Example sentences of "of [noun pl] of " in BNC.

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1 Indeed there is a case for saying that it is the mix of ions of opposite polarities that makes the resonance formula adaptable and actually causes a self-tuning resonance .
2 The dependence of the collapse of ions of various structures into fullerenes upon size and ion energy can be investigated .
3 But the pervasive and insidious presence throughout the novel of manifestations of Quechua culture suggests the ability of that culture not only to survive in an alien environment , but also , as it itself is modified , to exercise an ‘ Indianizing ’ influence on the country as a whole .
4 The gentlest way of doing this is to use the effect of the deprivation of something desired , and where the training of children is concerned , that something need be nothing other than the temporary withholding of manifestations of love .
5 If the withholding of manifestations of parental love is used as a first measure of initial disciplining , then it must be remembered that the measure of the distress necessary to be imposed , need be very small indeed if the imposition is started early enough .
6 The expedient of the withholding of manifestations of love from the very young child amounts to the instilling of the first tiny measure of fear , and fear , used in conjunction with reward provides the fundamental tools which the adult population must have if it is to maintain steady progress towards the civilisation it desires .
7 The power of the conscience can be built up from very early childhood by nothing more harmful than the temporary withholding of manifestations of love .
8 Animal nature has analogies to human nature , and by doing our duties to animals in respect of manifestations of human nature , we indirectly do our duty towards humanity .
9 There is a vast array of both scientific and anecdotal evidence for the existence of states of being other than the physical , and there are various ways of understanding such states .
10 But this , he says , would be fatal to the attempt to know ‘ I ’ by description : ‘ It would obviously be a vicious circle if I described ‘ I ’ as being that bundle of states of which my use of the word is a member , and then distinguished that bundle from other groups by describing it as that group of mental states which are states of ‘ I ’ . ’
11 This requires appreciation , again , of our lack of privileged access to the minds of others and the necessity of assumptions as to evidence of states of mind .
12 What , however , of states of feeling , perhaps being depressed or feeling good about nothing in particular ?
13 All the scenery of states of motion is in place and the caste of observable quantities assembled .
14 There is some ’ height ’ function H of states of the target system , which we want to optimize .
15 How else would I be able to think of states of affairs that are merely possible ?
16 The idea of Simultaneity first appeared in the preface to the Futurist exhibition at the Bernheim Gallery : it had its origin in Boccioni 's series of States of Mind , and was primarily the Bergsonian concept that a picture must be a synthesis of what is remembered and what has been seen , a synthetic visual impression comprising not merely the various aspects of a single object , but any feature related to it , physically or psychologically .
17 INDIA has imposed a curfew on the capitals of states of Meghalaya and Mizoram .
18 Medieval Germany was not a nation but a collection of states of differing sizes which covered much of central Europe .
19 In 1940 he wrote of an almost sanctified rural life as something vitally different from the separately developing urban culture which so disturbed him and pleaded that agriculture should be regarded as a vocation , rather than merely an industry , though he pointed out that such a view involved the whole orientation and scheme of values of a future society .
20 This can be defined abstractly as the sum of values of both final goods and services and investment goods in a country .
21 Lack of scattering does not , however , explain the existence of plateaux extending over a range of values of the gate voltage .
22 relative increase in brain size : encephalization quotient 48.8% compared with a range of values of 22 to 41% for eleven species of monkey ;
23 At the same time these avenues depend for their inspiration on a more abstract set of values of community and democracy which can be found in political theory .
24 But language and interpretation assume a structure of values of which they form a part .
25 More particularly , they assert in several ways that values of one variable or parameter are a certain function of values of other variables or parameters .
26 In some problems we require to obtain x for each of a set of values for p ; e.g. the elements of p may be functions of an independent variable , and we require x for each of a number of values of the variable .
27 Rather , it calculates a function : The function 's argument is the set I of inputs to the bottom layer , and its value is the resulting set of values of all nodes at the top layer .
28 This debate has wider implications for the study of political science since it emphasised major features of the process of governmental decision-making — the plurality of values of participants in policy-making , the plurality of actors involved , the emphasis upon perceptions rather than ‘ objective interests ’ and the fact that policy outcomes seldom reflect the values and preferences of one group .
29 Hourani describes a sense of secondariness in contemporary Arab identity : ‘ It is no longer to have a standard of values of one 's own , not to be able to create but only to imitate ; and so not even to imitate correctly , since that also needs a certain originality . ’
30 However , if hydrostatic theory is then used to calculate the possible range of values of the polar moment of inertia C from the axial spin period T a and the allowed values up to the upper limit of either f or J 2 , the calculated range of values of C is so wide that no useful constraints on the variation of density with depth are obtained .
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