Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He spoke at its election meetings and worked actively on its behalf , or rather on behalf of his own views which he sought to spread through the party . |
| 2 | Some patients may need drug therapy at diagnosis if they are thin and have lost much weight with severe hyperglycaemia , are very symptomatic or perhaps with evidence of infection . |
| 3 | Behind , or perhaps in front of , all the ideals and theories there was a sound technical base which , under Bernard 's tutelage , was also entering a phase of significant growth . |
| 4 | According to Lindsay Neil , manager of the authority 's HIV , Aids and sexual health programme : ‘ Members of these communities are no more or less at risk of HIV infection than others . ’ |
| 5 | She was quite mature in her answers , and as you will see from Document A , sir , the Visitor got the impression — we have to rely on their experience in this sort of judgement — ; that she was more or less in command of the situation and had gained poise and experience from it and that a second traumatic removal from what in fact was a secure home for her would at this stage do more harm than good , especially as the relationship between the girl and her father was not good . |
| 6 | Since the abolition of direct imprisonment for debts not exceeding £20 , the Insolvent Debtors Court and , after its abolition , the Bankruptcy Court in London and the county courts in the provinces , had possessed the power of imprisonment for forty days or less upon proof of means to pay or fraud . |
| 7 | In that case so can you or I. The next point is that the special rennet that professional cheese-making demands is available only in bulk , and therefore — since only a teaspoonful or so per half-gallon of milk is required — of little use for making cheese at home . |
| 8 | ‘ They say the king 's left Welshpool with a small escort ahead of the army , ’ volunteered a boy a yard or so in front of them , turning an excited face . |
| 9 | Malpass had made it across the street , about eighty feet or so in front of Armstrong . |
| 10 | For example , some jobs or hobbies allow verbally or physically for sublimation of impulses . |
| 11 | Significantly increased incidence was also observed in women seven years or longer after start of cimetidine use ( RR=4.7 ; 95% CI : 1.7–10.3 ) . |
| 12 | You rinse the media , and add one bag per 55 gallons to your filter ( or directly in path of water flow as it says on the packet ) remembering to replace it every 3 to 6 months . |
| 13 | You can also record the limitation date on the outside of the file or preferably as part of the file label . |
| 14 | At a commonsense level , therefore , the professional development of teachers , individually or collectively as part of the social system of the school , appears crucially important to the improvement of educational provision . |
| 15 | Time to reperfusion is delayed with restoration of anterograde coronary flow requiring on average 45 min or more from start of therapy . |
| 16 | Eradication was defined as inability to show H pylori four weeks or more after discontinuation of study treatment by all four tests . |
| 17 | If you overstep the mark , you may find yourself involved in a costly legal fight , with your former employers seeking an injunction or damages or both for breach of contract . |
| 18 | The scheme does not apply to claims for an amount greater than £1,500 per person or £7,500 per Booking Form or to claims which are solely or mainly in respect of physical injury or illness . |
| 19 | Neither does it apply to claims which are solely or mainly in respect of physical injury or illness or the consequences of such injury or illness . |
| 20 | It does not apply to claims which are solely or mainly in respect of physical injury or illness or the consequences of such injury or illness . |
| 21 | Neither does it apply to claims which are solely or mainly in respect of physical injury or illness or the consequences of such injury or illness . |
| 22 | Infection may occur by one of three ways , firstly by ingestion of the L3 in the egg , secondly by ingestion of the hatched L3 or thirdly by ingestion of a transport host containing the L3 . |
| 23 | So far , tropical moist forests provide little more than 10% of the total wood used as solid wood and pulp , but as temperate forests become depleted or increasingly under pressure of the ‘ environmental ’ lobby to be managed for functions other than production , attention will inevitably be focused on the tropical resources . |
| 24 | Generally speaking , one may say that apart from dispositions by will , a deed , i.e. a sealed writing , is necessary , though leases in possession for not more than three years at the best rent obtainable without taking a premium may still be made without a deed or even by word of mouth . |
| 25 | Management does not have the freedom to optimise its own performance in pursuit of a single objective , or even in pursuit of a number of stable and compatible ones … |
| 26 | It 's possible you 're overtired — or even in need of fresh air . ’ |
| 27 | Nevertheless , it is a fact that during shiftwork and after time-zone transitions , body temperature and adrenalin rhythms have been used in addition to , or even in place of , measures of performance at ‘ real tasks ’ or at the simpler tests devised by psychologists . |
| 28 | In any event most sellers prefer , as a commercial issue , not to discuss such questions with their buyers , and , instead to protect themselves by the use of appropriate credit vetting procedures , or else , where possible , by requiring payment upon delivery , or even in advance of delivery . |
| 29 | Sometimes , there will be additional monies agreed in respect of fixtures and fittings , or even in respect of items of household and garden furniture . |
| 30 | By a notice of appeal dated 6 September 1991 the solicitors appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong in law in holding that ( a ) under section 6(2) of the Act of 1986 the court had jurisdiction to order any person other than the contravener who appeared to the court to have been knowingly concerned in the contravention of section 3 of the Act to repay to investors sums paid by them to Pantell and ( b ) under section 61(1) of the Act the court had jurisdiction to order any person other than the contravener who appeared to the court to have been knowingly concerned in the contravention of any rules , regulations or provisions referred to in that section to repay to investors sums paid by them to Pantell ; ( 2 ) the court had no jurisdiction under sections 6(2) and 61(1) to award claims for compensation for loss against persons knowingly concerned in such contraventions in contrast to sections 6(3) to ( 7 ) and sections 61(3) to ( 7 ) ; ( 3 ) the judge was wrong in law in holding that ( a ) the power of the court under section 6(2) to order a person knowingly concerned in the contravention to take such steps as the court might direct for restoring the parties to the transaction to the position in which they were before the transaction was entered into and ( b ) the power of the court under section 61(1) to order a person knowingly concerned in the contravention of the rules , regulations or provisions referred to in that section to take such steps as the court might direct to remedy it included power to make a financial award against such person directing payment by that person to individual investors of sums equivalent to the amounts paid by such investors pursuant to the said transaction , neither subsection empowering the court to order restitution by the repayment of moneys outside the possession or control of the person concerned ; and ( 4 ) the judge erred in law ( a ) in his construction of sections 6(2) and 61(1) in failing to have regard to the principle ‘ generalibus specialia derogant , ’ in particular in holding that there could exist within each of sections 6 and 61 two parallel powers to order financial redress at the suit of the plaintiff , one derived from sections 6(3) and 6(4) and sections 61(3) and 61(4) respectively , which was subject to the limitations set out in those and subsequent subsections , and the other derived from section 6(2) and section 61(1) , which was subject to no such limitations ; ( b ) in rejecting the submission that sections 6 and 61 were essentially procedural and did not create new substantive legal rights and remedies ; and ( c ) in failing to have regard to the fact that the orders sought under paragraphs 11 and 13 of the prayer to the amended statement of claim required payment to the plaintiff or alternatively into court of moneys recovered thereunder from the solicitors despite the absence of any provisions for such orders in the Act , his dismissal of the summons being inconsistent with his finding that there was no provision in sections 6(2) or 61(1) directing payment into court and that any order under the sections would have to direct repayment of the sum paid to each individual investor who had made the original payment . |