Example sentences of "of the [noun] and of " in BNC.
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| 31 | But , sitting in the wood-panelled living-room of the Birdman 's house on the little island of Mykines , listening to his tales of the sea and of the exploits of the Faroese fowlers of old , I could think of no reason why he should be considered any more hard or cruel than anyone who has ever eaten a chicken joint , a hamburger — or even a fish-finger ! |
| 32 | Control of the sea and of sea-routes was crucial to the economic symbiosis established within the Angevin Empire . |
| 33 | In this , as much as in its expectation of the proximity of the event and of the brave new world that the event would introduce , Marx 's vision was as millenarian as Owen 's . |
| 34 | The Allied Bomber Campaign , the Dambusters Raid , the liberation of Rome , the Battle of the Bulge and of course D-Day to name but a few . |
| 35 | Is it possible — and if so is it desirable — that the institutional , professional control of the curriculum and of the whole teaching context should be shared with the participants ? |
| 36 | Out-of-school visits are expensive and can be disruptive of the curriculum and of school routines . |
| 37 | Two justifications for teaching pupils explicitly about language are , first , the positive effect on aspects of their use of language and , secondly , the general value of such knowledge as an important part of their understanding of their social and cultural environment , since language has vital functions in the life of the individual and of society . |
| 38 | And , crucial to the direction in which the Report develops is the claim that both education and English should be properly conceived as offering guidance in the gaining of experience ; experience ( as will be seen ) which provides a necessary foundation for the development of a free humane identity both at the level of the individual and of society . |
| 39 | The authority of government therefore is limited ; and this can be expressed by saying that certain rights of the individual and of the private association are safeguarded . |
| 40 | Its aim is to understand the behaviour of the individual and of society . |
| 41 | Foucault thus modifies his argument that reason simply excluded madness and initiated the possibility of history by suggesting instead that the histories of the Other and of the Same are necessarily implicated within each other . |
| 42 | Superbly , she evokes the fragile communion of the other and of herself in her ineluctable trajectory . |
| 43 | If both partners aim at satisfaction of the other and of themselves , if both recognise that sex is not always at its peak of pleasure for both or either of them , if neither makes undue demands on partner or self ( while not imposing undue restrictions ) , if both can enjoy sexual congress free from circumstances which impose anxiety or guilt , little can go wrong . |
| 44 | The questions of the subject and of ideology raise as their corollary the problem of what position of enunciation the historian can claim in relation to his or her own work . |
| 45 | We have told you about making wide margins , which will give you a quick view both of the skeleton of the subject and of the important findings and memorable conclusions of the study . |
| 46 | As early as the summer of 1912 , the year of the Titanic and of the Suffragettes and of the first Variety Performance by Royal Command at the new Palladium Theatre , Europe was already building up its armies . |
| 47 | Heini and his fifth wife , Carmen — Tita to her friends — are thus free to concentrate on his art collection , the world 's most valuable in private hands , if you exclude those of the Queen and of Prince Hans Adam of Liechtenstein . |
| 48 | Because investment business is peripheral to their main activity ( and it is a condition of authorisation that it should not normally exceed 20% of total fee income ) , many firms allow themselves to remain woefully ignorant of the regulations and of how to apply them within their own practice . |
| 49 | On February 11th , the Diocesan Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes , Blackpool , was filled to capacity , when Bishop Foley , in the absence of Bishop Brewer , offered the annual Mass in honour of Our Lady of Lourdes , patroness of the Diocese and of the Shrine . |
| 50 | The ‘ artificial circumstance ’ of the theatre and of ‘ live ’ variety allowed some middle-class observers a safe glimpse into that ‘ tumult and promiscuity ’ which Arnold Bennett found to be typical of American hotel lobbies and which most respectable people took to be the hallmarks of the new city . |
| 51 | The transformation of the object of study from the system of signification to the process of discourse involves a critique of the sign and of structure . |
| 52 | D. F. MacDermot of the Foreign Office minuted that the report from UNTCOK must be considered before determining a course of action : to stipulate a detailed plan in advance would play into the hands of the Russians and of dissident political groups in south Korea . |
| 53 | The vulgar Miller intrudes , and , with his fabliau and the nature of the genre and of fabliau language in mind , we can find some amusement in contemplating the possible sexual reading of " " unbokeled is the male " " , " the purse is unbuckled " , a vulgarity that the Host , playing the role given him at this point , would no doubt have considered excluded from his words . |
| 54 | Physical possession was taken of every room in the palace and a straight staff was handed to the new pope as well as the keys of the basilica and of the palace . |
| 55 | On June 6 he wrote to the Speakers of the Sejm and of the Senate , the upper house , citing his constitutional right to reject legislation , and seeking the reworking of an electoral law in time for October elections . |
| 56 | It is not possible to lay down a general rule for recording findings and reasons since that depends on the nature of the evidence and of the case . |
| 57 | ‘ if a magistrates ' court inquiring into an offence as examining justices is of opinion , on consideration of the evidence and of any statement of the accused , that there is sufficient evidence to put the accused on trial by jury for any indictable offence , the court shall commit him for trial ; and , if it is not of that opinion , it shall … discharge him . |
| 58 | They might believe in the sea as the source of Britain 's greatness ; they might share in the romance of the Navigators and of great naval victories and learn the benefits of seabathing and relaxation by the ocean . |
| 59 | However , the discovery of the neutron and of nuclear forces disappointed those hopes . |
| 60 | However , the discovery of the neutron and of nuclear forces knocked that one on the head , too . |