Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] or of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soviet officials saw little hope either of establishing formal political ties or of promoting revolution in countries forced to live within the shadow of the United States and its 1823 Monroe Doctrine . |
| 2 | In the absence of other acceptable proposals or of the will on the part of government to override opposition to such proposals as existed , shortage of revenue remained an obstacle to central government action and was acutely worsened by the high cost of the Boer War which opened in 1899 . |
| 3 | No differences in terms of further attempts or of completed suicide were found between the two groups after a 5-year follow-up . |
| 4 | The problem of diminished sight can be reduced or corrected by using spectacles or an illuminated magnifying glass : and for those who are severely handicapped the use of specially prepared large-print books or of Braille or of tape-recordings can help considerably in retaining a measure of independence . |
| 5 | Each information unit consists of either a combination of given-plus-new elements or of just a new element . |
| 6 | Greater use was made of quiet suburban stations or of quieter platforms on the main stations ; trains left at night and the number of family wellwishers come to say goodbye was restricted to one parent for each child . |
| 7 | At the end of June a UN spokesman stated that the Iraqi report contained new information but no details of foreign suppliers or of the number of ballistic weapons Iraq had used . |
| 8 | In sophisticated market planning , a certain type of work can be selected at so early a stage , on the basis of a few examples or of some calculated or projected demand , that production , from that stage , no longer originates with the primary producer but is commissioned from him . |
| 9 | In practice , many States seem willing to adopt a generous view of the scope of the Convention , responding to requests to obtain the results of blood-grouping tests ( at least where the subject is willing ) and to provide copies of public documents or of entries in registers of civil status . |
| 10 | The law section three of the criminal law act nineteen sixty seven reads a person may use such force as is reasonable in the circumstances in the prevention of crime or in effecting or assisting in the lawful arrest of offenders or suspected offenders or of persons unlawfully at large . |
| 11 | Their focus is usually a series of maps showing spending on individual programmes or of particular types . |
| 12 | The following are by way of being examples and are not intended to be definitive : ( i ) where the relationship between the debtor and the proposed surety is one in which the real possibility of the exercise of undue influence in any of its well recognised forms or of misrepresentation is present to the knowledge of the creditor , the creditor must take notice of the position and act reasonably in the circumstances : see per Dillon L.J . |
| 13 | The finding of individual coins or of coin hoards can in some rather obvious respects give us the same sort of information , since the loss of a single coin or the deposit of a hoard is proof of some sort of direct or indirect contact between the place of mint and the place of deposit . |
| 14 | The fault is not entirely that of the sanitary authorities or of the immediate landlords … |
| 15 | The seventh text is a further condemnation , this time relating to war : ‘ any act of war aimed indiscriminately at the destruction of entire cities or of extensive areas along with their population is a crime against God and man himself . |
| 16 | Death of one or more joint owners or of a sole proprietor is proved by lodging a certificate of death , or a copy of such a certificate certified as a true copy by the seller 's conveyancer , with the appropriate application . |
| 17 | The summer visitors to Trebetherick were generally the families of retired headmasters of minor public schools , of ex Indian Civil servants or of Harley Street doctors . |
| 18 | In many cases however there is , as yet , no clear understanding of the energetics of such deformations or of the mechanisms of associated structural transitions . |
| 19 | Similarly the right to grant mulazemets was sometimes used as a means of showing particular honour to individual scholars or of placating those who were for some reason aggrieved . |
| 20 | The collective " she " is presented in this list as if a natural immutable category , ruling out the possibility either of individual traits or of conditions explaining any of the points on the list which might be subject to change . |
| 21 | the searcher may be the end user , possibly approaching the search in some ignorance of his real requirements or of the literature that might be available to meet those requirements . |
| 22 | In the publishing world as a whole , periodicals concerned with the family become more and more specialized : quite apart from the dozens of magazines addressed to women generally , we find some catering for the interests of parents in particular , some especially for the ‘ mother to-be ’ , and others for parents of individual age-groups or of children with special characteristics or handicaps . |
| 23 | They should learn to think of appropriateness in written language in terms of these functions and of the range of audiences that writers address , considering the effects , for example , of inappropriately formal vocabulary in personal letters or of colloquial expressions in impersonal writing . |
| 24 | This depends on establishing , in many cases , proof of reckless disregard of accepted practices or of conscious wrong–doing . |
| 25 | will the work consist primarily of quantitative measurements or of observations of flow patterns ? |
| 26 | It was obvious that the policies of the ‘ democrats ’ did not reflect the interests of blue or white-collar workers or of collective and state farm members . |
| 27 | 7.3 You will indemnify us against any and all loss , costs , expenses and liabilities caused to us whether directly , or as a result of the action , claim or demand of any third party , by reason of any breach by you of these conditions or of any terms or obligations on your part implied by the Sale of Goods Act 1979 , by the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 or by any other statute or statut-ory provision relevant to the order or to goods or work covered thereby . |
| 28 | The prevalence of commodity and price over structural policy in the CAP , and the distortions introduced by the mechanics of agro-monetary compensation have favoured northern and central European agricultural producers , particularly those in the richer farming areas , while those of the poorer Mediterranean regions or of other DRAs like the Highlands of Scotland have been neglected . |
| 29 | At the same time , however , discussion tended to be dominated by certain sets of people ; by academics , by Americans , by mathematicians and scientists , by people with little experience of younger children or of the teachers who normally guide them , by scholars whose passionate concern for their own disciplines and the elegance of thought within them may have outweighed their concern for the school curriculum and the balanced development of school children . |
| 30 | ( 2 ) 5.282 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1970 ( now 5.414 of the income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 ) defines , with certain exceptions , a close company as a company under the control of five or fewer participators or of participators who are directors . |