Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun pl] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | C. P. Snow 's The Masters ( 1951 ) is a precursor rather than an instance : it tells a story of an election within a Cambridge college , a bitter tale of disappointed hopes ; but it hardly questions the intellectual claims of academia , and it ultimately belongs , like other Snow novels , to a world of administrative ambitions where a university is seen as an out-of-town version of Whitehall . |
| 2 | Quadrant 4 covers the type of innovative activities where the goals and outputs can be fairly well specified and the means to achieve them are relatively clear . |
| 3 | Further , ‘ there exists considerable uncertainty in the medical and legal professions as to the legality of terminating the use or application of life-sustaining procedures where the patient has voluntarily and in sound mind evidenced a desire that such procedures be withheld or withdrawn . ’ |
| 4 | The total cosmid library contained about 8500 clones , a coverage of 23 , but most hybridisations were done on a sublibrary of 3000 clones ie a coverage of 8.5 . |
| 5 | Cell divisions of the mammalian egg are unlike those of lower animals where the planes of division appear with military precision . |
| 6 | In Varley v Whipp [ 1900 ] 1 QB 513 , the facts concerned the sale of a second-hand reaping machine which the buyer had not seen and the court interpreted the concept of sales by description to cover all sales of specific goods where the buyer was relying on the description . |
| 7 | They undertake a booking of a minimum of fifty seats once a week if we will give a special price . |
| 8 | There are many contracts for the sale of unascertained goods where the parties do not express their intention as to when property shall pass . |
| 9 | One easy way is to calculate the percentage of possible occasions when a particular activity or environmental condition applies . |
| 10 | SWISS skier Franz Heinzer bids to complete a hat-trick of downhill successes when the first of two World Cup races begin in Val Gardena , Italy today . |
| 11 | The structure of surveying education has progressed through a number of fundamental changes since the granting of a Royal Charter to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors over a hundred years ago . |
| 12 | The sample list of books is equally important , for it disarms criticisms of the kind : ‘ The books involved are obsolete and the shelf space is needed for more modern colourful illustrated books ’ , or ‘ Things like this have always been going on ’ , or ‘ We only get rid of popular novels when the rush is over ’ . |
| 13 | Now he dug his heels in : America was a place of infinite possibilities where an artist with no money and no background could gain recognition in a big way . |
| 14 | Although the details of the peace plan were not made public , diplomats familiar with the negotiations suggested that it included a timetable for multiparty elections and details of designated areas where the two sides would be permitted to station forces during the truce . |
| 15 | In the 1984 debate on the shipbuilding industry Peter Shore , the opposition spokesman on Trade and Industry , said : ‘ I can think of few industries where the medium to long-term view of demand is more necessary . ’ |
| 16 | There had been a light snowfall the previous night but it looked as if someone else had been here , visited the witch then gone back to the line of trees , covering their tracks by using a switch of old branches so no imprint could be seen . |
| 17 | They are therefore both concerned to establish on a number of different fronts how the precepts of law can be related to reality . |
| 18 | The likes of Polanski , Nicholson and Hopper all talked freedom — even if it was at the movies — and that was music to the ears of those who followed the anti-war , hippie-inspired trend of throwing off inhibitions , of which there were plenty of public demonstrations when the beautiful people gathered , be it Los Angeles , New York , London or Paris . |
| 19 | The following points should be noted about partial offers : ( 1 ) The offeror and its concert parties must not buy shares in the target during the partial offer period , neither must they , or any new concert parties , purchase shares for a period of 12 months following a successful partial offer without the Panel 's consent ( Rule 36.3 ) ( although consent will normally be given where the partial offer has resulted in a holding carrying less than 30 per cent of the voting rights ( note 2 ) ) . |
| 20 | Section 100 deals with the extent of discretion of the courts in respect of claims for possession of residential dwellings where the Rent Act applies . |
| 21 | to the allotment of equity securities in connection with a rights issue in favour of the holders of ordinary shares where the equity securities respectively attributable to the interests of the ordinary shareholders are proportionate ( as nearly as may be ) to the respective numbers of ordinary shares held or deemed to be held by them , subject only to such exclusions or other arrangements as the Directors may deem necessary or expedient to deal with fractional entitlements , legal or practical problems arising in any overseas territory or by virtue of shares being represented by depositary receipts , the requirements of any regulatory body or stock exchange , or any other matter ; and |
| 22 | Where the Regulations apply , they give a cooling-off period entitling the customer to cancel the agreement at any time ‘ within the period of 7 days following the making of the contract . ’ |
| 23 | If the IMF had been a major borrower and issuer of SDR-denominated assets then the SDR might have been used more extensively . |
| 24 | provision of additional facilities where the existing ones are under heavy pressure . |
| 25 | It follows , therefore , that this contingency insurance will , subject to its terms and conditions , indemnify the bank/organisation in the event of a claim arising from an insured peril in respect of such properties where the original policy is found for some reason not to be sufficient to protect the bank's/organisation 's interest and so long as the bank/organisation took the initial step , inter alia , reasonably to satisfy itself that adequate insurance arrangements had been made by the mortgagor . |
| 26 | A state may declare that , provided there is reciprocity , it will make no charge for the services necessary for executing letters rogatory or will accept in complete satisfaction of the cost of such services either the fixed amount mentioned above or some other amount . |
| 27 | A bit-pattern index can extend the use of serial files when the number of attributes is limited , but a break-even point will occur somewhere between 20 000 and 100000 records , depending on record size , number of possible attributes and the complexity of Boolean conditions required . |
| 28 | SSI inspectors visited the London Borough of Croydon , the first of six authorities where the new assessment regime is being monitored to gauge the effects of the care reforms on the ground . |
| 29 | Symptoms of sickle cell anaemia are seldom manifest before the age of six months when the level of circulating fetal haemoglobin falls to the adult level . |
| 30 | The provisions for capital gains tax relief for entrepreneurs were also amended to extend the relief to gains arising from the sale of quoted shares where the qualifying entrepreneur held them when they were unquoted and allow him or her to claim relief when they receive shares in another company in exchange for unquoted shares in their own . |