Example sentences of "[noun] of enthusiasm [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1912 Havelock Ellis complained that : ‘ During the past ten years one of those waves of enthusiasm for the moralisation of the public by the law has been sweeping across Europe and America . ’ |
| 2 | Mary 's reign witnessed a spontaneous renewal of enthusiasm for the local celebrations banned under Edward , and Corpus Christi processions , Whitsun ales , May games , and the decking of churches once more became as common as they had been in the last years of Henry 's reign . |
| 3 | There was a general murmur of enthusiasm from the assembled company who dispersed in all directions , pelting down the alleyways and pushing down doors to find the best houses for themselves . |
| 4 | But of course , once Mrs Farr Senior had expressed doubts about a woman , it meant Henry was almost duty bound to marry her , just as , as soon as she expressed a political or aesthetic opinion , he immediately experienced a passionate surge of enthusiasm for the view most directly opposed to it . |
| 5 | He claimed that there is a new surge of enthusiasm in the Serbian Party for crushing the ‘ counter-revolution ’ in Kosovo ( which he also described as ‘ genocide ’ ) , and for solving the economic crisis . |
| 6 | A wave of enthusiasm for the experimental approach to biology meant that the field studies of the biogeographers and the descriptive genealogies of the morphologists and paleontologists were dismissed as unscientific . |
| 7 | The undue influence which Courts of Equity endeavour to defeat is the undue influence of one person over another ; not the influence of enthusiasm on the enthusiast who is carried away by it , unless indeed such enthusiasm is itself the result of external undue influence . |
| 8 | And Lucy called her in the morning , swept away all doubts with a rush of enthusiasm about the exhibition , and only when they 'd hung up did Jay realise that she had n't given her a date , a time ; that she — they ? — were just where they 'd been five months before . |
| 9 | You could also find some letters that were confused , they did n't share common features but they sounded the same and they tended to be confused as well There was a lot of enthusiasm from the work of the neuro-psychologist th with the discovery of cells which appeared to be sensitive to particular features . |
| 10 | Even during the height of enthusiasm for the monarchy in the first half of the 1680s , Anglican polemicists offered hints that their loyalty to the Church came before their loyalty to the Crown . |
| 11 | At that time the use of videotape to enable prerecording and editing was just a gleam of enthusiasm in the laboratory scientist 's eye . |
| 12 | There was a burst of enthusiasm on the other end of the line . |
| 13 | These problems were never entirely overcome and fluctuations of enthusiasm in the use of the economic boycott/free-produce tactic depended on temporary external factors rather than permanent solutions to the difficulties . |
| 14 | For all my lack of enthusiasm for the Hayes Society , it is my belief that this particular pronouncement at least was founded on a significant truth . |
| 15 | Their lack of enthusiasm for the venture obviously disgusted him . |
| 16 | He did n't seem to take offence at my lack of enthusiasm for the system which had made religion into something you did in your home or in private or at its most social — in the privacy of a cubicle in Major TOM . |
| 17 | The attractions of sugar-trading with the Netherlands reinforced the West Indian lack of enthusiasm for the new government . |
| 18 | Despite a rising Unix base , he is facing flat membership of 6,500 souls and 69 corporate sponsors and a clear lack of enthusiasm for the old user group even among the diehards . |
| 19 | However , in view of the importance of even 3d. in the weekly budget of the poor , the inconvenience to , and lack of enthusiasm for the scheme of , employers and the absence of any machinery for ensuring that all workers earning under £150 p.a. wee indeed covered , it is probable that many of the poorest workers ( many of them women ) were not in the end provided for . |
| 20 | Only Trethowan 's name was omitted , presumably more for reasons of his public reputation as an interviewer and commentator than for any lack of enthusiasm for the Conservative cause . |
| 21 | In turn , members of the innovatory networks identified individual managers or particular functions whose overt opposition to , or lack of enthusiasm for the change strategy seriously hindered its progress . |
| 22 | ( The commission 's difficulties in running the Euratom laboratories may explain its lack of enthusiasm for the infrastructure of industrial innovation . ) |
| 23 | From 1978 Soviet officials began to show greater interest in the Vietnamese concept of a Zone of Neutrality in Southeast Asia despite their former lack of enthusiasm for the ZOPFAN proposal . |
| 24 | There seemed , though , a general lack of enthusiasm for the second Mrs Machin . |
| 25 | There are good historical reasons for this general lack of enthusiasm among the public at large . |
| 26 | Their views reflect a lack of enthusiasm among the British people at large for John Major 's idea of European unity . |
| 27 | But hampered by the lack of enthusiasm from the White House , the measure failed to complete its legislative programme . |
| 28 | Perturbed by the lack of enthusiasm from the corporate sector in the UK , AMT 's US operation has been the company 's life support system for some time . |
| 29 | With low prices being realised and the distinct lack of enthusiasm from the floor , the Onslow 's auction reflected the depressed condition of the market . |
| 30 | Except in the case of Mary of Guise , however , it is going too far to see this as a general affirmation of enthusiasm for the Auld Alliance , and total alienation from England , or as a means of eradicating Protestantism . |