Example sentences of "a [noun] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was hard to believe that Katharine had n't done much more than a shoulder-in only an hour earlier ! |
| 2 | However , an ordinary axe was no match for a humming power axe which could slice bronze like flesh ; nor was a broadsword remotely the equal of a power sword . |
| 3 | A case where a plea of estoppel succeeded and the innocent purchaser therefore obtained a good title was Eastern Distributors v. Goldring ( 1957 C.A. ) . |
| 4 | The auction catalogue can also quote from other authorities , which will be inevitable in a case where a scholar has written a catalogue raisonné , and advantageous if the context of the work is made clearer by the artist 's correspondence or other publications . |
| 5 | In a case where a court does have a discretion whether or not to award a judicial remedy despite the existence of an alternative non-judicial remedy , what factors are relevant to deciding how to exercise that discretion ? |
| 6 | The only recent murmur of dissent occurred in Lord Reid 's judgment in Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain v Dickson [ 1970 ] AC 403 in which he expressed a doubt as to whether , in a case where a restraint was part of a professional code of conduct , the burden of proof regarding justification fell on the professional body . |
| 7 | For an application of the defence in a case where a claimant , in order to make good his claim , was obliged to assert his own fraudulent purpose I was referred to Palaniappa Chettiar v. Arunasalam Chettiar [ 1962 ] A.C. 294 . |
| 8 | Shill 's suggestion that his wife committed suicide was dashed by the evidence of Dr Norris , who insisted that most of the head injuries would have been impossible to achieve by someone attempting suicide and that , in the annals of crime , he had yet to hear of a case where a person attempted suicide by bashing his head with a flat iron . |
| 9 | Not long ago we reported a case where a child died of fright caused by the approach of a Police officer in Uniform . |
| 10 | It is in these situations , particularly following a public inquiry into a case where a child has died , that poor co-operation tends to be most exposed . |
| 11 | Because the reason that er stile was blocked off in the first instance was there was a case where a child ran across that road . |
| 12 | For myself , I can see no relevant distinction between a case where a statute has conferred such final and conclusive jurisdiction and the case where the common law has for 300 years recognised that the visitor 's decision on questions of fact and law are final and conclusive and are not to be reviewed by the courts . |
| 13 | So it could in theory , but I can not conceive of a case where a doctor , faced with the refusal of a mentally competent 16-year-old to having an abortion , would terminate the pregnancy merely upon the consent of the girl 's parents . |
| 14 | In a case where a principal instructs as selling agent for his property or goods a person who to his knowledge acts and intends to act for other principals selling property or goods of the same description , the terms to be implied into such agency contract must differ from those to be implied where an agent is not carrying on such general agency business . |
| 15 | Held , allowing the appeal and substituting a period of postponement not to exceed six months ( Sir George Waller dissenting ) , that for the purposes of making an order for sale in favour of a trustee in bankruptcy under s. 30 of the Law of Property Act 1925 no distinction was to be made between a case where a property was being enjoyed as the matrimonial home and one where it had ceased to be so used ; that where a spouse , having a beneficial interest in such property , had become bankrupt , the interests of the creditors would usually prevail over the interests of the other spouse and a sale of the property ordered within a short period ; that only in exceptional circumstances , more than the ordinary consequences of debt and improvidence , could the interests of the other spouse prevail so as to enable an order for sale to be postponed for a substantial period ; and that , accordingly , since the circumstances of the wives and their children , albeit distressing , were not exceptional , the order sought by the trustee should be made . |
| 16 | The latter covered a case where a tribunal is entitled to enter upon the inquiry but in the course of its investigation it does something which takes it outside of its powers and renders its decision a nullity . |
| 17 | One can cause grievous bodily harm by omission , and a person who does so intentionally in a case where a duty of care exists may be convicted under section 18 of the 1861 Act . |
| 18 | I heard recently of a case where a director nearing retirement was advised to restrict his salary and pay higher dividends , purely on the grounds that this would save national insurance contributions . |
| 19 | Luton headmaster Brian Round tells of a case where a teacher was accused of rape . |
| 20 | There was a case where a householder escaped a claim for civil damages after he had stabbed an intruder with a bayonet ! |
| 21 | 274 , a decision of the Court of Appeal in a case where a policy holder was insured against ‘ loss or damage caused by theft . ’ |
| 22 | It would , as Mr. Lloyd conceded , be exercisable also in a case where no misrepresentation inducing the transaction could be pointed to but where a registered proprietor had entered into a transaction under a misapprehension for which the other party to the transaction was not responsible , a misapprehension as to the value of the property , for example . |
| 23 | Section 60(2) , for example , has to be made to work in a case where the person entitled to be paid compensation is a beneficiary under a bare trust and not the person who made the deposit . |
| 24 | ‘ We know of a case where the driver abused the car because of a superstition — there was a number 13 on the number plate . ’ |
| 25 | In a case where the driver 's option is to be explained to him under section 8(2) , the driver should be told that if he exercises the right to have a replacement specimen taken under section 7(4) , it will be for the constable to decide whether that specimen is to be of blood or urine and , if the constable intends to require a specimen of blood to be taken by a medical practitioner , the driver should be told that his only right to object to giving blood and to give urine instead will be for medical reasons to be determined by the medical practitioner . |
| 26 | Was Stilk v. Myrick distinguishable as a case where the master secured no benefit by his promise . |
| 27 | The Court of Appeal in Gregory ( 1982 ) 77 Cr App R 41 considered this case to be one of " instantaneous appropriation " , yet Pitham & Hehl does look like a case where the course of stealing was not complete at the time when the defendants got their hands on the furniture . |
| 28 | ‘ It is therefore difficult to know what policy objective could have prompted the legislature to confine entitlement to claim compensation to post-natal injuries in a case where the fatality has been caused by the negligence of a third party . ’ |
| 29 | A safer course ( assuming that the business wishes to exclude liability where it is permitted to do so — ie in non-consumer cases ) is to have one set of terms , including the appropriate exclusion clauses , but to include a provision that the forbidden exclusions do not apply in a case where the buyer deals as a consumer . |
| 30 | I find it equally difficult to conceive of a case where the court , faced with this problem and applying the approach I have indicated above , would authorise an abortion against the wishes of a mentally competent 16-year-old . |