Example sentences of "an [noun] [prep] [noun] of the " in BNC.

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1 In March 1925 he beat a Conservative mediocrity in an election for secretary of the Union , in Michaelmas 1925 he was vice-president , in Lent 1926 president .
2 An aspirant to membership of the developed club is likely to be accommodating about rainforests , the welfare of Amazonian Indians , the ozone layer and a climate convention .
3 For the last twenty years or so the State has pursued a ‘ large is beautiful ’ policy but this has now been replaced by an ideology in favour of the small .
4 Order 9 , r 6 applies if the defendant in a default action : ( 1 ) does not within 14 days after service of the summons on him , pay to the plaintiff the total amount of the claim and costs on the summons ; or ( 2 ) delivers an admission of the whole of the plaintiff 's claim unaccompanied by a counterclaim or a request for time for payment , or ( 3 ) does not deliver an admission of part of the plaintiff 's claim , a defence or counterclaim , the plaintiff may on filing a request for judgment , and certifying that defendant has not sent any reply to the summons , and stating what payments , if any , have been made , have judgment entered , either for payment forthwith or at such times as plaintiff may specify .
5 Free copies of the book are to be issued to parish priests throughout the region and it includes an appendix with details of the relevant articles of Italian law which will assist them in recovering their lost items .
6 ‘ A women who 's spent half an hour in front of the mirror making herself attractive , 100 yards down the road hears a man on a building site say , ‘ Hello , beautiful ’ , and she looks shocked !
7 If the company has more than 50 members then , unless the register is kept in such form as to constitute an index of names of the members , such an index must also be kept in the same place as the register .
8 It was as heavy as an ox in spite of the fact that it was no taller than a young steer , and a green and greasy liquid flowed from its wounds .
9 Leatherhead Sports Council has marked the tenth year of the Society 's association with the Leatherhead Leisure Centre with an award in recognition of the work done by teachers there .
10 However , to her great surprise , she suddenly felt the impulse to take a flying leap at the huge gap , and landed with the ease of an acrobat on top of the chest .
11 Although about an inch less wide than a Guild F-50 or a Gibson J-200 , this is still definitely not an instrument for players of the short-armed variety .
12 However , they do possess certain residual powers and , for example , it has been held that they can bring an action on behalf of the company against a debentureholder for the improper exercise of his powers .
13 Later , when they had not been paid for by the defendant , the plaintiff brought an action for payment of the sum due against the defendant .
14 Such a situation will be rare , but might arise if , say , the exchange required all floor traders to have their mnemonics printed on their trading cards , failed to accept delivery of the cards by the member to the trading floor , and then brought an action for breach of the original requirement .
15 That left the companies ; yet the first of them was in the hands of the receiver , who could bring an action by virtue of the Insolvency Act 1986 ( section 42 and also para 5 of Schedule 1 ) .
16 Practitioners should bear in mind the obligations under the rules to serve a statement of special damages with the statement or particulars of claim , as the case may be , and the Practice Note ( QBD ) ( Personal Injury Actions : Special Damage ) ( 1984 ) 1 August ( [ 1984 ] 1 WLR 1127 ) which requires the service of particulars of special damage , in the form of a schedule if appropriate , so that the extent to which special damages are agreed may be indicated by the other parties to an action in advance of the trial .
17 Bowaters told the plaintiffs and they brought an action against officers of the unions to which the drivers and loaders belonged .
18 Shareholders who hold their shares as an investment without knowledge of the detailed affairs of the company are also unlikely to give warranties or indemnities .
19 Brandon L.J. , at p. 287E , set out the matters which seemed to him ‘ to give rise to an equity in favour of the defendants …
20 281 , 287 referred to the three matters that , in his view , gave ‘ rise to an equity in favour of the defendants . ’
21 The following ‘ quick reference ’ aide memoire summarises important points to consider at the various stages of an engagement in respect of the firm 's technical standards .
22 An attempt by opponents of the party 's anti-abortion platform to have the issue openly debated was defeated , and the candidacy of Bush was endorsed by his main challenger in the primaries , the right-wing journalist Pat Buchanan .
23 This advisory section of the descriptor gives an indication to tutors of the range of contexts within which a module could be offered and the subject matter which would assist in the achievement of the Outcomes .
24 The presence of free ammonia or of protein material is almost always an indication of contamination of the water with sewage or trade effluents , such as gas liquor .
25 You are given an indication in brackets of the feeling or attitude expressed , and you must mark on the text the intonation you think is appropriate ( mark only the response ) .
26 Generally it will be argued that the terms were accepted by an employee on behalf of the other party .
27 It would require an injection of supporters of the ministerial party , divorced from the tradition of the non-political career public servant .
28 Indeed in its 1964 election campaign this had been merged with Labour 's ambitious promises to develop a multiracial Commonwealth as an alternative to membership of the EEC .
29 THE EDINBURGH MILITARY TATTOO DOES NOT ACT AS AN AGENT ON BEHALF OF THE OPERATORS IN PUBLISHING THIS BROCHURE AND NO CONTRACTUAL RELATIONSHIP IS ESTABLISHED WITH OR THROUGH THE EDINBURGH MILITARY TATTOO WHEN YOU MAKE YOUR HOLIDAY ARRANGEMENTS WITH ANY OPERATOR WHOSE FACILITIES ARE ADVERTISED HEREIN .
30 After the hearing but before judgment it was decided that there should be a further hearing before an Appellate Committee of seven Lords to determine the issue whether , and in what circumstances , Parliamentary debates on a Bill might be used as an aid to construction of the ensuing Act .
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