11.   Occasionally contractors are unable or unwilling to supply a specified material or equipment.

12.   Suppose, for example, that a contractor is behind schedule for his or her own reasons.

13.   Is the client entitled to be relieved of responsibility on the basis that the contractor would have been late anyway?

14.   It is possible that the contractors will also be occupiers.

15.   The occupier must take reasonable steps to check that the contractor was competent to carry out the work.

16.   Bovis also intend to offer training courses in skills such as brick laying, in the hope that the contractors will be encouraged to employ local labour.

17.   A purchaser should always make careful enquiries to satisfy himself that persons described by the vendor as independent contractors are not in fact employees.

18.   The contractor is to meet the full cost.

19.   I do not believe there is another contractor capable of going from Greenfield to completion in this way, across the range of services, and on this scale.

20.   Although the two defense contractors are fierce competitors, they are finding it more profitable to collaborate on certain defense programs he said.