Example sentences of "[noun] and of " in BNC.
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| 1 | To hear some people talk , you would think such things are all in a jumbled undifferentiated past , much as the Louis XIV 's palace of Versailles with its real hall of mirrors now also houses Jacques-Louis David 's massive celebrations of Napoleon and of the revolution which brought down the Bourbons . |
| 2 | On the one hand there are the conventional rules of good manners and of correct behaviour ; on the other , the rules concerning sympathy and respect for others , keeping faith , honesty , and so on . |
| 3 | Myres believed that ‘ it should be possible to extract … some valuable information on the origin and distribution of the settlers , their relationship to the pre-existing population , their social and economic development , and their notions of religion and of decorative art ’ ( 1969 , p. 11 ) , although only the first and last of these aims were satisfied to any degree via the pottery . |
| 4 | He ushered in a new era in the study of religion and of theology ; he brought a new conception of what the disciplined and ordered study of both could be ; he underlined in epoch-making fashion the importance of the subjective aspect of religious awareness , pointing to what lies deeper than intellectual formulations , yet is not reducible to inchoate and diffuse ‘ feelings ’ ; he attempted to grasp and express in an original and modern way the abiding significance of Jesus , and to uncover the living and personal meaning of what were in danger of being dismissed as merely the fossilised accretions of doctrine . |
| 5 | Civil rights were defined in the Basic Law , including freedom of expression , assembly , religion and of movement , and the government was obliged to respect these . |
| 6 | There are also differences of religion and of family structure , and quite different expectations about the possibility , or desirability , of returning ‘ home ’ . |
| 7 | A basic interest in questions about the meaning and purpose of life ( a ) to challenge secularist assumptions and to appreciate that religious truth-claims can not be easily dismissed ; ( b ) to understand what is distinctive about religion , that is , what it essentially concerns , and be able to distinguish between that and features of it which can vary and perhaps be dispensed with altogether ; ( c ) to realize in particular in how many different ways religion can masquerade as something else , and fail to be what it claims to be ; ( d ) to appreciate the highly controversial nature of religion and of almost everything that is said about it by anyone , whether religious or not ; ( e ) to have a firm grasp of criteria by which to evaluate precise examples and manifestations of religion in practice ; ( f ) to appreciate the force of the question-mark with regard to the ultimate divide between religion and non-religion , and to appreciate the reality of the dilemma , and the ways in which religion needs to be questioned for its failures , negative attitudes , hypocrisy and externalism . |
| 8 | For — cutting straight through the recurring controversies about whether , because of the varieties of the arts and of the infinity of differences between different individual works , ‘ art ’ can be ‘ defined ’ — one thing , I think , is clear . |
| 9 | It is central alike to a study of the arts and of such institutions as the monarchy and Parliament . |
| 10 | Or is Bailey merely articulating an ideology of Bohemianism for the arts and of undirected radicalism for social and political thought in general ? |
| 11 | State funding of the arts and of opera in particular is not even remotely capable of maintaining the status quo , and precious little of the commercial sponsorship that provides the lifeline to all the major opera companies is targeted at contemporary works . |
| 12 | Nkrumah was to study at this somewhat remote , paternalistic institution until 1942 , acquiring the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and of Theology . |
| 13 | He was knighted in 1932 and was subsequently made a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . |
| 14 | The Emperor Hadrian , who was a great lover of the arts and of Greek architecture in particular , supervised the work himself . |
| 15 | After a brief review of attempts to specify organizational characteristics and of the methodological problems they pose to the researcher , a preliminary study is reported . |
| 16 | He was capable of composing his own songs and of writing verse in both French and Provençal . |
| 17 | Obviously the two works are very different : Paul McCartney started out without a classical music background , just with a guitar , some songs and of course a phenomenal gift for making the simple things in music work . |
| 18 | Critics accused the government of giving way to pressure from industrialists and exporters and of reneging on its formal commitment to allow the full discipline of the market to make domestic companies more efficient and competitive . |
| 19 | Freedom of expression and of the press , and freedom of peaceful assembly , of association and of movement were all guaranteed . |
| 20 | The famous 1974 address still remains , in some respects , a benchmark of his thinking and of his central concern . |
| 21 | While much of the thinking during drowsiness maybe humdrum , as experiments involving waking people up during this state have shown , there are undoubtedly some unusual characteristics of style of thinking and of dreamlike imagery during drowsiness . |
| 22 | In early development there are styles of thinking and of social interaction that could constrain the design and management of computer-based resources . |
| 23 | In the face of such unmitigated evil , the reaction of the community and the Government is one of grief and of righteous anger ; but I and my colleagues are absolutely determined that it must also be one of resolute and vigorous action . |
| 24 | Also , to use a light-pen system would require production of a database of the total library stock and of individual users . |
| 25 | As well as the programs for increasing the patterning facility , the Design Controller has programs for saving or erasing patterns on a memory card and of course loading patterns from the memory card into the Design Controller . |
| 26 | In doing that , we should beware of too much partisan debate , of playing the race card and of charges and counter charges that sweep away reason . |
| 27 | They did the simple experiment and of course found that he was not ! |
| 28 | His principal work in philosophy is a detailed refutation of Nicolas Malebranche 's Cartesian theory of perception and of his non-Cartesian , Augustinian , doctrine of ‘ vision in God ’ , the doctrine from which George Berkeley sought to dissociate himself . |
| 29 | We are touching here on the sensitive area of competitive tendering and of privatisation . |
| 30 | Of these L. terrestris , A. longa , and A. nocturna are deep burrowers and of the greatest significance in maintaining soil structure . |