Example sentences of "[conj] of the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The intention in discussing this second class of mufti , the " important provincial muftis or , more strictly , muderris/muftis , is essentially simply to point out their existence and to give a very rough idea of the nature of the class and of the sort of men who held these posts . |
| 32 | He and his agents collected very large sums of money to supply the urgent needs of the Crown — mainly Forest amercements , fines paid for privileges in the forest , the proceeds of sales of wood and of the leasing of assarts . |
| 33 | The issue of smuggling and of the sale of items of national significance is central to the present scheme . |
| 34 | And superimposed on all these variations in space and time are the more erratic influences of currents and of the influx of rivers . |
| 35 | By now Labour was fully committed " to maintain such armed forces as are necessary to defend our country and to fulfil our obligations as a member of the British Commonwealth and of the League of Nations " . |
| 36 | For — cutting straight through the recurring controversies about whether , because of the varieties of the arts and of the infinity of differences between different individual works , ‘ art ’ can be ‘ defined ’ — one thing , I think , is clear . |
| 37 | This approach is potentially useful since it suggests that women 's under-representation in public politics can be seen not simply in terms of women 's lack of interest in politics but of the ability of men to prevent women 's issues entering politics . |
| 38 | The attempt was not to take a sample of the total black population , but of the minority of sportsmen of proven excellence . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | Royal taxation of the clergy was no longer a matter of law but of pragmatic politics , no more of meticulous definition but of the balance of pressures . |
| 41 | So , if the functioning of the state and the interests of the bourgeoisie coincide , it is because of the system , not because of the participation of members of the ruling class in the state apparatus . |
| 42 | Because of the wealth of monuments in the Old Town ( Staré Město ) , this walk is divided between the area around the Charles Bridge ( Karlův Most ) and that close to the Jewish Town ( Josefov ) . |
| 43 | It was , then , peace or truce which threatened their existence , and it was because of the termination of hostilities between England and France which resulted from the treaty of Brétigny in 1360 , followed as this was in 1364 by the ending of the Navarrese challenge to the royal authority in Normandy and the war of Breton succession , that France , Italy and Spain were to be hosts to the Companies in the 1360s . |
| 44 | They had n't negotiated any furniture to get to the far side of the room and sit against the opposite wall and she had the impression , either because of that or because of the resonance of voices , that the room was empty . |
| 45 | Personal computer packages are a real boom area because of the influence of Windows , networks and the growing numbers of home computer users , according to technical director Graham Wylie . |
| 46 | Because of the flooding of mines in the Donets valley the supply of fuel to industry was reduced to a trickle , as Deutscher noted : |
| 47 | Weeping in the lavatory or bathroom is hazardous because of the chance of interruptions and many women find the setting vaguely demeaning . |
| 48 | Er but in our London office , apparently they do a lot of inheritance tax planning because of the size of estates , and they actually invite the children in , and say to the children look , you know , if erm you die , the estate will be devalued by forty thousand because of tax , er if you want to make provision the , the er the contract is still written on the erm , the erm individuals ' lives , but it can then be erm paid by the children , so your children can then pay the premiums . |
| 49 | THE Court of Appeal yesterday granted bail to a mother separated from her 13-week-old son because of the shortage of places in mother and baby units in prisons in England and Wales . |
| 50 | The work was heart-breaking because of the shortage of homes and it showed that many old people were living in distress . |
| 51 | so far this year , packed chlorine sales are running at 160% of budget and ICI Watercare have been able to supply new overseas markets which had previously been impossible because of the shortage of packages . |
| 52 | I state this only as a general and not as an invariable premise because of the possibility of cases in which the court would not authorise treatment of a distressing nature which offered only a small hope of preserving life . |
| 53 | Matters are now coming to a head because of the advent of leagues next season . |
| 54 | Although these are legitimate grounds for unease , solutions are far from straightforward because of the diversity of quangos . |
| 55 | Trade figures with the EC are delayed this year because of the removal of customs controls thanks to the single market . |
| 56 | Increasing publication delays encourage the proliferation of journal titles because of the frustration of scientists , due in some part to their increasing need to demonstrate productivity through publication in order to attract funding . |
| 57 | Increasing publication delays encourage the proliferation of journal titles because of the frustration of scientists , due in some part to their increasing need to demonstrate productivity through publication in order to attract funding . |
| 58 | Such ideal conditions contrast sharply with the actual experiences of ‘ war communism ’ : money became valueless because of the disappearance of goods , wages were replaced by rations — the rations of abject poverty not abundance — prices became imaginary because money no longer had any value , and paper money was issued by keeping the printing presses working day and night , amounting to hyper-inflation ! |
| 59 | A study of a small series of sixth-century , square-headed , brooches showed how the various brooches could be placed into a sequence because of the interchange of parts of the decoration on them . |
| 60 | They also show that , for the United States , the dependency ratio actually peaked in 1960 and is now decreasing because of the return of women to the workforce . |