Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 3 ) Where for the purposes of insolvency proceedings any process or order of the court , or other document , is required to be served on a person who is not in England and Wales , the court may order service to be effected within such time , on such person , at such place and in such manner as it thinks fit , and may also require such proof of service as it thinks fit . |
| 2 | In those areas , where in the interests of equity and efficiency , local management being extended to all schools , the small primary school will have the same range of managerial and administrative responsibilities as the large secondary school . |
| 3 | A magistrates ' court may transfer private law proceedings where in the interests of the child they could be dealt with more appropriately in the county court ( APO , art 8 ) . |
| 4 | If the lunar curves in Figure 6.9 can roughly be applied to Mercury then crater erasure took place before about 4000 Ma ago , and most of the present craters , which may also have given rise to the smooth plains , were in place by about 3000 Ma ago , and little has happened on the Mercurian surface since except for the effects of tidal slow-down and interior shrinkage . |
| 5 | If we divide each row through by its diagonal element , ( 1 ) becomes unc The leading matrix here is of the form I + C , where C is null except for the elements above the diagonal . |
| 6 | Except for the cases of perfectly inelastic demand or supply curves , the imposition of taxation will involve an excess burden which will typically ( like the incidence itself ) be felt in some proportion by consumers and producers alike . |
| 7 | He hardly talked to any , except for the waiters in the hotel at Aix-les-Bains . |
| 8 | The slender loins and wide shoulders kept their elegance of shape and movement , the skin was clear of wrinkles except for the lines of experience that had graved themselves into his face ; but the flesh was drying and withering now , hardening between weathered skin and shapely bone . |
| 9 | Her mother also favoured a small black number , while her father and Martin Parr were like twins , except for the differences in size and weight . |
| 10 | It was empty now , except for the bits of string and wood that the nomes had used . |
| 11 | ‘ Except for the findings of the inquest . ’ |
| 12 | In other words , the lights were off in the living-room except for the strobes around the disco where a lonely DJ was pumping out Frankie Goes to Hollywood , and all the guests at the party were in the kitchen cluttering up the fake oak worksurfaces and obscuring the Neff oven . |
| 13 | The Terms Nos 1 – 8 listed as applying to " small claims " procedure all apply where an outside arbitrator is appointed , except for the powers under Ord 17 exercisable by a district judge on a pre-trial review ( see notes on " Pre-Trial Review " ) . |
| 14 | Although by law hire purchase advertising had to be ‘ accurate ’ , there was no reporting process to make this more effective than a formality ( except for the efforts of individual weights and measures inspectors who became concerned about credit provision when their duties were extended by the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 to cover a very wide range of consumer affairs ) . |
| 15 | For a while , silence prevailed , except for the footsteps of the guide , walking to the end of the gallery and walking back , sighing in her progress , jingling her keys . |
| 16 | Education , except for the sons of lords , was once directed at fitting a man for a job and , cynics would add , unfitting him for life . |
| 17 | Sometimes the names of the authors of the report appear on the title page but , if the report is going out in the name of an organisation , it may be kept impersonal except for the signatures at the end . |
| 18 | In 1703 , at St Alban 's Abbey , the small vault beneath the tomb of Humphrey , Duke of Gloucester ( d.1447 ) , was entered ; antiquarian curiosity led to the opening of the anthropoid coffin , wherein , the body was found to be well preserved , ‘ … except for the legs from which the flesh is wasted , the pickle at that end having dried up ’ . |
| 19 | He came from Ethiopia , and his skin was the colour of glistening wet coal except for the palms of his hands , which were sandy pale , and the whites of his eyes , which twinkled like sunshine on fresh clean snow . |
| 20 | Undivided that is except for the demands of my working life . |
| 21 | Although residential and day-care staff have been a priority target for training in many departments , the vast majority are untrained , except for the offices in charge . |
| 22 | The grounds of the club lead to a golf course , but this , too , is still , except for the attentions of green-sweepers and grass-cutters . |
| 23 | Except for the jams on the motorway . |
| 24 | The relations among the actors all relate to their positions in the bureaucratic organization and it is as if the bureaucracy were a self-contained world , except for the points of contact where commerce with the rest of the world enters and leaves . |
| 25 | Except for the purposes of Rule 11 , the Code defines voting rights as all the voting rights attributable to the share capital of a company which are currently exercisable at a general meeting . |
| 26 | Chairman the erm proposals in the what was the submitted plan in reference seventy nine read er Policy three , Subject to the provisions of Policies I four I eight and I nine there will be a general presumption against development in open countryside except for the purposes of agricultural policy and recreation and other uses appropriate to a countryside location . |
| 27 | One interesting side-effect of all this is that I 've seen more of Britain than I ever did before , albeit through the windows of an armoured car . |
| 28 | I knew Flora cared no more about my opinions than about the opinions of the rather derelict Arabs , drinking Coca-Cola at the bar — probably a good deal less , in fact , since theirs would be useful copy for her — but she was kind enough to pretend that she did , drew me out and flattered me until I felt witty and successful and told outrageous stories about people we knew . |
| 29 | It was easier for this head to talk about methods of producing unity than about the ideals behind it . |
| 30 | But Henry was more concerned about the political repercussions of the advances he was making on the Continent than about the troubles of the church of Canterbury . |