Example sentences of "[conj] of the [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1643 , parliament gave retrospective official approval to this iconoclasm by passing an ordinance for the dismantling and destruction of ‘ all crucifixes , crosses and all images and pictures of any one or more persons of the Trinity , or of the Virgin Mary , and all other images and pictures of saints or superstitious inscriptions ’ . |
| 2 | Whichever approach is adopted ( that of the SDPP or of the School Management Task Force ) the head has to decide whether it is practicable in his or her school to assume that the more that teachers are asked to do in the way of auditing , laying plans , implementing them and reviewing them , the more they will understand about the effectiveness of pupils ' learning . |
| 3 | The fact is that damage or destruction of other parts of the building or of the shopping centre ( if applicable ) may render the premises unusable despite the fact that the premises have not been damaged or destroyed . |
| 4 | Although that sense of political strategy may be true , it is not the whole explanation of the binary policy in general , or of the polytechnic part of it . |
| 5 | Whatever the past illusions of the imperialist and nationalist ventures of nations , or of the master error of Marxism-Leninism , they did evoke from people ‘ daring , courage , imagination and idealism ’ . |
| 6 | The CKR , therefore , was designed as a closed system that precluded negotiations of either the CKR or of the master bill of lading that contained the no disp clause . |
| 7 | No knowledge of computer science or of the printing industry would be assumed . |
| 8 | The machine would read the punched tape and automatically move the tool , control the speed of rotation of the chuck of the lathe , or of the milling tool , and carry out the work while the operator stood by checking that no malfunctions occurred . |
| 9 | Most frequently , under the two-party system , all these requirements are met easily by sending for the Leader of the Opposition or of the majority party , as the case may be , upon the fall of government-as happened , for example , in 1945 and 1951 . |
| 10 | Samples of cell suspension , or of the adenylate cyclase assay system , were added to an equal volume of ice cold ethanol , immediately frozen , and were stored at -20°C . |
| 11 | Often they waited until armed men were in the group , a party of King 's men , or of the Lord Warden 's Forest Rangers . |
| 12 | For details of this programme , or of the Kayak Control seminar on October 26/27th , contact Simon Dawson on Nottingham ( 0602 ) 868803 . |
| 13 | ( 2 ) The fees mentioned in subsection ( 1 ) above shall not include fees payable under the provisions of the Betting , Gaming and Lotteries Acts 1963 to 1971 or of the Gaming Act 1968 . |
| 14 | It does not include members of the Cabinet or Government , or of the shadow Cabinet , and , unfortunately , is not even allowed to include Parliamentary Private Secretaries . |
| 15 | First , interferon gene deletions have previously been associated with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and it would , therefore , not be too surprising to find that abnormalities of interferon regulation or of the interferon signalling pathway were tumorigenic . |
| 16 | Not surprisingly these tribunals have been criticized as not being independent of the Ministry of Labour or of the Unemployment Assistance Board . |
| 17 | ‘ As I looked at the magnificent vehicle I could not help thinking of the historical ‘ Experiment ’ of the Stockton and Darlington Railway , or of the Exhibition excursions of 1851 , when the GW nailed rough boards across their permanent way trucks at Didcot to accommodate their third class passengers ! |
| 18 | While in 1920–1 Eliot admired both Edward Wadsworth 's drawings of industrial landscapes and Picasso 's primitivism , he found himself living the life of Thomson or of the city clerks he had read about in Conan Doyle , Davidson , Conrad , and elsewhere . |
| 19 | These new agreements obliged both countries ' navies and air forces ( i ) to give 14 days ' advance warning , instead of the previous 25 days , of large military manoeuvres within 80 miles of the coasts of Argentina or of the Falklands Islands and other UK possessions in the south Atlantic ; and ( ii ) to give 42 hours ' notice for permission for combat vessels to approach within 15 miles of either coast , to be arranged by mutual agreement , instead of the previous 48 hours ' notice to approach within 50 miles . |
| 20 | The nationality , domicile and residence requirements , with all their unfairnesses and anomalies , could not be the least burdensome way of ensuring the survival of the quota system or of the fishing communities . |
| 21 | Educational vocationalism does not seem to offer much hope for the reform either of education or of the labour market . |
| 22 | This is called habituation : the nervous system has become familiarized with the particular set of stimuli which are the pressure of the fabric of the clothes on touch receptors in the skin , or of the glass rod on the planarian 's body ; the stimuli can thus be disregarded , no longer a factor to be taken into consideration in assessing the current state of the environment . |
| 23 | I doubt whether a judge , either of the High Court or of the county court , would have regarded himself as qualified to make an assessment of so substantial a claim . |
| 24 | This is reflected in such comments as that of the Russian astronaut Gagarin who said , " I did n't see God in space " , or of the scientist who says , " You ca n't prove God exists " , or of the literalist church-goer who says , " If you do n't go to church you are not worshipping God " , or of the religious fanatic who says , " God tells me what to do " . |
| 25 | The father appealed by notice of appeal dated 30 March 1992 on the grounds ( 1 ) that the judge had erred in finding that the removal of the child by the mother was not wrongful within the meaning of the Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction by finding that the removal was neither in breach of the rights of custody of the father nor of the mother nor of the Ontario court ; and ( 2 ) that the judge erred in finding that the mother had established that there was a grave risk that the return of the child to Ontario would place him in an intolerable situation and further that the judge would not exercise his discretion to order the return of the child to Ontario . |
| 26 | He is not denying the possibility of the English language overcoming the mind — body dichotomy nor of the Dinka language expressing it . |
| 27 | Sarah had told Anne that her grandmother 's lodger Josh Adamson had died of a heart attack at the start of the raid , but they said nothing of this to Julia nor of the casualty lists which were posted up containing many names of people they knew . |
| 28 | Views expressed in Woman 's Art Magazine are those of the contributors and do not necessarily represent the views of the Editor nor of the Women Artists Slide Library . |
| 29 | This is no criticism of my GP nor of the Health Service , far from it . |
| 30 | Here again was confirmation for Beaton that Vidor was ‘ America 's bravest director ’ , very much ‘ a student of the Russian and French schools ’ , but again his great fear was that the film would be a ‘ remarkable achievement ’ from every standpoint ‘ except that of the box office ’ . |