Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The third defendant denies the plaintiffs ' claim against him but if contrary to his contentions he is held liable to the plaintiffs , he claims against you to be indemnified against the plaintiffs ' claims and the costs of this action , alternatively contribution to such extent of the plaintiffs ' claims as the court may think fit , on the grounds that ( 1 ) at all material times , you were the accountants retained by and advising the plaintiffs and each of them in respect of the proposed transaction ( and in particular the financial aspects thereof ) in relation to which the said alleged liability of the plaintiffs and each of them to [ B.M.T. ] was incurred ; ( 2 ) in about the period from January to September 1983 , you acted in breach of contract and negligently towards the plaintiffs and each of them in that you failed to advise them properly or at all with regard to the said proposed transaction and the financial aspects thereof and in particular failed to explain the full nature and extent thereof to the plaintiffs and each of them and/or failed to advise the plaintiffs as to the commercial prudence of the same and/or the risks inherent in proceeding with the same and/or failed to warn them not to enter into the same ; ( 3 ) that in so far as any financial information was or may have been communicated by the third defendant he did so in reliance upon information supplied by you . |
| 2 | Section 2(1) of the Sale of Goods Act defines a contract of sale of goods as : ‘ a contract whereby the seller transfers or agrees to transfer the property in goods to the buyer for a money consideration , called the price . ’ |
| 3 | The words in section 2(1) ‘ transfers or agrees to transfer the property in goods to the buyer ’ have been interpreted by the courts to require that the transfer of ownership to the buyer should be the main object of the agreement . |
| 4 | This is a " good " and the transaction is clearly subject to the Sale of Goods Act 1979 , section 2(1) of which states : … a contract of sale of goods is a contract by which the seller transfers or agrees to transfer the property in goods to the buyer for a money consideration called the price . |
| 5 | It is worth setting out the definition in full : 2 – ( 1 ) A contract of sale of goods is a contract by which the seller transfers or agrees to transfer the property in goods to the buyer for a money consideration , called the price . |
| 6 | The timber lid is in two parts and could be easily made from a few lengths of timber stained or painted to match the surroundings . |
| 7 | A few seconds later as the aircraft gains more speed , it will need more forward movement to prevent it from unsticking with the tail-wheel or skid touching the ground , and climbing away too steeply . |
| 8 | Will he also consider , as a provisional measure , initiating steps which would enable a magistrate or judge to supervise the interrogation of a defendant charged with a terrorist offence ? |
| 9 | You swore each and every one of you to undertake this task , you must do so fearlessly and without fear or favour consider the evidence … |
| 10 | You swore each and every one of you , to undertake this task , you must do so fearlessly and without fear or favour consider the evidence and let the chips lie where they fall . |
| 11 | The Bank can choose what rate of interest or rediscount to charge the discount houses . |
| 12 | Negotiations are still continuing for other locomotives or unite to attend the event . |
| 13 | An information pack is available from the hospice office for any firm interested in entering a team or helping to sponsor the tournament , which hopes to raise more than £7,000 . |
| 14 | I argue that the alternative formulation situates jobs in a general theory of social structure , whereas the sociology of the professions has either been confined to ‘ middle range ’ theorising and ignored this problem or sought to bridge the gap between jobs and the social order by empirical statements based on implicit and ( therefore ) ill-formulated theories . |
| 15 | James either ignored or failed to notice the undercurrent of mockery in Peter 's voice . |
| 16 | The punishers were determined on the basis that when Olwyn produced the PB or failed to produce the CB a disincentive must be provided . |
| 17 | The applicant sought relief on the grounds that ( 1 ) at the time the coroner took his original decision there was considerable evidence before him that the death would not have occurred but for delays experienced by the deceased 's family in contacting the ambulance service and later delays by the ambulance service in responding to repeated calls by the police for an ambulance to come to take the deceased to hospital as a matter of urgency ; ( 2 ) in reaching the conclusion that an inquest was unnecessary the coroner had misdirected himself in law for the reasons , inter alia , that ( i ) section 8(1) ( a ) of the Coroners Act 1988 required a coroner to hold an inquest where there was ‘ reasonable cause to suspect ’ that the deceased had died a ‘ violent or unnatural death ; ’ ( ii ) there had been clear and uncontradicted evidence before the coroner that avoidable and culpable delays by the ambulance service might have been the reason why the deceased 's asthma attack , which could have been treated in hospital , proved fatal , giving rise to a ‘ reasonable cause to suspect ’ that the cause of the deceased 's death was ‘ unnatural ; ’ and ( iii ) against that background , the coroner had erred in law in treating the pathologist 's conclusion as conclusive and had either misdirected himself as to the meaning of ‘ unnatural death ’ in section 8 of the Coroners Act 1988 or failed to apply the law properly to the facts of the case . |
| 18 | The application of power or influence to settle the conflict . |
| 19 | Adventures past , or planned filled the fireside chatter as Harry kept the fire roaring with bellows made from a converted siren , whose reed had fortunately been removed . |
| 20 | Succeeding Mike Perry , the director behind the quick-fire acquisitions programme which first put the group into direct competition with world cosmetics leader L'Oréal , and later prompted old rival Procter & Gamble to join the chase , he is a marked man . |
| 21 | Are all children and me , and adults who have been baptised members of the church ? is not or you 'll be actually encouraged or pressured to misinterpret the membership or should we wait for them to be informed er er , to wait for them to , to feel the ? |
| 22 | to cause or knowingly to permit any matter to enter a stream , so as to tend ( either directly or in combination with other matter which is caused or permitted to enter the stream ) to impede the flow of the stream in a way that would lead to a substantial aggravation of pollution due to other causes ; |
| 23 | When Swan heard that Harvey was at the Ministry of Transport , he tried to draw him out on the subject of motorways in Warwickshire , but the junior Minister in charge of roads said that this was not the time or place to discuss the subject . |
| 24 | There are , basically , two philosophies about competitors ' media selection : to compete in the same media , because ‘ we must be seen to compete ’ or because it is the only really possible medium or ( even ) because ‘ they must know something ’ ; or to try to avoid the competition and to ‘ dominate ’ a reasonable alternative medium . |
| 25 | which we did , and I 'm pleased to say that they endorsed that that general position , in other words their not going to come to a conclusion whether or not they should take any part in the proceedings , whether they should intervene or seek to stop the project until much later in the day . |
| 26 | ‘ Or would I start screaming that I 'd left a soufflé in the oven , or forgotten to get the coat back from the cleaners , or I was too young to die … ’ |
| 27 | Ward had not lied or misled anyone about the nature of the payment or tried to conceal the money he had received . |
| 28 | You may then enter the type of change you require and then carry this out on only the current record or elect to make the change globally , that is on every record with similar field entries . |
| 29 | No fuss or bother let the cookhouse with the mess . |
| 30 | Head teachers told researchers the acts were not usually pre-planned or designed to destroy the building , but they suspected pupils or former pupils were often responsible . |