Example sentences of "in [noun] of [noun] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | In case of opposition he would follow up a tap from his truncheon with a butt from his head , which was reported as ‘ generally conclusive ’ . |
| 2 | In course of time he finds that he is the pet antipathy of his superior officers , that he is made a butt for the amusement of other men on parade , and that if there is any unpleasant work or unpopular bear or point going vacant it falls to his lot to fill it . |
| 3 | In search of clues he began to study the one area where species can actually be seen to change , the production of new varieties of pigeons , dogs , etc. , through the activity of human breeders . |
| 4 | He visited companies in areas of business he knew little about . |
| 5 | In matters of religion he was largely obliged to play an English game , with English men , and by English rules . |
| 6 | ‘ With the haughty air of a general in charge of manoeuvres he was watching the taxis streaming past [ there was no petrol rationing until April 1917 ] . |
| 7 | But over almost 23 years in charge of BMW he has provided strong direction and real leadership — and never lost sight of BMW 's primary reason for being ’ |
| 8 | In pursuit of authenticity he has eliminated the apparently spurious timpani part from the first movement of Queen Mary 's Funeral Music , the well-known solemn slow march for slide trumpets-performed here on sackbuts . |
| 9 | We could we can , ah no no in terms of money he 's talking about four or five thousand maximum . |
| 10 | The letter from the plaintiffs solicitors in respect of question of interest one causes , the letter of the twenty ninth of January of nineteen ninety two , asking Mr to confirm , that in addition to the settlement figure of forty two thousand pounds in respect of costs he 'd be paying interest until the date of payment , and er , there was never a mind that erm which find a reply to in , in thirtieth of March nineteen ninety two by Mr , there 's no unqualified agreement in figure of forty two thousand pounds , I do not wish to appear obstructive but your clients must recognise that there are effectively two issues to be resolved , namely the payment of their costs and the division of the parts of other property , surely in all parties interest that none of these are resolved , so it is surely in all party interest that those , those are resolved contemporary and then the letter goes on to dealing with questions of valuation , the bottom paragraph on page thirty two in the bundle says in answer to your letter therefore is that there is no agreement to pay interest , if there is then my client must be credited with interest on his costs , and then it says surgery and finally if ove if overall agreement can not be reached then my client reserves his rights on the issue of costs and I feel that this could lead to an acrimonious and protracted taxation , at the end of the day I suspect it would only be enforced the order for costs about taking a charge in my clients interest in the surgery premises , does that improve your clients position at all , as I say that was the position of the thirtieth of March nineteen ninety two and during the remainder of nineteen ninety two there were then further negotiations , some of them appeared to have been carried out er personally between er doctor and er doctor which seems to of been the partner , dealing with the plaintiffs position and er he says about his non negotiable offer at page forty one in the bundle apparently attached to a letter of the twenty first of December nineteen ninety two and er that had a time limit on , the twenty second of March , there was a reminder on the twenty second of February and erm the plaintiffs solicitors wrote on the fourteenth of April nineteen ninety three raising the question of costs erm say that erm we have now received your clients instructions , that they would be prepared to accept the sum of forty two thousand in respect of their standard basis costs which is inclusive of V A T and disbursements , you remember that our initial schedule of costs which I set part of my letter of the eighth of October total fifty thousand , nine hundred and ninety eight pounds , twenty six pence , in addition to this our client would require interest from the which is as of todays date at seven hundred and sixty days at seventeen pounds , twenty six a day totalling thirteen thousand , one hundred and seventeen pounds , sixty , in the circumstances I look forward to receiving your clients cheque for the sum of fifty five thousand , one hundred and seventeen pounds and sixty pence within the next seven days and then it says I believe you were certainly agreeing have been very patient concerning your clients costs , but now we wish these to be paid and that was responded to er Mr on the twenty second of April er but why he quite has not been directly involved in the conversation for some time and there was not reasonable expected response for seven days from him , er and then he goes on to say that although he appreciates his firm is still on the record , I shall seek instructions from my client , but it maybe he would wish to give notice of acting in person and indeed that is in fact what happened , what happened in this case . |
| 11 | In favour of marriage he noted such things as children , companionship and home comforts : ‘ picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire , and books and music perhaps ’ . |
| 12 | In works of reference he described himself as ‘ painter and zoologist ’ . |
| 13 | If he had written it in letters of fire he could n't have made it plainer . |
| 14 | In Moments of Reprieve he remarks : ‘ What the ‘ true ’ image of each of us may be in the end is a meaningless question . ’ |
| 15 | If we are to use the metaphor of weighing , in choices of means the agent is the weigher , but in choices of ends he is the arm of the balance itself . |
| 16 | When he was directly in front of Ymor he said : ‘ I 've come for the tourist . ’ |
| 17 | Firstly , if the defendant receives the information in the knowledge that it is being disclosed in breach of confidence he will be bound by an obligation of confidence ( see for example Albert ( Prince ) v Strange ( 1849 ) 1 Mac & G 25 , Schering Chemicals v Falkman [ 1981 ] 2 WLR 848 ) . |