Example sentences of "of a [noun] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | R v Secretary of State for Home Department , Ex parte Kuku ; CA ( Woolf , Nicholls and Staughton LJJ ) ; 28 Sept 1989 It is highly desirable that foreign nationals to whom r 10 of the Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules HC 169 applies should not only by warned by the Home Office of the necessity under s 3(4) of the Immigration Act 1971 of obtaining a visa if seeking re-entry to the UK after a short visit abroad , but that that warning should take the form of a document attached to the foreign national 's passport , so there is no question of any misapprehension . |
| 2 | Gillian Bulloch , a relief manager for CCG Catering in the east of Scotland , was the lucky winner of a raffle held at the Leonard Cheshire Foundation home , Glamis House in Glenrothes . |
| 3 | The specific objectives of the first phase of the Program , the pilot project , therefore , are ( I ) an appraisal of a structure established for the purpose of attaining this coordination , ( 2 ) an exploration of new methods of relating the library to the instructional program , and ( 3 ) a preliminary assessment of the effectiveness of these methods . |
| 4 | Subsequent analysis of a sample drilled from the interior showed it was of bronze with no zinc present at all . |
| 5 | There was talk of a film based on the character , but that never happened , perhaps wisely in view of the disappointing transformation of many TV comedies to the big screen . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've heard of a tunnel built by the school 's founder for emergencies , ’ said Mcduff . |
| 7 | This is a simplified version of a facility provided on the IBM 370 range ( but see below ) . |
| 8 | Results of a survey conducted by the Department of Health — the first to be published since the change in the law — showed that the average adult weekly alcohol consumption had not changed between 1987 and 1989 . |
| 9 | It may be an abuse of process if either ( a ) the prosecution have manipulated or misused the process of the court so as to deprive the defendant of a protection provided by the law or to take unfair advantage of a technicality , or ( b ) on the balance of probability the defendant has been , or will be , prejudiced in the preparation or conduct of his defence by delay on the part of the prosecution which is unjustifiable : for example , not due to the complexity of the inquiry and preparation of the prosecution case , or to the action of the defendant or his co-accused , or to genuine difficulty in effecting service . |
| 10 | By going down to sea level , you can walk out on to the Rocker de la Vierge , reached by a short gangway , which has a statue of the Virgin on top and the beginnings of a jetty planned by the Emperor Napoleon III but never finished because the sea kept demolishing it . |
| 11 | They were payments made in the fulfilment of a testamentary disposition for the benefit of the children in the exercise of a discretion conferred by the will . |
| 12 | His own brother , with an eye on the throne , allied himself with Richard , Duke of Gloucester ( later Richard III ) , and accompanied a Yorkist army headed for Edinburgh ; but , in the face of a compromise suggested by the provisional government , changed his mind . |
| 13 | More seriously , the Soviet alliance system in Eastern Europe began to disappear as a series of popular revolutions overturned the communist governments in Poland , Hungary , Czechoslovakia , Romania and the GDR ( which became a part of Germany and thereby of NATO under the terms of a treaty signed by the two Germanies , France , Britain and the United States as well as the Soviet Union in September 1990 ) . |
| 14 | Mrs Barnett fell ill because of a drug prescribed after the birth of her daughter . |
| 15 | Doolittle ( 1952 ) reconsidered Batschinski 's suggestion that the resistance to flow of a liquid depended upon the free-space available to a molecule rather than upon the temperature . |
| 16 | The rest of that chapter is devoted to the dramatic and somewhat risqué story of their hiding in the house of Rahab , a prostitute in the city , and their escaping by means of a rope let down the walls from one of her windows . |
| 17 | The institutional manifestation of non-intervention was the Non-Intervention Committee , set up in London in September 1936 to supervise the application of a principle observed by the democracies and by smaller European countries but openly flouted by Europe 's three most powerful dictatorships . |
| 18 | At Box Hill , in Surrey , Cairn Energy has agreed in principle to lease land on the edge of a reservoir owned by the East Surrey Water Company . |
| 19 | This section gives relief in respect of a disposition made on the occasion of the dissolution of the marriage or if it varies a disposition made on that occasion . |
| 20 | The corpse/cadaver brasses sport shrouds of a type seen on the skeleton examples , though the presence of flesh allowed the cutter to render a more accurate portrayal of human features — often producing a successfully recognizable human being , albeit one in want of a good meal . |
| 21 | Now you can achieve a similar effect in your home ; Putnams is importing paints from Turkey of a type used in the Mediterranean for thousands of years . |
| 22 | The well was obviously ancient , the bricks of a type used in the 17th — 18th century , and standing looking into this well was quite a frightening experience . |
| 23 | ‘ 7(1) In the course of an investigation into whether a person has committed an offence under section 4 or 5 of this Act a constable may , subject to the following provisions of this section and section 9 of this Act , require him — ( a ) to provide two specimens of breath for analysis by means of a device of a type approved by the Secretary of State , or ( b ) to provide a specimen of blood or urine for a laboratory test . |
| 24 | The grid of drawings tells the story of a building locked within the architect 's mind . |
| 25 | Some critics , arguing from the cases of Blake and Keats , have assumed that a ‘ Romantic ’ poet would obviously be hostile to the demands of a university dominated by the influence of Newton . |
| 26 | The court 's inability to determine those matters is not limited to the period pending the visitor 's determination but extends so as to prohibit any subsequent review by the court of the correctness of a decision made by the visitor acting within his jurisdiction and in accordance with the rules of natural justice . |
| 27 | A confidential US Defence Department report had concluded that China 's sale of missiles to Saudi Arabia [ see pp. 36254 ; 36312 ] had been the result of a decision taken at the highest level of government to confront the USA in the Middle East . |
| 28 | Thomas Mayer and his son , Thomas Walton Mayer of Newcastle-under-Lyme , sent to every veterinary surgeon in the United Kingdom the draft of a memorial addressed to the governors of the London College , with the ultimate objective of gaining a Charter of Incorporation ‘ to protect us from illiterate and uneducated men , and to afford us the same privileges and exemptions which other professional bodies possess ’ . |
| 29 | The investigation of the most serious , the most controversial complaints is supervised by the Police Complaints Authority , a body consisting of a chairman appointed by the Queen and not more than 12 members appointed by the Home Secretary . |
| 30 | A claimant dissatisfied with the decision of the insurance officer could have the decision reviewed by a local Court of Referees consisting of a chairman appointed by the Minister of Trade , one member chosen from an employers ' panel and one member chosen from a workmen 's panel . |