Example sentences of "of a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the absence of a contrary statement in the contract between X and Y Ltd. , property will normally have passed by virtue of sections 16–18 of the Sale of Goods Act ( paragraphs 3–07 to 3–24 ) . |
| 2 | It is not easy to find a general definition of the normal meaning of irony , but it usually stands for a process by which the content of a statement is qualified either by the reader 's attribution of a contrary intention to the author , or by the reader 's awareness of factors that are in conflict in one way or another with what is being said . |
| 3 | For , in the absence of a contrary agreement with the original lessor , the original tenant remains liable throughout the entire term of the lease irrespective of the fact that he or she may have assigned or sold the tenancy to another . |
| 4 | It subsequently transpired that the conveyancing arrangements I have described were part of a fraudulent scheme of the Hammonds to obtain money for themselves using the property as security . |
| 5 | I am interested in an aspect of it which exists , it at all , in terms of that contradiction — of a parodic critique of the essence of sensibility as conventionally understood . |
| 6 | I saw once the head of a dear friend among the leaves and was less astonished at what first seemed an apparition than by his disentangling himself and in the flesh bidding his good morning , so accustomed was I to looking for my thoughts and news among the leaves . |
| 7 | In the case of Bloomsbury , changes in the general order , and especially the establishment of a solid sector of professional and intellectual employment , made independent survival much more practicable . |
| 8 | Sarella herself was buoyed up by the thought that soon this nightmare would be over and she would be able to pull herself together under cover of a solid stint of hard work . |
| 9 | There he was , at the end of a solid day of meetings with French officials , looking exactly the way he had when they set out . |
| 10 | A dolphin can emit up to 700 clicks a second with this apparatus and from them is able to detect not only the presence of a solid object in the water but to deduce what sort of object it is . |
| 11 | As I did so I became aware of a youngish man with long hair looking at me from the pavemented walk on the Hammersmith side of the river . |
| 12 | Not being in possession of a verbatim record of the submission by the County , I have prepared twelve linked submissions in this matter , document G W Fourteen B , which seek to rebut with justification the point believed to have been made on behalf of the County and District Councils . |
| 13 | According to most commentators the visit of a Japanese delegation to Vietnam on Jan. 13-18 was a preliminary step towards the resumption of official Japanese aid to Vietnam , suspended after the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia in December 1978 . |
| 14 | Borland International Inc has formalised its agreement with Epson Sales , the marketing subsidiary of Seiko Epson Co , for the sale and technology licensing of a Japanese version of InterBase 3.2 — at Borland 's Tokyo announcement of InterBase last December , Epson was already demonstrating InterBase and the first release of InterBase JA3.2 is on Sun Microsystems Inc Sparcsystems , available from April 12 ; Borland plans to put the Japanese version of the database up on other machines ; the Japanese version supports a number of new functions including distributed databases , active data processing — functions such as triggers and event alerters — language support ( including support for both JIS and EUC codes sets ) and binary large objects ; Borland in conjunction with Epson Sales and its systems integration subsidiary Trans Abel , is to set up a Borland Authorised Support Centre for education and training . |
| 15 | DEC says it is also working with Microsoft Corp engineers on creation of a Japanese version of Windows NT . |
| 16 | He also believed , first , that France was unlikely to be able to secure an alliance with Britain ( because of the two countries ' disagreement about the Near East in 1840 ) ; second , that Britain might support Russia in the event of a Russian attack on the Ottoman Empire ( because of the Anglo-Russian discussions which had taken place in London in 1844 ) ; and third , that in any event he could count on the support of Austria ( because of the assistance he had rendered Vienna in putting down the Hungarians in 1849 ) . |
| 17 | Spengler was particularly worried by the threat of a Russian invasion of Europe . |
| 18 | AWARD-WINNING salesman Nick Hughes showed this topless photo of a Russian hooker to a woman customer — and got fired . |
| 19 | Isaac Wolfson , son of a Russian refugee in the furniture business in Glasgow , became lord of chain store after chain store in the Fifties . |
| 20 | But make sure you pay attention not just to the basic impulses and enthusiasms , which are sound and fine ; not just to the incidental portrait of a consummate mountaineer in the passages about Dave Breashears ; but also to a strange sort of instinctual third dimension which Blessed 's larger than life character seems to entice into play : |
| 21 | FIREMEN found the body of a 13-year-old girl in a burned-out hay barn yesterday . |
| 22 | If a parallel is taken with the treatment of another infection , say , lobar pneumonia , at the end of a ten-day course of penicillin treatment , there will be no sign of the responsible bacteria and , if the antibiotics are stopped , the bacteria will not return and reinfect the lung . |
| 23 | David Herald and Paul Muller presented their analysis under the heading ‘ Observation of a probable change in the solar radius between 1715 and 1979 ’ . |
| 24 | The substitution of a phoneme by its mid-class N ( i.e. the inclusion of and as alternatives to in the phoneme graph ) will therefore increase the probability of a correct correspondence between the phoneme graph and the acoustic signal . |
| 25 | The search for a laterality index that is not biased with respect to accuracy recently led Bryden and Sprott ( 1981 ) to propose the adoption of a new index , lamda , based on the log odds ratios ( P/ ( l — P ) ; P/ ( l -P ) where PR and P , are the respective probabilities of a correct response at the left and right sides . |
| 26 | Dr Barsamian stresses , however , the importance of a correct understanding of such concepts and methods of analysis so as to avoid unrealistic expectations about their capabilities by non-experts . |
| 27 | The operation , and the lack of a correct diagnosis of her true illness , had killed her . |
| 28 | This was not ‘ plausible deniability ’ , the provision of a believable cover for someone who already knew the facts ; it was , Poindexter agreed , ‘ absolute ’ deniability , ‘ the ability of the President to deny knowing anything about it , and be very truthful in that process . |
| 29 | Under his direction , the Ulster Constitution Defence Committee maintained its traditional line that O'Neill was not responding to the legitimate demands of a disadvantaged section of the population , but giving in to the demands of rebels who would never be satisfied with anything less than the destruction of Northern Ireland . |
| 30 | While members have occasionally expressed surprise at the committee 's sudden appearance in the front line , their cooperation has demonstrated the value of a discreet forum for discussing and resolving difficult problems outside the disciplinary processes . |