Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun sg] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A provision for division of profits after the firm 's annual accounts have been approved ( see below ) but with provision for appropriate amounts on account of anticipated liability to income tax to be withheld out of the undrawn balance of each partner 's share at the year 's end ( Clause 10.02 ) and for repayment of excessive drawings ( Clause 10.03 ) . |
| 2 | In general , businesses prefer to avoid the courts , litigation ( and even lawyers ) so far as possible , and the terms may therefore make provision for settlement of disputes by arbitration , or by one of the other systems of alternative dispute resolution , such as conciliation , which are now available . |
| 3 | In addition the tenant may have to pay compensation to occupying subtenants for non-renewal of tenancies under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 and may himself have to pay damages for breach of obligation ( eg an unreasonable refusal of consent to assign ) . |
| 4 | She was also a leader in the struggle for admission of women to fellowship in the London Chemical Society . |
| 5 | Prior to the passing of the SGSA , s 7(4) of the UCTA prevented exclusion of liability for breach of warranties of title and quiet possession " arising by implication of law " ( see s 7(1) ) , in business contracts ( other than for the sale and hire purchase of goods ) under which possession or ownership of goods was transferred , unless such exclusion passed the test of reasonableness . |
| 6 | The House of Lords applied the but for test to restrict the defendant 's liability for loss of earnings to the period before the onset of the disease . |
| 7 | In Natal , fighting between rival political groups for control of townships around Pietermaritzburg and Durban grew more intense , with more than 100 people being reported killed up to mid-February . |
| 8 | Furthermore , pH i can recover spontaneously to baseline within minutes after exposure of cells to acute acid and alkaline loads . |
| 9 | The filling of the posts as they become vacant is decided by the General Board after consideration of recommendations from the faculty board . |
| 10 | As each group of mandarins finished their performance of the ritual they backed slowly to the edge of the courtyard to be replaced by others , and wave after wave of courtiers in silks of all hues flowed across the gray flagstones under the yellow glare of the early sun . |
| 11 | For the United States , the assimilation of wave after wave of immigrants into an egalitarian society was more than a pious hope . |
| 12 | Twice they heard the screams for mercy of men at the punishment stake . |
| 13 | In 1971 , Kirk compared two methods for instruction of students in introductory biology : lecture-demonstration and programmed instruction . |
| 14 | Mr Lewis will visit the Inter Leisure Park on Tuesday as part of meetings with 50 representatives of the tourist industry in North Wales . |
| 15 | Thank you for your letter of 23 Jan. about carriage of cycles under the proposals for rail privatisation . |
| 16 | Another plant which made military uniforms was on the verge of closure for lack of orders from Moscow . |
| 17 | The BTR/Pilkington takeover battle focused attention on the guidelines for referral of bids to the MMC . |
| 18 | Laser treatment is now established in many units for palliation of symptoms in patients with inoperable rectal cancer . |
| 19 | Turgot , for example , though he denounced any form of despotism , was himself very authoritarian in his methods during his brief term as Controller-General of Finances in 1774–76 ; and even Rousseau was opposed only to the despotism of individuals , not of groups or collectivities . |
| 20 | I know that there have been improvements , but as I represent part of the country where the climate is meteorologically colder , I know that there is a great deal of scope of increases in the support that we provide for heating allowances for our elderly population . |
| 21 | It suggests that translating between languages with different priorities and different types of syntactic restrictions necessarily involves a great deal of skewing of patterns of information flow . |
| 22 | Since these experiences will have been in the schools in which the workshop teachers teach , it is obvious that there will be a great deal of sharing of ideas before the actual presentations and their subsequent discussions take place . |
| 23 | A document taken by the Garda Síochána ( the Irish police force ) from a leading republican , Sean Garland , in May 1966 , and later published as an appendix to the Scarman Report , contained a good deal of evidence of plans for intensive military training , but it also outlined some of the new political initiatives being taken by the movement . |
| 24 | Thach had long been in a minority within the party leadership because of his implacable opposition towards normalization of relations with China . |
| 25 | Whatever sympathy one might feel for the restaurateur in the present case ( or for any other defendant who might suffer economic loss , social ostracism , shame or intimidation as a result of publication of details pending charges which may or may not result in his conviction ) nothing in the present case comes close to satisfying Lord Diplock 's test . |
| 26 | The preservation of laminated biogenic sediments is currently understood to be the result of inhibition of benthos by low concentrations of dissolved oxygen either in anoxic silled basins ( such as the Black Sea or California Borderland Basins ) , or beneath zones of strong upwelling , where an oxygen minimum layer intersects the shelf or slope ( such as off Peru or within the Gulf of California ) . |
| 27 | The excess risk levels off in the following years and is undoubtedly the result of selection of patients with an unrecognised malignancy at the time of commencement of peptic ulcer treatment . |
| 28 | It has been shown that the colonic epithelium obtains much of its energy supply from fatty acids , particularly butyrate , which are present in the colonic lumen as a result of fermentation of carbohydrates by bacteria . |
| 29 | Whether these findings were a result of stagnation of secretions with increased CCK release in the afferent jejunal loop , a changed alkaline gastric content , or both is unclear . |
| 30 | They did , however , include the first number of Veterinary Transactions , containing observations on the effect of treatment of wounds of joints and other circumscribed cavities . |