Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [conj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often as not fry have to be removed from their parents for any number of reasons and if a bare tank is used in which to grow them on , it is not always possible to have a suitable filter on hand to use in an emergency . |
| 2 | You could smell the gas from the coke and ‘ Are you awake there ? ’ and then you might have a little natter with him — but only for a couple of minutes because if the sergeant saw you , you 'd be ‘ on the peg ’ . |
| 3 | It has been held in a number of cases that if a person claims to have a legitimate expectation , this will give that person standing to make an application for judicial review unless the claim is totally frivolous . |
| 4 | Might it become less valid with the mingling of cultures and as the concept of the family continues to change ? |
| 5 | Is my hon. Friend aware that high levels of manufacturing output lead to high levels of exports and that the Dover ferry industry has done well under the Government out of high levels of exports ? |
| 6 | The normal bass roll-off of -6dB by 38Hz is low enough to lend a convincing weight to the majority of signals and if the bass seems initially a little ‘ polite ’ to some ears it is only because it is tight , with little or no hangover — the dual coupled-cavity technique really does give a positive ‘ start and stop ’ throughout its range . |
| 7 | In his inaugural address he said that " the evil era when the authorities of our country were appointed under pressure of foreigners or as the result of forced compromises is ending " . |
| 8 | The practical effect of a comfort letter is to stop the Commission from changing its mind as to the status of the agreement unless there has been a material change of circumstances or unless the letter is written on the basis of incorrect information supplied by the parties . |
| 9 | Kuwaiti officials in exile claimed that the new junta was composed entirely of Iraqis and that the new Prime Minister , Col. Alaa Hussain Ali , was in fact Saddam Hussein 's son-in-law . |
| 10 | The third , and most interesting part of the research , is to explain the persistence into the 20th century of large numbers of local and regional designs of agricultural edge-tools and the failure of large manufacturers to standardise their products and reduce the number of lines until after the Second World War . |
| 11 | Recently , it was found that a mentally handicapped woman in Durham had been wrongly denied benefit for a number of years and that the cumulative total was £25,000 . |
| 12 | I AM a fan and an observer of dogs and before the avalanche descends on me I must shout that , like Chris Joyce , our US Editor , I am well aware of the case against dogs but also know that the relationship is to human advantage rather than the other way round . |
| 13 | The second variant fails both because the requirement of consideration may be satisfied casually by an informal exchange of promises and because the courts invoke another doctrine , the requirement of an intention to enter legal relations , when they wish to claw back certain informal promises made in social and domestic contexts from the realm of contractual obligations . |
| 14 | It is sometimes very strange to see an AIB Engineering Inspector and an RAF doctor with their heads down inside the wreckage of a crashed aircraft in the AIB hangar at Farnborough , arguing , discussing or merely agreeing that this or that component is not strong enough to sustain survivable crash forces on a row of seats or that a part of the galley constitutes a lethal hazard against which passengers could suffer injury in a crash . |
| 15 | So now I go out and shoot Lou full of holes and when the law wants to know what makes me so excitable I tell them Mr. Bonanza said Lou shot Mahoney . |
| 16 | Whiskers sometimes grow by accident from the surface of metals and if the metal happens to be part of an electrical device then there is likely to be a short circuit which will be annoying , expensive or dangerous according to the circumstances ( Plate 9 ) . |
| 17 | Given that such a coalition would enjoy the support of more than 50% of electors and that the turnover of seats under PR is small ( Professor Finer estimated that a swing of 1% would result in the loss of only six seats ) , it would most likely remain in office for the foreseeable future and hence be in a position to ensure a degree of policy continuity . |
| 18 | These were that the House would be inundated with appeals relating to the interpretation of statutes and that the House would not have the benefit of the careful consideration of the case before it went up to the House ( Drewry , 1973 ) . |
| 19 | And er we can get by on lots of things and when an emergency does come , sometimes we can cope with it if it 's not too big a one , but other times it can catch up with us , simply because we are only sort of half awake so the purpose of the talk today is to try and help us all to see various ways in which we can stay awake in the truth physic er , er spiritually speaking . |
| 20 | It was held that there was a contract of sale of goods and that the sellers could sue for the outstanding balance of the price . |
| 21 | Levi-Strauss ' thesis that marriage is always a contractual arrangement between groups of males and that the principal valuable in marriage is always the bride herself would imply that , on balance , the other valuables , e.g. cattle , jewellery , money , ritual objects , should move from the wife-takers to the wife-givers . |
| 22 | A solution might be to postpone the decision on the issue of damages until after the authority has deliberated again . |
| 23 | First of all , that the marker tumour is eradicated by a six week course of B G C in just over fifty percent of patients and that the number of tumours is reduced in at least eight five percent . |
| 24 | Mr Lang also told the grand committee that figures due out this week , covering the year to December 1992 , would show marked improvements in the length of time National Health Service patients spent waiting for treatment ; a record number of patients and that the Government was on course to meet the guarantee that virtually no-one would have to wait more than 18 months for treatment . |
| 25 | Cut away a neat edged circle around the base of trees and where the shrubs overhang the lawn . |
| 26 | The aim is to check whether the conventional view of the characteristics of poor households can be substantiated by close empirical investigation of large samples of households and whether the measure by which households are ranked makes a significant difference to the effectiveness of anti-poverty policies . |
| 27 | The doctor said the injury could have been caused in a number of ways and though the soldier was limping he was ‘ surprised that such a minor injury would cause a limp . ’ |
| 28 | The Task Force also concluded that such benefits share many of the characteristics of pensions and that the principles of SSAP 24 , Accounting for Pensions Costs , are applicable . |
| 29 | Dr Alfred M. Bongiovanni , professor of paediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia , told the American Academy of Paediatrics that once the growth hormone reaches the market , doctors might be pressured by parents to give the hormone to children who are slow developers . |
| 30 | An example of such a system would be the Tuareg of North Africa where a ruling class controls large numbers of slaves but where no centralized authority existed traditionally . |