Example sentences of "of a [noun sg] was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my judgment , therefore , if there were a statutory provision that the decision of a visitor on the law applicable to internal disputes of a charity was to be ‘ final and conclusive , ’ courts would have no jurisdiction to review the visitor 's decision on the grounds of error of law made by the visitor within his jurisdiction ( in the narrow sense ) . |
| 2 | Perhaps the most remarkable usage of a station was at PETERHEAD prison where prisoners were conveyed in special vans between work in the quarries and the quarters . |
| 3 | Charlie 's first experience of a razor was in near-freezing water . |
| 4 | Discovering she was the granddaughter of a knight was like being turned from a frog into a princess . |
| 5 | The greater part of a journey was by rail ; only the beginning and the end were by road . |
| 6 | The absence of a caution was in most circumstances bound to be significant ( see Keen an ( 1990 ) 90 Cr.App.R. 1 ) . |
| 7 | Held , that on a true construction of section 58 of the Banking Act 1987 and of the Order of 1991 an assignee , whether legal or equitable , under an assignment made before 30 July 1991 of the whole or part of a deposit with an authorised bank was a ‘ depositor ’ for the purposes of the compensation provisions in section 58(1) ; and that , accordingly , an assignee of part of a deposit was to be treated as entitled to the assigned part of the deposit and as having made a deposit of an amount equal to that part ( post , pp. 952F–H , 953A , 954B–C , 955F–G ) . |
| 8 | His founding of a town was as the by-product of his business . |
| 9 | In 1939 history intervened and in the space of a few months the work of a lifetime was in ruins . |