Example sentences of "[conj] of [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it is not clear whether this has been the result of state intervention or of changes in the structure of production . |
| 2 | The precedent is being established that Community law , whether this takes the form of Commission Directives or of judgments by the Court of Justice , overrides national law if the two are in conflict . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This may be in the form of a restricted zone in which the linkage may not lie , a definition of the order in which positional modifications can take place , or of restrictions on the local or global energy changes that can take place . |
| 5 | Such a group can be the basis for true study , or the offering of wise guidance , or of service to the community . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , no systematic research has been done to determine the typical voice settings of speakers of Caribbean Creoles or of members of the Caribbean community in Britain . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He is responsible for presenting to the council and its committees all matters of business which are brought to his notice , either from members of the public , members of the council or from the officers themselves , and of recording the decisions , either by way of minutes of the committees or of reports of the committees which are subsequently presented to the council . |
| 9 | These punches might consist of elements of the design ( such as part of the king 's crown ) or of letters in the inscription , and a careful examination of the coins can reveal that they were struck from dies made from the same punches ( fig. 5 ) . |
| 10 | Product stability is , by definition , the inherent stability of the product independent of possible interactions with the immediate container or of questions of the adequacy or otherwise of the protection afforded by the sales package . |
| 11 | There is no mention in the story of the giving of water , or of food beyond the manna . |
| 12 | Whether the buy-out will be of the business assets of the target , or of shares in the target company , is significant for tax purposes . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | Here we consider the incidence of features which are fore-grounded ( 1.4 ) by virtue of departing in some way from general norms of communication by means of the language code ; for example , exploitation of regularities of formal patterning , or of deviations from the linguistic code . |
| 16 | If taxes rise simultaneously there is the prospect of a major disincentive effect on output or of growth in the black economy . |
| 17 | Any woman living above the poverty line may choose or refuse to become a surrogate mother , and value judgments of either exploitation by the commissioning parents or of greed on the part of the surrogate mother are misplaced . |
| 18 | If shares are not accurately priced then there is ‘ considerable scope for take-overs based on speculative and other motives where corporate control changes hands because of differences in information , or of opinion about the accuracy of stock market valuations , between sellers and purchasers of control , rather than because of proposed changes in management objectives or operating efficiency ’ . |
| 19 | There are no requirements of publicity or of registration of the constitutional instruments of international organisations for the protection of third parties , apart from the general registration requirement of Article 102 of the United Nations Charter . |
| 20 | This authorises the making of rules which require " the disclosure of the amount or value , or of arrangements for the payment or provision , of commissions or other inducements in connection with investment business … |
| 21 | There were the usual number of new faces to get used to , but they all seem a bit vague to me now , except of course for the one face that greeted me on my arrival in the Guard Room . |
| 22 | It is up to you to decide which set of shapings you want to follow , but remember that as the garment is symmetrical , the shaping will be carried out on both ends of the work , except of course in the case of the sleeve tops that I mentioned earlier . |
| 23 | Except of course from the landowners , many of whom find having an SSSI on their land not a privilege but a curse . |
| 24 | Such arrangements , although of advantage to the enterprises concerned , are clearly damaging to the rest of the economy . |
| 25 | Global models take no account of magnetic fields caused by the magnetisation of local rocks ( the crustal anomaly field ) , nor of the regular daily variations in the global field , nor of disturbances in the field . |
| 26 | It was n't so much the fact that of parking on the footpath it was the consequences of parking on the footpath . |
| 27 | save that of ears along the ground , |
| 28 | Just in case you fail to deduce , for example , that war is more a matter of narcissistic games-playing than of honour for the play 's young soldiers , they helpfully tote around personal full-length mirrors in the court scenes . |
| 29 | If there were absentees from the gathering of Khans and Noyons which waited sycophantically in the antechamber through which they left the palace , Alexei supposed they were the result rather of an excess of celebration than of flight in the face of possible discovery or inquisition . |
| 30 | The reason for the relatively less prevalence of pre-S1 than of pre-S2 on the liver cell membrane during active hepatitis B virus replication , as shown in Table II , is not clear . |