Example sentences of "of the [noun pl] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is this merely a definition of the limits of a gratuitous promise ( as in Thomas v Thomas , infra ) or is it an offer to contract , the consideration being P's forbearance from marriage ? |
| 2 | The first is to start with a clean sheet of paper and design all or parts of the operations of a company in the best way possible . |
| 3 | It is , we are told ( among other things ) ‘ a systematic description of a language ’ , ‘ the way words , and their component parts , combine to form sentences ’ , ‘ a device for generating a finite specification of the sentences of a language ’ . |
| 4 | if the themes of most of the sentences of a paragraph refer to one semantic field ( say location , parts of some object , wisdom vs chance , etc. ) then that semantic field will be perceived as the method of development of the paragraph . |
| 5 | If no common semantic element runs through the themes of the sentences of a paragraph , then no simple method of development will be perceived . |
| 6 | The construction of a generative grammar represents an attempt to formulate a system of rules for the formation of the sentences of a language . |
| 7 | It was then Gedanken realized that all along she had been hearing the voices of the beetles over a loudspeaker . |
| 8 | For the rest , tin hats abound everywhere , not only on top of the curls of a very glamorous AFS girl but also rather oddly around the back of a classical Venus de Mile torso . |
| 9 | Although the London Borough of Southwark agreed to maintain the level of funding to some of the projects for a short time after the demise of the I. L. E. A. , that support can no longer be guaranteed . |
| 10 | Book-keeping is the recording of the transactions of a business in a simple and reliable manner in order to provide the trader with information to show : |
| 11 | A retired solicitor will not be treated as continuing to hold himself out as a partner merely because he has neglected to ensure that revised letterheads are used by the firm from the date of his retirement , but there could be more of a problem when he has been party to a lease of partnership property and steps have not been taken to replace him as one of its lessees/trustees. ( e ) Sureties Section 18 of the Partnership Act contains a special provision which applies , in the absence of contrary agreement , whenever there is a change in the membership of a firm : A continuing guaranty or cautionary obligation given either to a firm or to a third person in respect of the transactions of a firm is , in the absence of agreement to the contrary , revoked as to future transactions by any change in the constitution of the firm to which , or of the firm in respect of transactions of which , the guaranty or obligation was given . |
| 12 | Correspondingly most of the persons in a close network of relationships are of unequal rather than equal status . |
| 13 | We have already emphasized the value of coins as evidence ; among other things they sometimes reveal the number of minters at work in a city , and so give us a hazy but valuable indication of the relative size of the towns of a kingdom . |
| 14 | It is the ‘ underground spring , so to speak ’ of the properties of a thing which are known to us by our senses . |
| 15 | The effect of giving non-reinforced pre-exposure to the target flavour was to reduce the readiness with which it came to function as a safety signal — that is , the outcome was the opposite of that predicted by the suggestion that the pre-exposed stimulus might already have acquired some of the properties of a safety signal . |
| 16 | At the same time , the children are learning to control them and are finding out some of the properties of a circle . |
| 17 | One of the properties of a context is a specification of what to do on a what-you-see save : the user might want to record some indication that the context was there . |
| 18 | Some shape names are complex and , if pupils have a limited appreciation of the properties of a shape , it is not likely that their memory for its name will be enduring . |
| 19 | An attractor that has a positive maximal Lyapunov exponent , and so has a high sensitivity to initial conditions , often has a very complicated structure , in that it may have a noninteger , fractal dimension , and have some of the properties of a Cantor set . |
| 20 | Conservatives have traditionally urged the value of the Lords as a revising Chamber : what good is a revising body if it never revises ? |
| 21 | What of the merits of a school 's pastoral care of pupils , the extra curricular sporting and other activities , school visits at home and abroad , foreign exchanges , the youth club , school productions , links with industry , links with the community , and much more , including things that never become public knowledge ? |
| 22 | Overestimation of the merits of a dish which relies purely on local conditions and ingredients for its charm will , in the end , kill it stone-dead . |
| 23 | One reason why no such demonstration is possible is the fact that a variety of factors are involved in a scientist 's judgement of the merits of a scientific theory . |
| 24 | The second problem relates to biases introduced by the patient 's or physician 's preconceptions of the merits of a treatment . |
| 25 | This left the way open for the consolidation of the independents around a new organization : Common Wealth . |
| 26 | A course in the history of science would lead those students of the humanities to a better understanding of the nature of science ; it would also give scientists a better understanding of the place of science in the history of culture . |
| 27 | In fact one of the problems of a stratificational analysis is that it classifies women in a somewhat arbitrary manner , sometimes assigning to them the class of their husbands or fathers and sometimes determining their class by their own occupations . |
| 28 | One of the problems with a sloping garden is that it may be overlooked by many other houses . |
| 29 | Well , that 's obviously one of the problems with a recycling centre . |
| 30 | The former head of stone and sculpture conservation at the Victoria and Albert Museum has been aware of the problems since a visit he made to Agra in 1985 . |