Example sentences of "of this [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reason alone insists that there has to exist a non-physical formative cause to provide an appropriate hypothesis , and in view of this realisation by visionaries in the domain of physics , bio-chemistry , biology , neuro science , etc. , a bridge between ancient wisdom and modern insight is now being built . |
| 2 | Sharing the beauty and tranquillity of this location with a few other houses , a former farm building was initially converted into a restaurant in about 1970 and rapidly acquired local fame thanks to the good cooking and the able management of the owner who gave it his own name ‘ Leonetto ’ . |
| 3 | Althusser 's discussion implies that the same will be true of all theories which have independently defined starting-points , and the identification of this link between the terms of a theory and its subject-matter is an example of the way in which Althusser tries to uncover the assumptions underlying the classical and Marxist views — what he calls their ‘ problematics ’ . |
| 4 | Bishop John Taylor , in his moving and perceptive book The Go Between God , has pointed out the importance of this link between the Spirit , with all his undifferentiated power , and the Word , with all its particularity of meaning . |
| 5 | There is a kind of confidence , typified in the prayer to Christ the source of sweet honey-cells of devotion , which is at odds with the stark mood provoked by a revulsion from sin in the whole piece and which is very different from the whole thrust of the short version : The profound realisation of Jesus as a source of grace at the heart of this passage in the long version colours the meditator 's longing for it in the other expanded meditations that open out of this sequence of prayers . |
| 6 | An example of Wimsatt 's ( 1958 : 147 — 8 ) is what he calls the metaphor , and many would call the simile , in the last line of this passage from Donne 's ‘ A Valediction : forbidding mourning ’ ( like Eliot , the New Critics were particularly attached to the Metaphysical poets ) : The comparison between the lovers ' separation and the hammering of gold into leaf-form brings together two terms which are clearly quite different and therefore might justifiably be described as opposites ; and the conjunction of meanings thus established creates a series of connections ( the relationship between the separated lovers is like gold leaf in that it is ethereal ( ‘ ayery ’ ) , delicate , easily damaged , but at the same time precious , pure , bright , etc. ) , which when related to real experience possesses considerable illuminating force . |
| 7 | The logic of this passage from Lord Diplock 's speech clearly requires that judges , when having regard to previous comparable awards , should ascertain from the appropriate table of retail indices what has been the decrease in the value of money since the date of a particular comparable award in order that their award " in the money of the day " may be truly comparable in real terms with the earlier award . |
| 8 | An advance through Flanders was , therefore , resolved upon , in part to deprive the Germans of this sanctuary for their submarines . |
| 9 | Eighty-six per cent of all the wood consumed annually in the developing countries is used for fuel , and of this total at least half is used for cooking . |
| 10 | The total amount of Community funding for telematics ( 380 MECU ) was agreed at the adoption of the Framework programme back in April 1990 ; however , the breakdown of this total between the six areas within it ( Administrative Networks , Transport , Health , Training , Libraries , Linguistics ) will not be certain until the programme is adopted . |
| 11 | It was estimated that in addition more than 500,000 paediatric AIDS cases resulting from perinatal transmission ( spread of AIDS from an infected mother to her foetus or new-born baby ) , had occurred , with over 90 per cent of this total in sub-Saharan Africa . |
| 12 | Now if C 1 and C 2 represent total capacitances in parallel with R 1 and R 2 respectively , the ratio between the output and input potential difference phasors of this circuit as a function of the pulsatance ο is readily shown to be Consequently , if C 2 is adjusted such that which means that the time constants of the two parallel R-C combinations are the same , the potential difference division avoids phase shift , is given by equation ( 8.1 ) again and , in particular , is independent of frequency ! |
| 13 | Vaughan 's eyes light up when she describes the bright greens of this flan against the buttery yellow of the sauce . |
| 14 | Although there has probably been a long-term decline in serious violence in Europe over the past several centuries , the relationship of this trend to patterns of theft and other property crime , or to broad forces of social change , remains obscure . |
| 15 | The 1989 figures indicate a reversal of this trend with 276 death setences passed and a sharp reduction of commutations to 23 . |
| 16 | There is considerable debate over the long-term significance of this trend in politics ; does it have a clear effect , in turn , on the influence of the Labour party ? |
| 17 | While one takes into account the concern of Calvin and the reformers for the balance between the light of scripture and the inner light and direction given to individuals an experience vouchsafe for countless times in both the Old and New Testaments also remembering our lord 's own use of silence in prayer and I believe the increasing use of silence in modern worship and may I also say how very impressed I was by Dr 's prayer at the opening of this assembly in which he asked for the guidance of God and indeed your own equally eloquent prayer on Sunday evening Moderator open to the prompting and leading and guiding of God 's spirit . |
| 18 | But the records of this branch of scientific endeavour date back 7000 years . |
| 19 | Thanks to a decision by a federal jury on May 11th , Leonard Jeffries , a pioneer of this branch of scholarship , should soon be back in his old job as head of black studies at the City University of New York . |
| 20 | Peter Lovesey , whose Victorian police procedural novels featuring Sergeant Cribb are fine examples of this branch of the art , has summed it up neatly in saying that he sees himself writing books that are " a counterpoise of teacups and terror " . |
| 21 | Clearly in relation to private companies reform of this branch of the law is urgently needed . |
| 22 | In many cases it obviously would be and if there was any element of duress brought on the other contracting party under the modern development of this branch of the law the proposed breaker of the contract would not benefit . |
| 23 | In 1793 two companies of horse artillery were formed , the first British artillery units to have their own drivers ; and this reform was later extended to the whole of this branch of the army . |
| 24 | In that case he said : As I understand it , the essence of this branch of law , whatever the origin of it may be , is that a person who has obtained information in confidence is not allowed to use it as a springboard for activities detrimental to the person who made the confidential communication , and springboard it remains even when all the features have been published or can be ascertained by actual inspection by any members of the public . |
| 25 | These results therefore support the idea that common evolutionary pathways were involved in the formation of this branch of the MHC gene family . |
| 26 | Member companies use the distinctive HAE arrow reproduced on this page , and you 'll find their telephone number listed in Yellow Pages ( or contact the number at the end of this feature for more details ) . |
| 27 | It concludes with a plea for an official checklist to inform assessments of the success of this feature of the reforms , together with some suggestions for inclusion . |
| 28 | Studies which can be classed as ‘ pluralist ’ do not , of course , have to make explicit reference to Lindblom or incrementalism to illustrate the importance of this feature of pluralist approaches . |
| 29 | The claim is that because of this feature of the fossil record the major features of evolution , the sort of trends that you see over hundreds of millions of years , are not merely a kind of adding together of the changes which go on by natural selection within populations and which we can study today , but that some quite different kind of process must be responsible for the major features of evolution , other than natural selection of variants within populations . |
| 30 | Mark Cottrell 's Liteflite Radial makes use of this feature in a bridle where line ‘ A ’ is continuous–from side to side . |