Example sentences of "of the [noun pl] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Celia Haddon , author of The Limits of Sex |
| 2 | A summary of the limits of cover under the special scheme arranged for the holidays in this brochure is shown below . |
| 3 | Again , this suggests a theory of the limits of law as a method of dealing with conflict . |
| 4 | John Stuart Mill 's definition of the limits of law to curtail individual freedom laid down a simple principle : ‘ that the sole end for which mankind are warranted , individually or collectively , in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number , is self-protection . |
| 5 | On the basis of this , it is submitted that the question of subsidiarity is essentially a political question for the Council , and if the Council decided to act at the Community level it would not be possible to challenge what it did simply on the basis that it could better have been done at the level of the Member States ; rather , it would be necessary to show a manifest error , a misuse of power or a clear passing of the limits of discretion , and it is submitted that the occasions when this might be done will be rare . |
| 6 | To these must be added two further issues which became more central towards the end of the eighteenth century : the problem of knowledge and of the limits of reason , and the question of history . |
| 7 | While disputing the basis of Mannheim 's critique of the limits of epistemology , von Schelting did tolerate the idea that there is some social basis of knowledge . |
| 8 | Troyna and Carrington 's dissatisfaction with simplistic assumptions about the antiracist effects of ‘ culture contact ’ and white students ' ‘ direct experience ’ of black realities , as well as their growing awareness of the limits of rationalist pedagogies , points to a need on their part to break with realist assumptions about the curriculum which still underpin their antiracist projects ( Troyna and Carrington , 1990 ) . |
| 9 | He then goes on to declare that ‘ as the pain and sickness caused by manna are confessedly nothing but the effects of its operation on the stomach ’ , so sweetness and whiteness are ‘ but the effects of the operations of manna by the motion , size , and figure of its particles on the eyes and palate ’ . |
| 10 | His other publications included A Manual of the Operations of Surgery , which ran to seven editions , and articles on scapulo-humeral dislocation and pulsating tumours of the orbit . |
| 11 | Many of the operations of mind , for example high-speed addition , skilled typing , or playing a musical instrument are not readily examined through introspection . |
| 12 | A military council had already decreed the execution of the five principal conspirators , but confirmation of the sentences of death would not be lawful until the Dragon Throne was occupied once more . |
| 13 | Counselling also helped him to uncover some of the fears of loss which underlay his extreme jealousy . |
| 14 | ‘ If the company had made this kind of claim in a newspaper advertisement , I 'm sure they would have been in breach of the codes of conduct on financial and political advertising , ’ he said . |
| 15 | It should be noted that breach of the Codes of Practice does not , of itself , render the police officer liable to any criminal or civil proceedings . |
| 16 | The defence challenged admissibility of the evidence resulting from the undercover operation on the grounds that it should be excluded either at common law or under section 78 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 or as being contrary to paragraph 10.1 of Code C of the Codes of Practice ( 1985 ed . ) . |
| 17 | ( 2 ) That , although the scope of Code C of the Codes of Practice ( 1985 ed. ) extended beyond persons in detention , it was intended to protect suspects who were , or thought themselves to be , vulnerable to abuse or pressure from police officers , and applied where a suspect was being questioned about an offence by a police officer acting as such for the purpose of obtaining evidence ; that , since the appellants were not being questioned by police officers acting as such and conversation was on equal terms , there could be no question of pressure or intimidation by the officers as persons actually or believed to be in authority ; and that , accordingly , Code C did not apply in the circumstances and the judge 's approach could not be faulted ( post , p. 237C–E , H ) . |
| 18 | These courses are designed to give operatives a basic insight into water treatment , knowledge of the Codes of Practice and guidelines issued by the Health and Safety Executive and of course , they all offer good opportunities to promote the company . |
| 19 | The Council may further provide that compliance with the provisions of the Codes of Practice by any individual on the Register shall be a defence against any complaint in any proceedings brought against such individual pursuant to Bye–Law 70 provided that the provisions of the Code of Practice are , in the opinion of the Council , relevant to the complaint being investigated and adjudicated upon . |
| 20 | Her grief had none of the sanctions of legitimacy . |
| 21 | As I disentangled myself from the green wool , I had been linked not only to these women beside me , but to those in Canaan and all the other women through the centuries who have wept over the death of the gods of life , of love , and of hope , whom they tried to revive with their tears . |
| 22 | One thinks of the stories of child muggers bearing sharp knives , driven below by a greater police presence upstairs , of the Underground ‘ acid fiend ’ who squirts hydrochloric acid on people 's legs before making his escape , of steamers , hip-hop-styled persons perpetrating economy-sized thefts . |
| 23 | In all of the stories of enchantment and in all of the legends of bewitchment , there is one that stands above the rest . |
| 24 | You see we used to think of the generations of man twenty five year intervals three , we really ought to be thinking of four . |
| 25 | This was the real fear behind the arguments about the declining calibre of the new county councillors compared with that of the magistrates of Quarter Sessions ( Dunbabin 1965 ; Dearlove 1979:Ch. 4 ) : ‘ democratic alterations were widely believed to be dangerous , and expected to lead to extravagance , inefficiency , or even rapacity and disorder ’ ( Dunbabin 1963:227 ) . |
| 26 | As a Travellers Guide this is a worthwhile book ; but it will not replace serious studies of the Civil War because of the errors of detail which it includes . |
| 27 | In that year , the college moved away from Mercersburg , Nevin retired , and Schaff later embarked on an outstanding career as a Church historian at Union Seminary , New York , where he published in 1876 his great History of the Creeds of Christendom . |
| 28 | The best book I read myself in 1991 was ‘ Biography of James Hudson Taylor ’ ( OMF ) by Howard and Geraldine Taylor , which showed that even one of the giants of missionary history had his own personal struggles , but also that the Lord brought him through . |
| 29 | When Bill Shankly surprisingly retired in 1974 , after transforming Liverpool into one of the giants of League soccer , it was widely predicted that the club would soon slip back into the rut from which he had hauled them . |
| 30 | The first is that the traditional account of the Muftilik is in an important respect at odds with the facts since the dating of the Muftilik of Molla Abdulkerim in the traditional list can be shown not to accord either with the earliest biographical information or with such little documentary evidence as exists , this fact , in turn , having implications for the dating of the periods of office of several other Muftis . |