Example sentences of "[coord] of [noun] [prep] [art] " 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 | To take a simple instance : in the heyday of the Enlightenment , Homeric poetry would have been treated primarily like its Virgilian equivalent — as a work of a certain kind ( epic ) , embodying given characteristics of its genre or of poetry as a whole . |
| 9 | For being is always defined as the appropriation of either difference into identity , or of identities into a greater order , be it absolute knowledge , History , or the state . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | There is a possibility of eviction for non-payment of rent , or of harassment of a tenant whose behaviour is unacceptable . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | There is no mention in the story of the giving of water , or of food beyond the manna . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | It is not religion , nor its truth-claims , that is the trouble , but rather attitudes of selfishness and possessiveness — of thinking of religion or of truth as an entity which we have and somebody else does not have . |
| 19 | Besides they may be some value or of interest to a museum , you never know . ’ |
| 20 | But there is some danger where co-operatives are created out of economic adversity , for the situation is then one of commercial crisis and , important though the rescue may be on general grounds , it is far from an ideal basis on which to promote the reputation of co-operatives generally , or of Co-operation as an alternative form of organisation . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They recorded not one instance of drinking or of thirst in a dream . |
| 23 | If taxes rise simultaneously there is the prospect of a major disincentive effect on output or of growth in the black economy . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 … |
| 28 | Few had any great faith in prisons as institutions for the reform of the inmates they contained , nor of imprisonment as a means of controlling crime . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But this ‘ set ’ is the product not of equivalences , nor of violation of an external norm , but of the violation of norms which the text itself creates . |