Example sentences of "is the [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1 The most important case , drawing together several decisions in the lower courts , is the Court of Appeal decision R. v. Samuel .
2 There is the Court of Human Rights which adjudicates on the basis of the European Convention of Human Rights , of which the United Kingdom is , of course , a signatory .
3 This is the Court of Chancery : which has its decaying houses and its blighted lands in every shire ; which has its worn-out lunatic in every madhouse , and its dead in every churchyard ; which has its ruined suitor , with his slipshod heels and threadbare dress , borrowing and begging through the round of every man 's acquaintance ; which gives to monied might , the means abundantly of wearying out the right ; which so exhausts finances , patience , courage , hope : so overthrows the brain and breaks the heart ; that there is not an honourable man among its practitioners who would not give — who does not often give — the warning , " Suffer any wrong that can be done you , rather than come here " .
4 3.19 As already stated , the tribunal best qualified to set the guidelines for judges trying personal injury actions is the Court of Appeal .
5 my lord various er matters arise under that , we would ask er at this stage erm not for a judgement , two reasons , but for an adjournment , the first reason is the court of protection costs will have to be calculated
6 But the focus of this volume is the law of marriage and divorce , which Professor Stone feels has been sorely neglected by historians of the family .
7 One of them is the law of return ; another is diversification — as against any kind of monoculture ; another is decentralisation , so that some use can be found for even quite inferior resources which it would never be rational to transport over long distances .
8 Money is the law of life there , which has to be lived by .
9 The Bible is the law of God , which encourages us to obey God and to live for him .
10 This is the Law of Similars — ‘ like cures like ’ .
11 Given these suppositions , Bukharin maintained that ‘ the law of crises is the law of the inevitable periodic disturbance of equilibrium of the system and its restoration . ’
12 The law of value is the law of equilibrium in a simple commodity system of production .
13 The law of the costs of production [ plus the average rate of profit ] is the law of equilibrium in a transformed commodity system , i.e. , the capitalist system .
14 The law of market price is the law of oscillation in this system .
15 The law of competition is the law of the continual restoration of the upset equilibrium .
16 The law of crises is the law of the inevitable periodic disturbance of the equilibrium of the system and its restoration .
17 It is interesting , in the light of the above , to note what Preobrazhensky said about the law of value : ‘ The law of value is the law of spontaneous equilibrium of commodity-capitalist society . ’
18 This is the law of reincarnation .
19 Survival of the fittest is the law of the jungle and one by which all animals , including humans , are bound .
20 Non-violence is the law of our Species , as violence is the Law of the Brute . ’
21 Non-violence is the law of our Species , as violence is the Law of the Brute . ’
22 ( The Pentateuch or the Torah is the Law of Moses found in the first five books of the Old Testament . )
23 The dialectic is the law of totalization which creates several collectivities , several societies , and one history — realities , that is , which impose themselves on individuals ; but at the same time it must be woven out of millions of individual actions .
24 This form of law , called nomos , is the law of liberty .
25 In Jacques Lacan 's reinterpretation of Freud , sexuality , or rather sexual desire , is constituted in language : it is the law of the Father , the castration fear , and the pained entry of the child into the ‘ symbolic order ’ , that is the world of language and meaning , at the Oedipal moment , which instigates ‘ desire ’ .
26 That is the law of the houngan .
27 This is the Law of Offences ( i.e. crimes ) against the State and those under its protection , calling for prosecution usually by officials of the State .
28 Where the proper law of the contract is the law of the UK only by choice of the parties , the Act 's restrictions on exclusion clauses do not apply to the contract .
29 About the only decent argument I 've heard on this , I have to say that because it was my daughter who advanced it , about the only decent argument I have heard is the one about badger baiting where she said to me but badger baiting is not allowed on your land and that is the point precisely that Mr made , it is not allowed because that is the law of the land and that is where decisions about the permission or otherwise of fox hunting should be made .
30 For people who do n't understand , College Green is the bit of greenery outside Westminster where people rush out to be interviewed on camera .
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