Example sentences of "of a [adj] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | In the absence of a contrary statement in the contract between X and Y Ltd. , property will normally have passed by virtue of sections 16–18 of the Sale of Goods Act ( paragraphs 3–07 to 3–24 ) . |
2 | It is not easy to find a general definition of the normal meaning of irony , but it usually stands for a process by which the content of a statement is qualified either by the reader 's attribution of a contrary intention to the author , or by the reader 's awareness of factors that are in conflict in one way or another with what is being said . |
3 | For , in the absence of a contrary agreement with the original lessor , the original tenant remains liable throughout the entire term of the lease irrespective of the fact that he or she may have assigned or sold the tenancy to another . |
4 | It subsequently transpired that the conveyancing arrangements I have described were part of a fraudulent scheme of the Hammonds to obtain money for themselves using the property as security . |
5 | I am interested in an aspect of it which exists , it at all , in terms of that contradiction — of a parodic critique of the essence of sensibility as conventionally understood . |
6 | Mrs Thatcher , although she has criticised the Delors monetary union plan for being ‘ undemocratic , ’ is determined to try to exclude consideration of a bigger role for the European Parliament from the Rome Treaty review process . |
7 | I saw once the head of a dear friend among the leaves and was less astonished at what first seemed an apparition than by his disentangling himself and in the flesh bidding his good morning , so accustomed was I to looking for my thoughts and news among the leaves . |
8 | A dolphin can emit up to 700 clicks a second with this apparatus and from them is able to detect not only the presence of a solid object in the water but to deduce what sort of object it is . |
9 | RIBA Council , on the recommendation of the regional council , approved the setting up of a fifth branch in the region to serve the members in Central Wales . |
10 | Not being in possession of a verbatim record of the submission by the County , I have prepared twelve linked submissions in this matter , document G W Fourteen B , which seek to rebut with justification the point believed to have been made on behalf of the County and District Councils . |
11 | But the month-by-month figures ( Figure 2 ) do show a very sharp drop in temperatures very soon after the eruption — totally disagreeing with the forecast of a greatest influence on the hemispheric environment 18 months to two years after the dust veil is blown into the stratosphere . |
12 | He also believed , first , that France was unlikely to be able to secure an alliance with Britain ( because of the two countries ' disagreement about the Near East in 1840 ) ; second , that Britain might support Russia in the event of a Russian attack on the Ottoman Empire ( because of the Anglo-Russian discussions which had taken place in London in 1844 ) ; and third , that in any event he could count on the support of Austria ( because of the assistance he had rendered Vienna in putting down the Hungarians in 1849 ) . |
13 | Isaac Wolfson , son of a Russian refugee in the furniture business in Glasgow , became lord of chain store after chain store in the Fifties . |
14 | But make sure you pay attention not just to the basic impulses and enthusiasms , which are sound and fine ; not just to the incidental portrait of a consummate mountaineer in the passages about Dave Breashears ; but also to a strange sort of instinctual third dimension which Blessed 's larger than life character seems to entice into play : |
15 | David Herald and Paul Muller presented their analysis under the heading ‘ Observation of a probable change in the solar radius between 1715 and 1979 ’ . |
16 | The substitution of a phoneme by its mid-class N ( i.e. the inclusion of and as alternatives to in the phoneme graph ) will therefore increase the probability of a correct correspondence between the phoneme graph and the acoustic signal . |
17 | The search for a laterality index that is not biased with respect to accuracy recently led Bryden and Sprott ( 1981 ) to propose the adoption of a new index , lamda , based on the log odds ratios ( P/ ( l — P ) ; P/ ( l -P ) where PR and P , are the respective probabilities of a correct response at the left and right sides . |
18 | Under his direction , the Ulster Constitution Defence Committee maintained its traditional line that O'Neill was not responding to the legitimate demands of a disadvantaged section of the population , but giving in to the demands of rebels who would never be satisfied with anything less than the destruction of Northern Ireland . |
19 | Since the late 1940s the Queen Mother had been the darling of National Hunt racing : it was largely her enthusiasm for the sport that raised its status from that of a poor relation to the Flat to , by the mid-1950s , a position of near equality — in popularity if not in the prize money available . |
20 | But the point is that the mind of a child is often capable of a greater grasp of the complexity of a theological problem than an adult . |
21 | The immediate origins of a greater alliance between the state and science lay in military anxieties over the Boer War debacle . |
22 | Between February and October the Labour and Tory votes both fell , and Labour 's parliamentary success was merely the result of a greater slump in the Tory vote . |
23 | On the one hand , if the landlord has redevelopment plans or if a higher rent could be achieved on a reletting of a greater part of the building , it will be in the landlord 's interest to ensure that all tenancies are expressed to expire on the same date . |
24 | Having wasted his own considerable inheritance and his wife 's fortune , he stood in need of a greater reward at the Revolution than the minor place of treasurer of the chamber , which , aside from various local dignities , was all he received . |
25 | On the question of Danzig there was no possibility of a simple answer to the problem of attachment and government . |
26 | ‘ … a person shall not be convicted of rape or indecent assault upon his spouse , or an attempt to commit , or assault with intent to commit rape or indecent assault upon his spouse ( except as an accessory ) unless the alleged offence consisted of , was preceded or accompanied by , or was associated with — ; ( a ) assault occasioning actual bodily harm , or threat of such an assault upon the spouse ; ( b ) an act of gross indecency , or threat of such an act , against the spouse ; ( c ) an act calculated seriously and substantially to humiliate the spouse ; or ( d ) threat of the commission of a criminal act against the person . ’ |
27 | ‘ there must be something in the nature of a criminal intent of the kind which means that it is done with the idea of some form of hostility to the police with the intention of seeing that what is done is to obstruct , and that it is not enough merely to show that he intended to do what he did and that it did in fact have the result of the police being obstructed . ’ |
28 | The fortuitous intervention of a criminal appeal during the course of those proceedings ought not , he contends , to persuade us to permit any departure from the usual strict approach taken rightly to implied undertakings . |
29 | Many examples pose no problem in the light of the notion of a prior position of the support : ( 17 ) To visit the poor is a Christian obligation . |
30 | Provided that the purchaser did not have actual or constructive notice of the prior assignment at the time the asset sale agreement was completed , the purchaser is not prejudiced , if between completion and giving notice to the debtor , the purchaser discovers the existence of a prior assignment by the vendor ( see Mutual Life Assurance Society v Langley [ 1886 ] 32 Ch D 460 ) . |