Example sentences of "of an [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The defeat of British Jacobinism at the end of the 1790s was the starting point of an effervescence of fringe religious movements . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | From 1 April , he will have to pay £3.75 a week for a prescription out of an income of £60.31 . |
| 8 | That 's out of an income of £25 social security and £5.25 child benefit . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Concerns that the threat of an imposition of VAT on books remains live were aired at the BA a.g.m. this week . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In spite of an overdose of tourism the essential spirit of Bali is still alive . |
| 13 | During his absence from home one night , she died of an overdose of laudanum . |
| 14 | The real wage rate obviously rises as a result of an expansion of output over this range . |
| 15 | It marked the end of the possibility of an attitude of withdrawal for the papacy . |
| 16 | Rousseau 's vision of the citizen 's attitude toward his community is , of course , an example of an attitude of identification . |
| 17 | It is hardly an inspired cast-list — it is characteristic that it includes no representatives from the community under investigation — but in its apparent breadth it is typical of an attitude of mind . |
| 18 | First race there twelve fifty the going at the moment is good but they have had a quarter of an inch of rain overnight so of course I suppose there 's every chance it could go to good to soft by this afternoon . |
| 19 | That 's about a third of an inch of rain overnight and again it 's gon na be wet for the rest of the day . |
| 20 | An eighth of an inch of rain overnight but that should n't make any difference at all but a wet windy day . |
| 21 | Breakfast was served from a room down the corridor , and consisted of an inch of coffee and a biscuit . |
| 22 | So he marked it with a paperclip for copying , put it back in its manila folder , ‘ wiped off all my fingerprints ’ , and hid it ‘ out of an abundance of caution ’ in the stack of other papers to be copied . |
| 23 | Independently of an abundance of Cape petrels , two other species and three kinds of albatrosses were observed around us … |
| 24 | Reports of an abundance of whales in the Southern Ocean brought European whalers south during the late 19th century , when scientific exploration of the continent also began ( Hayes , 1932 ) . |
| 25 | It consists of an enrichment of iron and manganese , the proportion of the latter always increasing outwards ( Mabbutt , 1977 ) . |
| 26 | It could not sue in respect of an imputation of murder , or incest , or adultery , because it could not commit those crimes . |
| 27 | It could not sue in respect of an imputation of murder , or incest , or adultery , because it could not commit those crimes . |
| 28 | This is evident not only from the fact that the jurisdiction of the Legal Services Ombudsman under sections 21 to 26 of the Act stops at the moment when a complaint enters into the jurisdiction of a disciplinary tribunal : section 22(7) , but also from the fact that in section 27(3) Parliament refers to the process by which a barrister may be disbarred or temporarily suspended from practice by order of an Inn of Court without any hint that it disapproves or wishes to alter in any way the manner in which for centuries the Inns have made orders for disbarment subject to the visitorial jurisdiction of the judges . |
| 29 | The justification of an offence of affray |
| 30 | 10.4 If , after returning to work , an employee who has been the victim of an incident of violence at work requests a transfer to other duties , such a request will be treated sympathetically . |