Example sentences of "of an [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The right of an editor to trial by jury is one reason why this law has not been invoked since 1947 : no government will risk the embarrassment of an acquittal . |
| 2 | It is possible to challenge an appeal decision in the High Court but only on grounds of an error of law , of a defect in the procedure or of the decision being one which no reasonable Secretary of State could have made . |
| 3 | My Lords , I have had the advantage of reading the judgment of Lord Browne-Wilkinson with which I agree and I would dismiss this appeal and allow the cross-appeals on the ground that certiorari is not available to challenge the decision of a visitor on the ground of an error of law within his jurisdiction . |
| 4 | It said the decision was wrong and accused Mr Hussey of an error of judgment which had raised questions about the upper echelons of the BBC . |
| 5 | In relation to this ground it was held unanimously that the condictio did not apply to the case of an error in law in interpreting an Act of Parliament . |
| 6 | Political connections were often the principal criterion suggested to justify the promotion of an officer of excise , and some of them were quite ready to employ their own votes to advance their careers so long as this was permitted by Parliament . |
| 7 | The defeat of British Jacobinism at the end of the 1790s was the starting point of an effervescence of fringe religious movements . |
| 8 | A magnificent study of An Teallach at dawn . |
| 9 | And charge transfer transitions , which involve transfer of an electron from metal to ligand or ligand to metal ( Section 6.8.5 ) , are fully allowed , and bands may be very intense indeed , as for example in . |
| 10 | A transition that involves the transfer of an electron from metal to ligand or vice versa is called a charge-transfer transition . |
| 11 | It aimed at understanding contemporary Buddhism , and deprecated any intention of an attack on Buddhism , appealing to Buddhist readers to correct any inaccurate or biased statements . |
| 12 | What is called ‘ biological determinism ’ is not more of an attack on freedom than the social determinism ( or economic determinism ) which is accepted without moral qualms throughout the social sciences . |
| 13 | Oddly enough , given that this was part of an attack on positivism generally , Matza used the traditional tool of positivism ( the questionnaire ) to make the point . |
| 14 | These findings also have important implications for the analysis of prolonged motility recordings in patients with non-cardiac chest pain : repetitive simultaneous pressure waves occurring at the time of an attack of chest pain , do not necessarily indicate that the pain was accompanied by disorders of oesophageal motility , or that such disorders were the cause of the chest pain . |
| 15 | Patrick had the first footage out of Panama of an attack at night , taken under great risk . |
| 16 | Police believe Nowacki was the victim of an attack by hit men hired by one of the Polish organised crime syndicates that have cornered the stolen car market in Germany . |
| 17 | Often , the change in function of an organ during evolution is even more dramatic . |
| 18 | ( 4 ) Included within the ‘ extraordinary ’ or ‘ special ’ category might be , for example , cases where the child is proposing to submit to a sterilisation , an abortion , the removal of an organ for donation , or some similar non-therapeutic procedure , or where the child is refusing to submit to some procedure necessary to prolong or save the child 's life or to protect the child from really serious and irreparable harm . |
| 19 | Other very much less drastic cuts are also made , and there are numerous changes of orchestration , one of which involves the substitution of an organ for harmonium at the end of the work . |
| 20 | This involved the creation of an Intendant-General of Finance and a number of Secretaries of State : the cumbersome system of councils on which the Spanish Habsburgs had relied so heavily in the previous century began to fall into disuse , the Council of Castile alone remaining important . |
| 21 | Concerns that the threat of an imposition of VAT on books remains live were aired at the BA a.g.m. this week . |
| 22 | The size of the eventual capital sum , which must be used in its entirety in the case of an APP for purchase of an annuity at 60 or later for women ( at 65 or later for men ) , will depend on long-term investment performance and the state of the financial market , which dictates the current price of annuities . |
| 23 | Regressive rock 's meaning is diminished because hardly anyone at all is into it ; the scene is claustrophobically LOCAL a parochial huddle — its problem is not one of dehumanized distance but of an overdose of intimacy . |
| 24 | In spite of an overdose of tourism the essential spirit of Bali is still alive . |
| 25 | During his absence from home one night , she died of an overdose of laudanum . |
| 26 | This same point was made earlier during the discussion of general applications , and examples were given of how it can assist with such things as planning , exploring relationships , putting particular aspects of an organisation into context , etc ; in other words , using it as a basis for creative thinking and logical deduction . |
| 27 | Member States may assume the validity of such extended powers through the implied powers doctrine , which allows competency to be implied from the express purposes of an organisation in order that it may function effectively . |
| 28 | The legal effect of actions of an organisation in excess of its powers becomes even more complex in the case of claims by third parties against the organisation . |
| 29 | The real wage rate obviously rises as a result of an expansion of output over this range . |
| 30 | In Schorske 's words , only in Austria was aestheticism ‘ not a form of protest versus bourgeois civilization ’ but ‘ an expression of that civilization , an affirmation of an attitude to life in which neither ethical nor social ideals played a dominant part ’ . |