Example sentences of "[conj] of the [noun sg] of " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Where there is a permanent majority , however , representative democracy may fail to provide legitimation either of a government or of the system of government . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I do not believe that that prescription is in the interests of Scotland or of the rest of the United Kingdom . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This fear of the same , or of the proximity of the same , or of the threat of the same , structures the violence not only of the homosocial , but of sexual difference itself . |
| 18 | Not a word had been said to him of any untoward suspicions , or of the threat of an eyewitness coming to judgement this very night . |
| 19 | Two things can be said about this to avoid the impression that the different tendencies are simply expressions of a ‘ national character ’ , or of the irresponsibility of entertainment against the social purposiveness of public service — though the latter explanation , if understood historically rather than morally , is not completely without foundation . |
| 20 | Thus it is possible to speak of cheerful colours and melancholy sounds ( Gombrich , 1963 ) or of the mood of an entire painting or piece of music . |
| 21 | Before the storm broke he fell into a sleep so peaceful and deep that he heard nothing of the thunder crashing overhead or of the rush of waters as the lake filled and spread and crept and grew like a living thing . |
| 22 | In practice , inter-Service rivalry only becomes unbridled when there is a danger — real or anticipated — of the balance between the Services being upset ; or of the structure of one of them being changed in a revolutionary rather than an evolutionary way . |
| 23 | The agency must first of all set up an inventory of the assets under its control and it disposes of either the management or of the ownership of the assets vested in it . |
| 24 | The alternative view is that the state comes into being and is maintained as an instrument of domination , as a result either of the internal differentiation of society into dominant and subordinate classes ( according to the Marxist theory ) , or of the imposition of the rule of one group of people upon another by conquest ( as Oppenheimer argued ) . |
| 25 | The effect of Odo of Cluny on robbers is comparable to that of Gauzlin of Fleury or of the statue of St Faith at Conques on unscrupulous knights . |
| 26 | Legal systems may vary enormously in the types of civil claim they will entertain and in the conduct of the proceedings by which claims are adjudicated , but all but the most primitive of legal systems will know the idea of giving notice to the other party of the making of a claim or of the initiation of a significant step in the resulting proceedings . |
| 27 | Too much physics teaching today is still ‘ cook book ’ stuff , with students told how to manipulate equations to solve puzzles , but given no insight into the deeper implications of those equations or of the significance of their development . |
| 28 | In order to be ‘ Court of Justice proof ’ , this amendment will have to take the form of a change in the primary text of the Treaty or of the inclusion of an additional protocol . |
| 29 | Furthermore , as Moi suggests , she seems to avoid much in the way of recognition or acknowledgement of feminist work prior to her own , or of the existence of female traditions and strengths which might have tended to challenge or subvert the supposedly monolithic nature of the male power which it is the main aim of her book to describe . |
| 30 | ( 6 ) A notice of the application of this section to , or of the disapplication of this section from , any premises : ( a ) shall be in writing ; ( b ) shall , in the case of a club , be given by the secretary of the club on its behalf ; ( c ) shall , in the case of a notice of application , specify the date from which the section is to apply to the premises and , in the case of a notice of disapplication , state that the section is to cease to apply to the premises on the date specified in the notice ; ( d ) shall be served on the chief constable not later than 14 days before the date specified as aforesaid . |