Example sentences of "of an [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1973 , under the direction of the Scottish Development Department , the old County Council of Orkney commissioned a firm of planning consultants to draw up first of all an interim strategy and then a Structure Plan to cope with the consequences surrounding the construction of an oil-terminal on the island of Flotta , and with the possibility of further North Sea oil activity taking place within the county . |
| 2 | Although a member state may limit the number of members of an EEIG to twenty , it is envisaged that , in the UK , professional partnerships which may have over twenty members will be treated as a single member . |
| 3 | The right of an editor to trial by jury is one reason why this law has not been invoked since 1947 : no government will risk the embarrassment of an acquittal . |
| 4 | The Privy Council in Hector v. Attorney-General of Antigua and Barbuda [ 1990 ] 2 A.C. 312 held that the prosecution of an editor of a newspaper with an offence under the Public Order Act 1972 ( No. 9 of 1972 ) of Antigua contravened the rights of the individual under their Constitution . |
| 5 | It is possible to challenge an appeal decision in the High Court but only on grounds of an error of law , of a defect in the procedure or of the decision being one which no reasonable Secretary of State could have made . |
| 6 | My Lords , I have had the advantage of reading the judgment of Lord Browne-Wilkinson with which I agree and I would dismiss this appeal and allow the cross-appeals on the ground that certiorari is not available to challenge the decision of a visitor on the ground of an error of law within his jurisdiction . |
| 7 | It said the decision was wrong and accused Mr Hussey of an error of judgment which had raised questions about the upper echelons of the BBC . |
| 8 | the decision was wrongly made as a result of an error on the part of the tribunal staff ; or |
| 9 | As a result of an error on my part , a mistake appeared in your report ( 18 March ) covering our formal investigation into Strathclyde Regional Council education authority . |
| 10 | In relation to this ground it was held unanimously that the condictio did not apply to the case of an error in law in interpreting an Act of Parliament . |
| 11 | Next , has the Association of Chief Police Officers yet been told that as from April they will have to take on this burden of work which has been removed from the British Transport Police as a result of an error in a Government Bill . |
| 12 | He looked as if he had been conserving all his energy since then for the moment when he took advantage of an error by Butcher to shoot strongly past Woods . |
| 13 | He looked as if he had been conserving all his energy since then for the moment when he took advantage of an error by Butcher to shoot strongly past Woods . |
| 14 | In ( 138a ) and ( 139a ) make implies that it is the person(s) referred to by its subject ( they , the newspapers ) who themselves engage in warfare or commit an error , whereas in ( 138b ) and ( 139b ) cause represents its subject as a condition or circumstance which provokes engagement in warfare or commission of an error by some other agent . |
| 15 | ‘ This was a one-off incident , a very unfortunate occurence , which appears to have been the result of an error by someone who resides in the hostel , ’ he added . |
| 16 | can anybody else give me an example of an oxide with |
| 17 | The third area is a case study of an instance of legal codification in the UK . |
| 18 | Parents , who have no right to prevent an assessment , must be informed of the LEA 's proposal to assess the child , given the name of an officer of the LEA from whom further advice may be obtained , and notified of the right to make representations ( orally or in writing ) within a minimum period of 29 days from service of notice by the LEA . |
| 19 | Under normal circumstances small favours of this type could be obtained by a politician with government connections , and it was only circumstances of a temporary nature which made job provision difficult for Scots politicians , such as the effective block which appeared in 1737 following the lynching of an officer of the City Guard of Edinburgh , when as a writer remarked , the hanging of Captain Porteous ‘ sticks vastly in his majesties stomach and has been a great detriment to our countray-men in getting any thing done ’ . |
| 20 | Rank for rank , East India Company officers received double the pay of an officer of a royal regiment , while serving in a country with a much lower cost of living . |
| 21 | Political connections were often the principal criterion suggested to justify the promotion of an officer of excise , and some of them were quite ready to employ their own votes to advance their careers so long as this was permitted by Parliament . |
| 22 | Loss of employment as the result of an uninvestigated charge of neglect of duty or malversation was not the only threat hanging over the head of an officer of the revenue . |
| 23 | This photo is of an officer of a branch with darker facings . |
| 24 | In the case of serious arrestable offences the rights can be postponed for up to 36 hours on the authority of an officer of at least the rank of superintendent if that officer has reasonable grounds for believing that the exercise of either right would : ( a ) lead to interference with evidence connected with a serious arrestable offence ; ( b ) lead to interference with or physical injury to other persons ; ( c ) " tip-off " other persons suspected of a serious arrestable offence ; ( d ) hinder the recovery of property . |
| 25 | R.24(1) provides that it is the duty of an officer of a recognised body to take all reasonable steps to ensure that the body complies with the Rules and other conduct requirements , whether that officer is a solicitor or an RFL . |
| 26 | Whitely has in his book The Theology of the New Testament a powerful image of an officer in the war who had to lead his troops across a dangerous minefield . |
| 27 | She is the daughter of an officer in the army , but I think now alone in the world and with little money . |
| 28 | Steve , not in police custody but not free either , was in the care of an officer from the Greenwich Children 's Department . |
| 29 | Radioactive contamination is removed by the disintegration of an isotope through a series of daughter elements until a stable element is produced . |
| 30 | The defeat of British Jacobinism at the end of the 1790s was the starting point of an effervescence of fringe religious movements . |