Example sentences of "[conj] of the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ] . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A careful consideration of the nature of virtues , or of the lives of the saints and apostles may help , as will meditation on the Passion and Mary , whose virtues enabled Christ to be born and make manifest the wisdom and goodness of God . |
| 4 | An observer recorded the infant 's position relative to the introitus and the interval from delivery of the buttocks ( or of the head at assisted breech delivery ) to cord clamping . |
| 5 | It would not be surprising if Japanese tourists now go in search of gardens she created , or of the grave into which her coffin was gently lowered by gardeners in 1932 . |
| 6 | This is so notwithstanding any resolution of the creditors ' committee or of the creditors to the contrary ( r 6.148(2) ) . |
| 7 | A report is similar to an essay but often contains an account of a discussion , the summary findings of a piece of research or of the literature on a given theme . |
| 8 | The analysis of a remembered life , after all , or of the life around one , is continuous with living itself : with gossip heard and overheard , with unspoken thoughts , with watching and listening to friends or strangers . |
| 9 | A one-inch ( 2.5cm ) square of sandpaper ( rough side out ) or of flannel glued to the corners of the picture or of the cutouts to be displayed is sufficient to keep the picture on the board . |
| 10 | No poet in the twentieth century has had such a conscious sense of his own work , or of the tradition in which he was operating . |
| 11 | Secondly , is it right that relief should be refused because the court disapproves of the applicant personally or of the motives behind the bringing of the application ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Where there is a permanent majority , however , representative democracy may fail to provide legitimation either of a government or of the system of government . |
| 14 | One often reads of jealousies , of quarrels , of friendships , of instances of patronage , of pique and of loyalty which illuminate some aspect of a man 's character , of the nature of the society in which he lived or of the system in which he worked . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I do not believe that that prescription is in the interests of Scotland or of the rest of the United Kingdom . |
| 19 | In fact it has been known since the late 1950s ( see for example Nature , vol. 208 , p 423 ) that Po is widely distributed in the environment , and in man , as a result of atmospheric fall-out of the decay products of natural radon-222 , with an abundance in northern temperate latitudes of about 0.06 curie per sq.km or of the order of 10 6 curies in total over the surface of the world land mass . |
| 20 | For the most part , therefore , they have conceived major political changes as being produced in a more autonomous way , and less abruptly , with the various stages merging into each other ; for example , in their accounts of the growth and consolidation of individual liberty , or of the development of modern democracy . |
| 21 | Particular emphasis is placed upon longitudinal investigations of changes at the work-place or of the development of personal strategies to cope with stress in jobs or during unemployment . |
| 22 | At birth , Piaget sees the infant as having no a priori knowledge of her environment or of the way in which she can act upon it . |
| 23 | on the value of intelligence tests or of the reliability of certain statistical devices used in these examinations , there is no reason why he should not give his views , bur he will no doubt make it clear how far the views are personal to himself . |
| 24 | The parameter p is an indicator of the degree of substitutability is the elasticity of substitution between any two products ) , or of the preference for variety . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | That over that period there was regularly supplied to the computer in the ordinary course of those activities information of the kind contained in the statement or of the kind from which the information so contained is derived ; |
| 27 | Article 1 of the 1896 Convention provided for service at the request of officers of the ministère public or of the courts of a Contracting State addressed to the competent authority in the state of destination ; the diplomatic channel was to be used for communication from country to country unless direct communication between the relevant authorities of the two states was allowed by bilateral agreement . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The citation does however leave unexamined one further consideration ; that there might within the range of manufacturing and service industries be some which , for whatever reason , whether of the nature or of the size of the business , make them unsuited to the industrial co-operative form of organisation . |
| 30 | Missing from Prescott 's ‘ visionary ’ list was any mention of the new wave of ‘ green ’ concerns , or of the democratisation of British society , either in the wider constitutional and electoral context , or in terms of Labour 's own internal democracy and its relationship with the trade unions . |