Example sentences of "the [noun] of [prep] " in BNC.

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1 On the third party 's appeal , on the question whether assuming the defendants ' illegality to be proved , the defence of ex turpi causa non oritur actio precluded a claim for contribution under the Act of 1978 : —
2 Held , dismissing the appeal , that the liability imposed under section 1(1) of the Act of 1978 was intended by Parliament , by virtue of section 6(1) of the Act , to enable claims for contribution to be made as between parties who had no claim for contribution under the general law , and applied whenever a plaintiff had a cause of action against a third party in respect of the same damage as gave rise to his cause of action against the defendant , irrespective of the legal basis of the liability ; and that , accordingly , the defence of ex turpi causa non oritur actio could not be relied upon in answer to a claim for contribution under the Act ; and that , since there was sufficient possibility of the third party being found liable for some part of the plaintiffs ' loss , there were no grounds for striking out the third party notice ( post , pp. 1022H — 1023A , G–H , 1024G — 1025D ) .
3 ( c ) The defence of ex turpi causa would not apply having regard to the changing public opinion of suicide .
4 If Brian and John were engaged in a get-away from the scene of a crime at the time of the accident , John could also raise the defence of ex turpi causa ( illegality ) to the action .
5 Small equipment : With straightforward equipment and parts the method is essentially the same as for worktops with the addition of pre and post cleaning actions , safety checks , dismantling and re-assembly .
6 A case might be made for this ( although there is no other evidence for it ) and so substantive interference in Ulpian 's text could be taken to be limited to generalization or to the addition of per omnia .
7 The consequence is that we can not just suppose that the text has been wrenched from its interdictal context and left unchanged , except for the addition of per omnia .
8 If there are savings , identified savings in the Chief Executives department , I 'm sure that that from those to this should be the way forward , but er , I 'm happy to second what Mr said , erm , with th and that is in three with the addition of in consultation with the county supplies officer .
9 I had long wanted to visit St Kilda , and the opportunity of at least seeing the islands came when I was invited to join a National Trust cruise as a lecturer and sort of — ‘ general helper ’ .
10 There 's some valuable work gone on there , and you can , and if and if we 're going to deny these people , the opportunity of of achieving anything like their potential , I mean , it seems such a shame , when we , you know , when we are succeeding in the rest of the programme .
11 I do I do have three or four interviews lined up and obviously I would have having been afforded the opportunity of of the interviews I would like to follow up .
12 they let them go out and they do n't know where they are , but the majority of of children that do it year in and running up to Christmas time they do exactly the same at Christmas ,
13 But the majority of of any development land in the city would be recycled , either from housing uses or industrial uses .
14 To see this , imagine estimating the DM equation in equation ( 6.25 ) by OLS to obtain an estimate of , and using the sum of squared residuals from this equation to construct an estimate Of The estimate of α i could then be substituted into the output equation in ( 6.25 ) and , from the regression of on , a unique estimate of obtained by using the estimate of .
15 During the 1950s and 1960s the SKDL regularly gained the support of over one-fifth of the electorate .
16 The commons had shown themselves increasingly adept at procuring political concessions in return for grants of taxes , and although they were at their most effective when they enjoyed the support of at least some sections of the nobility , they had gained substantially in experience and cohesion by the time the crisis of 1340–1 arose .
17 According to the rules then extant , a national strike could only be called by the NUM if it had the support of at least 55 per cent of the members voting in a secret ballot : the union prided itself on its democracy in this context .
18 This could not be achieved merely by filling all existing vacancies , however , since the Liberal bloc consisted of 52 out of the 104 seats , and the Liberals could also generally count on the support of at least one independent .
19 He claimed to have the support of at least one-third of VPN 's deputies in the republican and federal parliaments .
20 Although Aquino insisted that the plan had the support of at least 15 members of the 23-strong Senate , the Senate President and key opponent of a continued US presence , Jovito Salonga , remained suspicious of the plan , characterizing it as vague and ill-defined and insisting that all combat troops had to be withdrawn within one year .
21 The immediate problem of the DLP 's lost legislative majority was overcome by March 26 , when negotiations secured the support of at least two of the independents .
22 It said that the support of at least one side was required before troops could be deployed .
23 In the May congressional elections [ see p. 38908 ] the PUR had won 12 seats and the Conservative Party ( PCE ) of Vice-President-elect Alberto Dahik had won six , but Durán was expected to negotiate the support of at least two more parties .
24 And in the end , did you , I mean wha , did you get the support of of professionals or or
25 Our primary concern here however is with the implications of the existence of for the comparative static results with respect to the change in taxation ( ) The position is parallel with that in Section 6–4 , where the existence of other taxes was seen to affect the response to , and we can draw on that analysis .
26 There can not be a taxonomy without differentiation into more than one sub-species : the creation of one sub-division presupposes the existence of at least one other .
27 It presumes the existence of at least two parties , one who allocates responsibility and one who accepts it with the undertaking to report upon the manner in which responsibility has been discharged .
28 I in particular , bearing in mind the point that er Mr i is making , that er newts seem to be as it were very choosy in where they er go , bearing in mind the existence of at least three other ponds in Skelton , I would like to know whe how er why it is or whether it is that newts are only found in this pond , and whether or not er the the survey has shown anything in either of er in any of the other ponds .
29 He also knows of the existence of at least half a dozen hypermarkets which have a shoppers ' profile that includes every socioeconomic category , and which sell all three types of bread .
30 ( 1982 ) report the existence of at least 212 fishless lakes in the Adirondacks , the loss of all fish in 140 Canadian lakes ( and the threatened extinction in 48,000 other lakes ) , damage to 15 per cent of lakes in Minnesota , the threatened extinction of trout in half of West Virginia 's trout streams , the near total depletion of buffering capacity in 3000 lakes in the eastern United States , the acidification of more than 10,000 lakes in Sweden to pH 6 or below ( with 5000 lakes having pH values below 5 ) , and reduced populations of salmon and trout in major rivers in southern Norway .
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