Example sentences of "[vb -s] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This area is probably more suited to the older children , and offers opportunity for experience of sorting , matching , comparisons and shape . |
| 2 | Rosyth wins contract in spite of Devonport ploy |
| 3 | The first involves action against the institutions practising censorship , and the second involves action on behalf of or against the membership of the profession . |
| 4 | who confronts grief with dignity of soul , |
| 5 | Insofar as it has force by virtue of the potential penalty in expenses , it follows that the earlier in the action the Tender is lodged , the greater the effect which it may have . |
| 6 | What he is asserting is that ‘ I have toothache ’ has meaning in virtue of pain-language taking the place of moaning ; and what he is denying is that saying this commits him to an experiential explanation of the meaning of pain-language . |
| 7 | An expression has meaning by virtue of its use conforming to the accepted common practice . |
| 8 | The difference is that a protected tenant has security by virtue of his contract with the landlord ; a statutory tenant has security by virtue of the protection given by the Rent Acts . |
| 9 | The difference is that a protected tenant has security by virtue of his contract with the landlord ; a statutory tenant has security by virtue of the protection given by the Rent Acts . |
| 10 | It has also been held that a taxpayer would have standing to challenge the legality of an Order in Council authorizing the payment of public money to the European Community ; and that a television licence-holder has standing in respect of alleged breach by the IBA ( the predecessor of the Independent Television Commission ) of its responsibility to monitor programmes . |
| 11 | One book called The Four Letter Word contains page after page of white space with four letter words all over it . |
| 12 | It is the sentence , and nothing else , which has sense , and it has sense by virtue of there being an accepted common practice with sentences like it , and others . |
| 13 | It is the sentence , and nothing else' which has sense , and it has sense in virtue of there being an accepted common practice with sentences like it , and others . |
| 14 | The very essence of the children 's hearing system is that a hearing , once it has jurisdiction in respect of a child , is empowered to examine the child 's entire social background in arriving at a decision as to disposal in the child 's best interests . |
| 15 | The essence of the offence of fraudulent conversion under [ the Larceny Act 1916 , section ] 20(1) ( iv ) ( referred to in paragraph 17 ) is misappropriation of property by a person who has possession on behalf of somebody else . |
| 16 | Our bodies are part of our whole makeup and the intimate relationship of marriage needs expression in closeness of body as well as of mind and spirit . |
| 17 | Demy himself , looking dangerously ill , adds commentary to part of the film . |
| 18 | A sign of spiritual progress would be the cessation of killing animals for food and the acceptance of a vegetarian diet , and Gandhi quotes Goldsmith in support of his views : |
| 19 | MISGUIDED EDITOR , BADLY MISLED BY MISINFORMED JOURNALIST , DID NOT REALISE THE IMPORTANCE OF ATTENDING BAIE SEMINAR AT DUNDAS AND WILSON ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY , AND LOSES JOB IN CONSEQUENCE OF IGNORANCE WHICH LED TO LITIGATION AGAINST HIS EMPLOYERS , THE JOURNALIST & HIMSELF … |
| 20 | For this reason , the 1985 Structure Plan allocates land in excess of the number of completions required from new land . |
| 21 | One who uses land by permission of the tenant or occupier ( i.e . |
| 22 | If , therefore , a person occupies or uses land by licence of the owner with the paper title and his licence has not been duly determined , he can not be treated as having been in " adverse possession " … |
| 23 | What Jeffery ( and Matza , who quotes Jeffery in support of his own position ) are pointing to here is that whatever positivists chose as the causes of crime , even when they were ‘ external ’ such as ‘ social and group ’ factors , they always excluded the nature and operation of the criminal law from consideration ; such things were simply not taken to be implicated in the process of causing criminal behaviour . |
| 24 | Vincent Price goes spookola in DIARY OF A MADMAN . |
| 25 | This is an important concession and reads as follows : B18 Payments out of a discretionary trust : entitlement to relief from UK tax under the provisions of the Income Tax Acts or of a double taxation agreement If a payment made by trustees falls to be treated as a net amount in accordance with TA 1988 s.687(2) and the income arising under the trust includes income in respect of which the beneficiary would , if such income came to him directly instead of through trustees , be entitled to relief under the provisions of the Income Tax Acts , eg TA 1988 , s.278 ( claims for personal reliefs by non-residents ) ; TA 1988 s.47 ( claims for exemption from tax on certain UK Government securities held by persons not ordinarily resident in the UK ) ; TA 1988 ss.48 , 123 ( claims for exemption from UK tax on income from overseas securities by persons not resident in the UK ) ; or under the terms of a double taxation agreement , such relief will be granted to the beneficiary on a claim made by him to the extent that the payment is of income which arose to the trustees not earlier than in the year 1973 – 74 and not earlier than six years before the end of the year of assessment in which the payment was made , provided that the trustees have submitted for each year trust returns which are supported by the relevant income tax certificates and which detail all sources of trust income arising and payments made to beneficiaries . |
| 26 | then they never let me know , and as you know , er it , it costs money to sort of er , put a meal on |
| 27 | " Grant " includes grant by way of renewal ( s.139(1) ) . |
| 28 | " grant " includes grant by way of renewal ( s. 139(I) ) . |
| 29 | The problem of filling quotas to specification is probably the most severe disadvantage of a participant-observation study ; since the groups studied are self-recruited , the fieldworker by definition relinquishes control over choice of subject . |
| 30 | Another sees Riesenhuber in charge of a new ministry of the environment , where he could head off the political challenge of the Green movement which enters the West German parliament for the first time after the election successes . |