Example sentences of "[coord] of [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bible , then , must be true or false like a newspaper report ; few people had room for the truths of poetry or of fiction in their religion . |
| 2 | He was offered the post of clerk to the Privy Council or of Ambassador to Savoy . |
| 3 | After a four-year study of 70 men , which involved a battery of tests including an assessment of respiratory health , skin prick testing , tests for the presence of antibodies in blood , lung function tests and chest radiography , Dr R. W. Mayes , a member of the medical department , in ICI 's Agricultural Division , concludes that there is ‘ no evidence of allergic reaction or of deterioration of lung function related to exposure . |
| 4 | There was nothing here which could mar his relations with her , or of course with Jack . |
| 5 | But there is undoubtedly a need for council expenditure in this city and elsewhere in this particularly recommendation we clearly have to realise more capital whether from the judiciousness of our asset or of course by . |
| 6 | 4 DURING THE CONTINUANCE of the Publishing Agreement , neither of the Authors shall without the consent in writing of the Publisher prepare or edit for any other publisher any work that is an expansion , abridgement or revision of the Work or of part of it ; or publish or cause to be published any work on the same subject which may reasonably be regarded as likely to conflict with the sale of the Work . |
| 7 | [ L ] iberty was not a matter only of national independence , or of constitutional democracy , or of freedom of thought and religion … |
| 8 | In each case these writers can be shown to be trying to place the other outside the sphere of mastery rather than in a relation of negation or of reduplication of the self . |
| 9 | Racks and Torments ! dost think , Child , that my Limbs were made for leaping of Ditches , and clambring over Stiles ; or that my Parents wisely foreseeing my future Happiness in Country-pleasures , had early instructed me in the rural Accomplishments of drinking fat Ale , playing at Whisk , and smoaking Tobacco with my Husband ; or of spreading of Plaisters , brewing of Diet-drinks , and stilling Rosemary-Water with the good old Gentlewoman , my Mother-in-Law … . |
| 10 | However , the crisis is not simply a product of specific policy failures , or of weariness with ten years of Mitterrand . |
| 11 | Such a group can be the basis for true study , or the offering of wise guidance , or of service to the community . |
| 12 | One might have expected an examination of the non-economic bases of liberal democracy or of bureaucracy in understanding the distinction between ‘ class power ’ and ‘ state power ’ , or ‘ the specificity of the political ’ ( Laclau , 1977 ) . |
| 13 | No significant difference was found between the rates of metabolism of butyrate or of glutamine by ileal biopsy specimens taken from UC patients compared with controls , and the ratios of butyrate/glutamine metabolism did not differ between UC patients and controls ( Figs 7 , 8 , and 9 ) . |
| 14 | The great agricultural countries between the Baltic and the Black Sea can free themselves from patriarchal-feudal barbarism only through an agrarian revolution which will transform the peasants from their condition of serfdom or of subjection to the corvée into the free owners of the land — a revolution which will be exactly the same as the French revolution of 1789 in the countryside . |
| 15 | A unit of biological and social reproduction , the family needs no sense of history or of life in order to perpetuate its structures . |
| 16 | relates to specific matters relating or of concern ( directly or indirectly ) to that company , that is to say , is not of a general nature relating or of concern to that company ; and |
| 17 | ‘ Unpublished price sensitive information ’ is information which relates to specific matters relating to or of concern ( directly or indirectly ) to that company , that is to say it is not of a general nature relating to or of concern to that company and is not generally known to those persons who are accustomed or would be likely to deal in those securities but which if it were generally known to them would be likely to affect the price of those securities . |
| 18 | To take a simple instance : in the heyday of the Enlightenment , Homeric poetry would have been treated primarily like its Virgilian equivalent — as a work of a certain kind ( epic ) , embodying given characteristics of its genre or of poetry as a whole . |
| 19 | There is a possibility of eviction for non-payment of rent , or of harassment of a tenant whose behaviour is unacceptable . |
| 20 | The purpose of all this cross-referencing and analogizing is not to gain knowledge of the text ( or of art in general ) but to function , as Bourdieu suggests , ‘ to bring the work into an interminable circuit of inter-legitimation ’ . |
| 21 | Rather the assertion is that explicit training is not necessary to produce discrimination , that the need to extract information from the environment is enough to do so , independently of any externally imposed rewards or punishments or of knowledge of results more generally . |
| 22 | Wittgenstein 's criticism of solipsism , or of foundationalism with stronger knees , was that the solipsist can not , despite his pretensions , develop a language . |
| 23 | ‘ You may be sure , ’ said Jared Tunstall , ‘ that if ever I do go bankrupt I should certainly die of grief , or of mortification at such a turn . |
| 24 | Although the relevance of recordable bill of lading data depends upon the type of transaction involved , the following data are sufficiently generic so as to become prime candidates for public registry recording : 1 ) storage of goods in carriers ' warehouse or independent warehouses awaiting carriage ; 2 ) issuance of port to port and combined transport bills ; 3 ) on board loading ; 4 ) carriers ' ( actual or contractual ) names , and electronic signatures or authenticating devices ; 5 ) certificates of carrier , freight forwarder , and other issuer solvency or sufficiency of insurance ; 6 ) inspectors ' and other examiners ' names , electronic signatures or authenticating devices , and certifications of solvency or of sufficiency of insurance ; 7 ) negotiation , transfer , pledge , and presentation ( including cancellation ) of port to port and combined transport bills ; and 8 ) storage of goods upon termination of carriage , and issuance of warehouse and trust receipts . |
| 25 | There is no mention in the story of the giving of water , or of food beyond the manna . |
| 26 | There is nothing wrong with my considering the merits of the law or of action in accord with it . |
| 27 | The social worker involved in cases of marital difficulty or of breakdown in the relationship between husband and wife would be well advised — regardless of the presenting problem — to seek out the sexual aspects of the case . |
| 28 | The nautical details carry a symbolic significance because they suggest that the protagonists are themselves oriented but , as Barth has said , ‘ in the troubled and dangerous waters through which they , like the rest of us , necessarily sail … no degree of skill in navigation or of seaworthiness in the vessel guarantees that the destination will still be there at our Estimated Time of Arrival ’ ( Barth 1984 : 140 ) . |
| 29 | The most obvious difficulty is whether antibody titres change after diagnosis and treatment , either as a result of curative treatment with removal of the antigenic stimulus , or of progression of disease and concomitant immunosuppression . |
| 30 | It is not religion , nor its truth-claims , that is the trouble , but rather attitudes of selfishness and possessiveness — of thinking of religion or of truth as an entity which we have and somebody else does not have . |