Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] of [noun] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was all part of the defence of London in an emergency . |
| 2 | The available armed forces were expected to be fully committed to the defence of Italy in the first two years of a war . |
| 3 | At one extreme Diplock LJ stated in Wooldridge v Sumner : " The defence of volenti in the absence of express contract , has no application to negligence simpliciter where the duty of care is based solely on proximity or " " neighbourship " " in the Atkinian sense . " |
| 4 | Held , allowing the appeal , ( 1 ) that the appropriate means of achieving fairness to an accused with regard to disclosure to the defence of material in the prosecution 's possession was a matter to be determined by the particular legislature , executive and judiciary concerned ; that although the Jamaican practice , particularly in relation to inconsistent previous statements , would normally be an acceptable means of achieving such fairness it did not extend to every situation in which fairness required the prosecution to make material available to the defence ; that where the prosecution intended a witness 's evidence to be based on his statement to the police and to deviate significantly from his deposition , the prosecution was under a duty to supply the defence with a copy of the statement before the trial ; and that , therefore , since the deceased 's husband and sister had given evidence inconsistent with their statements , and important testimony had been adduced from them which had not been foreshadowed in their depositions , the failure to disclose their statements to the defence constituted a material irregularity ( post , pp. 161H — 162A , B , B–C , 165C–E ) . |
| 5 | In relation to the disclosure to the defence of material in the possession of the prosecution , the key is fairness to the accused but the practice varies between different jurisdictions in the common law world . |
| 6 | The problem of recruitment administration is not that the individual tasks are difficult , but that the addition of fluctuations in the level of activity makes them difficult . |
| 7 | No planting is undertaken without the addition of compost in the planting hole , and this is followed by a surface mulch . |
| 8 | States of motion in quantum mechanics can be superposed in a way that is analogous to the compounding of displacements in space or , more generally , to the addition of vectors in an abstract vector space . |
| 9 | I believe it 's a necessary reform , it 's a pity that the government have not taken the opportunity of change in the number of seats to bring some measure of proportionality to the British European elections . |
| 10 | Whilst it may seem that Standing Committee are abandoning Hong Kong Branch in a time of upheaval in the colony , the 1991 A.G.M. also resolved that the Branch should be provided with the opportunity of reformation in the future if formally requested to do so by the ‘ Chairperson ’ of the now disestablished ‘ Branch ’ . |
| 11 | The difficulties outlined above are overcome by the majority of builders in the terms and conditions under which labour-only subcontractors are employed . |
| 12 | The Government has set a target date of 1991 for the development of occupational standards relating to the majority of occupations in the UK . |
| 13 | The majority of footballers in the so-called ‘ glamour ’ clubs have been overpaid and underworked for years , and if some of them were paid what they were worth , they would owe something . |
| 14 | The Council of Mortgage Lenders , in line with the majority of respondents in the ‘ other ’ category , supported the maintenance of the status quo as expressed in the question . |
| 15 | In the development of illness , therefore , a combination of external and internal factors is involved in the majority of cases in the production of the original imbalance , and this imbalance can occur on any level , depending on the main thrust of the external stress . |
| 16 | As is the case in the majority of countries in the world , none of the countries in the Common Market ( with the exception of Southern Ireland ) recognizes venereology or genito-urinary medicine as a distinct specialty . |
| 17 | The study found that the majority of takeovers in the EC outside the UK took place between non-listed or private companies and that , once agreement was reached between the parties , the barriers to takeovers were relatively low . |
| 18 | I am sure the majority of taxpayers in the rest of Britain are now resentful of the huge cost of rebuilding and compensation for retaining the status quo in Northern Ireland . |
| 19 | The majority of hairdressers in the North West have at one time been trained by him . |
| 20 | The majority of holdings in the uplands of Great Britain are farmed by owner-occupiers with an ageing population of farmers . |
| 21 | There is , for example , virtually no economic justification for retaining any hedgerows at all on the majority of farms in the southern and eastern counties of England . |
| 22 | The majority of MPs in the Hague parliament believe that there are strong economic and social reasons for the continuation of the nuclear industry . |
| 23 | For example , dictionaries can also be used to define unknown words , relying on the assumption that the majority of words in the definition will already be known by the user . |
| 24 | Service industries account for the majority of employment in the economy , but the rate of growth varies between industries and some industries are contracting in employment terms . |
| 25 | Consequently , the majority of participants in the group discussion had been in coal mining but now had jobs as unskilled workers in factories . |
| 26 | However , the recovery plan 's future , and that of the ruling coalition government , was placed in serious doubt when it was opposed by the Christian Democratic Party ( PDC ) , the holder of the majority of seats in the Legislative Assembly . |
| 27 | The majority of seats in the March 1990 elections [ ibid. ] went to groups supporting Estonian independence , principally the Estonian Popular Front ( 43 seats ) and the Association for a Free Estonia ( 35 seats ) . |
| 28 | The majority of seats in the People 's Assembly are held by members of the Socialist Party of Albania . |
| 29 | Over 75 organizations were represented at the meeting in Durban , including the Congress of South African Trade Unions ( COSATU ) and the Labour Party , which held the majority of seats in the House of Representatives ( the chamber for Coloured people in the tricameral parliament — see p. 36880 for 1989 election ) . |
| 30 | His administration was dominated by ADEMA , which had won the majority of seats in the March legislative elections [ see p. 38801 ] , but in keeping with Konare 's commitment to involve other political parties , significant posts went to Baba Atif Aidara of the Sudanese Union-African Democratic Rally ( US-RDA ) and Idrissa Traore of the Democracy and Progress Party ( PDP ) . |