Example sentences of "[conj] of [noun] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 2 ) The consent of the Secretary of State may be given in respect of a particular disposal of property or of disposals of any class or description and may be given subject to such conditions as the Secretary of State may determine . |
| 2 | In the event of a second conviction for a like offence , a member is liable , in addition to the penalties already named , to be adjudged to be for ever incapable of holding any public office , and to be incapable for five years of being registered as an elector or voting at an election either of members to serve in Parliament or of members of any public body . |
| 3 | The first exemption , which is most pertinent to takeovers , is contained in s103(3) , which provides that a valuer 's report is not required where the allotment is made in connection with an arrangement providing for the allotment of shares in the company on terms that the whole or part of the consideration for the shares allotted is to be provided by the transfer to that company ( or the cancellation ) of all or some of the shares , or of all or some of the shares of a particular class , in another company ( with or without the issue to that company of shares , or of shares of any particular class , in that other company ) . |
| 4 | If the argument mentioned in relation to s89 is correct in respect of that section then it should be equally applicable to s131(1). ( 3 ) Section 103(3) provides that s103(1) ( requiring a valuation in respect of shares allotted by a public company for a non-cash consideration ) does not apply to " … the allotment of shares by a company in connection with an arrangement providing for the allotment of shares in that company on terms that the whole or part of the consideration for the shares allotted is to be provided by the transfer to that company ( or the cancellation ) of all or some of the shares , or of all or some of the shares of a particular class , in another company ( with or without the issue to that company of shares , or of shares of any particular class , in that other company ) " . |
| 5 | But the legislative changes of the 1880s and afterwards were to have effects probably quite different from those that reformers such as Butler intended , and much more in the direction of increased control rather than of assertion of individual choice . |
| 6 | He was accused of illegal possession of firearms and of embezzlement of public funds . |
| 7 | Ichthus has grown through a combination of traditional evangelistic methods and of rediscovery of powerful ministry in the Holy Spirit . |
| 8 | The exclusion of women from the paid labour force became in many areas an important part of the development of both working-class ‘ respectability ’ and of notions of working-class manhood . |
| 9 | Use is made both of the results from an official survey of 588 architects , conducted by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission as part of its study of architects ' services in 1977 , and of surveys of 725 architectural practices and 34 clients , conducted in 1985 by the OFT as part of its study of advertising and charging within the construction industry . |
| 10 | Maps and plans showing site information are nearly always included , but the number and type of photographs and of illustrations of other details of the site and of finds vary from site to site . |
| 11 | This relies upon the responses to interviews and questionnaires of managers of UK multinationals with foreign R&D facilities , and of managers of foreign firms which have invested in R&D in the UK . |
| 12 | She had pictured its dungeons and torture-chambers , and recalled the tales of men racked and women held in chains , and of armies of plague-carrying rats . |
| 13 | The special features of Hatfield were its strong tradition of integrating general studies within technological studies , and of synthesis of academic studies in engineering , through the development of design and creative talents ; ‘ meaningful research ’ , particularly in certain fields of chemistry ; close integration with industry in relation to student projects , and the inclusion of computer and information studies in undergraduate courses . |
| 14 | It highlighted the use of selective repression by the security forces and military , including the killing of students and staff at the University of San Carlos and of leaders of displaced campesinos and the unemployed . |
| 15 | Regulations from Brussels deal with a vast range of topics such as employment conditions , industrial safety , social security , immigration , taxation , food hygiene , environmental control , broadcasting , air-sea & land transport , cultural development , education and of course of all aspects of trade and commercial affairs . |
| 16 | ( iv ) The probabilistic analysis , in the last resort , is to be judged against the persuasiveness of the conception of causation developed in this inquiry , and of course of like conceptions , with which it conflicts as much-and also Humean conceptions . |
| 17 | Within Scotland information on the impact of the school on its community , on the significance of school closure and of hostelisation of older pupils comes from research studies and from written personal experience of teachers remembering their own education . |
| 18 | Closer observation of many geomorphic processes is required before the relative importance of different processes and of events of differing magnitude and frequency in the formation of given features of the landscape can be adequately evaluated . |
| 19 | ‘ That this Committee having inspected various Documents produced by the Professor Mr Vial , are satisfied of their Authenticity and of the fairness of his Character — and that he did actually hold in France the situations of professor of the Veterinary School and of Ecuyer du Roi at Lyons and of professor of comparative anatomy at Montpellier . |
| 20 | Similar arguments might be advanced with respect to the measures of economic deprivation , which are presented as items five and six in table 9.7 and are given extremely low weight in the assessment of GRE , compared with the multiple use of housing indicators and of measures of ethnic origin . |
| 21 | The fourth item in table 9.7 shows the five Authorities identified as having the worst housing conditions under the ACORN scheme , which includes multiple criteria and identifies four mutually exclusive groups of housing areas associated with particular deprivation , each of which could be treated separately in the allocation of resources : poor terraced housing , the poorest Local Authority housing , areas with a high concentration of multiple — occupancy and of people of Asian origin , and areas with a high concentration of multi-let property with a significant proportion of people of Afro-Caribbean origin . |
| 22 | The culmination of these claims to national identity and of sentiments of this nature came in the preamble to Henry VIII 's Act in Restraint of Appeals of 1533 : ‘ Where by dyvers sundrie old autentike histories and cronicles it is manifestly declared and expressed that this Realme of England is an Impire , and so hath been accepted in the world … . ’ ( 36 , iii , 427 ) Here one finds an explicit statement of views on the nature of England , as well as practical conclusions drawn from them concerning the government of the Church . |
| 23 | Pulses of dissolved silica develop in response to the net rates of sand-grain dissolution and of precipitation of secondary minerals . |
| 24 | However , there is evidence from hearing subjects that aphasia-producing lesions of the left hemisphere are associated with defects not just of execution but of comprehension of manual symbolic gestures ( Gainotti and Lemmo , 1976 ; Seron , Van der Kaa , Remitz and Van der Linden , 1979 ) . |
| 25 | For both these reasons we need to think not in terms of individual possible worlds but of groups of possible worlds , all worlds in a group being equally close to or distant from the actual one . |
| 26 | His courageous industry earned the respect , not only of his fellow Roman Catholics , but of Christians of all denominations . |
| 27 | For the previous few years the soap factory had been losing business because of imports of synthetic detergents , mainly through Lever Bros , the local branch of Unilever . |
| 28 | Because of cruelties of British taste Because of British half truths , deftly spoken , Because of British beastliness unfaced , High hopes lie nearly broken . |
| 29 | The distribution of ECU200 million of emergency food aid ( promised at the EC Maastricht conference in December ) had begun in January ; the food was to be sold in Moscow and St Petersburg at controlled prices in an attempt to restrict inflation , but the first shipment of 130 tonnes of beef from the UK was refused entry at Moscow because of fears of bovine spongiform encephalopathy [ see p. 37534 ] . |
| 30 | He also promised that the country 's schools — which had been closed for two months because of fears of political violence — would reopen within days , and that a civic work programme would be implemented for Haitian youths . |