Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] of [adj] or [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some supernatural manifestations are regarded as portents of good or evil ; one such occurrence was the Spectral Train of Kyle . |
| 2 | You may have to face up to a display of feelings of hurt or rejection ; but if your parent is a naturally unselfish person ( and not mentally impaired ) who had simply failed to realise your need for this degree of privacy and emotional ‘ living-space ’ , she will probably be only too anxious to co-operate . |
| 3 | In addition the court may direct that the local authority be provided with copies of all or part of the documentary evidence in the case . |
| 4 | Er there are major plans as well as I understand it , Mr can confirm , for extension of that or expansion of that area , already agreed in the local plan . |
| 5 | For details of one-week or midweek breaks , call the White House Hotel on ( 0481 ) 722159 . |
| 6 | The term is also used for one who manages the causes of others in courts of civil or canon law such as Doctors ' Commons was : described by Steerforth as ‘ a sort of monkish attorney ’ , DC 23 . |
| 7 | On Oct. 3 Wörner described the future of NATO as an expanded defence community employing peacekeeping forces in areas of ethnic or border unrest . |
| 8 | Future negotiations would deal with specific topics including " the cessation of all outside interference in terms of personal or material support in the present conflict " ; the grouping of heavy weaponry under international control ; and the establishment of refugee and relief centres for citizens of Bosnia-Hercegovina expelled from their homes , pending their return . |
| 9 | On the interpretation in terms of entrepreneurial or windfall gains , the variance may be reduced ( e.g. , by regulation of speculative activities or controls on land use ) or increased ( e.g. , by zoning legislation , by frequent changes in policy or tax rates , etc . |
| 10 | The accounts presented to Parliament , in the form of Estimates and Appropriation Accounts , are statements of cash receipts and payments during a year regardless of whether they are in respect of current or capital expenditure and , if current , whether benefit of the related goods and services was received during that year . |
| 11 | Are you , for instance , due to be reimbursed in respect of all or part of the running expenses ? |
| 12 | As an alternative , Palatine shareholders will be offered the opportunity to elect for cash in respect of all or part of their holding in Palatine ordinary shares . |
| 13 | That the Board be authorised to exercise the power contained in Article 134 of the Articles of Association so that , to the extent and manner determined by the Board , the holders of ordinary shares in the capital of the Company be permitted to elect to receive ordinary shares , credited as fully paid , instead of cash in respect of all or part of any interim or the final dividend relating to the year ending on 31 December 1993 , such authority to expire at the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting of the Company to be held in 1994 . |
| 14 | Broadly defined , privatisation ranges from sale of all or part of the equity to their transformation to management contracts or leasing agreements with private firms . |
| 15 | It is interesting to observe the powerful constraints on creators of surrealist or science fiction in this respect . |
| 16 | Still to be determined are the value of a low-dose booster vaccine , possibly intradermal ; monitoring of quantitative anti-HBs at five or more years to assess the need for revaccination ; and an automatic booster at five or more years without benefit of pre- or post-testing . |