Example sentences of "a [noun] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Now this steady-state comparison is a good example of a case where the criticisms of the orthodox model are well taken . |
| 4 | ‘ We know of a case where the driver abused the car because of a superstition — there was a number 13 on the number plate . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Was Stilk v. Myrick distinguishable as a case where the master secured no benefit by his promise . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Clauses providing that goods sold " with all faults " will generally be construed as referring to defects which make the goods unmerchantable , or unfit for purpose , but will not cover a case where the goods do not comply with the contract description ( Shepherd v Kain ( 1821 ) 5 B & A 240 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Only the official receiver can be appointed interim receiver except in a case where the court has appointed an insolvency practitioner to prepare a report ( under 5 273 ) in which case that insolvency practitioner can be appointed interim receiver . |
| 13 | The first , I believe , is a case where the Court guessed , but guessed incorrectly , at the parliamentary intention and so construed the Act in a way which accomplished a most desirable social purpose but which nevertheless contradicted the clear and unequivocal terms in which it was expressed . |
| 14 | there could occur a case where the issue raised was so sensitive and the revelations necessarily following its decision so damaging to national security that the court might have to take special measures ( for example sitting in camera or prohibiting the mention of names ) . |
| 15 | ‘ That was not a simple case of a husband obtaining a document from his wife ; it was also a case where the document had been obtained by a trustee from his cestui que trust by means of pressure and the concealment of material facts … |
| 16 | And we are also told that there could be a case where the peasantry had no such effect . |
| 17 | Restating those views in summary form , in a case where the necessity to require a specimen of blood or urine under section 7(4) arises for one of the reasons specified in section 7(3) , what is required is no more and no less than the formula used in the instant case or words to the like effect . |
| 18 | ( e ) Leasehold property When your client is buying a leasehold property in a case where the lessor 's licence to assign is required , the licence ( which is always prepared by the lessor 's solicitor , who should submit the draft to you for your approval ) may require your client 's execution of a counterpart of the licence . |
| 19 | She described a case where the Guardians had taken a whole family into the workhouse , the father being ‘ hopelessly out of work ’ . |
| 20 | Mason v. New South Wales , 102 C.L.R. 108 was a case where the ratio decidendi of the majority turned on the principle of duress . |
| 21 | But in a case where the discussion begins with the fact that the description of the goods by which they were sold points to one particular purpose only , it seems to me that the first requirement of the subsection is satisfied … |
| 22 | The height of absurdity was reached in a case where the wife of a race-horse owner pictured with a woman he had described to the photographer as his fiancee , was allowed to recover damages on the basis that her neighbours would think she was living in sin . |
| 23 | When compiling a case , attention must be paid to the prevailing conditions , especially where the above excuses are put forward , e.g. in a case where the effect of weather may be a possible defence . |
| 24 | The example is of a case where the father should not , not where he can not , remain neutral . |
| 25 | v. Kantner in a case where the plaintiff produced evidence , controverted by the defendant , that a contract existed . |
| 26 | Because had there been no breach , the contract would never have been entered into in the first place and the er plaintiffs will rely upon that erm recent court appeal decision between and er against where the court of appeal indicated that if you are dealing with a case where the plaintiff was saying had there been no breach of contract , this is a transaction we would never have entered in to then the plaintiffs are entitled to recover compensation on that basis . |
| 27 | As soon as the candidate passes the examination , his/her contract of employment is considered as having been concluded , even in a case where the employer has hired in his/her stead a candidate who has obtained lower marks at the examination . |
| 28 | So , in a case where the seller was to build a yacht for the buyer and they agreed that on payment of the first instalment the vessel and all materials used in its construction should become the absolute property of the buyer , the court held that nevertheless no property passed on payment of the first instalment because at that time the boat 's construction had not commenced and the materials to be used had not yet been identified , McDougall v. Aeromarine of Emsworth Ltd. ( 1958 Q.B. ) . |
| 29 | Martin Shaw , the Derby director who represents his club on the League management board , said : ‘ The existing rules allow for flexibility in dealing with a case where the player clearly has done nothing wrong himself . ’ |
| 30 | Whilst the new husband is entitled to have the title investigated fully ( at his own cost ) , in a case where the house is already in the joint names of the husband and wife , it is thought that , in practice , the new husband will rely upon the title at the time of the conveyance to the husband and the wife having been properly investigated . |