoring the parties to the position in which they were before the transaction was entered into . |
| 7 | Third , although subsection ( 2 ) gives a very wide discretion to the court on the ‘ steps ’ to be taken , the purpose of any order must be ‘ for restoring the parties to the position in which they were before the transaction was entered into . ’ |
| 8 | Fourth , subsection ( 2 ) is contemplating orders directed to reversing specific transactions : note the reference to ‘ the position in which they were before the transaction was entered into . ’ |
| 9 | The purpose of an order under section 6(2) must be to restore the parties to the transaction to the position in which they were before the transaction was entered into . |
| 10 | The question is in what circumstances the court may , on the application of the S.I.B. , order persons who were knowingly concerned in the unauthorised carrying on of investment business under section 3 of the Act to take steps to restore the parties to the transaction to the position in which they were before the transaction was entered into . |
| 11 | ‘ If , on the application of the Secretary of State , the court is satisfied that a person has entered into any transaction in contravention of section 3 above the court may order that person and any other person who appears to the court to have been knowingly concerned in the contravention to take such steps as the court may direct for restoring the parties to the position in which they were before the transaction was entered into . |
| 12 | Section 6(2) empowers the court to order a person who has entered into a transaction in contravention of section 3 to take such steps as the court may direct for restoring ‘ the parties ’ ( that is the contravener and the investor ) to the position in which they were before the transaction was entered into . |
| 13 | It seems to me that the purpose of an order under section 6(2) is to restore the parties to the financial position in which they were before the transaction was entered into . |
| 14 | Such an order would restore ‘ the parties ’ to the financial position in which they were before the transaction was entered into . |
| 15 | That was where they were before the Bank of England wasted £10billion trying to shore up the pound . |
| 16 | Ask the T & G officers what they think to the way they were when the redundancy notices were handed out so full time officers in the |
| 17 | Or they were until the potato failed ; turned black and rotten and stinking with corruption , so that they killed the pigs and the people got fever . |
| 18 | and I do n't think they were because the school |
| 19 | I do not think that the problem which we have to solve is really assisted by considering in what respect his position is the same quoad the landlord as it was before the order was made . |
| 20 | The number of military personnel in Panama is now close to what it was before the operation began . |
| 21 | In other words , to is used here to evoke : ( a ) the situation as it was before the infinitive 's event was realized , and ( b ) the movement of the support of the infinitive 's event from position ( a ) to the realization of this event . |
| 22 | It is not illegal to carry out development without permission but the planning authority ( and only they ) can , if they so wish , take action to put the position back physically to what it was before the development took place . |
| 23 | She said : ‘ We are trying to re-establish the Lord Mayoralty as it was before the city had its pantomime period , ’ a reference to the time the Militant-dominated council abolished the position of Lord Mayor and replaced it with a Labour chairman . |
| 24 | One source said the general was closely scrutinising the list of telephone calls of support he received from senior officials during the coup to see who called , and whether it was before the rebellion was known to have failed . |
| 25 | It was while the assembly was breaking up , and parents and staff were drifting to their various meeting points , that Major Tilney heard distinctly , through the closed door to the kitchen , a high-pitched hiccup and an outbreak of hysterical boyish laughter . |
| 26 | It was while the air raid sirens was o air raid was alert was still on . |
| 27 | It was while the doctor was asking Bobbie for details of her family that Juliet suddenly remembered her mother up on Hunter Ward . |
| 28 | A further major arbiter was how long it was since the land had last been assessed for tax purposes ( if ever ) . |
| 29 | It was after the boy was born that I came to live in London . |
| 30 | At the outbreak of war Messiaen joined the army and it was whilst a prisoner in Silesia that he composed his Quatuor pour la fin du temps which combines the harmonic and rhythmic complexity with refinement of sound that characterizes his later works , notably the epic Vingt regards sur l'enfant Jésus for solo piano . |