Example sentences of "and [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Considerable stress is laid on the accessibility and approachability of the landlord organisations , especially given that most tenants stated a preference to speak rather than write to housing staff about their problems . |
| 2 | The mid-1960s were the watershed of postwar society , and the creativity and anarchism of the period left nothing untouched . |
| 3 | The Diary of Bulstrode Whitelocke , 1605–1675 and Contemporaries of Bulstrode Whitelocke , edited by Ruth Spalding ( Oxford University Press for The British Academy , 1990 ) |
| 4 | Suger and Odo of Deuil between them established the norms for the house 's long tradition of royal historiography ; of these the chief was that whatever the Capetians did should be presented in the most favourable light possible . |
| 5 | In their hands shone the emblems and harness of sanctity : gold rood glimmered , and monstrance and thurible ; and the Crucifix from St Sophia itself rode the night like a ship on their shoulders . |
| 6 | In this way the homosexual writer is granted a dubious measure of liberal pity ( ‘ if only he had n't lived in such a repressive world ’ ) while at the same time the heterosexual critic distances the threatening possibility that a homosexual writer might have a great many insights into the codes , mechanisms and ideologies of heterosexuality itself . |
| 7 | But too many of them have been weaned on the habit of chopping up the New Testament into bits ( sorting out the sources , contemporary themes and ideologies of Aramaic Palestine or the Hellenistic world ) so that they can no longer see the scriptures as a sacred text aflame with the divine drama . |
| 8 | But I do want us to realise that evil today has to be faced in a far more fundamental and crucial theatre of war : it is in the processes and ideologies of the modern world itself that we find the destructive , impersonal and heartless force of the Dark Power . |
| 9 | ‘ New Directions in Scandinavian Design ’ looks at the latest developments while ‘ Ethics and Aesthetics : design agencies of Scandinavia ’ examines the role and ideologies of Scandinavia 's design agencies and their achievements in the promotion of good design and better living and working environments . |
| 10 | The economically equitable assumptions behind changes in the property law often , for instance , came into conflict with inherited beliefs about the proper division of labour in the family and ideologies of femininity — and the latter usually won . |
| 11 | These views rest on different assumptions about the power and ideologies of trade union officials and the aim of this research is to try to establish how powerful are local trade union officials in their relations with shop stewards , and what sorts of ideologies inform their behaviour in these relationships . |
| 12 | It is argued that differences in the political agendas and ideologies of the British and Spanish governments lie behind the variable pressures — and opportunities — for industrial relations change experienced by railway management . |
| 13 | To these self-appointed custodians of public morals it was even more appalling that those very classes who should in theory be the hope and backbone of republicanism were equally infected by the general tone of light-mindedness : |
| 14 | The film is sentimental , but is saved by some smashing performances , in particular the statuesque Geena Davis as down-to-earth Dottie Hinson , star player and backbone of the team , who completely overshadows kid sister , Kit ( Lori Petty ) . |
| 15 | They are the ribs and backbone of the Black Land , and the army is its muscle . |
| 16 | In some poems she praises the beauty and accomplishments of other women , though in a manner which foregrounds heterosexual courtship . |
| 17 | For more than 50 years I have nurtured what might be called an insatiable interest in China and the arts , crafts , and accomplishments of the Chinese people , the oldest extant civilization on earth . |
| 18 | If we can get out from behind pride , we can begin to see with genuine appreciation the efforts and accomplishments of other people . |
| 19 | Only the most illustrious names hold out the lure of considerable profit ; but many thousands of unknown men and women have left behind them a legacy of written material that will never be illicitly copied and imitated yet will yield a rich store of history , and throw light on their place and period , life and labours , which are every bit as important , in the ultimate scale of things , as the antics and accomplishments of those who contrived to hit the headlines . |
| 20 | Weber was impressed with the development and accomplishments of bureaucracy , and especially with the role of technical knowledge in bureaucratic administration which he regarded as the primary source of the superiority of bureaucracy as an organisation . |
| 21 | The overall conclusion is that while there is no shortage of regular comment and coverage of mental handicap in the mass media , there have been few attempts over recent years to explore the subject in any depth , and those that have , have focussed on the sensational and the controversial . |
| 22 | Over the years a small number of programmes have come from lesbians and gay men : the Scottish Minorities Group 's ‘ Glad To Be Gay ’ in 1976 , and coverage of the Clause 28 debate . |
| 23 | The ADAM & EVE database , which forms the basis for all the analysis , is the result of long-term research into the frequency and coverage of words in the language . |
| 24 | Local authority employment increased by 2.5 per cent over the same period , despite a reduction in refuse collection and disposal , the main field till then of tendering to private-sector firms ; ‘ although most of these firms claim to have a national presence , the great bulk of their work is in the South East and coverage of other areas is often patchy ’ ( Le Grand and Robinson , 1984 , 60 ) . |
| 25 | The National Library of Scotland is collaborating with the British Library and the other legal deposit libraries of the British Isles in a pilot project of shared cataloguing in order to improve the currency and coverage of catalogue records for British books by sharing the responsibility for the creation of those records . |
| 26 | We are extending the range and coverage of our urban air quality monitoring network in the coming years , and an additional monitoring site came into operation in central London last month . |
| 27 | Because of the high quality and coverage of the GHS , the results will be equivalent to those from an approximation to a random sample of owner-managers and the self-employed covering the whole range of economic activities in which small scale enterprise is represented . |
| 28 | This required physicians to notify parents within 48 hours of an abortion for a minor , and spelled out well-defined exceptions to this rule — notably medical emergencies , court approval of the minor 's right to abortion and coverage of the issue by state laws . |
| 29 | There will be news and coverage of recent exhibitions and an insight into the new artist in residence at the Tatè in Liverpool . |
| 30 | Official economic data released prior to nineteen fifty two were confusing due to lack of standardization , contents and coverage of data . |