Example sentences of "[subord] a [noun sg] [vb -s] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 As compared with a ‘ profit maximisation within the law ’ regime , this may in some areas lead to outcomes which are more efficient from a social point of view , as where a company takes voluntary action to internalise external costs .
2 Where a company supplies estimated figures which prove to be unreasonable , this will not invalidate the return for the purposes of s 11 , but may render the company liable to penalties under s 96 for submitting an incorrect return .
3 He also wants recommendations on what action should be taken in future to investigate serious complaints properly ; whether auditors should have a duty placed on them to report to the DTI separately where a company has critical financial problems ; and whether compensation should be paid to Land Travel 's victims .
4 Unions in Japan are , with a few exceptions , organized separately by enterprise or where a company has several plants through a federation of plant branches .
5 Where a child has sufficient understanding to make an informed decision , a court can not include a requirement for examination unless satisfied that he consents ( para 4(4) ( a ) ) .
6 Contrary to some popular images , normally this does not seem to be reversed in a significant way during the last years of life of the older generation , except perhaps where a person receives substantial personal care , but is not in a position to repay it through bequests after their death .
7 In Malone , Sir Robert Megarry held that an action for breach of confidence does not lie where a person utters confidential information which is overheard by a third party .
8 Where a resident needs practical help , this should be given discreetly .
9 Where a country espouses outward-looking policies , it may continue to behave in many important respects as though it were still domestically focused .
10 Where a teacher feels this is likely to happen it becomes her responsibility to see that the danger is avoided .
11 Thus where a business sells another business something which is a taxable supply , the VAT which that business charges on it is known as output tax .
12 However , the matter is less clear cut where a party uses typed precedents drawn up by its lawyers as a basis for starting negotiations .
13 Well there are ways are n't there I mean even in traditionally , I mean what of wet-nursing I mean that 's an example is n't it where a woman gets another woman to do the job for her .
14 It has been suggested so far that many academic lawyers and policemen share the view that where a woman has sexual intercourse with a man , she should be regarded in law as having consented to it save in exceptional circumstances as where violence or the threat of it is used .
15 Where a report finds that injustice has been caused to the complainant by maladministration , a local authority if responsible must consider the report and inform the Local Commissioner what action it proposes to take , but it is not legally bound to follow any particular course of action .
16 A blowlamp ( or blowtorch ) is also useful where a nut seems impossible to dislodge from its fitting , due usually to dried-up jointing compound .
17 Those who subscribe to this view would disagree with the proposal of the FRED that where a warrant lapses unexercised the amount previously recognised should be reported in the statement of total recognised gains and losses , since they do not consider that it represents a gain to the company .
18 We should however be prepared to provide detailed drafting assistance on financial or similar aspects of a contract where a client requires expert' financial or accounting knowledge .
19 Where a project requires technical expertise it may also be necessary for the company to recruit suitably qualified personnel or seek outside advice if the expertise is lacking , both at the outset and during the course of the project .
20 Where a consumer has multiple relationships with a credit grantor ( eg a mortgage , personal loan , cheque account and/or investment account ) this risk can become significantly more accurately assessed if the status of different accounts can be consolidated on a single data record at consumer or address level and the customer evaluated from the entirety of his relationships .
21 Where a court , or another authority or person makes an order for detention of a Member as being of unsound mind , or where a doctor recommends such detention , or where a Member is so detained , that court , authority , person , doctor or the head of the hospital , etc. where the Member is detained , must notify the Speaker .
22 An admiralty action is one which falls within the County Courts ' Admiralty jurisdiction , that is any action where a plaintiff brings one or more of the claims set out in CCA 1984 , s 27 .
23 On appeal to the Patents Court , it was held that where an invention involves any of the excluded materials in section 1(2) , the proper construction of the qualification in that subsection requires that the Patent Office inquires into whether the inventive step resides in the contribution of the excluded matter alone .
24 He leads us to the studio , where an interpreter relays another strange question to rapper and part-time Internationalist Wildski .
25 Even where targets are met , it may be for the ‘ wrong ’ reasons ; for example , where an enterprise has considerable monopoly power , it can achieve its targets by manipulation of prices or a reduction in the quality of service .
26 Where an indictment contains substantive counts and a related count for conspiracy , the Practice Direction [ 1977 ] I W.L.R. 537 obliges the prosecution either to justify the joinder or to elect whether to proceed on the substantive or conspiracy counts .
27 A play is primary a piece of action and although a script contains some scenic and character description , the essential interest lies in the dialogue and the action arising from it .
28 Once a scientist has universal laws and theories at his disposal , it is possible for him to derive from them various consequences that serve as explanations and predictions .
29 Secondly , you should be aware that VMS itself becomes very slow once a directory has more than a few thousand files in it .
30 Once a candidate has enough votes to fufill a quota , other votes for that candidate are transferred to their second preferences , and so on .
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