Example sentences of "of an [noun sg] of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Lords , I have had the advantage of reading the judgment of Lord Browne-Wilkinson with which I agree and I would dismiss this appeal and allow the cross-appeals on the ground that certiorari is not available to challenge the decision of a visitor on the ground of an error of law within his jurisdiction . |
| 2 | Concerns that the threat of an imposition of VAT on books remains live were aired at the BA a.g.m. this week . |
| 3 | The real wage rate obviously rises as a result of an expansion of output over this range . |
| 4 | It marked the end of the possibility of an attitude of withdrawal for the papacy . |
| 5 | Reports of an abundance of whales in the Southern Ocean brought European whalers south during the late 19th century , when scientific exploration of the continent also began ( Hayes , 1932 ) . |
| 6 | This is evident not only from the fact that the jurisdiction of the Legal Services Ombudsman under sections 21 to 26 of the Act stops at the moment when a complaint enters into the jurisdiction of a disciplinary tribunal : section 22(7) , but also from the fact that in section 27(3) Parliament refers to the process by which a barrister may be disbarred or temporarily suspended from practice by order of an Inn of Court without any hint that it disapproves or wishes to alter in any way the manner in which for centuries the Inns have made orders for disbarment subject to the visitorial jurisdiction of the judges . |
| 7 | 10.4 If , after returning to work , an employee who has been the victim of an incident of violence at work requests a transfer to other duties , such a request will be treated sympathetically . |
| 8 | More particularly , he contends that a company is the result of an exercise of freedom of association and freedom of contract . |
| 9 | For some time before Rylands v. Fletcher the courts had been concerned with the extent of a person 's liability for the escape of an accumulation of water from his land during the normal course of mining operations . |
| 10 | The report concluded that the Arrow Airlines DC-8 crashed soon after take-off from Gander because of an accumulation of ice on the wings . |
| 11 | An example of the limited duration of an obligation of confidence in a 'springboard " case is found in Fisher-Karpark Indusries Ltd v Nichols [ 1982 ] FSR 351 where account was taken in determining the duration of an injunction of the extent to which the information was generally available from public sources . |
| 12 | Is it possible to challenge the validity of an Act of Parliament in the courts ? |
| 13 | The British State has never had a formal foundation in the aftermath of revolution or war , or as the result of an act of will by an enlightened despot . |
| 14 | One has to ask whether different pressure groups within the Roman Church became equally hostile to Galileo , or whether , as some believed at the time , he was a victim of a Jesuit plot — of an act of revenge for insults he had meted out to prominent members of that order . |
| 15 | 10.7 Where it proves necessary to redeploy an employee as a result of an act of violence at work , the normal terms and conditions of employment for the new post in question will be applied to the redeployed employee . |
| 16 | To that extent , Pan Am , its insurance underwriters and the 16 members of the Pan Am crew were also victims of an act of war against the United States . |
| 17 | As late as February 1949 there was a brief panic in London when a US Senate debate suggested that the all-important article 5 ( which defined the obligations of members in the event of an act of aggression against one of their number ) might be diluted . |
| 18 | This expectation has rather been confirmed than otherwise by the superimposition in the last two years of an element of graduation in the contribution , the additional yield of which for many years to come will mainly help to finance the standard pension but which creates a right to additions to it which will gradually build up over the next forty years on an actuarial basis . |
| 19 | The reader can beware of an element of self-interest in such anthologies , whether in the form of books or exhibitions . |
| 20 | Thus , the subject should be given particular emphasis within programmes of post-initial in-service training for further education teachers ; consideration should be given to the possible inclusion of an element of introduction to the subject at the initial teacher-training stage ; and emphasis should be given to the provision of short courses . |
| 21 | ‘ I ca n't use the blaster again , ’ Ace said , aware of an edge of hysteria in her voice . |
| 22 | Roy Lacey returns from holiday just in time to foil the advance of an army of weeds on his hour-a-week garden larder . |
| 23 | Cormac , O hound of feats , you 'll have to steal those horsemen away the equal of an army of angels for silence . ’ |
| 24 | Prior to the invention of photocopying machines , the preparation of an epitome of title in the way described above was not possible , and this meant that abstracts of title had to be created by our predecessors , who were in fact charged with the duty of tracing title back over 30 or 40 years or more . |
| 25 | Staff in the West Midlands agreed yesterday to restrict radio use — the central issue in London — from Wednesday as part of an intensification of action around the country . |
| 26 | Last September , Which ? published the results of an inspection of standards of garage servicing at 30 garages , including 12 members of the RMI and the Scottish Motor Trade Association ( which also has an OFT-approved Code of Conduct ) . |
| 27 | Section 31 explains the rights of an assignee of share in partnership : ( 1 ) An assignment by a partner of his share in the partnership , either absolute or by way of mortage or redeemable charge , does not , as against the other partners , entitle the assignee , during the continuance of the partnership , to interfere in the management or administration of the partnership business or affairs , or to require any accounts of the partnership transactions , or to inspect the partnership books , but entitles the assignee only to receive the share of profits to which the assigning partner would otherwise be entitled , and the assignee must accept the account of profits agreed to by the partners . |
| 28 | 2.17 This exercise has been described in a different way by Lord Diplock in Mallett v McMonagle [ 1970 ] AC 166 at p174 : The purpose of an award of damages under the Fatal Accidents Act is to provide the widow and other dependants of the deceased with a capital sum , which , with prudent management , will be sufficient to supply them with material benefits of the same standards and duration as would have been provided for them out of the earnings of the deceased had he not been killed by the tortious act of the defendant , credit being given for the value of any material benefits which will accrue to them ( otherwise than as the fruits of insurance ) as a result of his death . |
| 29 | The danger of this is that the fear of an award of damages against it would unduly encourage the authority to reach the same decision again , thus creating an appearance of bias . |
| 30 | Frith also comments on the importance of an ideology of bohemianism within the appeal of rock in general ( 1983a : 75–84 ) . |