Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [noun] of a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Exclusion of liability for breach of warranty does not cover breach of a condition ( Wallis Son & Wells v Pratt & Haynes [ 1911 ] AC 394 ; Baldry v Marshall [ 1925 ] 1 KB 260 ) .
2 The reply , then , it can be said , does not make use of a feature of effects independent of their being necessitated events , which feature can be used to argue that they are necessitated events .
3 An observational study of a production line , say , although it might want to talk a great deal about the alienative effects of such work , could not make use of an attitude scale in the way that a questionnaire study might .
4 Secondly , Meshkinpour did not regard confirmation of a diagnosis as influencing patient management whereas we felt that it was of value in certain situation such as in patients with suspected achalasia before myotomy .
5 The report comes out strongly against the imposition of trade sanctions against countries on environmental grounds : in an implicit reference to the recent US action against tuna imports from Mexico [ see ED 55 ] , the report says , " a country may not restrict imports of a product solely because it originates in a country whose environmental policies are different . "
6 PERT and CPM do not permit loops to be formed and can not accommodate repetition of a job .
7 PERT and CPM do not permit loops to be formed and can not accommodate repetition of a job .
8 The note to this rule in the 1993 White Book suggests that service on the defendant 's solicitors in England pursuant to an unqualified oral agreement by them to accept service is good service but points out that this practice of endorsement is unnecessary and unsafe since by itself it does not give notice of an intention to defend .
9 This does not imply acceptance of an order which are dealt with subject to availability .
10 Failure to establish guilt in the criminal court does not preclude consideration of a child 's need for protection in which the child 's welfare will be paramount .
11 Where the Act or the rules do not require service of an application , the court may hear it ex parte ( r 7.5 ) .
12 They will not escape evaluation of a sort .
13 They are praying the post mortem examination does not reveal evidence of a fight , but Chief Insp Farrow said : ‘ We know dog fighting is happening .
14 ‘ I did not know the Bioplan hospital might not be going ahead , ’ said Mr Prescott , ‘ If the Darlington health authority can not get hold of a CT Scanner from Bioplan then we will seriously consider getting one . ’
15 The Bootle computer notifies the Croydon office if it does not receive notice of an embarkation card by the time the visitor 's time us up .
16 Eggs can become poisoned , therefore eggs should no longer form part of a staple diet … !
17 The alternative regime in ss219 to 229 applies if : ( a ) Target is an unquoted trading company or the holding company of a trading group ( an unquoted company will include one whose shares are traded on the Unlisted Securities Market ) ; ( b ) the purchase of own shares is wholly or mainly for the benefit of Target 's trade or any of its 75% subsidiaries ; ( c ) the purchase does not form part of a scheme or arrangement the main purpose of which is to avoid tax or enable shareholders to participate in the company 's profits without being taxed on dividends ( there is a clearance procedure under s225 ) ; ( d ) the vendor shareholders are resident and ordinarily resident in the UK in the tax year in which the buy-in occurs ; any nominee shareholder must also be so resident , so if the distribution treatment is desirable it can be achieved by interposing non-UK-resident nominees ; ( e ) the shareholder has held his shares for at least five years ; ( f ) the shareholder 's shareholding immediately after the buy-in has been substantially reduced ( ie , by 25% or more , and his entitlement to profits must be similarly reduced ) ; for these purposes the shareholder must include the shareholdings of his " associates " as determined in accordance with s227 ; ( g ) the shareholder must not be connected with the company following the buy-in , and for these purposes he will be connected if he is entitled to acquire more than 30% of the share capital or voting rights in the company or assets on a winding up .
18 MR JUSTICE MILLETT said that the particular question was whether a decision of a commons commissioner that certain land was not registrable as common land because it formed part of a highway was capable of giving rise to an estoppel per rem judicatam so as to preclude the landowner from afterwards asserting , in proceedings unconnected with the register , that the land in question did not form part of a highway .
19 This is defined as a goods vehicle which does not form part of a vehicle combination and has a relevant plated weight not exceeding 3500kg , or ( not having a plated weight ) has an unladen weight not exceeding 1525kg .
20 Where the licensing board decides to hold a hearing as mentioned in subsection ( 4 ) above : ( a ) the clerk of the board shall serve on the holder of the licence , not less than 21 days before the hearing , a notice that the board proposes to hold a hearing , specifying the complaint and the grounds upon which suspension of the licence is sought ; ( b ) the clerk of the board shall give notice of the hearing to the complainer ; ( c ) any person or body mentioned in section 16(1) of this Act may , not less than 7 days before the hearing , lodge notice with the clerk of the board that he or it wishes to be heard in support of suspension of the licence specifying the grounds on which he or it seeks such suspension , an any such notice shall be intimated by such person to the holder of the licence ; ( d ) the board shall not order suspension of a licence without hearing the holder thereof unless after receiving due notice of the hearing the holder fails to appear .
21 This always includes management , underwriting and selling of a bond issue , but may additionally entail arrangement of a swap , initial support for the price of the issue and an implicit commitment to make markets at a later stage .
22 Some sections of the working class , especially where child labour was a necessity , might still prefer evidence of a woman 's fertility , but even when such utilitarian motives were absent , informal ties were often preferred .
23 No one could ever accuse Glass of a lack of ambition .
24 But even on the floor , he can still take command of a situation and turn it to his advantage .
25 At least now , today , she could ease his suffering , help him forget Madeleine for a little while , make him see that he could still find happiness of a kind without her .
26 To further illustrate synthesis of a band-pass filter , consider development of the second-order low-pass filter of figure 12.2(a) into the band-pass form of figure 12.4 .
27 If you are lucky you might also catch sight of an otter around the burn .
28 Viewers can also see Birds of a Feather , Last of the Summer Wine and Jasper Carrot .
29 Mr Singleton knew other talented people , among them an extremely obliging fellow who could treat a sheet of notepaper to give it the feel and appearance of age , and could also produce ink of a quality used in the past .
30 As Strevens ( in Altman 1979 ) points out ‘ In order to focus better on the learner we must also produce teachers of a calibre to do the focusing . ’
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