Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] ' [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A by-product of Labour leaders ' responsiveness to the new thinking may be that the party relieves itself of some commitments which have been electoral liabilities in the past . |
| 2 | Agreed royalties will be paid for the use of each others ' code for an agreed period of time . |
| 3 | The former , which are open to full-time lecturers in further education establishments in Wales , lead either to the Post Graduate Certificate in Education ( Further Education ) or to the Certificate of Education ( Further Education ) and consist of two periods of eight weeks ' attendance at the Faculty of Education of the University College , interspersed with one year 's supervised teaching and tutorial sessions in the student 's own institutions . |
| 4 | This tension surfaced in particularly acute form on the morrow of the first proletarian revolution as the Bolsheviks attempted to construct a system of coordinated workers ' control over industry in face of the proliferation of relatively independent factory committees . |
| 5 | Part of the evidence here comes from genetic analyses ( e.g. twin comparisons ) of normal subjects ' performance on ‘ creativity ’ tests . |
| 6 | To get an approximate feel for the size of the loss , in 1985 according to the National Income and Expenditure " Blue Book " , £4046 million was spent on gas , out of total consumers ' expenditure of £213,208 million . |
| 7 | On Nov. 4 , the 13th anniversary of Iranian revolutionaries ' takeover of the US embassy in Tehran [ see p. 30150 ] , the authorities announced the arrest of a US resident , Milton Meier , a travel agent , who was said to have confessed to spying . |
| 8 | The longest determinate prison sentence ever upheld by English courts was the sentence of forty-five years ' imprisonment in the case of Hindawi ( 1988 ) , a man who sent his pregnant girlfriend on a flight with a bag which contained a bomb timed to destroy the aircraft and its 350 passengers in mid-flight . |
| 9 | Amid the tumult of Tiananmen Square , the end of 30 years ' estrangement between the world 's great Communist powers went almost forgotten . |
| 10 | There is no requirement for the Director of Public Prosecutions ' consent for section 51 . |
| 11 | He was sentenced to a total of 12 months ' imprisonment for the summary and either way offences and the suspended sentence was activated consecutively . |
| 12 | Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 , s.133 allowed a magistrates ' court to pass an aggregate of 12 months ' imprisonment for two or more either way offences . |
| 13 | It is now clearly established that a juvenile who pleads guilty to an offence or series of offences for which the maximum term of custody is a sentence of 12 months ' detention in a young offender institution should normally receive an appropriate discount to reflect his plea , subject to the general principles governing the award of a discount . |
| 14 | ( S. ) 335 recognise the exception illustrated by this decision : if the offence to which the juvenile has pleaded guilty is punishable with 14 years ' imprisonment and is therefore one for which the juvenile can be detained under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , s.53(2) for a longer period , a sentence of 12 months ' detention in a young offender institution is not objectionable , despite the plea of guilty , if the offence would have justified a longer term of detention under section 53(2) and the sentencer has given the juvenile a discount for his plea by choosing to impose a term of detention in a young offender institution rather than detention under Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , s.53(2) . |
| 15 | The appellant had been sentenced to a term of detention which took effect as a sentence of 12 months ' detention in a young offender institution , and the Court 's powers were limited to declaring that that was the effect of the sentence passed by the Crown Court . |
| 16 | Criminal Justice Act 1982 , s. 1B(5) provides that if a sentence of detention in a young offender institution is passed on a juvenile which results in a total term of detention exceeding 12 months ' , any excess over 12 months ' is remitted and the sentence takes effect as a term of 12 months ' detention in a young offender institution . |
| 17 | Courses are generally of 12 months ' duration by full-time study . |
| 18 | Some observer data on incidental catches on four vessels of the red squid fleet , over a total of 67 days ' fishing through the 1980s , showed that 105 marine mammals died in 2870 k ( 2000 miles ) of drift-net - one death for each 27 kind of net . |
| 19 | The same is true of the effects of social services ' intervention in the lives of families . |
| 20 | These problems of prediction related to the definitional fallacy and the statistical fallacy are very evident in the Beckford Report , which was so critical of social workers ' lack of knowledge and use of predictive research . |
| 21 | Improved bus services with co-ordinated timetables were widely suggested in the 1976 Green Paper on Transport Policy and in the response of British Railways ' Board to this , Opportunity for Change . |
| 22 | This is the fifth year of British Gas ' involvement with BAYS Masterminds , and just one example of our interest in helping young people to develop and realise their potential . |
| 23 | Thus perhaps the fact that a number of legal cases have been brought is indicative of some parents ' resistance to the subservient , rather than partnership , role which some say they are forced to assume by the Act ( regardless of exhortations to LEAs to extend parental involvement ) . |
| 24 | So I jerk a reluctant Rainbow to her feet , cause her to blurt appropriate remarks about the lateness of the hour , and steer her out of this snakes ' nest of baby ben Issachars . |
| 25 | His military career ended with a sentence of twenty-eight days ' detention for absence without leave . |
| 26 | Earned PhD in agricultural science , preferably in plant breeding or agronomy ; minimum of 10 years ' experience in agricultural research and training ; three years ' experience working in a multidisciplinary team in a developing country , international organisation , or bilateral program ; management experience ; ability to work collaboratively with scientists of different disciplines and nationalities . |
| 27 | The Lithuanian citizenship law , passed by the parliament on Dec. 5 , had established the criteria of 10 years ' residence in Lithuania , knowledge of the language and the Constitution , and a source of income , and had prohibited dual citizenship . |
| 28 | It may impose a fine of up to £2000 ( unless the Statute creating the offence provides otherwise ) and a maximum term of six months ' imprisonment on any one charge ( and a maximum of twelve months where the person is charged with more than one offence triable ‘ either way ’ , e.g. theft ) . |
| 29 | From Bill Evans ' early days at the end of the first world war , across the years to Bill Evans junior of the 1990's , the family has so far recorded a combined total of 143 years ' service with Wedgwood . |
| 30 | sort of well we ca n't pay this that and the other and the thing that really gets me and , and , you know , I , I 've tried to reason it through so many times but top er top of these mums ' sort of shopping list is these disposable nappies |