Example sentences of "power of [noun] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of us insufficiently understand the power of poetry as a tool for learning for humans of all abilities . |
| 2 | We have to help children to recognise the power of mathematics as a tool to solve problems , and that the tools are constantly evolving . |
| 3 | ALL THE more pertinent with the rise of fascism in Europe , the late John Heartfield 's anti-Nazi photomontages are a strong reminder of the power of art as a political weapon . |
| 4 | ‘ Parliament has deprived the courts of any power of detention of a person of this age or what many people might think was any effective punishment for that grave crime . ’ |
| 5 | It was precisely the power of Jacobitism as a negative ideal which explains the strength of the Jacobite challenge at the time of the Hanoverian succession , but also its ultimate failure , since there were few people who were really committed to the positive alternative which the Stuarts represented . |
| 6 | The particular power of LTP as a model , though , apart from the possibility of moving readily between levels of analysis even more strikingly than is the case with Aplysia , from intact organism to slice , lies in its geometry . |
| 7 | Needless to say , any such denial of this would be a denial of the power of education as a whole to mature individuals in their intellectual and moral perceptions . |
| 8 | What had been happening was an assumption of power on the part of the Vietminh and the demonstration that a communist party could seize the opportunity to capitalize on the power of nationalism at a moment of unparalleled opportunity . |
| 9 | The sceptics denounce the power of thought as a way of ending violence and war . |
| 10 | A newly-invented spring has been adopted , one peculiarity attached to it being the insertion of a thin hoop of steel within a leathern belt , which has the effect of increasing the power of tension in a very remarkable degree , and rendering the motion of the carriage perfectly easy . |
| 11 | His face was mere inches from her own ; she could feel his warm breath on her skin , and she gazed up wide-eyed , momentarily robbed of the power of speech by a strange and potent mixture of sensations invading her body . |
| 12 | The first is Mrs Whitehouse 's emphasis on the power of television as a medium , the second the notion of the ‘ new morality ’ which was widely used in the mid-1960s and which Mrs Whitehouse focused upon in her attacks on both broadcasting and the ‘ South Bank ’ theologians . |
| 13 | It is difficult to answer the question as to whether the papacy may be accounted a financial power of importance on a European level . |
| 14 | It is quite appropriate that moral philosophers should group together children and madmen as beings not fully responsible for their actions , for as madmen are thought to lack freedom of choice , so children do not yet possess the power of reason in a developed form . |
| 15 | If A and B are two elements of the set which both stand in some power of R to a third element of the set C , then either A stands in some power of R to B , or B stands in some power of R to A. |
| 16 | This offence carries a power of arrest for a constable who witnesses the obstruction . |
| 17 | These protect the purchasing power of savings in a way that no other completely safe investment can do , and they are free of United Kingdom income tax and capital gains tax . |
| 18 | This case , in effect , turns on whether the family proceedings court can keep the power of review over a care order by making directions in relation to the care order . |
| 19 | But there would be no power of entry without a warrant if it were suspected that such an offence was taking place , even though there is such a power for the less serious offence under section 4 . |
| 20 | Cyprio are great believers in the power of foam as a biological media . |
| 21 | First of all , note that ( in scalar arithmetic ) we can find x to the power of y by a series of steps : first , multiply x by x to give x 2 . |
| 22 | As often with Anselm , what may seem to be a merely personal , or even sentimental sympathy , also illustrates a deep-seated belief in the power of growth within a monastic community . |
| 23 | A power of sale under a general lien should not normally be exercised without recourse to legal advice . |