Example sentences of "of an [noun] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This experienced man 's disquiet stemmed from the fact that the taking of a statutory sample , while visible in the organization , is ( as he saw it ) a potentially inefficient use of an officer 's time , and the pressure to take a formal sample to show up well in the league tables placed an improper constraint on the discretion necessary to do the job efficiently . |
| 2 | Enforcement agents , accordingly , organize intelligence systems to circumvent these problems ; in fact much of an officer 's time is devoted to the discovery of pollution . |
| 3 | The value of an officer 's place in an East Indiaman did not lie in the salary , which was only marginally more attractive than that paid to other ship 's officers . |
| 4 | And how did you get hold of an officer 's pistol ? ’ |
| 5 | This constant is important because it fixes the sizes , period and energy of an electron 's orbit in an atom . |
| 6 | The clear , imperious voice , lately gagged by the folds of an archer 's cloak , was singing gently to itself , and did not fall silent even when he instinctively took one dancing step back from the collision , and then as readily translated the movement into a forward lunge that almost passed Adam 's startled guard . |
| 7 | Together with the C-terminal β -hairpin , this strand forms the third strand of an antiparallel β -sheet . |
| 8 | However , whereas most studies suggest that the fungi developing in these secondary sites are normal , regardless of their position , studies by Glenn Richards and Myrtle Smith , of Minnesota University , on Herpomyces , a parasite of cockroaches , indicate that different parts of an insect 's exoskeleton may differ in their susceptibility to Laboulbeniales . |
| 9 | And suddenly he remembered standing here , it was dark-green all around him , but the sky above was blue , the sun must 've been setting , it was quiet , just the creak of a tree , the whir of an insect 's wing , he 'd been standing motionless , as if in a trance , and then he heard a voice , his mother 's voice . |
| 10 | Some researchers suggest that this environmental scanning process might best be achieved by developing especially organised environmental scanning units that are positioned towards the top of an organisation 's hierarchy . |
| 11 | The determinants of an organisation 's culture rest in its origins and history , technology and environment , patterns of ownership and control . |
| 12 | In particular , expert systems are able to accelerate the problem solving process , achieve consistency of decision making and most importantly , ensure the distribution of an organisation 's expertise . |
| 13 | The aim of an organisation 's recruitment procedure is to find the best candidate for a vacancy by predicting the future performance of applicants for the job . |
| 14 | Following detailed interviews with business and technical managers from the public and private sectors , the proposals suggest : the introduction of an accreditation scheme for IT security ( including an independent audit of an organisation 's security ) ; production of generic guidelines and checklists aimed at helping organisations improve their own security procedures and training ; research to improve computer access control mechanisms , especially for personal computer and network users ; and , finally , awareness campaigns . |
| 15 | Browne 's definition of facilities management is the management , by a third party , of an organisation 's information technology infrastructure . |
| 16 | It was all part of an afternoon 's coaching in the art of rugby . |
| 17 | This tendency has been especially marked within large establishments in the engineering and chemical industries , although multi-employer bargaining by means of an employers ' organisation still remains the predominant pattern in highly competitive industries with low capitalisation and a high ease of entry such as clothing , construction and printing ( Sisson , 1984 ) . |
| 18 | The revision follows the increasing emphasis placed by users of financial statements in many countries on historical cash flow information as an indicator of an enterprise 's performance and future sources and uses of cash . |
| 19 | The general area within which this study lies is that of an enterprise 's business strategy and the relationship of that strategy to events in the environment surrounding the enterprise . |
| 20 | Or the convenience of an importer 's warehouse in Essex . |
| 21 | While this sort of requirement is a condition precedent to the contract rather than an expert clause , the status of the certificate is the same as that of an expert 's decision : see also 6.3.4 . |
| 22 | be conditions precedent than true expert clauses , but the status of the opinion is the same as that of an expert 's decision : see also 6.2.2 and 7.4.4 . |
| 23 | For a discussion of the concept of the conclusiveness of an expert 's decision , see 13.7.7 . |
| 24 | If the party obliged to make a payment as the result of an expert 's decision does not do so , he may , if he is an individual , be served with a statutory demand under s268 of the Insolvency Act 1986 ; or , if the defaulting party is a company , it may be served with a written demand under s123 of the Insolvency Act 1986 . |
| 25 | This chapter looks at the limited right of challenge to the validity of an expert 's decision , and explains : ( 1 ) that it is the parties to a contract who get involved in various kinds of court proceedings where the validity of the decision is challenged , and not the expert ( 13.2 ) ; ( 2 ) the grounds for challenge ( 13.3 ) ; ( 3 ) the earlier history of the law of mistake in expert determination ( 13.4 ) ; ( 4 ) more recent developments ( 13.5 ) ; ( 5 ) the current position ( 13.6 ) ; ( 6 ) speaking and non-speaking decisions ( 13.7 ) ; ( 7 ) points of law ( 13.8 ) ; ( 8 ) construction of documents ( 13.9 ) ; ( 9 ) various other aspects of mistake ( 13.10 – 13.13 ) ; and ( 10 ) the future of the doctrine ( 13.14 ) . |
| 26 | This chapter seeks to distinguish arbitration from references to experts by considering : ( 1 ) confusion between whether references have been to experts or arbitrators ( 15.2 ) ; ( 2 ) how the court interprets express words in the contract about a referee 's status ( 15.3 ) ; ( 3 ) the guidelines for assessing the referee 's status ( 15.4 – 15.9 ) ; ( 4 ) the procedural differences between arbitrations and references to experts ( 15.10 ) ; ( 5 ) the different consequences of an expert 's decision and an arbitration award ( 15.11 ) . |
| 27 | The question has been so controversial because of uncertainty about the law relating to arbitrators and experts generally and because of the differences between the consequences of an expert 's decision and the consequences of an arbitration award . |
| 28 | 15.11 The different consequences of an expert 's decision and an |
| 29 | 1.74 It is now clear from Ollett v Bristol Aerojet Ltd [ 1979 ] 1 WLR 1197 that the substance of an expert 's report , which the rules require the parties to disclose as a condition precedent to calling him at trial , includes his opinion , which is , after all , the whole reason for calling him . |
| 30 | Sometimes it 's a story that lends itself to cover status — from The Four Skins/race riot report in '81 to the death of Will Synott last year — but more often than not , NME 's prime site acts as a simple celebration of an act 's greatness . |