Example sentences of "[coord] of [art] [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may feel that a good will can take the form of seeking to relieve suffering out of sheer compassion , without thought of duty , or of a direction of intent upon ‘ the good , the true , and the beautiful ’ in whatever concrete shapes they present themselves as realizable . |
| 2 | The examination of all the images produced during a particular period or of a selection of images over a longer period will often provide a good idea of how the relevant state or regime wished to represent itself . |
| 3 | Also excluded from registration are ( i ) a charge on goods where the chargee is entitled to possession of the goods or of a document of title to them , ( ii ) a deposit of a negotiable instrument by way of security to secure payment of a book debt and ( iii ) a lien on subfreights . |
| 4 | Despite appearances of a " Leftward swing " after 1931 , or of a lessening of trade-union influence , there was little real change in the underlying gradualism and stolidity of the Labour Party . |
| 5 | Whether this pattern of usage of solicitors is evidence of a restricted perception of the sorts of matters with which solicitors deal or of a failure of people to approach solicitors knowing that they could help is unclear . |
| 6 | There is no mention on the regulation of prices or of a method of arbitration in the event of dispute , suggesting that commerce was regulated by custom or the social mores of gift-giving , and had not reached a sufficiently organised scale for legal controls to be necessary ; the earliest hint of such controls is to be found in King Ine 's laws , in which traders were to make their transactions before witnesses or the king 's reeve . |
| 7 | The notion of rhythm involves some noticeable event happening at regular intervals of time ; one can detect the rhythm of a heart-beat , of a flashing light or of a piece of music . |
| 8 | Sometimes , of course , the subject is either so technical , or complicated that a photograph of the laboratories or of a piece of machinery would not make the point and the use of drawings should be considered instead . |
| 9 | is not a vehicle to which the Motor Vehicles ( Type Approval ) ( Great Britain ) Regulations 1979 applies but which is being driven from premises of the manufacturer by whom it was made , or of a distributor of vehicles or dealer in vehicles , to premises of a distributor of or dealer in vehicles of the purchasers of the vehicle , or to premises of a person obtaining possession of the vehicle under a hiring agreement or hire-purchase agreement . |
| 10 | He might have the custody of a single royal forest , or of a group of forests : the ‘ Warden of the King 's forests between Oxford and Stamford bridges ’ kept the forests of Shotover , Bernwood , Whittlewood , Salcey , Rockingham and Huntingdon , in the counties of Oxford , Northampton , Buckingham and Huntingdon . |
| 11 | They are not the possessors of the ‘ right ’ answers or of a collection of facts to be imparted . |
| 12 | Here the term ‘ language- game ’ is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity , or of a form of life . |
| 13 | Occasionally there is no more than an indication of the family 's ancestry : of migration from Ireland , or of a strain of distinction . |
| 14 | This point has been shown again and again ; it is clear from the excellent descriptions of production activities which we have of peoples such as the Tikopia of Polynesia described by Firth [ 1939 ] or of the Bemba of Africa by Audrey Richards [ 1939 ] . |
| 15 | Dexter noticed that she had made no mention of the murder weapon being a pair of scissors or of the discovery of blood in a wash-basin near where the body was found . |
| 16 | The insurance is only intended to cover vendors who at the time of contract had no knowledge of circumstances which eventually give rise to a claim or of the likelihood of claims being made under the warranties . |
| 17 | Where there is a permanent majority , however , representative democracy may fail to provide legitimation either of a government or of the system of government . |
| 18 | Screening appeals The justification for the present system whereby some categories of appeal could only be brought by leave of the trial judge or of the Court of Appeal was threefold : 1 . |
| 19 | If the claim is for less , then leave of either the county court judge or of the Court of Appeal is required , unless the decision includes or preserves an injunction ( County Courts Act 1984 , s.77 ; County Courts Appeal Order 1981 , SI 1981 : No. 1749 ) . |
| 20 | A problem that arises in the Timor Gap case is that , although the circumstances of Indonesia 's invasion of East Timor in December 1975 are well known , there has been no authoritative judicial determination of its illegality , or of the legitimacy of Portugal 's claim to be the continuing administering authority . |
| 21 | The most deeply spontaneous , the gut reaction , from every viewpoint except the destitute , or of a criminal ready to pay for the advantage of robbing by the risk of himself being robbed , or of the kind of anarchist who acclaims private theft as a blow to the oppressive institution of private property , is of being threatened . |
| 22 | The voices of churchmen were heard from time to time , perhaps frequently , complaining of the enslavement of Christians , or of the treatment of slaves ; but there was no radical attack on the institution as such . |
| 23 | Two things can be said about this to avoid the impression that the different tendencies are simply expressions of a ‘ national character ’ , or of the irresponsibility of entertainment against the social purposiveness of public service — though the latter explanation , if understood historically rather than morally , is not completely without foundation . |
| 24 | Before the storm broke he fell into a sleep so peaceful and deep that he heard nothing of the thunder crashing overhead or of the rush of waters as the lake filled and spread and crept and grew like a living thing . |
| 25 | The effect of Odo of Cluny on robbers is comparable to that of Gauzlin of Fleury or of the statue of St Faith at Conques on unscrupulous knights . |
| 26 | They referred to ‘ equality of opportunity ’ tout court or of the waste of talent . |
| 27 | Presumably it is an overreaction to a number of points that we have noted : that no logical guarantee of the soundness of our abductive sense can be provided ; that our substantive conception of reality or of the aim of inquiry may itself be revisable ; that while experience might lead us to abandon a theory with some confidence , proper acceptance should be postponed to the long run — true theories are survivors . |
| 28 | Think , for instance , of popular theatrical melodrama and the continua interruption of the narrative line by songs , displays , tableaux or ‘ turns ’ ; or of the short serialized forms of the early popular press , or of comic stories ; or of the form of radio sitcoms until quite recently . |
| 29 | Our society is much less violent than that of north America or of the Commonwealth of Australia , as the 1989 international crime survey showed in the report published in March 1990 . |
| 30 | Medical microbiology is concerned with the interactions between micro-organisms and their hosts ; for example , the explanations in biological and molecular terms of infectious processes and resultant host tissue damage , or of the action of antibiotics and antiviral agents , and the emergence of resistant organisms . |