Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] of a [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knight Ride , the only monorail themed ride in Ireland , is a great place to bring family or friends as part of a day out in Carrickfergus . |
| 2 | On July 22 Assistant Chief Constable Alison Halford , 52 , withdrew her allegations of sex discrimination at work as part of a settlement whereby she retired from the police force with a lump sum payment of £142,600 and an annual pension of £35,836 . |
| 3 | Mr Stockdale authorised the £227,000 payment as part of a package just before he resigned . |
| 4 | An unusually delicate Jan Davidsz. de Heem , of fruits , oysters , and wine glasses on a ledge , had been sold by Joseph Widener of Philadelphia in 1912 as part of a cleaning out of lesser pictures from his already famous holdings : the lovely reject brought $1.4 million ( £875,000 ; est. $350,000–450,000 ) , sold to a private collector against Johnny van Haeften . |
| 5 | Fourth , and finally , the rejection of the Athenians by the Spartans makes more sense if the Ephialtic reforms are seen as part of a process rather than as an event , that is , if the qualities which the Spartans feared were gradually manifesting themselves over the whole thirty-year period , 487–457 . |
| 6 | One is led to the conclusion therefore that the husband should convey as beneficial owner ; he is very often conveying the former matrimonial home as part of an agreement whereby the wife releases her rights to further claims for capital , and as such he could be said to be receiving valuable consideration from her and it is established that a vendor selling under compulsion should stand in the same position as a contractual purchaser under an open contract ( see Re King [ 1962 ] 1 WLR 632 and Emmet on Title above ) . |
| 7 | The criteria for assessment of a return i.e. the balance sheet , could only be results . |
| 8 | In Kinross Motor Auction Ltd. v. Perth and Kinross District Licensing Board , 1981 S.L.T. 106 , a petition for the exercise of the nobile officium for review of a decision under 5.14 was refused . |
| 9 | It should not be assumed as a matter of course that such use of part of a dwellinghouse necessarily involves a material change of use requiring permission . |
| 10 | The process of achievement of a state where the self is receptive to the love of God is that of a balancing act . |
| 11 | But if , having served a term in purgatory , if having had the chance to try his arguments on other philosophers , Hegel was not unrepentant , he might agree that there was perhaps something in the alternative view : that each of the factors affecting historical development does have its own authenticity ; that they act upon and react to one another ; that from time to time this or that factor will take on a greater or lesser importance ; that of course — with a nod in the direction of Marx — at least since the neolithic age and the development of agriculture the mode of production has been a major factor ; and that the actions of particular men , Marx among them , have in fact been formative , changing not merely the degree of development of a kind already prescribed by a programme of social evolution , but the kind of development itself . |
| 12 | It means little more than that you can compute the direction and velocity of movement of an object independently of its colour or its depth . |
| 13 | The legality of the threat of use of a weapon therefore depends on an evaluation both of the characteristics of the weapon and of the possible circumstances in which it might be used . |
| 14 | To understand the primitive way of life , or the way of life of a society far removed from our own , it is necessary for us to extend our way of life into the orbit of the form of life of that society , rather than bring the form of life of that society into the orbit of our own . |
| 15 | Council leader and chairman of the City Challenge board Coun Michael Carr said : ‘ Our aim in City Challenge is to make major and hopefully permanent improvements to the quality of life of a community currently suffering unacceptable levels of economic and social hardship . ’ |
| 16 | RBL , of course , entails a facility on the part of the learners in the location , processing and presentation of information of an order quite different from that of the traditional chalk-and-talk lesson , and requires intellectual skills whose sophistication is not to be underestimated . |
| 17 | At very least , however , the Luddites presented the government with a problem of order of a magnitude hardly reached since . |
| 18 | Did it accord with legitimate expectations of fair and reasonable persons or was it a high-handed exercise of power of a kind more to be expected of an authoritarian government than one guided by and subscribing to principles of limited government ? |
| 19 | Rory had waited with the older man — silent for quarter of an hour apart from a whispered hello and a quick explanation of what was going on — until the herd of deer appeared , brown shapes on the brown hill . |
| 20 | How far laymen would have disapproved of his behaviour is another matter , for concubinage of a type whereby a married man could also have a relationship with a woman who had a recognised position and whose children might share in the inheritance had been common among Germanic peoples , and may still have existed in England in Cnut 's day . |
| 21 | Boswell dismisses Elgin in a couple of paragraphs , partly though boredom , partly embarrassment at Johnson 's bad meal there ; but again — the invaluable gloss on Johnson 's version — ; Boswell liked the jutting arcades , which he called ‘ piazzas ’ ; he approved of ‘ such structures in a town , on account of their conveniency in wet weather ’ , and then reports Johnson 's dislike of them on account of the way in which they made ‘ the under story of a house very dark , which greatly over-balances the conveniency , when it is considered how small a part of the year it rains . |
| 22 | Besides , few would be prepared consciously to adopt this attitude , and would be concerned to square their final position with maintenance of an attitude less partial to themselves . |
| 23 | Boy chases girl and catches her in a fond embrace without pausing as they cover the stage with footwork of a speed rarely seen elsewhere . |
| 24 | This is also a belief held by my squad and so , neck-high in wallop , come three o'clock we were eleven hangovers in search of a kick around . |
| 25 | Sure , the ambiguous title allows 30 seconds of salacious conjecture , but that double-bluff ‘ Ha ha ha ha ha ha ’ non-chorus scores a direct miss , and the sound of five men bashing around in the darkness in search of a tune merely drains you of the will to live . ’ |
| 26 | Norwich pushed forward in search of an equaliser only to concede the classic breakaway goal after Rocastle had driven forward from midfield and released the perfect ball which enabled Wright to draw Walton before netting . |
| 27 | Having extricated himself from the Archbishop 's service Mozart , this time accompanied by his mother , set off in search of an appointment elsewhere . |
| 28 | Section 7 provides : 7 – ( 1 ) Where the possession or ownership of goods passes under or in pursuance of a contract not governed by the law of sale of goods or hire-purchase , subsections ( 2 ) to ( 4 ) below apply as regards the effect ( if any ) to be given to contract terms excluding or restricting liability for breach of obligation arising by implication of law from the nature of the contract . |
| 29 | Danov also confirmed allegations that 17 key files on the Markov case had disappeared , and he suggested that these had been destroyed by Gen. Vladimir Todorov , who had been chief of intelligence at the Interior Ministry in 1978 and who in May had fled to Moscow in defiance of an order not to leave Bulgaria . |
| 30 | Assessors scrutinised all aspects of the laboratory 's activities from receipt of a sample through to the final report . |