Example sentences of "contracts for [art] " in BNC.

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1 In the above example , the weighting used was 0.444 S&P500 contracts for every one NYSE contract .
2 GPs with their own budgets and District Health Authorities will be expected to place either block contracts for a defined range of services , or cost and volume contracts , for a certain number of cases , for most services .
3 Yet , for a company like Siemens in Germany which relies on public contracts for a third of its sales , it is hard to see how German politicians are going to risk alienating the electorate and create unemployment by placing lucrative public contracts outside the Federal Republic .
4 If , for example , a hotelier contracts for a window cleaner to clean all the outside windows of the hotel and , while undertaking this job , the person contracted falls and is injured , although the hotelier owes the window cleaner a duty of care under s. 2(1) OLA 1957 , the extent of this duty is modified by the fact that window cleaners will themselves guard against the ordinary risks of carrying out the job and thus the hotelier may not be liable for their injuries .
5 One organization had responded to such a situation by issuing fixed-term contracts for a period equivalent to its minimum planned needs and then retaining the workers concerned on one week 's notice , with no obligation to negotiate their dismissal with the trade unions if their services were still required thereafter .
6 True , with a firm the size of Stevenson 's , working on up to fifty contracts for a dozen or so companies , there could never be so dead a reckoning that the final moment could be named with certainty .
7 Meanwhile the Shildon operation , which has 40 per cent of the UK non-aerospace defence market , has secured contracts for a new generation of military vehicles and logistic equipment .
8 A major change for the National Health Service will be the introduction of contracts for the provision of hospital services .
9 BR will award multi-million pound contracts for the introduction of a computer-guided Automatic Train Protection system in the next few weeks .
10 Britain had successfully negotiated long-term contracts for the total output from the Congo , and so had a near monopoly of ore supplies , which she had been happy to share with the US in the wartime atomic weapons programme .
11 Contracts for the loan of money and supply of goods to infants and ‘ accounts stated ’ with infants were made altogether void , while the possibility of ratification was taken away from all those contracts which required ratification to make them binding upon him after attaining full age ; and even a new promise to perform the contract , whether made upon a fresh consideration or not , could not be enforced by action .
12 To the general invalidity of infants ' contracts the Common Law recognized the exceptions of contracts for necessaries and contracts for the infants ' benefit , and these exceptions are not affected by statute .
13 Of contracts for the benefit of the infant , so far as they do not coincide with contracts for necessaries , a contract for the employment of the infant , where his position in life makes employment desirable for him , is a typical case .
14 The 1987 Act restores the Common Law principle to contracts for the loan of money and supply of goods to infants , and to accounts stated with infants , so that they are now voidable ( but not void ) or unenforceable against them .
15 British firms or consortia have won two-thirds of the consultancy contracts for the territory 's £8.5 billion port and airport project .
16 Last year it was forced to make over £28m of provisions on contracts for the Channel tunnel , Denmark 's Storebaelt Bridge and EuroDisney .
17 The main tasks of such an authority would be to issue contracts for the performance of particular tasks coupled with supervisory and inspection to ensure that they were adequately performed .
18 It does n't matter that the guitar was second-hand ; the law talks about contracts for the sale of goods , and does n't refer to first , second , third or even fourth hand .
19 Some contracts , such as hire purchase contracts and contracts for the sale and purchase of land , need to be in a special form .
20 Because of war conditions , the costs connected with contracts for the extensions at St. Peter 's had increased .
21 Kubota will honour existing support and maintenance contracts for the 1,200 Titan 1.0 users worldwide .
22 The British Broadcasting Corporation has extended its 30-year relationship with ICL Plc with two new contracts for the provision of services over the next six years : first , ICL 's CFM facilities management subsidiary will run the Beeb 's mainframe bureau operation in Feltham , West London on ICL Series 39 SX mainframes ; second , the BBC is taking advantage of ICL 's Open Hire agreement in its move to a distributed Unix computing environment .
23 A large proportion of public expenditure and a smaller proportion of public revenue arises from the making by the government of contracts for the purchase and sale of goods and services .
24 There is thus a fundamental distinction , both in objectives and in the character of the content , between , say , the Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods on the one hand and the EEC Directive on Consumer Credit on the other .
25 The principal vehicles for this analysis are the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods , because of its major importance in private commercial law ; the Unidroit Conventions on International factoring and International financial Leasing , with which the writer has been involved from the early days of their conception ; and the rules and trade terms promulgated by the International Chamber of Commerce , which demonstrate how much can be achieved by the contractual approach to the harmonization of commercial law and practice , and which will be given particular attention later .
26 The Hague Rules embodied in the 1924 Brus-sels Convention on Bills of Lading contain no express internationality requirement at all , though clearly directed at contracts for the carriage of goods by sea from one State to another , a point made explicit by the Visby amendments .
27 Support service managers should ensure that contracts for the provision of support services take account of the need for a continuous predetermined level of service .
28 While traditionally little NHS audit work has been awarded to private sector firms , eight pilot contracts were awarded in 1983 These trial contracts for the audit of district health authorities required these firms to spend 40 per cent of their time on value for money work .
29 App. 332 a broker in Bombay entered into future delivery contracts for the purchase and sale of commodities in various foreign markets with parties outside British India , in which no delivery was ever given or taken , and the profits flowing from such contracts were not received in British India .
30 Contracts for the sale of Vertigo were exchanged on 14 May 1985 and completed on 16 August .
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