Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun] of [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus under a contract for sale of goods the seller commits a breach of fundamental term if he delivers goods of a wholly different kind to those contracted for . |
| 2 | While in the early history of the struggle for freedom of speech the restrictions were enforced by criminal prosecutions , it is clear that a civil action is as great , if not a greater , restriction than a criminal prosecution . |
| 3 | She now has a bill of £500 from the council for over-payment of housing benefit , a sum that she has difficulty in repaying on a net income after rent of £23 a week . |
| 4 | It therefore seems clear that in order to found an action for breach of confidence the defendant must have obtained the information as a result of a disclosure by the plaintiff in circumstances of confidence . |
| 5 | ( The second part of this paper is based on an excellent article by Sara Butler , The Priest as Sacrament of Christ the Bridegroom in WORSHIP , November 1992 , p.498 ) . |
| 6 | In tundra habitats , it has been shown that lemmings can eat up to 50 per cent of available vegetation and destroy a lot more during peak years , and as a result of lack of food the rate of decline of lemming populations can be as rapid as the rate of increase ( Batzli , 1975 ) . |
| 7 | When the referenda failed to produce the necessary 40 per cent vote in favour of devolution the Nationalists lost hope and saw no point in keeping the government . |
| 8 | The US corporation Air Express International is one of the longest established and largest freight forwarders , with 27 subsidiary companies and a network of agents around the world and a turnover in excess of $600m a year . |
| 9 | Earnings were 1.99p after a loss per share of 1.79p a share in 1990 . |
| 10 | For instance , if child benefit had been uprated fully in line with prices since 1984 , a three-child family would receive £31.20 a week from next April , whereas they will receive only £25.25p — £5.95p a week less than in 1984 , or a loss per child of £100 a year . |
| 11 | ( c ) Action on receipt of reply The circumstances in which searches are made and the variety of information elicited are too wide for a short answer . |
| 12 | Their destination was the small town of Krk where they handed the aid to representatives of Feed the Children and the Croatian Red Cross . |
| 13 | Sun Microsystems Computer Corp and Oracle Corp say that under the Transaction Processing Performance Council Benchmark A the eight-processor model of Sun Microsystems ' new Sparcserver 1000 under Oracle7 Co-operative Server delivered 400.80 transactions a second for price-performance of $5,987 a tpsA . |
| 14 | He argued that the plant should be studied together with its environment as a single unit and that mankind should respect the traditional wisdom gained from the trial and error of generations of peasants the world over . |
| 15 | It is important that all the possibly infected sites are sampled , since in a small percentage of cases of gonorrhoea the rectum or urethra may be the only site involved . |
| 16 | Going west , the vineyards on the right bank , from Mareuil towards Dormans , have an excellent south-facing aspect and far outmatch in terms of quality the north-facing , left bank vineyards of Mardeuil , Boursault , etc . |
| 17 | As Griffiths LJ explained in Lion Laboratories Ltd v Evans " I believe that the so-called iniquity rule evolved because in most cases where the facts justified a publication in breach of confidence the plaintiff had behaved so disgracefully or criminally that it was judged in the public interest that his behaviour should be exposed " and , as he aptly stated , " there is a world of difference between what is in the public interest and what is of interest to the public " . |
| 18 | So-called " ruler-portraits " nearly always turn out to be stereotypes : in the context of Carolingian group-identity , the precise point about images of Charles the Bald was the resemblance to Louis the Pious and Charlemagne , his father and grandfather . |
| 19 | A questionnaire had been circulated earlier in the year , and from that the steering committee had outlined ‘ valuable feedback ’ , indicating the sort of programme of events the branch needed . |
| 20 | From the point of view of capital the sector would have increased in importance by a half . |
| 21 | If the x coins of year a were made , for example , a hundred years before the 2x coins of year b , it would be unwise to conclude that twice as many coins were made in year b , since to do so would take no account of the gradual wastage or erosion of coins of year a from circulation ( by accidental loss , hoarding , export of coinage , melting down , etc . ) . |
| 22 | There is a difference in price of 4p a pound in poultry meat due to inspection charges . |
| 23 | French Socialists prepare to feast on crumbs of comfort The Socialists have been told so often that they are heading for total rout in tomorrow 's election that they will be relieved if they manage the 20 per cent predicted by the polls , writes Diana Geddes in Paris |
| 24 | Randles , for example , found that while for observations of UAPs the average number of witnesses per sighting was about 2.6 , this number fell dramatically for abductions to an average of only 1.3 . |
| 25 | In the Admissibility of Hearings of Petitioners the International Court of Justice advised that oral hearings before the Committee for South West Africa could be granted to inhabitants of the territory to further the development of the international institution , and to render effective the General Assembly 's supervisory role . |
| 26 | not a constable but is protecting or escorting another person by virtue of powers the same as or similar to those of a constable for that purpose ; |
| 27 | on savings income in excess of £3,000 a year . |
| 28 | The grounds on which the father relied were , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the justices heard evidence from which they could properly conclude that his costs had been incurred as a result of the actions and omissions of the local authority ; ( 2 ) as there was no machinery for taxation of costs the justices were correct to assess the amount of the costs ; ( 3 ) the father was entitled to his costs incurred in the Family Proceedings court to the extent allowable under the Legal Aid in Family Proceedings ( Remuneration ) Regulations 1991 and the justices were correct to hold that the actions of the local authority justified making the costs order which included the costs of the hearing on 27 and 28 January 1992 . |
| 29 | in a round about sort of way the Head |
| 30 | A priori this latter feature might be thought somewhat undesirable as it implies that the higher the rate of growth of wealth the lower the share of the total portfolio held within the UK . |