Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun sg] of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For years , the Tory Government has gone on about freedom of choice in education but it has only been those with money who have had any real choice . |
| 2 | Apart from short leases , it has long been the practice for business tenancies to provide expressly for insurance of premises against fire and other damage . |
| 3 | Ferguson stressed that the American actions need not be interpreted as aggressive but rather as part of defence against a possible Soviet offensive . |
| 4 | They are set down again below for ease of reference in relation to the VOR . |
| 5 | Lee Teng-hui , chairman of the ruling Kuomintang party ( KMT ) , was sworn in as President of Taiwan at a ceremony in Taipei , the capital , on May 20 , having been chosen by the country 's electoral college in March [ see pp. 37318-19 ] . |
| 6 | On July 1 Gopal Singh was sworn in as Governor of Nagaland after the transfer of Gen. ( retd ) K. V. Krishna Rao to Jammu and Kashmir [ see above ] . |
| 7 | Until recently it was assumed that they all persisted as adults , but is has now been shown that the chilling of infective larvae before administration to calves will produce arrested L5 ; hypobiosis at this stage has also been observed in naturally infected calves in Switzerland , Austria and Canada , although the extent to which this occurs naturally after ingestion of larvae in late autumn and its significance in the transmission of the infection has not yet been fully established . |
| 8 | As the Children Act waits , poised for implementation , it remains to speculate on how significant and successful it is likely to be : and it is tempting to do so with benefit of hindsight in the context of all the discarded child care legislation of the past forty years . |
| 9 | Proof of disqualification may be certificate of conviction or extract from the magistrates ' court register together with proof of identification of the defendant , e.g. by the police officer who was present in court when the defendant was disqualified . |
| 10 | The performance of these systems indicated that poor acoustic quality together with lack of top down constraint could cause the graph to grow rapidly , to be very ‘ wide ’ from the beginning of the utterance . |
| 11 | Unfortunately silting has reduced the depth of some broads , and this , coupled with increased nutrient levels from sewerage outfall , together with run-off of fertilisers from surrounding farmland , has reduced the aquatic life . |
| 12 | Please sign below in confirmation of receipt of the packaging . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , it did add to royal pressure upon the archbishop and further reminded him of the realities of royal power : in 1285 he petitioned for the relaxation of the statute , especially in respect of grants to parish churches , but Edward reserved his right to licence — to confer or withhold favour . |
| 14 | Also on Dec. 2 Baker announced that he was appealing to the House of Lords against an Appeal Court ruling of Nov. 29 which had declared him personally in contempt of court over his decision in May to cancel the return flight to the UK of a deported Zaïrean citizen , although a High Court judge had ordered a stay on the latter 's removal . |
| 15 | Without water we would survive about four days , so in order of priority for life it 's number two after oxygen . |
| 16 | As a common carrier , the NVOCC enters into contracts of affreightment with his shipper , issues his own bill of lading , and assumes full responsibility for the carriage not merely from port of shipment to port of discharge , but from the point of origin to point of destination . |
| 17 | This respect is summed up by a quote in In Search of Excellence by Tom Peters and Robert Waterman : ‘ You know , one of the things that strikes me most about McDonald 's is their people orientation . |
| 18 | He believed that they had greater capacity to do so than previous generations and hence would be less in need of support from the state when they reached old-age — there was therefore no need to establish complex insurance machinery . |
| 19 | I wanter to make sure I was properly covered , not only in case of damage to the car , but in case something were to happen to me too . ’ |
| 20 | Mills and Jordan ( 1980 ) examined timing sensitivity as a predictor of ASL learning , and discovered positive correlations between ability to discriminate patterns differing only in timing of onset of components of the pattern , and grade scores for sign language proficiency . |
| 21 | The first is that there are no systematic entailments between sentences differing only in respect of compatibles in parallel syntactic positions . |
| 22 | In general , it would appear that where an obligation of confidentiality arises , the courts will give relief , not only in respect of disclosure of the information , but also as to use of the information without the consent of the person to whom the duty of confidentiality is owed . |
| 23 | 5.11.4 any steps taken in direct connection with the preparation and service of a Schedule of dilapidations during or after the expiration of the Term but if after the expiration of the Term only in respect of wants of repair occurring during the Term and where served within three months after the expiration of the Term |
| 24 | had committed against the barge hirers the tort of procuring breaches of their contract with their men — the plaintiffs would have had a cause of action not only in respect of breaches of hiring contracts but also in respect of new business they were unable to undertake . |
| 25 | Deciding that captaincy was affecting his batting , he stood down in favour of Fletcher for a season , resuming again in 1989 when the county did well but his own form was fairly ordinary . |
| 26 | The war was , therefore , as much in need of integration into psychoanalytic theory as were masochistic patients . |
| 27 | If , by agreement with the continuing partners , the personal representatives , themselves duly authorised by provisions in the will or otherwise , are content to leave the deceased 's share in the continuing firm by way of loan , for example to help the firm over some temporary financial difficulty , they do not on that account become entitled to any account of the profits of the firm , merely to payment of interest at the agreed rate . |
| 28 | If the band is higher , however , the change can be made only on change of ownership of the dwelling . |
| 29 | Perhaps the women of the next generation will no longer submit to defloration in the normal way and will give birth to children only on condition of freedom from pain … ’ |
| 30 | Mr David Gee , director designate of Friends of the Earth , said the bill had already been weakened by giving big concessions to industry , especially over freedom of information to the public and scope and timetable of the new controls over pollution . |